BJU American Literature Midterm

Words taking on double meanings

Words or phrases that appeal to sense perceptions

Sarah Orne Jewett more fully develops the ornithologist than she does Sylvia.

Once the colonists were established, the subject matter of literature became predominantly

Which of these did not serve as a function of Negro spirituals?

In “Much Madness is divinest Sense,” Emily Dickinson describes madness and sense using

The subject of Emily Dickinson’s “I like to see it lap the Miles” is compared to a horse.

Immigrants, southern blacks, and discouraged farmers all contributed to the rise of

The literary work of which group has proven to be the fountainhead of American literature?

In Emily Dickinson’s “There is no Frigate like a Book,” the chariot she refers to symbolizes a book.

The quotation “of the people, by the people, for the people” is an example of

What characterizes the writing of a realistic writer?

In “The Minister’s Black Veil,” what does the crape symbolize?

Conflict between a character and his own emotions or duties, or both

Kate Chopin’s writing features which region?

A traditional hymn meter using lines that are iambic and alternating tetrameter and trimeter

A traditional hymn meter using lines that are iambic and adhere to a pattern of six, six, eight, six syllables

Naturalists portrayed man as more beast than human.

Judging from her poems included in this chapter, Emily Dickinson presents death as something not to be feared.

The central conflict in “A White Heron” is

What man was a lifelong advocate of civil rights, those of women and blacks in particular?

The rapid rise of industrialism during the period following the Civil War resulted in all the following except which one

What were the two major forces of change during the period following the Civil War?

Bret Harte’s story “The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion” is completely fictional and not based on any of his real-life exp

Which statement best describes the naturalists?

Words exactly alike from the vowel of the last accented syllable onward

Because colonial literature naturally reflected the interests and concerns of its writers, the earliest authors wrote

Hints at events that will occur later in the story

One of the themes present in many of Emily Dickinson’s poems is the power of ___.

According to Emily Dickinson’s “This is my letter to the World,” the poet’s task is to reveal Nature’s message.

Which of the following elements is not an example of Sarah Orne Jewett’s use of local color?

What animal does Emily Dickinson allude to in “Hope is the thing with feathers”?

Bret Harte’s stories about the West became successful because

What are the cornerstones of American Romanticism?

To what did people often turn as religion lost its authority in society after the Civil War?

How a story’s events violate normal expectations

Bret Harte uses only realistic elements in his writing.

In “Rip Van Winkle” what is Rip’s primary fault?

In “Give Me Liberty,” “Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss” exemplifies

The romantics believed that the way to improve man was to

What was the core of the Puritan worldview?

Which author’s pivotal book did Abraham Lincoln refer to as the one “that started this Great War”?

A stock character, similar to a stereotype

Which author was unquestionably the best regionalist of the post-Civil War era?

Conflict between characters or between a character and his environment, whether society or nature

In James Whitcomb Riley’s “When the Frost Is on the Punkin,” all the following are examples of onomatopoeia except which

Words that are similar but slightly mismatched in sound

Who best personified the American Dream?

Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to sense perceptions to create an impression

What author in this unit was known as the American Dickens?

Paradox is not an element of “The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion.”

The overly emotional treatment of a subject in an attempt to elicit the reader’s emotions

The manner or speech characteristic of a given area or class

In the end of the story, Désirée and her baby

Writing that uses a specific setting and gives special attention to that setting’s landscape and particular aspects

Charles Darwin claimed that through the process of natural selection animals that develop superior traits survive or die

How did Mrs. Dimmidge know that Mr. Dimmidge was jealous in “The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”?

Words that imitate the sounds being described

In “The Birthmark,” Georgiana’s birthmark is an appropriate symbol for

Why is the speaker in “The Raven” sorrowful?

The first consciously American voices began to speak through literature after what major event?

Kate Chopin’s perspective of ethnic diversity clearly disagrees with that of the Bible.

Mr. and Mrs. Dimmidge decide to reconcile their differences for all the following reasons except which one?

“Désirée’s Baby” includes all of the following except

From a biblical perspective, Sylvia’s desire to protect the life of the heron is right.

In “Désirée’s Baby,” Armand does not blame God for the child’s not being completely white.

What literary movement did the American Civil War bring to an end?

Compared to the sportsman’s perspective, what is a description of Sylvia’s relationship with nature in “A White Heron”?

What is the term for lines composed of iambic pentameter rhymed in pairs (aa bb cc)?

Which of the following options most accurately reflects the structure, or thought progression, that Abraham Lincoln uses

Who famously said, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”?