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35 Cards in this Set
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"If you truly would understand Christ's words fully and taste them truly, you must strive to form your whole life after His pattern."
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Of the Imitation of Christ
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"Teach me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see,And what I do in any thing,To do it as for Thee."
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"The Elixir"
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" 'This is my work; my blessing, not my doom;
'Of all who live, I am the one by whom 'This work can best be done in the right way.' " |
"Work"
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eminent detective
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Ben Price
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Bank Robber
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Jimmy Valentine
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bootmaker
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Mr. Gessler
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wanted to go to the High Places
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Much-Afraid
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rescued her neighbor from her relatives
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Mrs. Valiant
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statesman
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Old Stony Phiz
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heroic military leader
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Old Blood-and-Thunder
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wealthy merchant
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Mr. Gathergold
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fulfilled the prophecy of the Great Stone Face
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Ernest
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In "My Father's Hands" father never learned to ____.
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read and write
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Author considered the greatest of all German dramatists
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Friedrich von Schiller
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Believed that to despise the world and aim at the Kingdom of Heaven is the highest wisdom.
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Thomas a Kempis
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What country was Hawthorne from?
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America
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means "still higher" or "ever upward"
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excelsior
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the three words of strength
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faith, hope, love
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Jimmy Valentine's changed name in "A Retrieved Reformation"
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Ralph Spencer
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The miracle of genius is the miracle of what according to "Pleasures of Knowledge"
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Labor (work) |
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Only American poet to receive the honor of having his bust placed in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey .
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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What were Much-Afraid's two physical defects?
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crooked face and crooked legs
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Of the Imitation of Christ
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Thomas a Kempis
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"The Practice of the Presence of God"
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Brother Lawrence
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"Excelsior"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The Great Stone Face"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Work"
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Henry Van Dyke
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"The Elixir"
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George Herbert
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"A Retrieved Reformation"
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O. Henry
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saying the opposite of what it means
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verbal irony
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is the manner in which the writer deals with his subject and the general effect it is meant to have on an audience
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tone
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the ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it
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satire
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a narrative or description in which characters, places, and other items are symbols
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allegory
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is the central idea which gives the story meaning
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theme
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ESSAY: Briefly explain the symbols of sunshine, frost, storm, and calm in the poem "After St. Augustine." |
In the poem "After St. Augustine," sunshine symbolizes a time of prosperity, frost symbolizes a time of difficulty, the storm symbolizes trials, and the calm symbolizes peace.
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