FINAL LIT Flashcards
(T/F) The poems by Emily Dickinson suggest that she was much preoccupid with her many friendships
False
(T/F) Emily DIckinson was born, raised, and lived her life in Massachusetts
True
(T/F) Dickinson did not want any recognition
True
(T/F) In Her poems, Dickinson frequently examines the relationship between events of everyday life and the things of the Spirit
True
(T/F) Dickinson used slant rhyme but no formal rhythmic meter of any kind ever in her work.
False
(T/F) Dickinson always dressed in white
True
(T/F) In her mid-twenties, Dickinson entered Harvard
False
(T/F) Emily Dickinson wrote only 100 poems
False
(T/F) A characteristic of DIckinson’s poems that immediately strikes the reader is her frequent use of rhyming couplets
False
(T/F) Whitman’s book of poetry, Leaves of Grass, was a financial failure and was considered crude and gross
True
(T/F) In the line, “The varied carols I hear” from ‘I Hear America Singing’, one can see the use of anastrophe
True
(T/F) Whitman pays tribute to various common workers of America in the poem, “I hear south america singing”
False
(T/F) WHitman brings unity to his poems by the repetition of a rhyme scheme
False
(T/F) In ‘A noiseless Patient Spider’, Whitman compares the spider to the poet’s own soul
True
(T/F) Whitman experimented with the Sonnet Form
False
(T/F) Whitman embraced the ideal of Puritan ehtic
False
(T/F) The poem appearing in ‘Leaves of Grass’ that consisted of 52 stanzas of celebrating the poet was ‘Song of Myself’
False
(T/F) Thoreau concluded that his experiment of living in the woods was a failure
False
(T/F) Thoreau had a high regard for civilized urban life
False
(T/F) Thoreau advised people to follow their intuitions, however unusual those intuitions seem to be
True
(T/F) Thoreau went to live in the woods so that he could confront the essential facts of life
True
(T/F) Emerson brought the idea of transcendentalism back to America from Europe
True
(T/F) Emerson’s works are very abstract and difficult to follow
True
(T/F) Emerson was the first American author to call for independence of expression in Am. Literature
True
(T/F) Emerson was originally a Puritan minister
False
(T/F) Emerson was the fountainhead of transcendentalism in American Literature
True
(T/F) Transcendentalism was in opposition to Rationalism which was all brain and no spirit
True
(T/F) Unitarians believed in the basic goodness and innate free will of the individual
True
(T/F) Transcendentalists believed that man could reach God by communing with statues
False
(T/F) Utopian communities were founded by the Unitarians
False
(T/F) Unitarianism believed in a Binary God
False
(T/F) 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
(T/F) Unitarianism rejected Original Sin and Determinism
True
(T/F) In ‘Self-Reliance;, Emerson refers to the source of virtue and life by using the following words: instinct and intuition
True
(T/F) According to ‘Self-Reliance’, the greatest obstacle to self-trust is society
True
(T/F) In ‘Self-Reliance’, Emerson urges people to trust themselves
True
(T/F) In ‘Self-Reliance’, Emerson exhorts human beings to strive for absolute consistency
False
(T/F) In ‘Nature’, Emerson states that there are absolutely no possibilities for man to group spiritually
False
(T/F) Emerson sees in nature evidence of God’s presence
True
(T/F) As a result of communions with nature, Emerson tells us that his egotism grows by leaps and bounds
False
(T/F) In ‘Nature’, Emerson claims that he becomes part of particle of God
True
(T/F) As a part of Transcendental Protest, Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax and went to jail
True
(T/F) Thoreau spoke in defence of the abolitionist, Terry McClain, when it was not politically correct to do so
False
(T/F) Thoreau wrote in a concrete style and tested what he believed
True
(T/F) Poe was raised by his natural parents
False
(T/F) Poe argued that a short story should be constructed to achieve a single effect
True
(T/F) Poe was an editor for a series of magazines where he endeavored to expose literary pretensions of certain authors
True
(T/F) Por married his sixteen year old cousin
False
(T/F) Poe is the inventor of the romance novel
False
(T/F) Poe’s own life was as dark and dismal as the fiction he wrote
True
(T/F) Poe was an alcoholic
True
(T/F) In Ligeia, the narrator’s first wife reutrned from the grave by changing places with his second wifes
True
(T/F) in Ligeia, the narrator witnessed three ruby red drops of some liquid falling into his wife’s wine glass
True
(T/F) Ligeia believes that a strong enough will can conquer even death
True
(T/F) In Ligeia, the narrator lived his second wife as much as he lived his first wife
False
(T/F) Longfellow is the least important Fireside poet
False
(T/F) Longfellow list his first wife to illness
True
(T/F) In his lifetime, Longfellow was considered the best loved American poet
True
(T/F) Longfellow taught at Harvard University
True
(T/F) Longfellow lost his second wife through dicorce
False
(T/F) Longfellow could never rise above the tragedies of his life
False
(T/F) The concept of Nature was extremely important to Bryant
True
(T/F) Bryant published a savage poem criticizing President jefferson and his administration
True
(T/F) Bryant is one of our major Colonial authors
False
(T/F) Bryant was a journalist for fifty years and wrote for reform for many social causes
True
(T/F) Bryant wrote ‘Thanatopsis’, at the age of thirty
False
(T/F) Bryant was considered the father of American poetry
True
(T/F) Tom’s gang follows through on the orders contained in the oath
False
(T/F) Jim is superstitious and believes in witches
True
(T/F) Huckleberry Finn contains a social comment deeper than a simple adventure story
True
(T/F) Tom insists on being practical and efficient in freeing Jim
False
(T/F) The Duke and Dauphin are displaced royalty
False
(T/F) Tom and Huck’s fortune comes from a twelve thousand dollar inheritance
False
(T/F) Jim thinks he will become rich someday
True
(T/F) Huck prefers the Widow Douglas’ God of Miss Watson’s
True
(T/F) tom represents the Establishment, and Huck is shocked at his willingness to aid in the rescue plot
True
(T/F) Besides being a farmer, Silas Phelps is also a preacher
True
(T/F) Huck tells the Duke and Dauphin the truth about himself and Jim
False
(ROMANTICISM) Which sentence best summarizes the prologue to “The Song of Hiawatha”?
The prologue introduces traditional stories from Native American culture.
(ROMANTICISM) The stories to be told in “The Song of Hiawatha” are taken from what sources?
Native American legends
(ROMANTICISM) Which sentence best summarizes the prologue to “The Song of Hiawatha”?
The prologue introduces traditional stories from Native American culture.
(ROMANTICISM) 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
(ROMANTICISM) Which word best describes Longfellow’s attitude toward death in “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”?
Accepting
(ROMANTICISM) What broader meaning might be signified by the image of the tide in the line, “And the tide rises, the tide falls”?
Life’s cyclical, enduring nature
(ROMANTICISM) Which statement does not apply to the stanzas in “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”?
The stanzas have no regular pattern of rhyme.
(ROMANTICISM) 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”
(ROMANTICISM) How does the prologue’s repetitive, insistent meter set the mood for “The Song of Hiawatha”?
It echoes the rhythm of tom-toms, as at a powwow.
(ROMANTICISM) In “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls,” when does the curlew call?
Twilight
(ROMANTICISM) The five-line stanzas of “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” are called
Cinquains
(ROMANTICISM) According to the speaker in “Thanatopsis,” what will happen to him after death?
His body will become part of nature.
(ROMANTICISM) According to the speaker in “Thanatopsis,” what will happen to all people after they die?
They will become part of the earth.
(ROMANTICISM) Which of the following statements is the best summary of these lines from “Old Ironsides”?
The ship will no longer witness people battling on her deck.
(ROMANTICISM) What kind of ship is “Old Ironsides”?
A warship
(ROMANTICISM) The title “Thanatopsis” means
A vision of death
(ROMANTICISM) Which of these statements best expresses the speaker’s view in “Old Ironsides”?
A remarkable national relic should be saved.
(ROMANTICISM) Which of these qualities does Holmes’s poem attribute to “Old Ironsides”?
Heroism
(ROMANTICISM) “Old Ironsides” was the nickname of
The U.S.S. Constitution, a War of 1812 battleship
(ROMANTICISM) In the last stanza, the image of the “flaming forge” is associated with
The threshing floor
(ROMANTICISM) The smith’s heart rejoices when his daughter sings because
Her voice is so beautiful.
(ROMANTICISM) Why doesn’t the smith’s wife attend church with him?
She has died.
(ROMANTICISM) In the last stanza, the speaker thanks the smith for his life lesson and shows admiration for his
Honest labor
(ROMANTICISM) What is the “lesson” to which the speaker refers in the final stanza?
The example of the smith’s honest and simple life
(ROMANTICISM) Which of the following statements are true of every stanza of the poem?
I. Every stanza develops a separate idea.
II. Every stanza contains six lines.
III. Every stanza contains three sentences.
IV. Every stanza has the same basic meter.
I, II, and IV
(POE) In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the narrator discovers that Roderick is all of the following except
Bedridden
(POE) Before he enters the Usher mansion, the narrator notes “a barely perceptible fissure” in the building; this is an example of
Foreshadowing
(POE) The mood that is sustained throughout “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of pervasive
Horror and gloom
(POE) The basic facts of “The Fall of the House of Usher” include all of the following except one. Which is the exception?
Roderick has a twin sister, who dies of a cataleptic seizure the first night.
