Untitled Flashcards Set

Quote:
“In the beginning, there was only water and darkness…”
Answer:
Iroquois – Iroquois Creation Myth

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“Sky Woman fell like a maple seed, pirouetting on the breath of the wind.”
Answer:
Modoc – People Brought in a Basket

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“The Great Spirit made the world and all the creatures in it.”
Answer:
Cherokee – Earth Making

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“Oh! That I could my self in thee behold, / And with delight, thy hidden sweetness see.”
Answer:
Edward Taylor – Meditation No. 8

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“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider…”
Answer:
Jonathan Edwards – Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

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“It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood…”
Answer:
Mary Rowlandson – A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration

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“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote…”
Answer:
Howard Zinn – A People’s History of the United States

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“Sir, I discovered many islands…”
Answer:
Christopher Columbus – Letter of Discovery

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“With Heaven above and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the devil!”
Answer:
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Young Goodman Brown

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“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
Answer:
Edgar Allan Poe – The Masque of the Red Death

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“A termagant wife was to him a tolerable blessing…”
Answer:
Washington Irving – Rip Van Winkle

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“Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.”
Answer:
Emily Dickinson – Success is counted sweetest

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“I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – ”
Answer:
Emily Dickinson – I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –

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“Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – / I keep it, staying at Home – ”
Answer:
Emily Dickinson – Some keep the Sabbath going to Church

Quote:
“I would prefer not to.”
Answer:
Herman Melville – Bartleby, the Scrivener

Quote:
“Smiley said all a frog wanted was education…”
Answer:
Mark Twain – The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Quote:
“They named him ‘Luck’ because the baby had brought good fortune.”
Answer:
Bret Harte – The Luck of Roaring Camp

Quote:
“As Farquhar fell straight downward… he lost consciousness and was as one already dead.”
Answer:
Ambrose Bierce – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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“I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society…”
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper

Quote:
“I wrote it to convince people to never let such a thing happen again.”
Answer:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’

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“None of them knew the color of the sky.”
Answer:
Stephen Crane – The Open Boat

Quote:
“I had Barbara,” she said quietly. “And I had Roman fever, after all.”
Answer:
Edith Wharton – Roman Fever

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“He was aware that his hands were grotesque…”
Answer:
Sherwood Anderson – Hands

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“She wanted to cry out in joy... but the expression of joy had become impossible to her.”
Answer:
Sherwood Anderson – Mother

Quote:
“He would come back some day; they couldn’t make him stay away.”
Answer:
F. Scott Fitzgerald – Babylon Revisited

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“She was an old woman now... Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names.”
Answer:
William Faulkner – A Rose for Emily

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“The hills across the valley of Ebro were long and white.”
Answer:
Ernest Hemingway – Hills Like White Elephants

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“She was kneeling on the ground looking up at him. Her face was shining.”
Answer:
John Steinbeck – The Chrysanthemums

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“I, too, sing America.”
Answer:
Langston Hughes – I, Too

Quote:
“She rose up to her full height and busted down the door of her own life.”
Answer:
Lucille Clifton – homage to my hips

Quote:
“Once there was a girl who had no father. That’s what they say.”
Answer:
Toni Morrison – Recitatif

Quote:
“It is so difficult to describe what I hear when I listen to Sonny.”
Answer:
James Baldwin – Sonny’s Blues

Quote:
“Some say the world will end in fire, / Some say in ice.”
Answer:
Robert Frost – Fire and Ice

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“So much depends / upon / a red wheel / barrow…”
Answer:
William Carlos Williams – The Red Wheelbarrow

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“The gunner was hunched in the belly of the plane.”
Answer:
Randall Jarrell – Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

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“Stories can save us.”
Answer:
Tim O’Brien – How to Tell a True War Story

Quote:
“They buried her in a blanket outside the Hogan.”
Answer:
Leslie Marmon Silko – Lullaby

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“She was the only one who wasn’t afraid of Fleur.”
Answer:
Louise Erdrich – Fleur

Quote:
“At night I dream that I have died and that you have forgiven me.”
Answer:
Li-Young Lee – This Room and Everything in It

Quote:
“You know what it is to be poor in a pawn shop?”
Answer:
Sherman Alexie – Pawn Shop

Quote:
“Victor, I’m going to Spokane with you.”
Answer:
Sherman Alexie – This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona

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“They shot the children too.”
Answer:
George Saunders – Civilwarland in Bad Decline