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American Literature

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show Washington Irving  
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Who wrote "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legends of Sleepy Hollow"?   show
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How long did Rip Van Winkle sleep?   show
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Which short story did this quote come from: "Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence."   show
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show Edgar Allan Poe  
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show Edgar Allan Poe  
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show Edgar Allan Poe  
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show The Pit and the Pendulum  
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show The Pit and the Pendulum  
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show O.Henry  
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What was Soapy's desired destination in "The Cop and the Anthem"   show
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What are some ways that Soapy tried to get arrested?   show
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show Sarah Orne Jewett  
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In which story did two elderly sisters have to leave their home after their father died?   show
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What story did this quote come from: "There were no considerations of Mediterranean cruises, of soporific Southern skies or drifting int eh Vesuvian Bay. Three months on the Island was what his soul craved."   show
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Who wrote about his shipwreck in "The Open Boat"   show
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In which story did four men get shipwrecked and have to row to shore   show
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What story did this quote come from:""None of them knew the color of the sky"   show
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short story   show
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show the events in a story  
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characters   show
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show the meaning of the story  
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show time, place, and general background of a story  
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tone (mood)   show
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show the the perspective from which a story is told  
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omniscient point of view   show
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show when the author presents characters in action without comment  
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show when the meaning of the words are direct opposite of their usual sense  
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verbal irony   show
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show contrasting what a character says and what a reader knows to be true  
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show when the author tells the story from the viewpoint of one character using first or third person  
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the ridicule of human folly with the purpose of correcting it   show
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