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American Literature Midterm Quiz
American Literature Midterm Quiz
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Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
assonance
alliteration
personification
internal rhyme
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Author born in Massachusetts, unpublished until after death, fan of the slant rhyme
Longfellow
Emerson
Whitman
Dickinson
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Fan of America, believed in free verse, celebrated the potential of the human spirit
Emerson
Thoreau
Whitman
Poe
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Thoreau's goal living at Walden was NOT to learn more about
Nature
Love
Himself
Society
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verse with irregular meter and line length that sounds like natural speech
free verse
elliptical phrasing
exact rhyme
slant rhyme
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Emerson did NOT influence Americans
regarding materialism
regarding independence
regarding individuality
regarding appreciating nature
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"The Soul is a Secret Society" spoke of
wealth
relationships
happiness
secrets
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A stated similarity between two unlike things, not using like or as
alliteration
simile
irony
metaphor
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What is the "perfect silence" of "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"?
my class in poetry analysis
lecture room
starry sky
astronomer's ideas
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Partly responsible for the name of the Knicks, his "A History of New York"
Whitman
Irving
Emerson
Thoreau
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a brief poem that expresses private thoughts and emotions, originally set to music
slant rhyme
lyric
elliptical phrasing
ode
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Diction is
giving human qualities to inanimate objects
figurative language
word choice
word evoking a sensory experience
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the use of a part of something to stand for the whole
synecdoche
simile
elliptical phrasing
simile
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an extended comparison of relationships
assonance
analogy
tone
metaphor
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What is NOT an element of Gothic Literature
supernatural elements
bleak or remote setting
character in psychological torment
nonviolent incidents
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two or more words that have identical sounds in their final stressed syllable
assonance
alliteration
exact rhyme
slant rhyme
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The theme of "The Raven" centers on the effects of
Loss of love
Grief
Superstition
Isolation
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Transcendentalist believe
Spirituality between humanity & nature
No Over-soul
No reality beyond physical world
Less potential with independence
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"Equivocal appellation" means
double interpretation of name
equally scary
double trouble
equal distribution
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"Bang!" "Crack" are examples of
anaphora
diction
epic
onomatopoeia
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Adopted, thrown out of several universities, worked as an editor for magazines before writing
Thoreau
Emerson
Whitman
Poe
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A "Concord Hymn" celebrated
Declaration of Independence
religious songs
battle of lexington & concord
battle monuments
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The main lesson of "The Devil and Tom Walker" involved
Love
Greed
Prayer
Great Wealth
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Civil Disobedience promoted
Individual judgment of gov't
nature as a model
warfare only way to change
democratic gov't vs individuals
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Irving sympathized with
Abolitionists
Wealthy
New Englanders
Puritans
