Literature Unit 5

Question 1

What does the theme of a story mean?

Answer 1

The theme is the central idea which gives the story meaning; it is the interpretation of the events (plot) and persons (characters) in the story from which we learn some truth of human experience

Question 2

Verbal irony

Answer 2

Saying the opposite of what is meant

Question 3

Dramatic irony

Answer 3

Contrasting what a character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true

Question 4

Irony of situation

Answer 4

Presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment

Question 5

Satire

Answer 5

Ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it

Question 6

Tone

Answer 6

The tone of a literary piece is the manner in which the writer deals with his subject and the general effect it is meant to have on it audience (Way he/she feels and wants reader to feel when reading their book)

Question 7

Allegory

Answer 7

A narrative or description in which the character, places, and other items are symbols

Question 8

Who wrote After St. Augustine?

Answer 8

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Question 9

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge was an __________ poet and novelist

Answer 9

English

Question 10

Who wrote Of the Imitation of Christ?

Answer 10

Thomas Á Kempis

Question 11

Where was Thomas Á Kempis born?

Answer 11

Germany. (He went to the Netherlands as a youth to become an Augustinian monk)

Question 12

Who wrote The Practice of the Presence of God

Answer 12

Brother Lawrence

Question 13

Who wrote Three Words of Strength?

Answer 13

Friedrich von Schiller

Question 14

Who was considered the greatest of all German dramatist?

Answer 14

Friedrich Von Shiller

Question 15

Who wrote Excelsior?

Answer 15

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 16

Who built a reputation as the most poplar American poet of the 1800s?

Answer 16

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 17

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in _____ and attended _________ College

Answer 17

Maine; Bowdoin

Question 18

After whose death did England honor him by placing a bust of him in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abby

Answer 18

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 19

Who wrote The Great Stone Face?

Answer 19

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 20

Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of __________ major writers. He was born in Salem, __________

Answer 20

America’s; Massachusetts

Question 21

Who wrote Work?

Answer 21

Henry Van Dyke

Question 22

Henry Van Dyke was an __________ clergyman and writer, graduated from _________ University.

Answer 22

American; Princeton

Question 23

Who wrote Quality?

Answer 23

John Galsworthy

Question 24

Who was an English novelist and playwright who won the Order of Merit in 1929 and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932?

Answer 24

John Galsworthy

Question 25

Who wrote The Elixir?

Answer 25

George Herbert

Question 26

George Herbert was a great _________ Christian poet from a noble _____ family

Answer 26

English; Welch

Question 27

Who wrote A Retrieved Reformation?

Answer 27

O. Henry

Question 28

Who wrote My Father’s Hands?

Answer 28

Calvin R. Worthington

Question 29

Who wrote Pleasures of Knowledge?

Answer 29

Sydney Smith

Question 30

Who wrote The Way?

Answer 30

John Oxenham

Question 31

Who wrote Hinds’ Feet on High Places

Answer 31

Hannah Hurnard