mid term review for literature

Question 0

Who are the two protagonists in the adventures of Tom Sawyer?

Answer 0

Tom Sawyer and huckleberry Finn

Question 1

Who is the author of the original story of the adventures of Tom Sawyer?

Answer 1

Samuel Clemens /mark twain

Question 2

Where (city and state) and when does the play take place in the adventure of Tom Sawyer ?

Answer 2

St Petersburg Missouri 1840s

Question 3

What is the resolution of the play the adventures of Tom Sawyer ?

Answer 3

Injun joe is dead and Becky and Tom get out of the cave

Question 4

Who is the author of the original story of a piece of string?

Answer 4

Guy de Maupassant

Question 5

Who are two main characters of the story piece of string?

Answer 5

Hauchecorn and maladin

Question 6

What is the setting of the play a piece of string?

Answer 6

Goderville, France a French village

Question 7

What is the main problem of the play a piece of string?

Answer 7

Hauchecorne is framed of stealing a pocketbook

Question 8

What is the resolution of the piece of string?

Answer 8

They found the wallet but everyone still thinks Hauchecorne had stolen it

Question 9

Who is the author of the story jumping frog?

Answer 9

Samuel clemens/ mark twain

Question 10

Who are the two main characters of the jumping frog?

Answer 10

Jim smiley and the stranger

Question 11

What wager is made involving parson walkers wife ? Jumping frog

Answer 11

That she will not live

Question 12

Why was the narrator looking for smiley ? Jumping frog

Answer 12

Someone asked him to

Question 13

How much money does smiley bet his frog can jump out any other frog in the country? Jumping frog

Answer 13

40 dollars

Question 14

What does the strangers do to the frog? Jumping frog

Answer 14

Bullet pellates in his mouth

Question 15

What internal conflict does tom face? How does he overcome it? Tom Sawyer

Answer 15

He doesn’t know if he should say anything about the murder. He overcomes it by confessing what he saw

Question 16

What external conflict does tom face? How does he overcome it? Tom Sawyer

Answer 16

He gets lost in the cave. He needs to find his way out.

Question 17

What is an example of dramatic irony in the play? Piece of string

Answer 17

The irony is everyone that everyone thinks Hauchecorne was the theif when he was not

Question 18

Who is the author of the story?monkeys paw

Answer 18

W.W Jacobs

Question 19

Why did the holy man put a curse on the monkey’s paw?

Answer 19

He wanted to show fate rules peoples lives

Question 20

What happened to the first man who made wishes on the monkey’s paw ?

Answer 20

The first man wished for death

Question 21

What is mr. Whites first wish? How does it come true? Monkeys paw

Answer 21

He wishes for 200 pounds, he gets it when his son dies in the factory so to say sorry they give him 200’ pounds

Question 22

What does mrs.white want as the secound wish? How do you know it came true?

Answer 22

She wishes for her son back the after a while there is someone at the door moaning.there was also a shadow at the door

Question 23

What Is the third wish ?how do you know it came true?

Answer 23

The wish is the son to be gone and it came true because the son disappeared

Question 24

What necklace did Madame loisel borrow?

Answer 24

She borrowed Madame foiresters

Question 25

How much was the original necklace worth?

Answer 25

500 francs

Question 26

What is the ending of the story an example of ?

Answer 26

Surprised ending

Question 27

How dis Poe die?

Answer 27

The cause was never known

Question 28

What event sent Poe over the edge into depression?

Answer 28

When she was will and when she died

Question 29

What did Poe do to support himself and his wife ?

Answer 29

Jus got a job writing fiction and editing for a literature magazine

Question 30

What is Samuel Clemens pseudonym?

Answer 30

Mark twain

Question 31

What was Samuel Clemens first job?

Answer 31

Working for the newspaper company

Question 32

Where did Samuel Clemens sell most of his stories to?

Answer 32

The newspaper

Question 33

Samuel Clemens was born and died the year what comet circled earth?

Answer 33

1935-1910 Halle's comet

Question 34

What are Clemens two most famous books? What are his two most famous characters?

Answer 34

The adventures of Tom Sawyer and the adventures of huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer and huckleberry Finn

Question 35

What is Edgar Allen poe's most famous short story?

Answer 35

Tale tale heart

Question 36

What is Edgar Allen poe's most famous poem ?

Answer 36

The raven

Question 37

What school was Edgar Allen Poe asked to leave?

Answer 37

Military school

Question 38

Who is the author of California's tale?

Answer 38

Samuel Clemens / mark twain

Question 39

Describe two of the characters in the story?

Answer 39

Henry- a man that went crazy after his wife died | Narrator- a miner from California

Question 40

What did Henry do after he recieved the news?

Answer 40

Henry went crazy

Question 41

According to Henry , when would his wife return from her visit to her people?

Answer 41

Saturday evening in June

Question 42

What did Tom and joe do when Henry read the letter from his wife?

Answer 42

They cried

Question 43

What did joe reveal to the narrator?

Answer 43

His wife was dead

Question 44

Who is the author of the tale tale heart?

Answer 44

Edgar Allen Poe

Question 45

How do you know the narrator of the story is insane?

Answer 45

Stares at the old man while he is sleeping and thinks everyone can here his heart beat

Question 46

Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?

Answer 46

His evil eye

Question 47

What finally makes the narrator kill the old man?

Answer 47

He here's the old mans heartbeat and thinks the neighbors can hear it

Question 48

What does the narrator do with his body?

Answer 48

Puts it under his wood floor

Question 49

What causes the sound of the beating heart that eventually makes the narrator confess?

Answer 49

Heartbeat guilt

Question 50

A story's main message or moral

Answer 50

Theme

Question 51

A struggle between opposing forces.

Answer 51

Conflict

Question 52

A struggle within the character

Answer 52

Internal conflict

Question 53

A struggle between the character and another person, society, nature, or technology

Answer 53

External conflict

Question 54

important character; a character who plays a large role In a story.

Answer 54

Major/main character

Question 55

A character who does not play a large role in the story.

Answer 55

Minor character

Question 56

The opponent or enemy of the main character,

Answer 56

Antagonists

Question 57

The main or central character of a work of literature. Usually, the main character is involved in a conflict

Answer 57

Protagonists

Question 58

A character who undergoes a significant internal change over the course of a story. This may be a change in understanding, values,insight, etc

Answer 58

Dynamic character

Question 59

A character who does not undergo a significant change over the course of a story.

Answer 59

Static character

Question 60

The means through which an author reveals a characters personality.

Answer 60

Characterization

Question 61

The writer or a narrator tells the reader what the character is like

Answer 61

Direct characterization

Question 62

The author shows the reader or audience member what the character is like through How the character looks What the character does What the character says What the character thinks How the character affects other characters

Answer 62

Indirect characterization

Question 63

The perspective from which a story is told.

Answer 63

Point of view

Question 64

Where the narrator is a character in the story who describes things from his or get own perspective and refers to himself or herself as I

Answer 64

First person point of view

Question 65

Where the narrator is not a character in the story but the narrator can describe the experiences and thought of only one character in the story

Answer 65

Third person limited point of view

Question 66

Where the narrator is not one of the characters and is able to describe the experiences and thoughts of every character in the story

Answer 66

Third person omniscient point of view

Question 67

The feeling the reader gets from a work of literature.

Answer 67

Mood

Question 68

The authors attitude toward the subject matter to toward the reader or audience.

Answer 68

Tone

Question 69

Language that portrays sensory experiences of experiences of the five scences

Answer 69

Imagery

Question 70

The coversations between characters in a work of | Iiturature

Answer 70

Dialogue

Question 71

Words spoken to the audience by a character in a drama that are not supposed to be heard by the other characters on stage

Answer 71

Aside

Question 72

Form of a language that is spoken in a particular area or by a particular group of people that includes some of its own words, grammar ,and pronounciations

Answer 72

Dialect

Question 73

The environment in which a story takes place including the time, location, and the physical charcteristics of the surroundings

Answer 73

Setting

Question 74

A scene In a story that occurred before the present time in the story

Answer 74

Flashback

Question 75

Clues or hints about something that is going to happen later in the story.

Answer 75

Foreshadowing

Question 76

The sequence of events in the story

Answer 76

Plot

Question 77

Intro of the setting, characters, and basic information

Answer 77

Exposition /opening event

Question 78

The story's central problem

Answer 78

Conflict

Question 79

What happens to intesify the problem

Answer 79

Rising action

Question 80

The point on the play novel short story or narrative poem at which the conflict reaches it's greatest intensity and then is resolved

Answer 80

Climax

Question 81

What happens to solve the problem

Answer 81

Falling action

Question 82

How things end

Answer 82

Resolution

Question 83

When the reader or audience member is aware of something that the characters are not ware of

Answer 83

Dramatic irony

Question 84

When something happens that is the reverse of what you expected

Answer 84

Situational irony

Question 85

When the name or description of something implies the opposite of the truth

Answer 85

Verbal irony

Question 86

The practice of using symbols

Answer 86

Symbolism

Question 87

An object setting event animal or person that on one level itself but that has another meaning as we'll

Answer 87

Symbol

Question 88

Means to be a symbol of

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Symbolize

Question 89

Clothing, that which serves as dress or decoration

Answer 89

Apparel

Question 90

To condemn openly; to accuse formally

Answer 90

Denounce

Question 91

Suffering severely from hunger or from lack of something

Answer 91

Famished

Question 92

Very large or great; beyond ordinary means of measurement

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Immense

Question 93

Showing remarkable originally, inventiveness, or resourcefulness; clever

Answer 93

Ingenious

Question 94

To annoy, trouble, make weary

Answer 94

Irk

Question 95

A stupid person; a big, clumsy, slow individual

Answer 95

Oaf

Question 96

Extremely dry; uninteresting , dull

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Arid

Question 97

A large wave; to rise swell like a wave

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Billow

Question 98

To force, compel; to restrain, hold back

Answer 98

Constrain

Question 99

To encircle, go or reach around; to enclose; to include with a. Certain group or class

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Encompass

Question 100

Impossible to understand

Answer 100

Incomprehensible

Question 101

To handle or use skillfully; to manage or control for personal gain or advantage

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Manipulate

Question 102

Embarrassed; resembling a sheep in meekness, timid

Answer 102

Sheepish

Question 103

The strength needed to keep going or overcome physical or mental strain; staying power

Answer 103

Stamina

Question 104

A rapid , large outpouring of something

Answer 104

Barrage

Question 105

SomeOne or something that is extremely puzzling; that which cannot be understood or explained

Answer 105

Enigma

Question 106

To look at or think about with great intensity and statisfaction; to take great personal joy in

Answer 106

Gloat

Question 107

A line of people waiting for something

Answer 107

Queue

Question 108

A very wise person

Answer 108

Sage

Question 109

To satisfy , relieve, or bring to an end

Answer 109

Slake

Question 110

The landscape, especially it's physical features or fitness for some use; a field of knowledge

Answer 110

Terrain

Question 111

To think , believe ; consider, have an opinion

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Deem

Question 112

Difficult to catch or to hold; hard to explain or understand

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Elusive

Question 113

To worship as an idol

Answer 113

Idolize

Question 114

An ethusiastic public welcome , an out burst of applause

Answer 114

Ovation

Question 115

Unimportant, trivial; narrow-minded; secondary in rank, minor

Answer 115

Petty

Question 116

A sorry condition or state

Answer 116

Plight

Question 117

A daydream; the condition of being lost in thought

Answer 117

Reverie

Question 118

Bitter disagreement; fighting, struggle

Answer 118

Strife

Question 119

To fall forward; to overturn, bring about the down fall

Answer 119

Topple

Question 120

With a sharp point; keen and alert; sharp and severe rising quickly to a high point and lasting for a short time

Answer 120

Acute

Question 121

To talk or act Ina noisy and threatening way

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Bluster

Question 122

One aspect or side of a subject or problem

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Facet

Question 123

A brawl a noisy quarrel

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Fray

Question 124

Greedy very hungry eager for satisfaction

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Ravenous

Question 125

To prove incorrect

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Refute

Question 126

A brief statement giving a general view of some subject

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Synopsis

Question 127

To delay leaving to linger to wait

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Tarry

Question 128

The program for a meeting a list outline or planner

Answer 128

Agenda

Question 129

Friendly good natured

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Amiable

Question 130

A disease that causes plants to wither and die

Answer 130

Blight

Question 131

Rough and noisy In a cheerful way

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Boisterous

Question 132

Marked by bloodshed, slaughter, or violence

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Gory

Question 133

Extra space for moving along a certain route

Answer 133

Leeway

Question 134

To go away from leave empty to void

Answer 134

Vacate

Question 135

An idle wanderer a tramp

Answer 135

Vagabond