Final Exam Flashcards
What does the sea probably symbolize in this final stanza from the selection:
Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it had rolled five thousand years ago.
Natures power over humanity
The white whale against whom Ahab seeks vengeance did what
Caused Ahab to lose his leg in a previous encounter
What is Melville’s deepest philosophical concern
The nature of evil
What do Ahab’s rambling monologues show
That he is single minded
Which aspect of nature does the white whale not symbolize
Spiritual comfort
In “the chase-the third day” which is not one of the omens of disaster
Ahab nailing a gold coin to the mast
List the moby Dick characters in descending rank
Ahab-Starbucks-Stubb-Ishmael
What detail show that Ahab’s footprints are a symbol
The comparison relating them to “the footprints of his one unsleeping, ever pacing thought”
What does Stubb mean when he says of Ahab, “the chick that’s in him pecks the shell. Twill soon be out”
Something is bothering Ahab and it will soon drive him into action
To Ahab’s mind, Moby-Dick symbolizes a wall that does what.
Must be broken through to reach the truth behind it
What is the chief significance of Ahab’s being drowned by his own harpoon line
It stresses the idea that obsession and vengefulness are self-destructive.
What positive effect does the veil have
Parson Hooper is able to convert more sinners
“The Minister’s Black Veil” is a parable, which means that characters, events, and details of setting are what
Simplified to teach a moral lesson
What is Hawthorne’s view of human nature based on “ The Minister’s Black Veil”
Pessimistic
What is a central theme of “ The Minister’s Black Veil”
People are unwilling to face the truth about themselves
What is something that can be inferred based on a passage found in “the minister’s black veil”
Each person hides his or her darkest secrets from others for fear of what others will think
What does the narrator imply about the minister wearing the veil
The minister is performing a symbolic act
When is the veil removed from the minister
Never
Starbucks is Ahab’s most outspoken supporter
False
The true purpose of the voyage is to hunt and kill Moby-Dick
True
Tashtego is one of the harpooners
True
To Ahab, Moby-Dick is merely a dumb animal
False
Ahab offers a Spanish gold coin to the sailor who first sights Moby-Dick
True
Tashtego is the sailor who identifies the white whale by name
True
Starbucks objects to Ahab’s announcement by claiming that his business is to hunt whales, not the captain’s vengeance.
True
The bad omen that Starbucks observes is th hawk pecking at the red flag
True
On the third day of the chase, the Pequod comes upon a large number of sharks
True
Ahab succeeds in killing Moby Dick
False
After Ahab’s death, the Pequod sails back to Nantucket
False
Ahab dies when he is caught by the harpoon line and pulled into sea with the whale
True
Starbucks says that Ahab has a “ heart wrought of iron steel” when he orders the lowering of the boat among hungry sharks
True
Ahab nailing a gold coin to the mast is not one of the omens of disaster
True
Hawthorne wrote from a Puritan view of human goodness
False
Hawthorne’s writings contain the theme of sin and the guilt that is the result
True
Hawthorne had a Puritan imagination and a dark view of human nature and Mathematics
False
Hawthorne was Melville’s mentor
True
Melville was concerned with the origin and nature of evil itself
True
Melville was most popular when he wrote simple adventure stories
True
In Moby-Dick, good and evil are not linked
False
Melville came from a Calvinist background which was similar to Puritanism
True
Melville dedicated Moby Dick to Dickinson
False
Anti-transcendentalists criticized transcendental philosophy for refusing to account for the active presence of evil in the world
True
Two authors against transcendentalism were Hawthorne and Thoreau
False
The narrator’s first wife returned from the grave by changing places with the second wife
True
The narrator loved his second wife as much as he loved his first wife
False
Ligeia believes that a strong enough will can conquer death
True
The narrator witnessed three ruby red drops of liquid falling into his wife’s wine glass
True
In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Roderick has invited the narrator to attend his wedding
False
In the fall of the house of usher, lady Madeline escapes from her tomb and causes Roderick’s death
True
In the fall of the house of usher, the story takes place in the spring
False
In the fall of the house of usher, the lady Madeline is Roderick’s aunt
False
In the fall of the house of usher, the house is large and old
True
In the fall of the house of usher, the Lady Madeline has a mysterious disease
True
As the narrator approaches the usher house, he is struck by its beauty
False
In the fall of the house of usher, the narrator is an old friend of Roderick Usher
True
In the fall of the house of usher, Roderick has composed a poem called “The Haunted Lake”
False
In the fall of the house of usher, Roderick buries the Lady Madeline in a vault in the deepest part of the house
True
Poe’s own life was as dark and dismal as the fiction he wrote
True
Poe was an alcoholic
True
The poem Annabel Lee, was a tribute to Poe’s wife
True
Poe married his sixteen-year-old cousin
False
Poe was an editor for a series of magazines where he endeavor end to expose literary pretensions of certain authors
True
Poe argued that a short story should be constructed to achieve a single effect.
True
Poe joined the army and obtained an appointment at West Point
True
The majority of critics considered Poe a terrible short story writer
False
Poe is the inventor of the romance novel
False
Poe was raised by his natural parents
False
Which event did not occur at the end of the fall of the house of usher
Madeline and Roderick attack the narrator
Before he enters the usher mansion, the narrator notes “a barely perceptible fissure” in the building; what is this an example of
Foreshadowing
In the fall of the house of usher, the narrator discover that Roderick is all of the following except
Bedridden
The basic facts of the fall of the house of usher include all of the following except what
Roderick has a twin sister, who dies of a cataleptic seizure the first night.
What is the pervasive mood in the fall of the house of usher
Horror and gloom
Which word is an example of an onomatopoeia: nodded,suddenly, napping, or tapping
Tapping
In which lines are the underlined words an example of alliteration
What this GRIM,UNGAINLY, GHASTLY, GAUNT, and ominous bird of yore
The final stanza of the Raven ends upon a note of complete
Despair
Which line does not have internal rhyme
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
The visitor in the Raven is called all of the following except
Soul in mourning
How can the speaker in the Raven be best described
A melancholy person trying to forget a tragedy
What can be inferred based on the ending of the Raven
The speaker will never escape his despair
In the Raven, when the narrator opens the door of his chamber and peers out, who does he half expect to find
The deceased woman with whom he has been in love
The narrator asks two questions to the Raven which he replies with never more. What do these questions concern
What will happen after death
Ashtophet, a goddess mentioned in Poe’s description of Ligeia was the goddess of what
Love and fertility
The narrator’s first wife taught him what
Metaphysics and transcendentalism
The narrator’s first wife paints a gruesome picture of horror, despair, ultimate death, and decay in her poem with man as the tragedy and whom as the hero
Conqueror worm
“My brain reeled… To assumptions which mortality had never before known” what does the narrator refer to
His wife’s views about man’s will in overcoming death
Poe attributed the opening quote in Ligeia to whom
Joseph Glanville
A man mourns his lost love
The Raven
No one can harm me unpunished
The cask of amontillado
In pace requiescat
The cask of amontillado
Single effect of irony
Cask of amontillado
Premature burial -revenge
The cask of amontillado
Premature burial-catalepsy
Fall of the house of usher
Catacombs
Cask of amontillado
A story within a story
Fall of the house of usher
Rowena
Ligeia
Roderick
Fall of the house of usher
Carnivale in Italy
The cask of amontillado
Madeline
The fall of the house of usher
Pallas Athena
The Raven
Never more
The Raven
A strong enough will can overcome death
Ligeia
Idolatrous love
Ligeia
Fortunato
Cask of amontillado
A court jester costume
The cask of amontillado
Montresor
Cask of amontillado
Germany and England
Ligeia
In because I could not stop for death, how is death personified
a polite gentleman
In the soul selects her own society what is the soul compared to
A woman who stays in her house no matter who comes to visit
In I heard a fly buzz when I died, why is there a stillness in the room
The people in the room are waiting for the speakers final moments
In my life closed twice before its close,mother three closing a mentioned in the title refer to what
The parting of two loved ones followed by the speaker’s death
What statement best expresses the central message of my life closed twice before its close
Parting may be the closest thing we come in life to understanding death
Which poem focuses mostly on a lesson that can be learned from nature
There’s a certain slant of light
The brain is wider than the sky compares physical size of the brain to that of the sky and the sea. What point is the author trying to make
The brain is infinitely large in understanding
To which sense do the images in the stanza appeal: There's a certain slant of light Winter afternoons That oppresses like the heft Of cathedral tunes
Sight, sound and touch
Which of the following images is the central image in because I could not stop for death
The setting sun
What makes the song of myself a typical Whitman poem
It’s use of natural cadences of human speech
What situation in by the bivouacs fitful flame prompts the thoughts of life, death, and people far away
Being in the midst of war
What can be inferred about the poets attitude in song of myself
Whitman believes that his observations are universally shared
What can be inferred about whitmans attitude toward nature
He admires it, he learns from it, he considers himself to be a part of it, and he likes to spend time outdoors
In I hear America singing Whitman implies that Americans are all of the following except what
Musical geniuses
What is the central comparison in a noiseless patient spider
The spider and the speakers soul
What is the main literary device used in a noiseless patient spider
Metaphor
Which of the following was not a prime reason why Whitman chose to write free verse
To imitate earlier poets he admired
In song of myself and I hear America singing, what can be inferred about Whitman’s attitude toward other people
He feels affectionate toward other people
The phrase barbaric yawp in song of myself is an example of what
Whitman’s informality
The singing that the speaker hears in I hear America singing is what
The individuality of Americans in different walks of life
What prevents song of myself from becoming an exercise in ego and selfishness
The poem’s linking of the individual self to a universal self
Whitman’s free verse in song of myself uses all of the following devices except
Rhyme
Dickinson used slant rhyme but no formal rhythmic meter of any kind ever in her work
False
In her poems, Dickinson frequently examines the relationship between events of everyday life and the things of the spirit
True
In her mid-twenties, Dickinson entered Harvard
False
Dickinson only wrote 100 poems
False
A characteristic of Dickinson’s poems that immediately strikes the reader is her frequent use of rhyming couplets
False
Dickinson did not want any recognition
True
Dickinson always dressed in white
True
The poems by Dickinson suggest that she was much preoccupied with her many friendships
False
Dickinson was born, raised, and lived her life in Massachusetts
True
In the line, “The varied carols I hear” from I hear America singing one can see the use of Anastrophe
True
Whitman’s book of poetry, leaves of grass, was a financial failure and considered crude and gross
True
Whitman experimented with the sonnet form
False
Whitman pays tribute to various common workers of America in the poem I hear America singing
False
Whitman brings unity to his poems by the repetition of a rhyme scheme
False
In a noiseless patient spider, Whitman compares the spider to the poet’s own soul.
True
Whitman embraced the ideal of Puritan ethic
False
The poem appearing in leaves of grass that consisted of 52 stanzas of celebrating the poet was song of myself
True
Tom became a violent church-goer because he was truly converted from his wicked ways
False
The character of Tom Walker and his wife are stereotypes that we call flat characters
True
The tall sinners in in the tom Walker story are doomed men who became wealthy through their works in the establishment of orphanages
False
The plot of the devil and Tom Walker is : am an sells his soul to the devil
True
The description of the tall trees calls to mind the words tall sinners
True
The theme for the tom Walker story is: you can’t beat the devil at his own game
True
In Irving’s the devil and Tom Walker the setting is first described realistically and then supernatural elements are added
True
The east was connected to the Midwest by the construction of the Cumberland road
True
The first black newspaper, the underground journal, was published during this time period
False
As a result of such fast and tremendous growth, the United States experienced an increase in problems, such as slavery, poverty, lack of food, and exploitation
True
The Eerie canal was constructed to connect the Hudson River to Lake Eerie
True
Our territory expanded all the way to California
True
The fireside poets were Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, and cooper
False
During this time period, there was an increase in wealth in America due to the increase in shipping, trade, manufacturing, and architectural design
False
During 1800-1870, there was an increase in population in the United States
True
This period is called the golden age of American literature because our authors initiated the development of a uniquely American style or voice. These writers forged new paths and moved away from European traditions
True
Thousands more acres of cotton could be cultivated because of Eli Whitney’s invention of the sewing machine
False
Who wrote the descriptive masterpiece, snowbound
John Greenleaf Whittier
Who is the best loved American poet of the period
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who celebrated the virtues of home, family, and democracy in literature
Fireside poets
What important Puritan poet helped establish the romantic movement in America with his poem Thantatopsis
William Cullen Bryant
Who was the father of American literature and the first professional author
Washington Irving
Which sentence best summarizes the prologue to the song of Hiawatha
The prologue introduces traditional stories from Native American culture
When does the curlew call in the tide rises, the tide falls
Twilight
Which statement does not apply to the stanzas in the tide rises, the tide falls
The stanzas have no regular pattern of rhyme
How does the prologue’s repetitive, insistent meter set the mood for the song of Hiawatha
It echoes the sound of tom-toms as at powwow
The stories to be told in the song of Hiawatha are taken from what sources
Native American legends
What broader meaning might be signified by the image of the tide in the “and the tide rises, the tide falls”
Life’s cyclical enduring nature
The five-line stanzas of the tide rises, the tide falls are called what
Cinquains
In line 1 of the prologue to the song of Hiawatha, what is the meaning of the question “whence these stories”
Where did these stories come from
In the song of Hiawatha Longfellow believes that Native American tales derive their power from what source
Nature itself, whose spirit is expressed in native peoples and their cultures
Which word best describes Longfellow’s attitude toward death in the tide rises the tide falls
Accepting
Old ironside is the nickname of what
The USS constitution, a war of 1812 battleship
The title of Thantatopsis means
A vision of death
According to the speaker of Thantatopsis what will happen to him after death
His body will become part of nature
Which quality does Holmes’ poem attribute to old ironside
Heroism
Transcendentalism was in opposition to rationalism which was all brain and no spirit
True
Transcendentalism believed in the goodness of man, the glory of nature, the importance of free individual expression, and awareness of reality and truth reached through intuition rather than through reason or logic.
True
Transcendentalists believed that man could reach God by communing with statues
False
Unitarians believed in the basic goodness and innate free will of the individual
True
Unitarianism rejected original sin and determinism
True
Unitarianism believed in a binary God
False
Utopian communities were founded by Unitarians
False
As a result of communion with nature, Emerson tells us that his egotism grows by leaps and bounds
False
Emerson sees in nature evidence of God’s presence
True
In Nature, Emerson states that there are absolutely no possibilities for man to grow spiritually
False
In Nature, Emerson claims that he becomes part or particle of God
True
Emerson brought the idea of transcendentalism back to America from Europe
True
Emerson was the fountainhead of transcendentalism in American Literature
True
Emerson’s works are very abstract and difficult to follow
True
Emerson was the first American author to call for independence of expression in American Literature
True
Emerson was originally a Puritan minister
False
Thoreau had a high regard for civilized urban life
False
Thoreau went to live in the woods so that he could confront the essential facts of life
True
Thoreau concluded that his experiment of living in the woods was a failure
False
Thoreau advised people to follow their intuitions, however unusual those intuitions seemed to be
True
In self-reliance, Emerson exhorts human beings to strive for absolute consistency
False
In self reliance, Emerson refers to the source of virtue and life by using the following words: instinct and intuition
True
According to self reliance, the greatest obstacle to self trust is society.
True
In self-reliance, he urges people to trust themselves
True
As part of a transcendental protest,Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax and went to jail
True
Thoreau wrote in a concrete style and tested what he believed
True
Thoreau spoke in defense of the abolitionist, Terry McLain, when it was not politically correct to do so.
False
What quote from Nature shows Emerson’s concept of the Over-Soul
I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me
What quote reflects a key idea of transcendentalism
Nothing is at least sacred but the integrity of your own mind
What view of nature does Emerson take
Nature can inspire the human spirit
What statement would a transcendentalist agree with
There is a spiritual relationship between nature and humanity
The prose excerpts show that Emerson never abandoned his belief in what
Unlimited human possibility
What statement best characterizes the central idea of self reliance
Rely on your own instincts
What statements about transcendentalism are accurate
It is a philosophical movement, people were interested in the human spirit, and they thought that an exploration of nature helped people understand universal truths
In Nature, Emerson writes “yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature, but in man, or in harmony of both” what philosophy doe this describe
Transcendentalism
In self reliance, Emerson says “trust ________ every heart vibrates to that iron string”
Thyself
What adjective reflects Emerson’s attitude on Self-Reliance
Disapproving
Emerson’s romanticism is most clearly displayed in his what
Reliance on emotional truth
In the excerpt from Walden, Thoreau states that one of his chief reasons for going to live in the woods was to
Simplify his life thoroughly
What aspect of philosophy does Thoreau express in the following statement: if a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Individualism
Walden’s closing image of the morning star leaves the reader feeling how
Inspired
What statement best expresses Thoreau’s philosophy as expressed in Walden
Living a simple life close to nature lets a person concentrate on important things
The man who hears a different drummer is best described as
A nonconformist
The excerpt is primarily concerned with what
A search for the essence of reality
What does Thoreau mean in the statement: I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. My head is hands and feet
He views thinking as an important part of his work
