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Chapter 6 Flashcards

1
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Who wrote the poem “After the Battle”?

A

Victor Hugo

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What type of poetry is storytelling shared through verse?

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narrative poetry

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What are the themes of “After the Battle”?

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compassion and courage

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What are the themes of “The Cobbler and the Financier”?

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contentment and the emptiness of riches

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Who is the author of “The Cobbler and the Financier”?

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Jean de la Fontaine

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What work are these lines from “He took it home, and there did hide,/ And with it laid his joy aside”?

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The Cobbler and the Financier

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Who was more content in “The Cobbler and the Financier” and why?

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the cobbler because he was not concerned with money

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Who is the author of “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”?

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Robert Browning

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What are the themes of “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”?

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honesty, integrity, consequences

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In “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” did the Mayor and the Counsil have integrity?

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no

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What type of rhyme is used in the lines “Split open the kegs of salted sprats,/ Made nests inside men’s Sunday hats,/ And even spoiled the women’s chats”?

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masculine rhyme

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6
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What happened to the rats in “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”?

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they drowned in the river

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What happened in “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” when the Counsil refused to pay the piper what he asked for?

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the piper took their kids away

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Did the piper lead away all of the children?

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all but one

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What type of rhyme is used in the lines “And bit the babies in the cradles,/ And licked soup from the cooks’ own ladles”?

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feminine rhyme

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Who are the three people in “The Death of the Hired Man”?

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Mary, Warren, Silas

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Who is the hired man in “The Death of the Hired Man”?

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Silas

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Who is the author of “The Death of the Hired Man”?

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Robert Frost

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What are the themes of “The Death of the Hired Man”?

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belonging, home

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What did Mary tell Warren that Silas planned to do?

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ditch the meadow

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What work are these lines from “Home is the place where, when you have to go there,/ They have to take you in./ I should have called it/ Something you somehow haven’t to deserve”?

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The Death of the Hired Man

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What is a short narrative poem intended to be sung and is written in stanzas?

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ballad

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What are the three characteristics of ballads?

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they are usually romantic, dramatic, or advenurous

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What are groups of repeated lines usually containing the same meter and rhyme scheme?

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stanzas

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What is the crisis that sends Mulan off on her journey in “The Ballad of Mulan”?

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her father has been called to war and her brothers are inelegible

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What is the earliest type of ballad that is an anonymous tale that has been passed down for gernerations?

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folk ballad

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What are the themes of “The Ballad of Mulan”?

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self-sacrifice and courage

22
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How long was Mulan in the army at war?

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10 years

23
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What work are these lines from “Oh let me to the market to buy saddle and horse,/ And ride with the soldiers to take my father’s place.”?

A

The Ballad of Mulan

24
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When the emperor offers Mulan money and a position in his counsel, what does Mulan ask for instead?

A

a camel

25
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Why does Mulan want a camel from the emperor?

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so she could travel home

26
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Did the soldiers that Mulan travel with in the army ever know that she was a girl?

A

no

27
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Who is the author of “Waltzing Matilda”?

A

Banjo Paterson

28
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What is the theme of “Waltzing Matilda”?

A

free-spiritedness

29
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What is regional language that writers use to make dialogue more realistic or authentic?

A

dialect

30
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What work are these lines from “And he sang as he looked at his old billy boiling,/ ‘Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?’”?

A

Waltzing Matilda

31
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What eventually went “a-waltzing Matilda” with the man in “Waltzing Matilda”?

A

sheep

32
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Who is the author of “The Destruction of Sennacherib”?

A

George Gordon, Lord Byran

33
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What is the themes of “The Destruction of Sennacherib”?

A

God’s power

34
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What work are these lines from “The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,”?

A

The Destruction of Sennacherib

35
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What meter is used in “The Destruction of Sennacherib”?

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anapest tetrameter

36
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What does Geoge Gordon, Lord Byran base his story off of?

A

a Biblical account of this event

37
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What work are these lines from “And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, /Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!”?

A

The Destruction of Sennacherib

38
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Who is the one who guides Dante in “The Dark Wood of Error” only part of the way?

A

Virgil

39
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Who is the author of “The Dark Wood or Error”?

A

Dante Alighieri

40
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What are the themes of “The Dark Wood of Error”?

A

worldliness vs. spirituality, the destructiveness of vice, and the limit of man’s reason

41
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What is a narrative or description in which the characters, places, and other items are symbols?

A

allegory

42
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What work are these lines from “Death could scare be more bitter than that far place! /But since it came to good, I will recount /all that I found revealed there by God’s grace.”?

A

The Dark Wood of Error

43
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What is the lion in “The Dark Wood of Error” symbolic of?

A

violence and ambition

44
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What is the leopard in “The Dark Wood of Error” symbolic of?

A

malice and fraud

45
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What is the she-wolf in “The Dark Wood of Error” symbolic of?

A

intemperance

46
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Who is the only one who can lead Dante the rest of the way to heaven after Virgil?

A

Beatrice

47
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What two stories in this Unit are ballads?

A

The Ballad of Mulan and Waltzing Mathilda

48
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What are the themes of “Ramayana”?

A

corruption, love, duty, loyalty, and power

49
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What is a long, narrative poem in elevated style which presents characters and actions fo heroic proportions?

A

epic

50
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Which story in this unit is an epic?

A

Ramayana

51
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Why did the queen in Ramayana feel bold enough to tell the king her request?

A

because she had saved his life

52
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What is the condition that the old man and his wife suffer from in “Sndhu”?

A

they are blind

53
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Who is the son of the old man and his wife in “Sindhu”?

A

Sindhu

54
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Who is the author of “Sindhu”?

A

Toru Dutt

55
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What are the themes of “Sindhu”?

A

selfless love, consequences, remorse, mercy, and forgiveness

56
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What happened once the king was separated from his hunting party?

A

he shot Sindhu

57
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Why did the king shoot Sindhu?

A

he though Sindhu was a deer

58
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Does Sindhu curse the king?

A

no

59
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What work are these lines from “Because I suffer, should I give/ Thee, king, a needless pain? / Ah, no! I die, but mayest thou live, / And cleansed from every stain”?

A

Sindhu

60
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Why does Sindhu say that he was destined to die?

A

because he killed the male bird of a couple

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