Unit 5-Aspirations: Theme

Question 1

What is a strong desire or ambition?

Answer 1

Aspiration

Question 2

Who was the German author who wrote “Of the Imitation of Christ”?

Answer 2

Thomas À Kempis

Question 3

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?

Answer 3

Theme

Question 4

What is the theme of “Of the Imitation f Christ”?

Answer 4

“If you would understand Christ’s words fully and taste them truly, you must strive to form your whole life after His pattern”

Question 5

Whose thoughts were contained in “The Practice of the Presence of God” and was born Nicolas Herman but became a Catholic French Carmelite?

Answer 5

Brother Lawerence

Question 6

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?

Answer 6

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Question 7

What is the theme of the poem Excelsior?

Answer 7

To strive for excellence

Question 8

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?

Answer 8

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 9

Who wrote “The Practice of the Presence of God”?

Answer 9

Brother Lawerence

Question 10

Who wrote “Three Words of Strength”?

Answer 10

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Question 11

Who wrote “Excelsior”?

Answer 11

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 12

What does the word “excelsior” mean?

Answer 12

Ever upward

Question 13

What are Friedrich Von Schiller’s three words of strength?

Answer 13

Faith
Hope
Love

Question 14

Who wrote “The Great Stone Face”?

Answer 14

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 15

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”?

Answer 15

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 16

What are Friedrich Von Schiller’s three words of strength?

Answer 16

Faith
Hope
Love

Question 17

Who wrote “The Great Stone Face”?

Answer 17

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 18

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?

Answer 18

Henry Van Dyke

Question 19

Who wrote the poem “Work”?

Answer 19

Henry Van Dyke

Question 20

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”?

Answer 20

John Galsworthy

Question 21

Who wrote “Quality”?

Answer 21

John Galsworthy

Question 22

What are the three basic types of irony?

Answer 22

Verbal irony
Dramatic irony
Irony of situation

Question 23

What kind of irony is saying the opposite of what is meant?

Answer 23

Verbal irony

Question 24

What kind of irony is contrasting what a character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true?

Answer 24

Dramatic irony

Question 25

What kind of irony is presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment?

Answer 25

Irony of situation

Question 26

Irony may be used in _______, the ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it.

Answer 26

Satire

Question 27

Who was the very popular American short story writer who wrote “A Retrieved Reformation”?

Answer 27

O. Henry

Question 28

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.

Answer 28

Tone

Question 29

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?

Answer 29

Allegory

Question 30

Who wrote “The Elixir”?

Answer 30

George Herbert

Question 31

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?

Answer 31

George Herbert