English Honors III - Semester 2 Final

what did Transcendentalists place in the center of the universe?

individual

what did the Industrial Revolution seem to imply no longer mattered?

humans

who helped forge the Transcendentalists movement?

R.W. Emerson

most famous student of R.W. Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

one of the two major books of the Transcendentalists movement

Walden

what was Emerson's home dubbed as?

Athens of America

what did Amos Bronson Alcott believe students should be taught?

think, debate and discuss

two leaders that adopted Thoreau's philosophy of non-viilent civil protest

Ghandi and MLK

3 cornerstone of a Transcendentalists movement

intuition over the human senses, observations of nature illuminate and God, nature and humanity are one universal over-soul

According to Walden, what did people think Thoreau was?

a real estate broker

what does Thoreau view an important part of his work? how is this shown?

thinking; "my head is my hands and feet"

what is the aspect of Thoreau's style when beginning a paragraph?

he shows a specific event and build to a general truth

what is Thoreau conveying when he is describing the path his feet had worn?

human beings fall into dull routines

what is the closing image of Walden that leaves the readers feeling exhausted?

morning star

what is the central idea of Civil Disobedience?

citizens should be willing to act on their opinions

what view does Thoreau support when he cites examples of an unpopular war?

government is abused by powerful individuals

what does Thoreau mean when he says "time is but the stream i go fishing in" in Walden?

time is shallow but eternity remains

what is the word that best describes Thoreau's style?

repetitive

what can be inferred about Thoreau's political philosophy from Civil Disobedience?

people are politically responsible for themselves

the simple/basic form of a verb that is used after an auxiliary verb

infinitive

unnecessary

superfluous

real name of the author of Huckleberry Finn

Samuel Langford Clemens

pen name of Samuel Clemens

Mark Twain

where did Mark Twain grow up?

Hannibal, Missouri

what comet did Mark Twain have in the sky when he was born and when he died?

Haley's Comet

what century did Mark Twain die in?

20th

what short story brought Mark Twain national recognition?

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

what book by Mark Twain humorously details the adventures of an American travelling in Europe?

Innocence Abroad

what does Twain mean?

12 feet deep

what river do many of Twain's stories center themselves around?

Mississippi River

what were the Grangerford-Shepherdson feeds started over?

land disputes

who is the narrator of Huckleberry Finn?

Huck

what is Huck's motivation to leave?

Pap's desire for Huck's money and reason for custody battle

what is Huck's internal conflict?

whether or not to turn Jim in

who was shot by Sherburn in Huckleberry Finn?

Boggs

who has less of a reward for capture than an escaped slave?

Sherburn

what is a prominent theme in Huckleberry Finn?

brotherhood of man

who sold Jim for 40 dollars?

the king

who pretends to be Sid?

Tom Sawyer

farmer who kept Jim captive

Silas Phelps

who dresses as a wild Arab in Huck Finn?

Jim

who promises to pray to Huck?

Mary Jane Wilks

where does Tom get his adventurous ideas from?

pirate and robber books

who did Jim and Huck find within the floating house?

a dead man shot in the back

how does Mrs.Loftus know Huck is not Sarah Williams?

he brings the needle to the thread, claps his knees together to catch a piece of bread and almost hits a rat

How does Mrs. Loftus figure out that Huck is not Sarah Williams?

Huck brings the needle to the thread, claps his knees together to catch bread and almost hits a rat

who does the "dauphin" pretend to be?

heir to the French throne

where do the king and Duke get most of their information about the Wilks family?

a young man heading up the river

what is the climax of Huckleberry Finn?

when Huck tears up the letter and declares he'll go to hell

characters that experience changes throughout the plot of a story although it may be sudden but expected

dynamic characters

what do thought-shots add?

realism

characters thoughts such as flashbacks, flash-forwards and internal dialogue

thought-shots

who wrote Birches, Mending Wall, Out,Out-,Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening and Acquainted with the Night?

Robert Frost

who wrote "The Explorer"?

Gwendolyn Brooks

who wrote "In the Classroom"?

Adrienne Rich

who wrote "Mirror"?

Sylvia Plath

how is the infinitive being used in the statement "Thoreau wanted to live deliberately"?

as a noun

how is the infinitive being used in the statement "Thoreau wrote to share his experiences"?

an adverb

what is being expressed in the statement "If a man does not keep his pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"?

philosophy of individualism

how are Thoreau's ideas of Transcendentalism portrayed in "Civil Disobedience"?

he stresses the individuals ability to judge the actions of the government

why is Tom more satisfied with Jim's escape?

he was shot in the leg

what does Tom reveal about Jim?

he has been free all along

when was the Great Gatsby published?

1925

how has Tom Buchanan been all throughout his marriage since the start?

unfaithful

how did Gatsby find his money?

inherited 25,000 dollars

what does the owl eyed man sense and symbolize?

senses the emptiness and fortells the death

how can Gatsby's party guests be described?

shallow

who killed Myrtle?

Daisy

who tells Nick about Gatsby's love for Daisy?

Jordan

who reunites Gatsby and Daisy?

Nick

what does Daisy's voice sound like?

money

who insists that Daisy and Gatsby ride home together?

Tom

who narrates the Great Gatsby?

Nick

what business is Nick in?

bonds

what does the green light symbolize?

Gatsby's dreams of success

who is the grandmother's first speech addressed to in "A Good Man is Hard to Find'?

June Star

what can the reader infer by the authors diction in "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"?

the story is set in a rural area in the South

a character that becomes bizarre and perhaps through some kind of obsession

grotesque character

what is so special about the story Red Sam shares with the grandmother?

is is an anecdote

what is so ironic about the grandmother in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" saying people are not as nice as they used to be?

Red Sam and his wife have been kind

who is the "I" in "Mirror"?

the mirror

what does Plath reveal in "Mirror"?

her own fear of aging

why is the mirror important in "Mirror"?

it evokes pleasant memories of the poet's childhood

what is significant about the mirror metaphor as a lake?

reinforces the objectivity with which the mirror reflects reality

what are the people in "In the Classroom" voicing?

their dislike of poetry

what are the students interested in doing in "In the Classroom"?

doing away with poetry

with the details in "In the Classroom" what can one interpret on Jude's behavior?

when he is interested in learning how to construct a poem

what is the speakers main goal in "The Explorer"?

to deal with grief

what can the reader interpret about the details surrounding the home in "The Explorer"?

the home is an uncomfortable place for the person in the poem

what does the swinging on the birch trees symbolize in "Birches"?

a temporary return to youthful, carefree state

what does the wall in "Mending Wall" symbolize?

suspision, mistrust and bias

what does the neighborhood represent to the speaker in "Mending Wall"?

all that is primitive and irrational

what does the neighbor tell the speaker in "Mending Wall" and why?

good fences make good neighbors, he doesn't want to get to know him better

what does the buzz in "Out, Out-" symbolize?

uncontrollable technology

what did the farm family in "Out,Out-" think about death?

it is a natural part of life

what is the conflict in "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"?

attractions of duty and rest

what does the night symbolize in "Acquainted With The Night"?

loneliness and doubt

what does an iamb in poetry mean?

an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

blank verse