English Literature Review: Key Terms & Definitions Study Set

Little we see in _______ that is ours

Nature

So might I, standing on this pleasant ___

lea

Have glimpses that would make me less ______

forlorn

________ and ______, we lay waste _________

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers

The freeway conceals it all _________

beneath a raised scar

In Freeway 280, roses are described as _____

climbing

How high are geraniums?

Man-high

Las casitas near the __________

gray cannery

But under the ____________ of the open lanes

fake windsounds

Once, I wanted out, wanted the rigid lanes to take me to a place __________

without sun, without smell of tomatoes burning on swing shift in the greasy summer air.

where I'll find it, that part of me ________

mown under like a corpse or a loose seed

Which Americans (not the broader term "Arab Americans) does Shihab Nye advocate for?

Muslims, Arabs, Sikhs, South Asians

Kneeling was a fine method of praying if what?

If you lived in a country where stones were smooth

What did the women kneeling dreamed of?

Bleached courtyards and hidden corners where knee fit rock

Describe the "prayers" of the women kneeling?

Weathered rib bones, small calcium words uttered in sequence

The women kneeling prayed as if what?

As if it could fuse them to the sky.

What were the men complaining of pain harvesting?

Vinegar and Thyme and Olives

What did the men complaining eat at night?

Flat bread and white cheese

Pilgrims wrapped themselves in ______

new white linen

What did the cousins and grandmothers do to "perspiring mothers"?

humming quietly

The old ones prayed for what?

For the young ones, for Allah to mend their brains

For the twig, the round moon to speak in a commanding tone.

take it all, the space you need: it's ______

curved

Don't be boggled by _____: we're here to save the world without exception

totality

Coreopsis meaning?

always cheerful: a flower native to America

the conspiring grasses' ____________

sh shhhh ssh

but now they're logging the one __________

stilling hawk

He and his friend loved everything softly undulating under the coyest wind, and the _________________ as they walked through the land's ________

rough truth, scratch and scrabble

Dolan's Creek is a part of California that

Mattoni and Smith hated

According the The Blue, the ocean is anything but

passive

The ocean is how far off from where Mattoni and Smith were?

A mile off, even so they can hear it smacking rocks.

The breeze's smell

basic: salty, bitter, sour, sweet (because of the manzanita plant)

How good a swimmer Smith had been, how rough the currents there at Half Moon Bay, his friend alone with __________

reel and rod

__________ burnt coal in our neighborhood

Everyone

__________ they called it from the mountains

soft coal

Marge PIercy's father worked in _______ Pennsylvania?

Western

Mornings were chilly, frost on windows/ etching _________

magic landscapes

The fire glowed like a ______

red eye

Who is Earthrise dedicated to?

Al Gore and the Climate Reality Project

What Apollo mission took Earthrise?

Apollo 8

To prepare you, to dare you, to _________

dream a different reality

This riddled blue marble, this little _______

true marvel

So, earth, _________

pale blue dot

In Earthrise, Gorman asks the audience to visualize whom in a silver spacecraft raft

all the leaders in that room

Throughout the Machine Stops, the Machine and its rooms are compared to a

beehive and its cells

Why was Vashti's voice "irritable" when Kuno called her?

Because she had been interrupted many times since her music began.

Where did Kuno first get his idea for the stars?

In the airship, he wishes to see them from the surface of the earth

How long did Vashti talk to Kuno in the first talk?

3 minutes

To have a smaller bed would've meant what?

vast alterations in the Machine.

Before going to sleep, Vashti reviewed

Ideas and Events (no ideas, and was kuno's invitation an event?)

The Book of the Machine had instructions against what?

Every Contingency

The Central Committee published it. In accordance with a growing habit, it was __________

richly bound.

Thrice she kissed it, thriced inclined her head, thrice she felt the __________

delirium of acquiscence,

The earth, carrying her, hummed as it sped through ______, turning her now to the ________, now to the _______

silence, invisible sun, invisible stars.

The button that opened the door to the tunnel was described as

unfamiliar

Context of the sentence "So the human passions still blundered up and down the Machiine"

After Vashti got sick and Kuno telegraphed her doctor.

One other passenger was on the lift, the first fellow creature Vashti had seen for _________

months.

Men seldom ________, all unrest was where?

Men seldom moved their bodies, all unrest was in the soul

A ___________ ran the length of the boat (to make moving around the boat easier for people)?

revolving platform

Vashti was angry in the airship because

the attendant had not given her the best cabin.

The passengers were angry in the airship because

the attendant did not turn on the lights.

Why did the airships have so many skylights and windows?

Because when they were built, there was still a desire for direct contact.

Racing airplanes had been steered by whom?

"the greatest intellects of the epoch"

Having to directly contact people had given the flight attendant what?

roughness and originality of manner

When Vashti saw the Himalayas, what part of it was in shadow?

The northern part

Airships crosseed the intercrossing and rose up with _______

with incredible aplomb (self-confidence); nonchalantly

Was the temperature of the rooms all the same?

YES

When Vashti first saw Kuno in the flesh, she averted her eyes. What made her look at him.

When he said he had been threatened with Homelessness.

In the dawn of our world, our weakly is exposed to ________, in its twilight our strong will ________

Mount Taygetus, suffer euthanasia

Kuno: We say _______, but we have annihilated not _______, but ___________

space is annihilated, but we have annihilated not space, but the sense thereof.

What part of the Machine protrudes from the Earth?

Vormitories

How did Kuno know about the ventilation shafts?

Because their cities had been built in the days when men still breathed the outer air.

While Kuno was going on his journey, what held him back, what he said was a "coward"?

Doing something unmechanical

"even as the dead were comforting me, so I was comforting ____"

the unborn

What did Kuno climb with?

His respirator, hygienic clothes and dietetic tabloids.

Then Kuno thought: " The _________ means I am doing wrong"

silence

atavism

a tendency to revert to something ancient or ancestral.

First hand ideas are but

impressions made by love and fear

The lecturer says that 10th-hand telling will see the French Revolution not as it happened but ______

as it would've happened if it were the age of the Machine

The Machine is the friend of _______ and the enemy of ________

The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition.

To such as state of affairs (talking about the inevitability of the 2 developments of the Machine) it is convenient to give the name of _______

progress

What question of Vashti to the Committee of Mending Apparatus was "unmechanical"?

Have others complained?

In which cities did the beds fail to appear?

1. Sumatra

2. Wessex

3. Courland

4. Brazil

There was a hysterical talk of "______" of "_____ _______"?

Measures of provincial dictatorship

new "__________" were evolving which would do the work even better than before

nerve centers.

before the Machine broke down, the atmosphere had

improved a few hours previously

The "doctor" in the ceiling is also called the

Medical Apparatus

The entire story "The Machine Stops" is framed as a _________ of the author

meditation

The five senses were compared to

five portals

In the Machine Stops, how did people justify the sins against the body? What was the body turned into?

Evolution. White pap/

What did EB White remember the "clearest of all" from his visits to the lake?

the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, how the bedroom smelled of lumber and wet woods.

There were cottages sprinkled around the ______, and it was in _______

the shores, and it was in farming.

The shores of the lake were quite heavily ______

wooded

The roads led to within how much of the shore?

Half a mile.

The feeling that EB White had become his father was not an entirely _____ feeling, but ______

an entirely new feeling, but in this setting (the lake) it grew much stronger.

Describe the tennis court in "Once More to the Lake"?

Discrepit at best. Tape had loosened along the backline; alleys were green with plantains and other weeds, and the net sagged in the dry noon.

the pasture with the sweet ______ and the ______ forever and ever

fern and juniper

At the railway station the farm wagon drawn up, the first smell of the_______ air, the first glimpse of _____, and the great importance of ________________________________

The first smell of the pine-laden air, the first glimpse of the smiling farmer, and the great importance of the trunks and your father's enormous authority in such matters.

What was "the note that jarred, the one thing that would sometimes break the illusion adn set the years moving"?

The sound of outboard motors.

Describe the inboard cylinders

They were 1 (throbbed and fluttered) or 2 cylinder (purred) engines, some were make-and-break and some were jump-spark, all made a sleepy sound across the lake.

The sound of outboard motors was compared to the sound of

mosquitoes