Herman Melville: from "Moby Dick" - Discuss Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
1
Q

note

A
  • central theme: the tragedy that often accompanies
  • element 6: supernatural events, ghosts, unexplained sounds, etc.
  • element 4: omens, foreshadowing, and dreams play a role in the mysterious air of the story
  • element 8: words designed to evoke images of gloom and doom
  • element 9: the death of a man or woman in the throes of some great passion, the obsessive nature of a man or woman in love, or excessive grief one feels upon the loss of a loved one
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

in paragraph 50 from Moby Dick, Melville’s description of the frantic crew that simultaneously quaffed down with a hiss amidst their cries and maledictions against the white whale indicate

A

how Ahab’s obsession against Moby Dick had infected his crew

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

the following passage from Paragraph 3 of Melville’s Moby Dick alludes to the theme
… you could almost see that thought turn in him as he turned, and pace in him as he paced; so completely possessing him, indeed, that it all but seemed the inward mold of every outer movement

A

that obsessions are so powerful they often have outward manifestations

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

the following passage from Paragraph 2 of Melville’s Moby Dick alludes to the theme
Did you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also, you would see still stranger foot-prints–the foot-prints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought

A

of Ahab’s all-consuming obsession

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Carefully read the highlighted passage in Paragraph 41 from Moby Dick. Here Melville observes that “admonitions and warnings” are actually more like

A

verifications of foregoing things within

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

in Melville’s Moby Dick, the description in paragraph 9 of Ahab looking like “the weather horizon when a storm is coming up” is an example of

A

an element of Gothic Fiction - foreshadowing

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly