Midterm Exam Review

Question 1

Adverb Clauses

Answer 1

Begin with a subordinating conjunction

Question 2

Subordinating cunjunctions

Answer 2

take a comma when they become at the beginning of a sentence but don’t when at the end of a sentence

Question 3

Subordinating conjunction exceptions

Answer 3

• though
• although
• even though
• whereas
• while

Question 4

The seven coordinating cunjunctions are

Answer 4

• far
• and
• nor
• but
• or
• yet
• so

Question 5

Coordinating conjunctions

Answer 5

Join like parts and get a comma when there’s a sentence on each side

Question 6

Splice

Answer 6

When a lone comma is used to join independent clauses

Question 7

Conjunctive adverb examples

Answer 7

Therefore, however

Question 8

Conjunctive adverbs

Answer 8

take a semicolin before it and a comma after it if it joins two sentences
S V; therefore, S V.

Question 9

When does a conjunctive adverb take only a comma?

Answer 9

When it interrupts a sentence instead of joining two complete sentences

Question 10

Puritanism (1620-1700)

Answer 10

• Was marked by a duality of thinking that looked inward and outward for signs of grace
• Used the “Plain Style”
• Viewed life as a journey or pilgrimage
• Wrote diaries, histories, and sermons

Question 11

Neoclassicism (1700-1815)

Answer 11

• Guided by Rationalism
• Had a deistic worldview
• Belived that people were perfectible if they approached life logically

Question 12

Romaticism (1815-1860)

Answer 12

• Began in Europe as a reaction to the rationalism of the Enlightenment
• Believed that imagination, intuition, and the supernatural were valid ways of life

Question 13

Transcendentalism (1840-1860)

Answer 13

• Is a subcategory of Romaticism and an extreme form of the movement
• Believed that everything in the world is a reflection of the Over-Soul

Question 14

“Upon the Burning of Our House”

Answer 14

Anne Bradstreet criticizes valuing material items too much and shows the duality of Puritan thought.

Question 15

“Upon a Spider Catching a Fly”

Answer 15

Edward Taylor likens Satan to the spider, the unregenerate to a fly, and the elect to the wasp

Question 16

“The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”

Answer 16

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow emplys the caesura and refrain to reinforce the theme that nature is eternal

Question 17

“Thanatopsis”

Answer 17

William Cullen Bryan meditates death, but the last stanza’s focus is actually on life, with a live-with-no-regrets emphasis

Question 18

“Rip Van Winkle”

Answer 18

Washington Irving’s theme is the desire that every person has to be free

Question 19

“The Raven”

Answer 19

Edgar Allen Poe ends this poem with the idea of never ending despair

Question 20

“Because I Could not Stop for Death”

Answer 20

Emily Dickinson personifies death as a polite gentlemen as he takes her though her stages of life

Question 21

“I Tase a Liquor Never Brewed”

Answer 21

Emily Dickinson’s speaker is intoxicated on the beauty of nature

Question 22

“I Hear America Singing”

Answer 22

Walt Whitman celebrates the work of common Americans, likening the sound of labor to a song

Question 23

A theme that unifies the incidents in William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation is…

Answer 23

faith in the workings of Providence

Question 24

In his speech to the Virginia Convention…

Answer 24

Patrick Henry shows his rationalistic orientaton when he says, “I have but on lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience.”

Question 25

In The Autobiography…

Answer 25

Benjamin Franklin shows Neoclassical values by sharing his plan for perfection, which was attainable through study and practice.

Question 26

In “Self-Reliance”

Answer 26

Emerson proclaims that “envy is ignorance,” implying that people who envy others don’t realize their own potential.

Question 27

Emerson’s purpose in writing Nature was…

Answer 27

to suggest that nature has the potential to speak to us

Question 28

In Nature, Emerson uses the metaphorof a “transparent eyeball” to…

Answer 28

describe the way he loses himself in nature and thereby sees all

Question 29

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau uses the metaphor of hearing a different drummer to…

Answer 29

defend each person’s right to do his or her own thing

Question 30

In Walden, Thoreau writes that “we suggests that we do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us,” meaning…

Answer 30

we let technology become something that controls us instead of something that we control.