Unit 5-Aspirations: Theme Flashcards
What is a strong desire or ambition?
Aspiration
Who was the German author who wrote “Of the Imitation of Christ”?
Thomas À Kempis
What is the central idea which gives the story meaning; and is the interpretation of the events (plot) and persons (characters) in the story from which we learn some truth of human experience?
Theme
What is the theme of “Of the Imitation f Christ”?
“If you would understand Christ’s words fully and taste them truly, you must strive to form your whole life after His pattern”
Whose thoughts were contained in “The Practice of the Presence of God” and was born Nicolas Herman but became a Catholic French Carmelite?
Brother Lawerence
Who wrote “Three Words of Strength” and was considered the greatest of all German dramatists, wrote poetry, short stories, criticism, and philosophical and historical works, and his work is characterized by idealism, and his favorite theme is freedom?
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
What is the theme of the poem Excelsior?
To strive for excellence
Who was the author that built a reputation as the most popular American poet of the 1800s, wrote “Paul Revere’s Ride,” “The Village Blacksmith” and was honored by England by being placed in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who wrote “The Practice of the Presence of God”?
Brother Lawerence
Who wrote “Three Words of Strength”?
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Who wrote “Excelsior”?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What does the word “excelsior” mean?
Ever upward
What are Friedrich Von Schiller’s three words of strength?
Faith
Hope
Love
Who wrote “The Great Stone Face”?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who was on of America’s major writers of the 19th century, born in Salem, Massachusetts, was very influenced by his Puritan ancestors, was a surveyor of customs for a while in Salem, and wrote “The Scarlet Letter,” “The House of the Seven Gables”?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
What are Friedrich Von Schiller’s three words of strength?
Faith
Hope
Love
Who wrote “The Great Stone Face”?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who was an American clergyman writer, graduated from Princeton University and taught English literature there, served for three years as U.S. minister to Luxembourg and the Netherlands and was a champlain during World War II, read his first stories aloud to his congregation while he was a Presbyterian pastor in New York, and wrote many essays, poems, and novels which are characterized by delicacy and idealism?
Henry Van Dyke
Who wrote the poem “Work”?
Henry Van Dyke
Who was an English novelist and playwrite, won the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for literature, is best known for his work “The Forsyte Saga,” his play “Justice led to reforms in the English prison system, was originally a lawyer but turned to literature after meeting Joseph Conrad, and wrote “Quality”?
John Galsworthy
Who wrote “Quality”?
John Galsworthy
What are the three basic types of irony?
Verbal irony
Dramatic irony
Irony of situation
What kind of irony is saying the opposite of what is meant?
Verbal irony
What kind of irony is contrasting what a character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true?
Dramatic irony
What kind of irony is presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment?
Irony of situation
Irony may be used in _______, the ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it.
Satire
Who was the very popular American short story writer who wrote “A Retrieved Reformation”?
O. Henry
The _______ of a literary piece is the manner in which the writer deals with his subject and the general effect it is meant to have n its audience; it is the emotional meaning.
Tone
What is a narrative or description in which characters, places, and other items are symbols in which the emphasis is not the surface meaning but the moral truth that lies behind the events of the story?
Allegory
Who wrote “The Elixir”?
George Herbert
Who was a great English Christian poet from a noble Welsh family who gave up a career at court to become a pastor of a tiny church in southern England whose poetry is devotional and he often used striking comparisons called conceits?
George Herbert
