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DOHS New Nation
Review flash cards for the New Nation Unit
Question | Answer |
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a dark, BRACKISH pool of water | Adjective |
He SHEEPISHLY slipped out the back door | Adverb |
She BABBLED incoherently | Verb |
Her INCOHERENCE made understanding impossible | Noun |
You will never hide your LYING eyes | Adjective |
The first man to make effective use of the unreliable narrator | Poe |
First Person | The narrator is in the story. |
First Person Peripheral | The narrator is a minor character in the story, with limited understanding. |
Third Person | The narrator is not a part of the story |
Omniscient | The narrator knows what all people are thinking |
Limited, or Limited Omniscient | The narrator is not in the story and does not know what all characters are thinking. |
Third Person Paraphrase | The narrator summarizes the speakers thoughts without commentary. |
Why use a first person narrator? | The reader feels close to the action and what is happening elsewhere is a mystery. |
Why use an unreliable narrator? | The reader becomes a detective, looking at clues to find the truth |
Who wrote stories that were critical of Puritan America? | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Who was the first true published American Author? | Washington Irving |
Who wrote stories about the American frontier, starring Natty Bumppo? | James Fenimore Cooper |
What two writers were influential in the resistance to slavery? | Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau |
He came BLAZING into the room | Verb |
The BLAZING sun wearied him. | Adjective |
He was DESPERATE to escape | Adjective |
He DESPERATELY tried to escape | Adverb |
His escape was an act of DESPERATION | Noun |