Final Exam Review Flashcards
What is theme of “Iroguois Creation Myth”?
Religion (Cain and Able)
What is the theme of “Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”?
Religion (Mary’s faith in God)
What is the theme of “Meditation No. 8”?
Religion (Compares God to bread)
What is the theme of “Young Goodman Brown”?
Religion (Goodmans wife’s name is Faith and the old man is probably the Devil)
What is the theme of “The Masque of the Red Death”?
Economic class (The rich are partying while the poor are outside dying)
What is the theme of “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God”?
Religion (No one is stronger than God)
What is the theme of “Rip Van Winkle”?
Time doesn’t wait (Rip wakes up after 20 years later after drinking, he is mad that he missed out on so many events)
Who wrote “Young Goodman Brown”?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who wrote “Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”?
Mary Rowlandson
Who wrote “Meditation No. 8”?
Edward Taylor
Who wrote “Iroquois Creation Myth”?
Unknown
Who wrote “The Masque of the Red Death”?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who wrote “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God”?
Jonathan Edwards
Who wrote “Rip Van Winkle”?
Washington Irving
Who wrote “Bartleby the Scribner”?
Herman Melville
Who wrote “Hills like White Elephants”?
Ernest Hemingway
What is the theme of “Hills like White Elephants”?
Anti-Feminism (The man is telling her to get an abortion, but the woman wants to keep it)
Who wrote “The Chrysanthemums”?
John Steinbeck
What is the theme of “The Chrysanthemums”?
Gender inequality (Even though she is a smart girl, Elisa feels trapped because she stays at home)
Who wrote “A Rose for Emily”?
William Faulkner
What is the theme in “A Rose for Emily”?
Betrayal (She supposedly kills her lover and then her family starts to judge her)
Who wrote “I, Too” and “Song for a Dark Girl”?
Langston Hughes
What are the themes for “I, Too” and “Song for a Dark Girl”?
“I, Too”: Racial equality (wanting to be treated the same as the white people)
“Song for a Dark Girl”: Seeing her boyfriend lynched
