Blue Class--New England Test Review
Blue class, post your questions and answers here before Thursday night at 9 p.m.Of course, indicate the initials of those people in your group.
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Blue class, post your questions and answers here before Thursday night at 9 p.m.Of course, indicate the initials of those people in your group.
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Emily Dickinson
1.How many poems did she write?
-over 1700
2.How many of her poems were actually published?
-7
3.What kind of rhyme did she use?
-slant rhyme
4.What kind of metaphors did she use?
-capsule metaphors
5.Who did people think wrote the published poems?
-Emerson
6.When did she live?
-1830-1886
7.Where was she born?
-Amherst, Massachusetts
8.Name three things she was fascinated with.
-Death and the afterlife, pantheistic love of nature, and faith
Historical Notes
1. What was the first line of "Moby Dick?"
-Call me Ishmael
2. What point of view was "the tide rises the tide falls?"
-3rd person point of view
3. Who is said to be the most popular American poet of all time?
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4. What does Ishmael see during the Grand Armada?
-He sees a mother whale giving birth to a calf
5. Who rediscovered Moby Dick in the 1920s?
-Hollywood
6. Who had a father that was obsessed with athletic perfection?
-Todd Marinovich
7.What is part religion, literary theory, and part philosophy of life?
-transcendentalism
8. Who is one of the fireside poets? (The group included Oliver Wendell, Holmes and JG Whitter)
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1. What did the fireside write about?
A. Subjects that would appeal to family audiances.
2.Name two topics they included.
A. Partiotism, family values
3. Name two more topics.
A. Nature, moral lessons
4. Name a fireside poet.
A. Henry Wadsworth, Oliver Holmes, or Whittier.
5. Which of the fireside poets was perhaps the most famous American poet?
A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
6. Where do these poets gettheir names?
A. Their poems were read by families usually in the fire room because it was the warmest.
7. What made their poems so easy to remember?
A. Standard forms, regular meter, and rymed stanzas
8. Why did families read these poems?
A. For their general enjoyment
QUESTIONS
1. Who, during 1825 - 1837, took part in a period of seclusion?
2. What theme does Rappaccini's Daughter represent?
3. Captain Ahab is an allusion to what biblical character?
4. What did Poe say about the book written by Hawthorne? (Twice Told Tales)
5. What are allegories?
6. In contrast to the transcendentalists, anti-transcendentalists believed that nature reflects the__________in all of us.
7. What two novels, perhaps a couple of the greatest ever written, were written in 1850 and 1851?
8. What was Dr. Baglioni's true intentions for the "antidote"?
ANSWERS
1. Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Science gone too far.
3. King Ahab
4. "As Americans, we feel proud of the bok."
5. An allegory is a narrative where similarities between the narrative are used symbolically to suggest something else.
6. Darkness
7. "The Scarlet Letter" and "Moby Dick"
8. He knew it would kill her, and his ultimate goal was to rid the world of the abomination known as Beatrice.
Literary Terms
1. The eagle of the sea is an example of what?
A:metaphor
2. What is the term for when a story has multiple meanings?
A:alagory
3. What form of meter is used in the poem "Old Iron Side?"
A:Iambic
4. What was Henry David Thoreau's worship of nature called?
A:Patheism
5. "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed" is an example of what literary device?
A:paradox
6. When Oliver Holmes said you should tear down the flag of old Iron Side what literary device is used?
A:Sarcasm
7. Ralph Waldo Emerson uses what literary device in the poem "The Snow Storm" in the line "in a tumultous privacy of storm?
A:oxymoron
8. What is the literary term for a recurring thing?
A:motif
Alan panaccione, Eric parks, Mackenzie Rogers-literary devices
1. “Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed” is an example of what literary device? ---paradox
2. What is the art of persuasive writing or speaking first developed by the Greeks? ---rhetoric
3. “The eagle of the sea” is an example of what? ---metaphor
4. What was Henry David Thoreau’s worship of nature called? ---pantheism
5. The poem ironsides uses what kind of meter in the poem? ---iambic
6. When Holmes suggests that you should ‘tear down old ironsides flag” he is using what literary device? ---sarcasm
7. Ralph Waldo Emerson uses what literary device in the line “In a tumultuous privacy of storm,” In the poem snow storm. ---oxymoron
8. Recurring structures, or contrasts or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the texts major themes are called what? ---motifs
Authors and works
1. Who wrote The Minester's Black Veil?- Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Who wrote Civil Disobedience?-
Henery David Thoreau
3. Who wrote Walden?- Henery David Thoreau
4. Who wrote the book Moby- Dick?- Herman Melville
5. What did Longfellow write? - Tides Rise, Tides Fall
6. Who wrote Self- Reliance?-
Emerson
7. What did Holmes wirte?- Old Ironside
8. Who wrote "Success is counted sweetest"? - Emily Dickison
Quotations
indicate who said the following:
1) "I wonder if he is not afraid to be alone with himself."
2) " Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed."
3)"In the woods we return to reason and faith"
4)“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind"
5)"Believe nothing but what you see with your own eyes"
6) "If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being"
7) “Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it"
8) "At the sight of such innocence , how can one ever succumb to doubt or fear?"
1. A worship of nature as a religion. (Pantheism)
2. Developed by Immanuel Kant, but popularized by Ralph Waldo Emerson (transcendentalism)
3. They tend to focus on the possibilty of evil (anti-transcendentalists)
4."And the tide rises, the tide falls" is an example of what. (refrain)
5."Meteor of the ocean air" is an example of what literary term. (metaphor)
6. "Footprints in the sand" and "bivouac of life" are what. (figures of speech0
7.What term is the basic rhythm structure of a verse. (meter)
8.Nathaniel Hawthorne often wrote BLANK that was "richly ambivalent" (allegory)
Fireside Poet-Jeopardy form.
1)A fireside poet that is one of the most popular american poets. Who is henry woodsworth longfellow?
2)Patriotism, family values, nature, moral lessons. What are 4 things fireside poets wrote about?
3)Longfellow and holmes. Who are two of the most famous fireside poets?
4)1807. When was longfellow born?
5)Poems that people might read beside the fire. What are fireside poems?
6)Wrote subjects that would appeal to family audiences. What did the Fireside Poets write?
7)A famous christmas time fireside poem. What is the night before Christmas?
8)A famous fireside poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. What is the Tide Rises the Tide Falls?
1.What is transcendentalism?
2.What are the three principles of transcendentalism?
3.Name two transcendentalists that we studied.
4.Name a transcendental work by Emerson.
5.Name a transcendental work by Thoreau.
6.Who said "to be great is to be misunderstood"?
7.Who set out to live a transcendental life on America's Independence Day?
8.According to transcendentalism, what can nature teach us?
What is the theme of Ministers Black Veil?
You cant hide anything from God even sin
Common themes of transcendentalist?
Over soul, self reliance, commune with nature
What is the theme of Rappaccinis Daughter?
Science has its place but it shouldn’t go to far
What are some themes for fire side poets?
Patriotism, family values, nature, moral lessons
What is the theme of Nature?
Over soul, and experience
Common themes of Emily Dickinson?
Fascination with death and afterlife, pantheistic love of nature, non-conformity, problems with society faith
What is the theme of Hawthorne?
Anti-transcendentalist
What is the theme of Moby Dick?
Do not give into obsession
S.D, S.L, P.K, M.N
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