Review for Finals

“Classroom Feud/Jeopardy”

Question #1

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is an example of what style of

non-fiction writing?

Persuasive

Question #2

What kind of persuasive appeal does Edwards use most in this sermon?

Hint: “loaded or elevated language”

pathos/emotional

Question #3

Who says this?“God sees my name; God knows how

black my sins are”?

John Proctor

Question #4

Who said this?“I will not give you no name. I mention

my wife’s name once and I’ll burn in hell long enough for that.”

Giles Corey

Question # 5

Which Transcendentalist said this?

“I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.”

Henry David Thoreau

Question # 6

Most of the people mentioned in “I Hear America Singing” by Whitman

are aristocrats or professionals because the author comes from an

upper class background. False

Questions # 7

The poem “The Raven” seems to suggest that the narrator’s lost love left him for another man, his best

friend.

False

Question #8

Who wrote “Self-Reliance”?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question # 9

A dark form of literature which arose during the Romantic Movement and

which focused on evil, the supernatural and decaying society

was called…?

Gothic

Question #10

Who wrote “The Masque of the Red Death”?

Edgar Allen Poe

Question # 11

What style of poetry did Walt Whitman write?

Free Verse

Question # 12

The main idea of Henry’s “Speech to a Virginia Convention” is?

It is time for the colonists to fight for their freedom

Question # 13

What is an allusion?

A reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer

expects a reader to recognize.

Question # 14

What is an aphorism?

A pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life.

Question # 15

What is an analogy?

A comparison made between two dissimilar things.

Question # 16

The general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to convey in a

literary work is?

Theme

Question # 17

A minor character whose traits contrast sharply with those of the

main character

foil

Question # 18

What was Mark Twain’s given name?

Samuel Clemmons

Question # 19

Which literary period began right after the Civil War?

Realism

Question # 20

Which literary movement sprung out of Realism?

Naturalism

Question #21

What were the two main types of Romantic writing?

Transcendentalist and Gothic

Who wrote Walden Pond and why was it written?

Thoreau. It was written so Thoreau could have a deeper connection with

nature.

#23

Who wrote The Crucible and why?

Arthur Miller in response to the Red Scare

# 24

• What is the prince’s name in The Masque of the Red Death?

Prince Prospero

# 25

• Name three works of literature that use Imagery.

Sinners, Walden, Song of Myself

#26

• Who was the harlot in one of our stories?

• Abigail Williams