test 5

Question 1

spiritual presence residing in every part of the universe

Answer 1

Oversoul

Question 2

three parts of the Oversoul

Answer 2

nature, man, God

Question 3

worship of the universe as god

Answer 3

pantheism

Question 4

three transcendental optimists

Answer 4

Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman

Question 5

three transcendental pessimists

Answer 5

Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville

Question 6

an experimental commune that sought to translate transcendental teachings into both art and life

Answer 6

Brook Farm

Question 7

short-lived, official publication of transcendentalism

Answer 7

the Dial

Question 8

________ was a Unitarian minister who traveled to Europe

Answer 8

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 9

editor of the Dial

Answer 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 10

Emerson wrote these things

Answer 10

1. Nature
2. Self-Reliance

Question 11

_______ lived at Walden for 2 years

Answer 11

Henry David Thoreau

Question 12

promoted “civil disobedience”, the idea that conscience is above the law

Answer 12

Henry David Thoreau

Question 13

obvious understatement or exaggeration intended to make a point

Answer 13

hyperbole

Question 14

question that requires no response

Answer 14

rhetorical question

Question 15

violation of the reader’s expectations

Answer 15

surprise

Question 16

Thoreau wrote these things

Answer 16

1. Walden

Question 17

word in Walden used to explain the way people should live in the author’s opinion

Answer 17

“simplicity”

Question 18

first modern poet

Answer 18

Walt Whitman

Question 19

two ways that made Whitman a modern poet

Answer 19

1. wrote on controversial topics
2. free verse

Question 20

poetry with no set rhyme or meter

Answer 20

free verse

Question 21

regular pace or beat

Answer 21

rhythm

Question 22

repetition of words or phrases at the beginnings of lines or grammatical units

Answer 22

anaphora

Question 23

a list of the names of persons, places, or things

Answer 23

catalog

Question 24

a person, place, or thing within a narrative or poem that means something in addition to itself

Answer 24

symbol

Question 25

a word or phrase commonly employed in informal conversation rather than in formal speaking or writing

Answer 25

colloquialism

Question 26

nonstandard vocabulary, often used by a particular group of people

Answer 26

slang

Question 27

Whitman wrote these things

Answer 27

1. Song of Myself 2. I Hear America Singing 3. The Noiseless Patient Spider 4. O Captain, My Captain

Question 28

catalog in I Hear America Singing

Answer 28

jobs/careers

Question 29

in Walden, Thoreau describes the government as this

Answer 29

a machine

Question 30

in Song of Myself, ______ is used to represent the passing of time/immortality

Answer 30

grass

Question 31

in Song of Myself, he learns from ______

Answer 31

nature

Question 32

Song of Myself criticizes these two things

Answer 32

education and religion

Question 33

master of the macabre

Answer 33

Edgar Allen Poe

Question 34

two characteristics of the short story

Answer 34

1. one thought/emotion 2. one sitting

Question 35

emotional atmosphere of a work

Answer 35

mood

Question 36

a speaker’s meaning differed from what is expressed in words

Answer 36

verbal irony

Question 37

a type of irony in which the reader is aware of a plot development of which a character in the story is unaware

Answer 37

dramatic irony

Question 38

repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables

Answer 38

alliteration

Question 39

repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables

Answer 39

assonance

Question 40

the person created by the author to narrate the story or poem

Answer 40

persona

Question 41

Poe wrote these things

Answer 41

1. the Raven 2. Annabel Lee 3. the Cask of Amontillado

Question 42

is the Cask of Amontillado verbal or dramatic irony

Answer 42

dramatic irony

Question 43

name of the wife in the Raven

Answer 43

Lenore

Question 44

word the bird in the Raven repeats

Answer 44

Nevermore

Question 45

difference between the Raven and Annabel Lee

Answer 45

the Raven is more hopeless, while Annabel Lee is a bit more hopeful and content

Question 46

O Captain, My Captain is about _______

Answer 46

Abraham Lincoln (mourns his death)

Question 47

O Captain, My Captain 1. boat means 2. captain means 3. storm means

Answer 47

1. America 2. Abraham Lincoln 3. Civil War

Question 48

in the Cask of Amontillado, the friend's name is __________, verbal irony

Answer 48

Fortunato

Question 49

true or false: Montresor feels guilty in the Cask of Amontillado

Answer 49

true

Question 50

Hawthorne wrote these things

Answer 50

1. the Minister's Black Veil 2. the Birthmark

Question 51

two types of symbol

Answer 51

private and public

Question 52

is the veil in Minister's Black Veil private or public symbol

Answer 52

private

Question 53

in the Minister's Black Veil, the veil symbolizes

Answer 53

mankind's sin

Question 54

at the end of the Minister's Black Veil, Mr. Hooper is trying to express this

Answer 54

universal guilt

Question 55

two main characters in the Birthmark

Answer 55

Alymer and Georgiana

Question 56

the Birthmark condemns what two things?

Answer 56

1. egotism 2. transcendental optimism (because no one can achieve perfection)

Question 57

the Birthmark tells of Georgiana's birthmark, which is shaped like a _____

Answer 57

hand

Question 58

how an author reveals the qualities of a character

Answer 58

characterization

Question 59

__1__ is portrayed more fully by the author __2__ is portrayed less fully by the author

Answer 59

1. major character 2. minor character

Question 60

those easily recognizable within a culture

Answer 60

public symbols

Question 61

have meaning specific to a particular literary work

Answer 61

private symbols

Question 62

a recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature

Answer 62

theme

Question 63

hints at events what will occur later in the story

Answer 63

foreshadowing

Question 64

a story with a literal and an implied level of meaning

Answer 64

allegory

Question 65

doubleness or inconclusiveness of meaning

Answer 65

ambiguity

Question 66

the coexistence of conflicting feelings or attitudes of an author or a reader

Answer 66

ambivalence

Question 67

Herman Melville wrote these things

Answer 67

Bartleby, the Scrivenger (he worked in the Dead Letter Office and the walls = isolation)