Unit3 test

Which writer is considered the greatest American poet who did not write for publication but for personal need to wrestle with questions about death, immortality, and the soul?

Emily Dickinson

Which poetic device is used in the following from “Old Ironsides”; “The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more”

Metaphor

What is the main lesson of the story?

Greed leads to misery

Personification is

giving human qualities to inanimate objects

The choice the best states the theme of “A Noiseless Patient Spider” is

The poet's soul attempts to make connections to reach other individuals

Symbol is

Anything that stands for or represents something else.

Which poem emphasizes the idea that an individuals life is temporary, but nature counties?

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

The choice that best states the theme “Psalm of Life” is

Individuals should act and think independently and not blindly conform to ideas and behavior dictated by society and peers.

Which Writer wrote short stories including “The Devil and Tom Walker”; is considered the famous American writer who also wrote travel books and satires.

Irving

Which poem is about the poets vision of death?

“Thanatopsis”

The choice that best states the theme of “I Hear America Singing”

Every American is a unique, and hard-working individual

Which author wrote “I Heard a Fly Buzz” - When I Died”? This poet wrote over 1700 poems, but only seven were published in his/her life.

Dickinson

Which symbol from “The Devil and Tom Walker” represents ostentation?

Tom walkers new house

Which author is a descendant of Anne Bradstreet; made important contributions to medicine and literature; wrote “Old Ironsides”

Holmes

Transcendentalism is

An American literacy and philosophical movement that stresses that intuition and individual conscience go beyond experience and are better guides to truth than the senses and logical reason

Which of the following motivates Tom and his wife to seek the Devil

Greed

Where does the Devil and Tom Walker take place

near Boston , Massachusetts

Who are considered to be the most popular transcendentalists?

Emerson and Thoreau

Which symbol from “The Devil and Tom Walker” represents temptation

None of the above

Romantism

The artistic movement that dominated Europe and America during the early 1800s that placed importance an imagination , emotion , nature , individuality and exotic (supernatural )

Which writer fought to ensure that industrialization did not hid Americas democratic values ; an advocate for women’s rights and an abolitionist wrote ; “Thantopsis”

Bryant

Which poetic device is used in the following “still like muffled drums are beating, funereal marches to the grave”

Simile

Stanza is

A group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit or paragraph

The choice that best states the theme of “I hear America singing” by Whitman is

Every American is a unique , and hard - working individual

Which author grew up in poverty; received and virtually no formal education; wrote “Snowbound”

Whittier

Which symbol from “The Devil and Tom Walker” represents the pride of the corrupted members of society

Tallness of the trees

Which poem emphases the idea that people need to preserve the symbols of great moments in our history?

Old Ironsides

Which writer created new poetic forms and rejected conventional themes, tuitional literary references , and rhyme; wrote “song of myself” and “I hear America singing”

Whitman m

The choice that best states the theme of “There’s a certain slant of light” is

Winter can evoke great desolation in human begins.

Imagery is

The description or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader

Which poetic device is used in the following: “and departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time”

Imagery

The choice that best states the theme of “When I heard the learn’d astronomer

Nature is understood not through science but through mystical and personal experience.

Simile is

A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

Tom is prompted to become a churchgoer chiefly because of

fear of the Devil

Which of the following phrases is an example of Irving’s use of humor in the form of satire?

“Tom consoled himself for the loss of his property with the loss of his wife , for he was a man of fortitude.”

At the opening of the “the Devil and Tom Walker” , the walkers are

Meanger and miserly

The choice that best states the theme of “when I heard the learnd astronomer” is

None of the above

Tom becomes a usurer : what does he become?

None of the above

Which poetic device is used in the following from “song of myself” “the smallest sprout shows that there is no doubt”

Symbol

When Tom makes his deal with the devil what conditions need to not be mentioned

Tom Must Sell his soul to the devil

Alliteration is

The repetition of beginning consonants sounds of words

Metaphor is

None of the above

Which of the following is not a characteristic of romanticism

Focus on science and not nature

Which item best contributes to the story’s mood?

“The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks …which made it dark at noonday…”

The choice that best states the theme of “Thanatopsis” is

Death should not be feared but rather embraced as a part of natures cycle; if one lives fully then one will accept death when it comes

Tom’s wife decides to go into the forest because she -

Decides to make her own deal with the devil

The choice that best states the theme of “Because I could not stop for death” is

Death is not something to abstractly fear; it is a natural and gentle part of life that will in inevitably come to bring one to his/her finally resting peace

Which poem emphases the idea that time eventually heals emotional wounds?

“The first snowball”

Why does Tom end up in the swamp?

He’s taking a shortcut.

Which symbols represent predatory lending institutions; unscrupulous credit cards marketers

Tom Walker as a usurer

Which poetic device is used in the following from “Old Ironsides”; “Aye, Tear her tattered ensign..

Personification

What happens to Tom walkers money at the end of the story?

It turns into cinders and ashes