Unit 4 Exam Flashcards

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which sentence best expresses Thoreau’s meaning of the underlined passage from Section 17 of Walden

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if you try to live the life you have imagined, you will find success at a time you don’t expect it

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in the underlined passage from Section 3 of Walden, Thoreau is saying that

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he wanted to discover the bare essence of life so he could live life to its fullest

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which of the following passages from Thoreau’s Walden contains a metaphor or an extended metaphor

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sec 5: in the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms

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the underlined passage from section 1 of civil disobedience illustrates one of Thoreau’s purposes in writing, which is to

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persuade government leaders that the war with Mexico is not the will of the people

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in the passage marked in section 19 of civil disobedience, about how a government should behave toward its governed, Thoreau holds up the transcendentalist ideal of

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individualism

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in the following line of “Song of Myself,” Whitman is using the poetic device of
(Sec. 33 Line 91) “Heat and smoke I inspired)

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inverted syntax

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although emily dickinson broke away from traditional poetic form in her poetry, she often wrote in regular stanzas. in the poem “Because I could not stop for Death,” she wrote in regular stanzas of ________ lines each

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four

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in line 14 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
The Dews grew quivering and chill -

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imagery

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