Mid-Term Review Flashcards
the grandmother, who favored little sprout,
cast the other twin into a hollow tree
an evidence form the story that the Iroquois valued balance is that
one twin dwells in day; the other twin dwells in night
which passage below shows the contrast between what the Europeans feared from the Native Americans and what actually happened?
par 11: “we could not defend ourselves…each one of them gave me an arrow in token of friendship”
what shows that the Puritans contributions to our history were not wholly good nor wholly bad
they believed in free education for all but not in religious freedom for all
which two similar lines does Anne use to compare her love and her husband’s love?
“My love is such… Thy love is such”
which line below uses inverted syntax
and them behold no more shall i
according to the text of Edward’s sermon, who are in the hands of an angry God
- “all you that were never born again”
- “all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit…”
what lines seem to show a contradiction in Edwards depiction of the character of God
“…him who has loved them…/ The God that holds you over the pit of hell, abhors you…”
to make your sentences/writing more interesting
vary the length and form of your sentences
which sentence below punctuates the appositive correctly
Staci, a graphic artist, is good at making flower arrangements
which sentence below is not a good example of “Expository writing”
“this is a wonderful turnout,” said Jane, blushing as some of her fans waved from the stands
not a good example of persuasive writing
a novel about a historical event
which lines below from Lowell’s poem, “The First Snowfall,” would be best to cite to show the Romantic writer’s characteristic love of nature
5 - very pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl
what figure of speech does Thoreau use in the underlined passage from Section 2 of Walden
simile or extended simile
which sentence best expresses the meaning of the following aphorism from Section 16 of Thoreau’s Walden? sec 9: let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails
spend a day that is focused and intentional and not subject to significant, little distractions
the following lines in Whitman’s poem, “I Hear America Singing,” show the free verse element of Line 4-9: the carpenter singing… the mason singing… the boatman singing… the deckhand singing…
repetition
in lines 9-10 of her poem, “Because I could not stop for Death,” Dickinson uses descriptive words to create a sensory experience or paint a picture, the poetic device of
We passed the School, where Children strove at Recess - in the Ring -
imagery
incorrect vocab
- if you hadn’t had so much ostentation, you wouldn’t have fallen off your bike
according to irving’s tale, “the devil and tom walker,” deacon peabody had unusual trees on his land in that they
were fair and flourishing without, but rotten at the core
in which of the following paragraphs does washington irving use description to characterize tom walker’s feelings about his wife in “the devil and tom walker”
paragraph 22
incorrect vocab
- his handshake was firm and placid,like the grip of a man who knows where he is going
what sound device does Poe employ in the following lines from the raven
lines 16-17: ‘tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door - some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
repetition
incorrect vocab
there was so much wind and rain that the plane encounter a great impede on landing
the directions appointed in each chamber by prince propsero were characterized by his taste for
the beautiful, but also the bizarre
What elements of Gothic fiction do you find in Paragraph 13 of Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”?
element 9
in the followning passage from “dr. heidegger’s experiment,” hawthorne uses what figure of speech
paragraph 28: “my dear widow, you are charming!” cried colon Killigrew, whose eyes had been fixed upon her face, while the shadows of age were flitting from it like darkness from the crimson daybreak
simile
one of the themes of Hawthorne’s “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” that is illustrated by the passage below, is that paragraph 47: “I love it as well thus as in its dewy freshness,” observed her, pressing the withered rose to his withered lips
we should love life in all of its stages
incorrect vocab
he was filled with vengeance and delight at the prospect of seeing his dreams finally come true
in melville’s moby dick, queenqueg’s description of moby dick from paragraph 29 tells us that
many whalers had attacked moby dick but failed to kill him
