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The Red Badge of Courage Test Latest Update Graded A annhilate to destroy completely ardor passion din loud noise fathom to understand ominous threatening prowess bravery, skill solemnly seriously tumult Noisy excitement; an uproar or disturbance. conjure summon into action or bring into existence derisive expressing contempt or ridicule frenzy A state of wild excitement gaunt lean and haggard plight a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation spectral ghostly sullen...

Praxis 5038 Latest Update with Verified Solutions James Fenimore Cooper Wrote famous series Leatherstocking Tales: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer. First book was Precaution, which attempted to satirize Jane Austens novels. Last of the Mohicans Main character-Natty Bumppo (Hawkeye), setting 1757 Upstate NY, Seven Years War Harriet Beecher Stowe Born 1811 CT, wrote Uncle Toms Cabin Uncle Toms Cabin Story of a slave sold from KY into a life of...

Metaphysical Poetry - Answer- Uses conceits and uses intellectual and philosophical language. Makes abstract comparisons using conceits. ie. John Donne. Michael Wigglesworth - Answer- Clergyman who wrote "Day of Doom" and "Meat out of the Eater". He wrote lyrical, theological poems. Puritan. Connotation - Answer- the feelings or emotions surrounding a word. (ie. home = pleasant haven) motif - Answer- Phase, image, action, that unifies a work of literature by recurring throughout it....

APUSH AMSCO Chapter 18 (2023/2024) 100% Pass Columbian Exposition Held in 1893 in the city of Chicago, it's purpose was to display the White City's downtown area and the fairgrounds along with the progress of American civilization such as new industrial technologies. "old" immigrants The majority of them arrived before 1880 and they came almost exclusively from Western Europe and the British Isles. They had a high level of literacy and occupational skills. "new" immigrants The majority o...

Praxis 5038 Latest Update Already Passed ballads A form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dancing songs". drama A composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character, especially one intended to be acted on the stage fable A literary device which can be defined as a concise and brief story intended to provide a moral lesson at t...

Red Badge of Courage Ranson Questions and Answers Rated A+ Stephen Crane served during the Civil War but never saw combat. T/F? False Around how many African-Americans were enslaved around the time that the Civil War began? 4 Million The Civil War was not fought over the issue of slavery alone. T/F? True Historians believe that the battle chronicled in The Red Badge of Courage was fought at ________. Chancellorsville What does Crane portray about the battle in the novel that would contribute...

Louisa May Alcott American novelist whose major works (1860) include: "Little Women," "Little Men," "Flower Fables," "Moods." Used pen name A. M. Barnard Maya Angelou " I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," "Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now" (1993) and "Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997)" Ray Bradbury 20th century autodidact writer famous for " Fahrenheit 451," "The Martian Chronicles," (Sci Fi/Horror), " The Illustrated Man," Sandra Cisneros American writer be...

Metaphysical Poetry -->Uses conceits and uses intellectual and philosophical language. Makes abstract comparisons using conceits. ie. John Donne. Michael Wigglesworth -->Clergyman who wrote "Day of Doom" and "Meat out of the Eater". He wrote lyrical, theological poems. Puritan. Connotation -->the feelings or emotions surrounding a word. (ie. home = pleasant haven) motif -->Phase, image, action, that unifies a work of literature by recurring throughout it. A theme or idea in ...

PRAXIS 5038 (2023/2024) Already Graded A The Colonial Period ; e.g. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", Of Plymouth Plantation, Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano The Age of Revolution ; authors: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin The Romantic Period ; authors: William Cullen Bryant, James Fennimore Cooper, Sojourner Truth, Washington Irving Transcendental writers Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance), Henry David Thoreau (Walden) Anti-transcendental writers Nathanie...

Praxis 5038 Latest Update Graded A Neoclassicism (Late 17th c. and 18th c.) Restoration, Augustan, Age of Johnson. Writers looked to the ideals and art forms of classical times. The age of reason. (Austen, Moliere, Johnson, Locke, Pope) Romanticism (extended) but technically Coincides with the age of revolutions, reaction to the neoclassical period. Nature, symbolism, myth, emotion, lyric poetry, the self. Imagination and expression over reason. (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats,...