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DOHS New Nation
Review flash cards for the New Nation Unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |