mid term review for literature Flashcards
Who are the two protagonists in the adventures of Tom Sawyer?
Tom Sawyer and huckleberry Finn
Who is the author of the original story of the adventures of Tom Sawyer?
Samuel Clemens /mark twain
Where (city and state) and when does the play take place in the adventure of Tom Sawyer ?
St Petersburg Missouri 1840s
What is the resolution of the play the adventures of Tom Sawyer ?
Injun joe is dead and Becky and Tom get out of the cave
Who is the author of the original story of a piece of string?
Guy de Maupassant
Who are two main characters of the story piece of string?
Hauchecorn and maladin
What is the setting of the play a piece of string?
Goderville, France a French village
What is the main problem of the play a piece of string?
Hauchecorne is framed of stealing a pocketbook
What is the resolution of the piece of string?
They found the wallet but everyone still thinks Hauchecorne had stolen it
Who is the author of the story jumping frog?
Samuel clemens/ mark twain
Who are the two main characters of the jumping frog?
Jim smiley and the stranger
What wager is made involving parson walkers wife ? Jumping frog
That she will not live
Why was the narrator looking for smiley ? Jumping frog
Someone asked him to
How much money does smiley bet his frog can jump out any other frog in the country? Jumping frog
40 dollars
What does the strangers do to the frog? Jumping frog
Bullet pellates in his mouth
What internal conflict does tom face? How does he overcome it? Tom Sawyer
He doesn’t know if he should say anything about the murder. He overcomes it by confessing what he saw
What external conflict does tom face? How does he overcome it? Tom Sawyer
He gets lost in the cave. He needs to find his way out.
What is an example of dramatic irony in the play? Piece of string
The irony is everyone that everyone thinks Hauchecorne was the theif when he was not
Who is the author of the story?monkeys paw
W.W Jacobs
Why did the holy man put a curse on the monkey’s paw?
He wanted to show fate rules peoples lives
What happened to the first man who made wishes on the monkey’s paw ?
The first man wished for death
What is mr. Whites first wish? How does it come true? Monkeys paw
He wishes for 200 pounds, he gets it when his son dies in the factory so to say sorry they give him 200’ pounds
What does mrs.white want as the secound wish? How do you know it came true?
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
What Is the third wish ?how do you know it came true?
The wish is the son to be gone and it came true because the son disappeared
What necklace did Madame loisel borrow?
She borrowed Madame foiresters
How much was the original necklace worth?
500 francs
What is the ending of the story an example of ?
Surprised ending
How dis Poe die?
The cause was never known
What event sent Poe over the edge into depression?
When she was will and when she died
What did Poe do to support himself and his wife ?
Jus got a job writing fiction and editing for a literature magazine
What is Samuel Clemens pseudonym?
Mark twain
What was Samuel Clemens first job?
Working for the newspaper company
Where did Samuel Clemens sell most of his stories to?
The newspaper
Samuel Clemens was born and died the year what comet circled earth?
1935-1910 Halle’s comet
What are Clemens two most famous books? What are his two most famous characters?
The adventures of Tom Sawyer and the adventures of huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer and huckleberry Finn
What is Edgar Allen poe’s most famous short story?
Tale tale heart
What is Edgar Allen poe’s most famous poem ?
The raven
What school was Edgar Allen Poe asked to leave?
Military school
Who is the author of California’s tale?
Samuel Clemens / mark twain
Describe two of the characters in the story?
Henry- a man that went crazy after his wife died
Narrator- a miner from California
What did Henry do after he recieved the news?
Henry went crazy
According to Henry , when would his wife return from her visit to her people?
Saturday evening in June
What did Tom and joe do when Henry read the letter from his wife?
They cried
What did joe reveal to the narrator?
His wife was dead
Who is the author of the tale tale heart?
Edgar Allen Poe
How do you know the narrator of the story is insane?
Stares at the old man while he is sleeping and thinks everyone can here his heart beat
Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?
His evil eye
What finally makes the narrator kill the old man?
He here’s the old mans heartbeat and thinks the neighbors can hear it
What does the narrator do with his body?
Puts it under his wood floor
What causes the sound of the beating heart that eventually makes the narrator confess?
Heartbeat guilt
A story’s main message or moral
Theme
A struggle between opposing forces.
Conflict
A struggle within the character
Internal conflict
A struggle between the character and another person, society, nature, or technology
External conflict
important character; a character who plays a large role In a story.
Major/main character
A character who does not play a large role in the story.
Minor character
The opponent or enemy of the main character,
Antagonists
The main or central character of a work of literature. Usually, the main character is involved in a conflict
Protagonists
A character who undergoes a significant internal change over the course of a story. This may be a change in understanding, values,insight, etc
Dynamic character
A character who does not undergo a significant change over the course of a story.
Static character
The means through which an author reveals a characters personality.
Characterization
The writer or a narrator tells the reader what the character is like
Direct characterization
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
Indirect characterization
The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of view
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
First person point of view
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
Third person limited point of view
Where the narrator is not one of the characters and is able to describe the experiences and thoughts of every character in the story
Third person omniscient point of view
The feeling the reader gets from a work of literature.
Mood
The authors attitude toward the subject matter to toward the reader or audience.
Tone
Language that portrays sensory experiences of experiences of the five scences
Imagery
The coversations between characters in a work of
Iiturature
Dialogue
Words spoken to the audience by a character in a drama that are not supposed to be heard by the other characters on stage
Aside
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
Dialect
The environment in which a story takes place including the time, location, and the physical charcteristics of the surroundings
Setting
A scene In a story that occurred before the present time in the story
Flashback
Clues or hints about something that is going to happen later in the story.
Foreshadowing
The sequence of events in the story
Plot
Intro of the setting, characters, and basic information
Exposition /opening event
The story’s central problem
Conflict
What happens to intesify the problem
Rising action
The point on the play novel short story or narrative poem at which the conflict reaches it’s greatest intensity and then is resolved
Climax
What happens to solve the problem
Falling action
How things end
Resolution
When the reader or audience member is aware of something that the characters are not ware of
Dramatic irony
When something happens that is the reverse of what you expected
Situational irony
When the name or description of something implies the opposite of the truth
Verbal irony
The practice of using symbols
Symbolism
An object setting event animal or person that on one level itself but that has another meaning as we’ll
Symbol
Means to be a symbol of
Symbolize
Clothing, that which serves as dress or decoration
Apparel
To condemn openly; to accuse formally
Denounce
Suffering severely from hunger or from lack of something
Famished
Very large or great; beyond ordinary means of measurement
Immense
Showing remarkable originally, inventiveness, or resourcefulness; clever
Ingenious
To annoy, trouble, make weary
Irk
A stupid person; a big, clumsy, slow individual
Oaf
Extremely dry; uninteresting , dull
Arid
A large wave; to rise swell like a wave
Billow
To force, compel; to restrain, hold back
Constrain
To encircle, go or reach around; to enclose; to include with a. Certain group or class
Encompass
Impossible to understand
Incomprehensible
To handle or use skillfully; to manage or control for personal gain or advantage
Manipulate
Embarrassed; resembling a sheep in meekness, timid
Sheepish
The strength needed to keep going or overcome physical or mental strain; staying power
Stamina
A rapid , large outpouring of something
Barrage
SomeOne or something that is extremely puzzling; that which cannot be understood or explained
Enigma
To look at or think about with great intensity and statisfaction; to take great personal joy in
Gloat
A line of people waiting for something
Queue
A very wise person
Sage
To satisfy , relieve, or bring to an end
Slake
The landscape, especially it’s physical features or fitness for some use; a field of knowledge
Terrain
To think , believe ; consider, have an opinion
Deem
Difficult to catch or to hold; hard to explain or understand
Elusive
To worship as an idol
Idolize
An ethusiastic public welcome , an out burst of applause
Ovation
Unimportant, trivial; narrow-minded; secondary in rank, minor
Petty
A sorry condition or state
Plight
A daydream; the condition of being lost in thought
Reverie
Bitter disagreement; fighting, struggle
Strife
To fall forward; to overturn, bring about the down fall
Topple
With a sharp point; keen and alert; sharp and severe rising quickly to a high point and lasting for a short time
Acute
To talk or act Ina noisy and threatening way
Bluster
One aspect or side of a subject or problem
Facet
A brawl a noisy quarrel
Fray
Greedy very hungry eager for satisfaction
Ravenous
To prove incorrect
Refute
A brief statement giving a general view of some subject
Synopsis
To delay leaving to linger to wait
Tarry
The program for a meeting a list outline or planner
Agenda
Friendly good natured
Amiable
A disease that causes plants to wither and die
Blight
Rough and noisy In a cheerful way
Boisterous
Marked by bloodshed, slaughter, or violence
Gory
Extra space for moving along a certain route
Leeway
To go away from leave empty to void
Vacate
An idle wanderer a tramp
Vagabond
