big set

"Instead of noblemen, let us have _______________ villages of men."

Noble

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a __________."

Morning Star

"Be a __________ to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought...It is easier to sail many thousand miles...than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone."

Columbus

"__________, __________, __________!" (Note: This is the same word repeated three times)

Simplicity

"Men sometime speak as if the study of _________ would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study _________, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the __________ but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?

Classics

"__________ are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

Books

"To be awake, is to be __________."

Alive

"If you have built __________ in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Castles

"If man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different __________."

Drummer

"I went to the woods to live _______________."

Deliberatly

"I have learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of __________, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."

His Dreams

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet ________.

Desperation

"Let us live one day as deliberately as __________."

Nature

"...we are mortal, but in dealing with the truth we are ________________..."

Immortal

"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to _______ itself."

Life

"I have found that no exertion of the _______ can bring two minds much nearer to one another."

Legs

"Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the __________?"

Milky Way

"I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed by a sense of __________..."

Solitude

"Society is commonly too __________."

Cheap

"The __________ is wider than our views of it."

universe

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is __________; that he must take himself for better, worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of grou9d which is given to him to till."

Suicide

"'Ah, so you shall be sure to be __________.'-- Is it so bad then, to be __________? Pythagoras was __________, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be __________..."

Misunderstood

"______________ like darkness reveals the heavenly lights."

Humility

"How worn and dusty then, must be the Highway of the world, how deep the ruts of __________ and __________."

Tradition, conformity

"We do not ride upon the __________; it rides upon us."

Railroad

What was Whitman's work of poetry named?

Leaves of grass

What was the form of poetry which Whitman invented?

Free Verse

What does the speaker achieve with the description of the ship in the poem, "O Captain, My Captain,"?

He uses the ship's journey as a metaphor for the country overcoming adversity.

In line 2 of "O Captain, My Captain," what is the figurative meaning of "weather'd every rack"?

Survived every hardships

Which line from the poem, "O Captain, My Captain," supports the poem's overall theme?

The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

The repetition of the phrase "fallen cold and dead" emphasizes

The importance of the captain's death to the speaker

How does the author's use of rhyme scheme enhance the meaning of the poem?

The rhyme (or lack of rhyme) symbolically reflects the mood of the country and state of the nation upon Lincoln's death.

Some experts have noted that the sailor in Whitman's poem travels quickly through several psychological stages of grief that people experience when someone they love dies. Look closely at the following four lines, and explain with which psychological stage of grief they best align."Here Captain! dear father!This arm beneath your head;It is some dream that on the deck,You've fallen cold and dead."

Denial

In line 21 of "O Captain, My Captain," the speaker says, "the ship is anchor'd safe and sound." The idea of safety is ironic, or unexpected because

the ships captain lies dead on its deck

Looking at the poem, "O Captain, My Captain," through the lens of an extended metaphor, what could Whitman intend "the prize" (line 2) to represent?

the abolishment of slavery

This line, "Of the endless trains of the faithless-- of cities fill'd with the foolish" from the poem, "O Me, O Life," is an example of

Alliteration, Slant Rhyme, and Hyperbole

Why could Whitman's poem, "O Me! O Life!" almost be considered prose?

it is a poem that does not rhyme

In the line, "Of eyes that vainly crave the light," the word "light" is symbolic of _______________?

Knowledge

Which of the following words is a synonym for the word, "sordid" (line 5) of the poem, "O Me! O Life!"?

Vile

What is the tone of the line, "Of the empty and useless years" (line 6) of the poem, "O Me! O Life!"?

Pessimistic

What is the message of Whitman's poem, "O Me! O Life!"?

Existence itself is a reason to live life to the fullest

In line four of "O Me! O Life!" the speaker mentions "the objects mean." To what, do you suppose, the phrase refers?

unworthy physical objects and material goals unworthy of out toil to achieve them

Which quote best describes the speaker's internal conflict in the poem, "O Me! O Life!"?

what good amid these, O me, O life?

How does the tone change throughout the poem, "O Me! O Life!"?

from conflicted to enlightened

In the poem, "A Noiseless Patient Spider," the line "O my soul where you stand..." could best be described as an example of what type of figurative language?

Personification

In the poem, "A Noiseless Patient Spider," the line "Ever reeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them..." could best be described as an example of what type of figurative language?

Parallelism

In the poem, "A Noiseless Patient Spider," a connection is made between...

The spider and the soul

What theme is best supported by the poem, "A Noiseless Patient Spider"?

all answers

In line 7 of the poem, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," why does Whitman most likely choose the word mystical instead of the closely related adjective mysterious?

mystical has connotations of spirituality.

Which of the following expresses the theme of the poem, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"?

science alone cannot account for nature's myster

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention. "We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts."

Allusion

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention. "Is this the part of wise men, engaged in great and arduous struggle for liberty?"

Rhetorical Question

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention. "We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament."

Anaphora

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention. "...if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!"

Repetition

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Patrick Henry's "Speech to the Virginia Convention." "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?"

Juxtaposition

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention. "I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it."

Juxtaposition

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention. "Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss."

Allusion

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention. "The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."

Asyndeton

Reread the following paragraph from Patrick Henry's "Speech to the Virginia Convention House," in which he builds to a syllogistic argument. Then, identify the missing piece of the syllogism below. (13) I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. (14) I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. (15) And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves, and the House? (16) Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? (17) Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. (18) Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. (19) Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these war-like preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. (20) Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? (21) Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? (22) Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. (23) These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. (24) I ask, gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? (25) Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? (26) Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? (27) No, sir, she has none. (28) They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. (29) They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry has been so long forging. (30) And what have we to oppose to them? (31) Shall we try argument? (32) Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. (33) Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? (34) Nothing. (35) We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. (36) Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? (37) What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? (38) Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. (39) Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. (40) We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. (41) Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. (42) In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. (43) There is no longer any room for hope. (44) If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! (45) I repeat it, sir, we must fight! (46) An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us! Below is a syllogistic breakdown of the above paragraph; please fill in the correct response for Minor Premise [B]. Major Premise [A]: We must either talk or fight to achieve results. Minor Premise [B]: ___________________________________________ Conclusion: Therefore, we must fight to achieve results.

Talking dos not achieve results

Based on Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention, what is he urging his fellow colleagues to do?

Declare war and risk death for freedom.

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." "Four score and seven years ago..."

Allusion

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." "But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow-- this ground."

Anaphora

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." "--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Parallelism

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." "...our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Allusion

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." "--that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom-- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Allusion

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take the increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion..."

Juxtaposition

the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." "...our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Alliteration

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." "As a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live..."

Juxtaposition

For Question 19, review the speech in its entirety. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. What is the main idea of section 3 (paragraph 3)?

From honoring he dead to a rebirth of the nation

With which of the following statements would President Lincoln be most likely to disagree?

The causes of emancipation and preserving the Union are independent of each other

Identify the rhetorical device Frederick Douglas's uses in his speech, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?" But, while the river may be turned aside, it may dry up, and leave nothing behind but the withered branch, and unsightly rock, to howl in the abyss-sweeping wind, the sad tale of departed glory. As with rivers so with nations.

Simile

the rhetorical device Frederick Douglas uses in his speech, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?" "They were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men, but they did not shrink from agitating oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order, but not in the tyranny. With them, nothing was "settled" that was not right. With them, justice liberty and humanity were "final;" not slavery and oppression."

Anaphora

the rhetorical device Frederick Douglas in the following quote from his speech, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?" "To side with the the right, against the wrong, with the weak against the strong, and with the oppressed against the oppressor!"

Parallelism

Identify the rhetorical device Frederick Douglas uses in the following quote from his speech, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?" "America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."

Repetition

Identify the rhetorical device Frederick Douglas uses in the following quote from his speech, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?" "It is not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver and gold; that, while we are reading, writing and ciphering, acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hill-side, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives, and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian's God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!"

Parallelism

Identify the rhetorical device Frederick Douglas uses in the following quote from his speech, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?" "He is a bird for the sportman's gun."

Metaphor

Identify the rhetorical device Frederick Douglas uses in the following quote from his speech, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?" "The ear-piercing fife and the stirring drum unite their accents with the ascending peal of a thousand church bells."

Imagery

Identify the rhetorical device Frederick Douglas uses in the following quote from his speech, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?" "For it is not light needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the wirlwind, and the earthquake."

Antithesis

Please select the quote which best represents the thesis of Frederick Douglas's speech, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?"

"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."

Please select the quote which best represent the conclusion of the syllogism which Frederick Douglas employs in his speech, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?" A. What is this but the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual and responsible being? The manhood of the slave is is conceded." B. Must I undertake to prove that a slave is a man? C. The slaveholders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government. D. When you can point to any such laws, in reference to beasts of the field, then I may consent to argue the manhood of a slave."

A

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Juxtaposition

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."

Metaphor

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." "As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us."

Hyperbole

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." "Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood."

Allusion

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." "...when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who is asking: "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"

Anaphora

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

Juxtaposition

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." "One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

Antithesis

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." "So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. "

Anthesis

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." "Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."

Metaphor

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." "Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with."

Antithesis

in chapter one, readers learn that the founders set aside land for which two practical needs?

Prison and Cemetery

Among the audience at the scaffold, who showed the least amount of compassion toward Hester in general

The women

What should Hester's punishment have been

Death

During Hester's time on the scaffold, to what is the baby's attention drawn

Reverend Dimmesdale

Hester declares that her child "should seek a heavenly father" because she (the child) will never know her _______ father

Earthly

Which of the following quotes best revels that Chillingworth vows to find the man with whom Hester had an affair

He bears no letter on infamy, wrought into this garment, as thou dost, but i shall read it in his heart

What does Hester sometimes think about pearl

That she looks and acts like a little elf

Identify the speaker in the following quote: Ah but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will always be in her heart

Woman in the crowd

Identify the speaker in the following quote: She will not speak! Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!

Reverend Dimmesdale

Identify the speaker in the following quote: I am a stranger and have been a wanderer, sorely against my will. I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bonds among the heathen-folk, to the southward, and i am now brought hither by this Indian, to be redeemed out of my captivity.

Roger Chillingworth