Chapters 3-5 Test Review

According to The Autobiography, Franklin accepted each of the following principles of religion except: (105)

According to The American Crisis, God will aid the colonists and not aid the king of England because: (120)

A striking comparison carried out in detail (189)

A situation in which a speaker's meaning differs from what he expresses in words (189)

At the end of his career, readers disliked Melville's preoccupation with philosophical issues. (255)

Who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"? (112)

Thoreau lived with Emerson and his family during two difficult periods in his life. (202)

This author was motivated to use American settings and expressed a viewpoint sympathetic to Christianity. (232)

Appeal of the herd instinct or the desire to follow the crowd (118)

Critics agree that Paine's genius is in his style rather than in his thoughts (118)

What two aspects of the sense of distance were employed by romantic writers? (143)

The repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables. (220)

A collective term for all sorts of deception (118)

Each of the following ideas is true about Hawthorne except which one? (232)

In "Self-Reliance" Emerson praises youth as a model of self-reliance. (199)

Modern critics are not sympathetic to Melville's questions about the prevalence of goodness in the world (255)

He was jailed briefly for refusal to pay his poll tax. (202)

To what does Paine specifically refer by the expression "what we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly"? (119)

Paine excelled at: (117)

What central recommendation is offered by Henry David Thoreau in Walden? (210)

Franklin stressed right living as a means of happiness, but he was religiously intolerant (100)

While Puritan writing was biblically based, by the nation's founding in 1776, secularism had permeated the nation (141)

After shooting the Indian, Natty talks to him about each of the following topics except: (170-171)

Darwin's 1859 On the Origin of Species brought more attacks against the Bible than any other source (145)

The situation in which the reader is aware of a plot development whereas a character in the story is not. (220)

In "Give Me Liberty," "suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss" exemplifies (114)

Lists in epic poetry of names of persons, places, or things. (213)

Reasoning from a general truth to a specific conclusion (127)

In "Rip Van Winkle" what is Rip's primary fault? (151)

What do the walls symbolize in "Bartleby, the Scrivener"? (268)

In the romantic period, American literature matured as the United States won literary independence from England (141)

Whitman proclaimed himself the National Poet of the United States. (212)

In "The Author's Profession of Faith," Paine said, "My own mind is my own church." (124)

The emotional atmosphere of a work. (220)

A term that means to carry a sentence or phrase over the end of a line of poetry (173)

In "O Captain! My Captain!" what do the captain and the ship represent? (217)

Born into a wealthy, prominent family, due to later poverty, his novels reveal someone with questions, not answers (255)

A tragic hero is isolated from the corrupting influence of society, living in nature, with solid moral goodness (164)

The word that least describes an idea favored by the romantics is:(143)

The romantics believed that the way to improve man was to: (147)

Which author was the foremost political pamphleteer of his day? (117)

What movement supported by Immanuel Kant and eastern religions spawned radical ideas in the 19th century? (145)

A character with whom the reader cannot identify or for whom he has strong feelings of dislike (149)

A form of poetry that uses lines irregular in length without fixed metrical patterns and usually without rhyme. (213)

Hints at events that will occur later in the story (233)

Paine served as a major spokesman for (117)

A complex character, described with details that distinguish him as a particular individual (149)

The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds in nearby words (220)

Each of these is a legitimate way of reading Walden except as: (206-211)

In 1776 Paine entered the controversy between the colonists and England by writing which work? (117)

The Dial was the official publication of the Transcendentalists. (195)

The Indian's reaction to Deeslayer's suggestion that they try not to kill each other unless they meet in battle is (167)

Thoreau formerly worked at the Dead Letter Office. (278, 280)

Paine acknowledged that Jesus was a "virtuous and amiable man," noting his preaching was similar to Confucius. (124)

The use of emotional appeal to bypass reason (118)

In Autobiography, Franklin emphasizes each of the following virtues in his plan for moral perfection except: (106)

He lost his parents at a very early age and was often pessimistic about man's achievements and capabilities. (219)

In The American Crisis, Paine maintains respect for the king of England and his office (120)

What main metaphor does Emerson use in the excerpt from Nature to illustrate man's relationship with nature? (198)

Washington Irving set himself apart by writing for the clear purpose of: (148)

This poet was "brought to a boil" by Emerson and praised as the "good gray poet" toward the end of his life. (212)

Obvious overstatement or exaggeration intended to make a point (203)

A pair of rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter, popular in the neoclassical period: (135)

Virtue words used to make people accept or approve without examining the evidence; the opposite of name calling (116)

Rip Van Winkle is a round and unsympathetic character, while his wife is flat and sympathetic. (150-162)

Why is the speaker in "The Raven" sorrowful? (221-224)

According to The Age of Reason, what does Paine believe about national institutions of churches? (124)

Negative labels given to people, groups, beliefs, and so on, to encourage condemnation without evidence (118)

He defined poetry as "meter making argument" and as a thinker, he is a pivotal figure in American Literature (196)

A pause in the middle of a line (173)

"They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other" is an example of: ((114)

Which of the following is a propaganda technique? (118)

Who is ultimately responsible for prompting the narrator's decision to rid himself of Bartleby? (274)

The Second Great Awakening was driven by college revivals and camp meetings. (145)

What were writers like Phyllis Wheatley called when the emulated Greek and Roman writers? (135)

Which idea is not central to Unitarianism? (144)

Unrhymed iambic pentameter (135)

Hawthorne's best-known character, Captain Ahab of Moby Dick, hurls defiance at God. (255)

The use of syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasis their contrasting meanings (113)

Granted French citizenship, Paine began to lose sympathy for their revolution because they were violent radicals (117)

What mainly inspired Ben Franklin to write his Autobiography? (102)

Poe was known as the Father of Detective Fiction. (219)

Which of the following characteristics is true of transcendentalism? (195)

Each of the following ideas is true about Whitman except which one? (212)

Through the narrator's description of the Indian's death, Cooper stresses each of the following ideas except: (171)

Poetry written for a specific occasion (189)

Which refers to the romantic point of view of a perfect world based on past innocence or future self-realization? (143)

Each of the following ideas is true of Melville except which one? (255)

A short poem expressing lamentation or mourning on someone's death, frequently meant to be sung (181)

Melville represents America's mid-nineteenth-century drift away from the values of Puritanism. (212)

The term meaning deliberate repetition of words or phrases at the beginnings of grammatical units (127)

The New England School was a group of writers focused on the development of short stories and novels (147)

According to Emerson in Civil Disobedience, the best government is the one that governs least or not at all. (204)

By the end of his life, Franklin was a tragic figure whose 1790 death was mourned by only close friends (100)

According to Autobiography, which virtue did Franklin add because a Quaker friend pointed out that he lacked it? (109)

According to the romantics, God: (143)

A brief poem expressing the personal views of a single speaker on a particular topic (178)

Thoreau was the philosophical leader of transcendentalism. (196)