Talken Unit 3 Transcendentalism - Final

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and I could not learn what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I have not lived."

Thoreau

Let it not be said, whenever there is energy or creative genius, "She has a masculine mind."

Fuller

"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"

Thoreau

"Her father was a man who cherished no sentimental reverence for woman, but a firm belief in the equality of the sexes."

Fuller

"Envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide".

Emerson

"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..."

Thoreau

"Early I perceived that men never, in any extreme of despair, wished to be women. Where they admired any woman they were inclined to speak of her as above her sex."

Fuller

"To be great is to be misunderstood"

Emerson

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"

Emerson

"I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there"

Thoreau

Who was the father of transcendentalism

Emerson

Who went to Harvard, average student

Thoreau

Who wrote a story about an unrequited love with another poet

Dickinson

Who put into practice the teachings of transcendentalism

Thoreau

Who wrote 1000-1,800 poems, published posthumously

Dickinson

Who thought of Abe Lincoln as a hero

Whitman

Who lived in a cabin he built in the woods for 2 years

Thoreau

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" comes from the poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"

Romantic

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"

Romantic

"Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they are. Men have precedency and still excel; It is but vain unjustly to wage war. Men can do best, and Women know it well. Preeminence in all and each is yours; Yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours."

Non-Romantic

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Non-Romantic

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

Romantic

According to "Self-Reliance," people who want to find the good in the universe should rely on their

a. formal education

b. religious teachings

c. own investigation

d. study of geniuses

c. own investigation

What does Emerson mean by writing, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."?

a. Follow your own beliefs.

c. Truth exists beyond experience.

b. Nature is connected to God.

d. Discover truth through God.

a. Follow your own beliefs.

What does Emerson say is the only wrong in "Self-Reliance"?

a. contradicting yourself

b. trusting the appearance of nature

c. going against your nature

d. working with your hands.

c. going against your nature

According to Emerson, the indication of great people are people who

a. question the way nature acts

b. worry about what other people think

c. never think about past events

d. follow their own mind in a crowd.

d. follow their own mind in a crowd.

Walden:

At the beginning of this essay, the author states that he goes to the wood in order to live how?

a. simply

b. economically

c. selfishly

d. Deliberately

d. Deliberately

Walden:

At the conclusion of this essay, the author uses the image of a beaten path to explain why he

a. decided it was time to leave.

b. disliked visitors to his home.

c. disliked the post office.

d. enjoyed walking on highways.

a. decided it was time to leave.

Walden:

Which attribute of transcendentalism is best shown in the following quote?

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

a. The author values nature.

b. The author values intuition.

c. God, nature, and man are linked.

d. People are noble and good.

b. The author values intuition.

Walden:

Why does Thoreau say he left the woods?

a. because he fell into a routine and found he didn't have anything else to learn from the experience

b. because he realized he had more to learn about city life .

C. because the Mexican-American war started and Thoreau had to leave to protest

d. because he found there was a bear living nearby on the land and bears are scary

a. because he fell into a routine and found he didn't have anything else to learn from the experience

Walden:

Thoreau talks about "castles in the air." This is a metaphor for:

a. unrealistic ideals that no one could live up to

b. dreams that we're working towards but haven't lived up to yet

c. old-world ideals of aristocracy

d. an early spec script for Shy High

b. dreams that we're working towards but haven't lived up to yet

"Woman in the Nineteenth Century"

Who is the speaker having a conversation with in the selection?

a. Ben Jonson

b. Miranda

c. Miranda's dad

d. her guardian

b. Miranda

"Woman in the Nineteenth Century"

As a child, Miranda was

a. Self-reliant

b. Restrained

c. Manly

d. Unkind

Self-reliant

"Woman in the Nineteenth Century"

Miranda's respect for herself allows her to

a. face both internal and external obstacles

b. turn enemies into friends through conversation

c. show her electric personality to all around her

d. avoid talking with men who waste her time

a. face both internal and external obstacles

"Woman in the Nineteenth Century"

Miranda believes that men's desire to dominate women is a result of men's

a. vanity (pride)

b. Cruelty

C. courage

d. Aggression

a. vanity (pride)

"Woman in the Nineteenth Century"

Which of Miranda's traits is viewed as a fault in other women?

a. Serenity

b. Clear judgment

c. Self-dependence

d. Affectionate nature

c. Self-dependence

Walt Whitman is known for using irregular thyme, rhythm, and line length in his poetry. This is known as what?

a. free verse

b. iambic pentameter

c. non-rhymed verse

d. blank verse

a. free verse

Which of the following best describes cataloging

a. Related ideas phrased in a similar way

b. Repeated words or phrases at the beginning of two or more lines

c. Frequent lists of things, people, or attributes

d. Rhymes that do not quite rhyme, but almost rhyme

c. Frequent lists of things, people, or attributes

"Song of Myself"

In the opening lines:

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself And what I assume you shall assume

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."

Which literary term could you say Whitman is setting up here for use throughout the poem?

a. extended metaphor

b. Paradox

C. iambic rhythm

D. personification

a. extended metaphor

Who asks the speaker "What is the grass?"

a. a child

b. an adolescent

c. an adult

d. an old woman

a. a child

The metaphor Whitman seems to focus on the longest in this verse is that the grass is:

a flag that symbolizes his mood

a symbol of love from God

c. a symbol of equality, that all people are basically the same

D. the uncut hair of graves of those who have died

c. a symbol of equality, that all people are basically the same

For the time period this is written in, which of the following speakers in verse 33, seems to be an unusual choice for a "hero"

a. a skipper

b. a hounded slave

c. a mashed fireman

d. an artillerist

b. a hounded slave

Which of the following heroes actually ends their story both alive and successful in their mission?

a. a skipper

b. a hounded slave

c. a mashed fireman

d. an artillerist

a skipper

When Whitman says: "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" he is doing what?

a. trying to show the importance and power of nature

b. trying to worship God

c. trying to assert his individuality in a larger world

d. trying to assert the importance of following your intuition

c. trying to assert his individuality in a larger world

Where should readers look for the speaker?

a. over the roofs of the world

b. in the shadow'd wilds

c. in a young mother's lap

d. under their boot-soles

d. under their boot-soles

Emily Dickinson

"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

What device is being employed in the following quote?

"Because I could not stop for Death-/ He kindly stopped for me--"

a repetition

b. personification

c. parallelism

d. Symbolism

b. personification

Emily Dickinson

"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

Which description best fits Death in this poem?

a. a polite friend

c. a brooding master

b. a talkative tour guide

d. an elderly relative

a. a polite friend

Emily Dickinson

"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

Which do the riders in carriage NOT pass by?

a. a Schoolyard

b. fields of gazing grain

c. setting sun

d. the rising moon.

d. the rising moon.

Emily Dickinson

"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

The carriage pauses literally not figuratively at a

a. Low-roofed cottage

b. Family dwelling

c. Grave

d. Church

c. Grave

Emily Dickinson

"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

The speaker in this poem suggests that centuries of immortal life are shorter than a

a. Normal century

b. Single day

c. Human lifetime

d. Carriage ride

d. Carriage ride

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm-

I've heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - Yet - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me.

The poem, as a whole, makes use of which of the following?

a. personification

b. extended metaphor

c. antithesis

d. simile

b. extended metaphor

What is a "gale" as used in In.

a. A lady's name

b. A strong wind

c. Sunshine

d. None of the above

b. A strong wind

Which best matches the rhythm of this poem?

a. alternating lines of iambic pentameter and trimester

b. free verse

c. iambic pentameter throughout

d. alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter

d. alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter

What best describes the rhyme scheme?

a. ABCB

b. AABB

c. ABBA

d. ABAB

a. ABCB

"I Hear America Singing"

What best matches the rhythm and rhyme scheme of this poem?

a. Free Verse

B. lambic Pentameter and AABB

C. lambic Pentameter and ABAB

d. Trochaic Tetrameter and no rhyme

a. Free Verse

"I Hear America Singing"

These people are all being celebrated collectively for what?

a. Being the type of people who are working with their hands to build America up

b. Being the type of people who are working with their minds to make America great

c. Being the type of people who have done heroic deeds

d. Being the type of people who have lived extraordinary lives of nonconformity

a. Being the type of people who are working with their hands to build America up

Which line/phrase best expresses Whitman's celebration of each of these as individuals?

a."The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work"

b. "I hear America singing"

c. "Each singing what belongs to him or her and none else"

d. "Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs."

c. "Each singing what belongs to him or her and none else"