ABEKA 9th Grade Themes in Literature Test 6

Miguel de Cervantes

"The Fight with the Windmills"

A. A. Milne

"The Ugly Duckling"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Leo Tolstoy

"A Spark Neglected Burns the House"

Robert Burns

"A Red, Red Rose"

William Wordsworth

"Character of the Happy Warrior"

Edgar Allan Poe

"The Gold Bug"

selfish love

Describes the lady's love demonstrated in "The Glove and the Lions"

It allows the author to bring something to the reader's mind

Authors choose to use allusions in their writing

"Christmas Time on the Frontier" faith

"Hard times have come again and again, but we have trusted in Him, dreading nothing so as a doubt of His protecting care."

The narrator concurs that love takes work, but it would be foolish to turn away from it.

Describes "The Penalty of Love"

Metaphor

Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snowflakes;

Allusion

"Farewell!" said the priest, as he stood at the shadow of the threshold; "See that you bring the Prodigal Son from his fasting and famine."

Alliteration

He bowed his head, and bent his knee/Upon the monarch's silken stool

Dialect

"And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry."

Assonance

The river glideth at his own sweet will:

Dynamic

Based on the beginning and the end of "Where Love Is, There Is God Also," what type of character is Martin?

Juliet's balcony

In Romeo and Juliet, where did the interaction of the two take place?

Thankfulness

What was Evangeline's response upon finding Gabriel?

Her Hair

In "The Gift of the Magi," what did Della sell for twenty dollars?