Exam studying Barbour Final Exams

T/F: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been banned from classrooms because scholars all agree that it is a racist novel

False

T/F: The Shakespearean middle world shows characters trapped in their comfortable, everyday lives

False

T/F: Jane Austen wrote about women who defied the expectations of their time by traveling and having unusual adventures

False

T/F: Twelfth Night fits all three of the neoclassical unities

False

T/F: We say that the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is written in the vernacular because its language is so poetic and obviously literary

False

T/F: Most of William Shakespeare’s plays weren’t published until after his death

True

T/F: The romantics thought poetry was the best form of literature because it expressed emotion very well

True

T/F: Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice as a historical novel

False

T/F: To call someone a “Noble Savage” suggests that they are violent and corrupt

False

What kind of plot does The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have?

A. Allegorical plot

B. Amiable Plot

C. Climactic plot

D. Episodic plot

E. None of the above

D

What is an ideology in Criticism dealing with issues of power?

A. A universal symbol

B. The language of the people

C. A wrong worldview or set of values created to justify what someone wants to do or think

D. A poem that tells a story

E. None of the above

C

Which of the following would count as Shakespearean “Doubling”?

A. Viola and Olivia are both mourning for dead brothers

B. Orsino’s Court and Olivia’s Court

C. Viola and Sebastian are twins

D. Viola’s unrequited love for Orsino and Olivia’s unrequited love for Cesario

E. All of the above

E

Which poem was written by an American?

A. “The wreck of the Hesperus”

B. “The snowstorm”

C. “The village blacksmith”

D. The bells”

E. All of the above

E

Which of the following is a novel?

A. The Aeneid

B. The Inferno

C. Paradise Lost

D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

E. All of the Above

D

When a character stands alone on stage and thinks aloud, what do we call this?

A. Alliteration

B. Allusion

C. Allegory

D. Alexandrine

E. None of the above

E

Which literary movement thought literature should be personal expression of the author?

A. Neoclassicism

B. Romanticism

C. Realism

D. Sentimental Fiction

E. None of the above

B

Who published the Slave Songs of the United States

A. Slaves who wanted to show how literate they were

B. Escaped slaves who wanted to remember the communities they left behind

C. White men who wanted to help freed slaves learn to read

D. Slave owners who wanted to help their slaves learn to read

E. All of the Above

C

Which kind of irony happens because we know Viola is a woman when the characters think she’s a boy?

A. Situational Irony

B. Socratic Irony

C. Linguistic Irony

D. Dramatic Irony

E. All of the Above

D

What is the meaning of a word that includes its emotional references

Connotation

What is a strict rhythmic pattern in poetry

Meter

What is the reversing of word order or ideas in literary structure

Inversion

What is an enlightenment idea that focuses on the human potential for goodness

Humanism

What is a poetic form without clear meter or rhyme

Free verse

What is a word that sounds like the thing it represents

Onomatopoeia

What is the language of the people

Vernacular

What is believability

Verisimilitude

What is the following quote from:

If music be the food of love, play on

Twelfth Night

What is the following quote from:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife

Pride and Prejudice

What is the following quote from:

All right, then, I’ll go to hell

Paradise Lost

What is the following quote from:

As I went down to the valley to pray

American Slave Songs

T/F: The Aeneid is a tragedy

False

T/F: A literary work that is an extended system of symbols is called an allusion

FalseSo

T/F: Some feminists believe that it’s good for women to be obedient to men because it is in women’s nature to serve

False

T/F: Biographical criticism interprets a work through the life of the individual author

True

T/F: Aristotle thought plot was the most important of the six parts of the tragedy

True

T/F: Gilgamesh is older than any other work we will read this semester

True

T/F: In Inferno, Beatrice symbolizes human reason

False

T/F: Shusaku Endo was a Japanese Christian who studied literature in France

True

T/F: Some scholars think Paradise lost is sympathetic to Satan the rebel because Milton worked for a rebel government

True

What do we call the body of literary works seen to be most important and worthy of study?

A. Creon

B. Canon

C. Genre

D. Quarto

E. None of the Above

B

If we see Antigone as a story about the conflict between the family and the state, who represents the family?

A. Antigone

B. Creon

C. Haemon

D. Tiresias

E. None of the above

A

Which of the following is an accepted way to interpret the Aeneid?

A. The Aeneid was written as political propaganda for the emperor Augustus

B. The Aeneid is an anti-war poem because it recognizes the pain and price of war

C. The Aeneid was written to show Augustus how a good ruler should behave

D. The Aeneid was written to encourage Romans of Virgil’s day to come together after Civil War just as the Trojans and Latins came together after the war between Aeneas and Turnus

E. All of the Above

E

What makes Silence like an I-Novel?

A. It is set in a time other than the author’s own time

B. It struggles with a “Theology of suffering”

C. It takes its protagonist on a journey where he conquers obstacles and becomes more worthy of his goal

D. It is interested in the protagonist’s interior life

E. All of the above

D

Which poem starts by claiming that it wants to “Justify the ways of God to men”

A. Gilgamesh

B. Antigone

C. Inferno

D. Silence

E. None of the Above

E

Which important historical events helped create a sense of uncertainty in the 20th Century?

A. The closing of Japan

B. World War I and World War II

C. The Roman Civil War

D. The Invasion of Florence by the King of France

E. None of the Above

B

Which of the following is true of Dante’s hell in Inferno?

A. Some of its elements are taken from Virgil’s underworld in the Aeneid

B. It is part of an allegory and therefore meant to be symbolic

C. Some of its structure comes from medieval ideas about the geo-centric universe

D. Some of its structure is influenced by Aristotle’s philosophy

E. All of the above

E

Which character or group of characters in a Greek tragedy is said to be a “bridge to the audience”

A. The protagonist

B. The Antagonist

C. The Everyman

D. The Chorus

E. All of the above

D

What is the following quote from:

I fear the Greeks, especially bearing gifts

The Aeneid

What is the following quote from:

Lord, I resented your silence. I was not silent. I suffered beside you

Silence

What is the following quote from:

Abandon hope all ye who enter here

Inferno

What is the following quote from:

There are many wonders, but none more wondrous than man

Antigone

What is publicly denying your faith

Apostasy

What is a western fascination with asians as an exotic other

Orientalism

What is having truth for all times and places

Universal

What is a protagonist without obviously heroic traits

Anti-hero

What are things we assume to be true because everyone around us assumes them to be true

Social Imaginaries

What is the reader who seems to be at the back of the author’s head as he or she is writing a story

Target reader

What is the ability to define yourself and make your own choices

Agency

What is pride

Hubris

What is the language of the people

Vernacular

True or False... We say Huckleberry Finn is written in the vernacular because its language is so poetic and obviously literary

False

True or False... Americans used literature to create and express a national identity in the first half of the 19th century

True

True or False... Transcendentalism was a German literary movements that influenced American writers in the first half of the 19th Century

False

True or False... Huckleberry Finn has been banned from classrooms because scholars all agree that it is a racist novel

False

True or False... The Shakespearean middle world shows characters trapped in their comfortable, everyday lives

False

True or False... Jane Austen wrote about women who defied the expectations of their time by traveling and having unusual adventures

False

True or False... Twelfth Night fits all three of the neoclassical unites

False

True or False... Jane Austen is often called the first realistic novelist writing in English

True

True or False... To call someone a "Noble Savage" suggests that they are violent and corrupt

False

Which literary characters find love in spite of social and economic pressures that drive them apart

Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice

What is an "Ideology" in criticism dealing with issues of power?

A distorted world view or set of values created to justify what someone wants to do or think

What is Doubling

This involves two characters who mirror each other in some way. Often, one character represents a shadow, alter ego, or opposite of the other, revealing different facets of their personality or destiny.

who published the Slave Songs of the United States

White men who wanted to help freed slaves learn to read

which literary movement liked the Author's voice to be "invisible" in the text?

Realism

when a character in a play stands alone on stage and thinks out loud, what do we call this?

Soliloquy

what kind of plot does Huckleberry Finn have?

Episodic Plot

which novel was written by a women

Pride and Prejudice

which kind of irony happens because we know viola is a woman when the characters think she is a boy

dramatic irony

Definition --> Language and style specific to an individual author or character

Voice

Definition --> Believability

Verisimilitude

Definition --> A strict rhythmic pattern in poetry

Meter

Definition --> the idea that the world is getting better and better, especially through human effort

Progressivism

Definition --> The meaning of a word that includes its emotional references

Connotation

Definition --> a poetic form without clear meter or rhyme

Free Verse

Definition --> the reversing of word order or ideas in literary structure

Inversion

Definition --> a literary device in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is given the characteristics of a human being

Personification

Quotation File --> "Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"

Emily Dickenson

Quotation File --> "All right, then, ill go to hell

Mark Twain "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

Quotation File --> by innocence I swear, and by youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, and that no woman has; nor never none shall be mistress of it, save I alone

William Shakespeare "Twelfth Night"

Quotation File --> It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife

Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"

True or False.... In Inferno Beatrice symbolizes human reason

False

True or False... some feminists believe that it is good for women to be obedient to men because it is in women's nature to serve

False

True or False... biographical criticism interprets a work through the life of the individual author

True

True or False... Aristotle thought plot was the most important of the six parts of the tragedy

True

True or False... Gilgamesh is older than any other work we will read this semester

True

True or False... the Aeneid is a tragedy

False

True or False... Shusaku Endo was a Japanese Christian who studied literature in France

True

True or False... A literary work that is an extended system of symbols is called an allusion

False

True or False... Some scholars think Paradise Lost is sympathetic to Satan the Rebel because Milton worked for a rebel government

True

If we see Antigone as a story about the concept between the individual and the state, who represents the individual?

Antigone