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Exam 2 Quote IDs
This is a practice for the quote ID section of the exam.
Term | Definition |
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The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head. | "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving |
“Take thy beak from out my heart. And take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore” | "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe |
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. | A House Divided Speech by Abraham Lincoln |
No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in return only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so. | "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe |
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson |
“I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem. And it was I that brought your father a pitch-pine knot, kindled at my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian village in King Philip’s War.” | "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
But the deeper went the knife. The deeper sank the hand, until at length its tiny grasp appeared to have caught hold of Georgiana’s heart. | "The Birth-Mark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton. Much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. | "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe |