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Name the Device Quotable Quotes Authors Curious Characters Literary Devices 50 40 30 20 10 20 30 40 50 10 20 30 40 50 10 20 30 40 50 10 20 30 40 50
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A brief statement, usually one sentence long that expresses a general principle about life
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A writer’s use of hints or clues to indicate events that will occur in a story; creates suspense and at the same time prepares the reader for what is to come.
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An American offshoot of German Romanticism, was based on the belief that “transcendent forms” of truth exist beyond reason and experience
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A short simple story that is handed down usually by word of mouth, from generation to generation
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A rhetorical device that expresses contrasting ideas in parallel grammatical structures
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Gives Coyote a young cow to use as food
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Raises the Right-Handed and Left-Handed twins; in her death, her head later becomes the moon
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Who is “a mouse no more…she raises her chin like the daughter of a prince” and sees herself as “an official of the court”?
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Who is described as “dressed in a rude half- Indian garb, and had a red belt or sash swathed round his body; but his face was neither black nor copper-colored, but swarthy and dingy and begrimed with soot..”?
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Who is described as being a “woman who will never lie”?
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Elected Governor of Plymouth Plantation; writes about the experiences of the Pilgrims in settling into the New World
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Was co-founder of the Transcendentalists and writer of the essay, Self-Reliance.
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Master of American Gothic who wrote such works as “The Raven,” “Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Masque of the Red Death”
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Printer, inventor, statesman, scientist, and self-help writer
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Gothic writer who wrote “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
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“whoso would be a man, must be a non-conformist”
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“As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do one and avoid the other.”
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“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?”
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“I was soon put under the decks and there received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life…”
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“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spder, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you…”
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“…listen to the song of that siren, till she transform us into beasts”
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“we have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated…”
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“The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks…which made it dark at noonday…It was full of pits and quagmires…smothering mud…dark and stagnant pools…”
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“I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold/ Or all the riches that the East doth hold”
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“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
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