11th/12th Midterm Review

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

In Crane's novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Crane attributes Maggie's downfall to her

Bret Harte's stories about the West became successful because

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

In "A man said to the universe," the universe is sympathetic to the man's plight.

According to the correspondent in Crane's story "The Open Boat," nature seems

According to Koskoosh, what are nature's task and law?

William Dean Howells wrote the first American novel to treat a businessman favorably.

What effect did the Civil War have on literary trends?

Ambrose Bierce's fiction reflects

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

Abraham Lincoln's effectiveness as a speaker and writer was due to his skill in using

the repetition of three parallel phrases or clauses of equal length within a sentence

Which statement best describes the naturalists?

Ambrose Bierce is regarded by many as the first writer of black humor in American literature.

Jack London is known for

the attempt to reflect life truthfully in subject matter and depiction

During her lifetime Kate Chopin was known for

During what war is "Editha" set?

What did Frederick Douglass say was the "pathway from slavery to freedom"?

Harte concentrated on very realistic characters and was a classic realist.

In "The Birthmark, " Georgiana's birthmark is an appropriate symbol for

Editha eventually regrets her encouragement of George to go to war.

Huck manages to escape from Pap using all of the following tricks except

Who does Editha say "meant it to be war"?

Mark Twain uses Huck's naivete to satirize

the repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables

The central conflict in "A White Heron" is

Realism and naturalism appeared on the literary scene in the years

"Desiree's Baby" includes all of the following except

Whitman actually proclaimed himself the National Poet of the United States.

exploring in detail the complex relationships between characters

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is

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

Naturalists portrayed man as more beast than human.

Lincoln was elected president as the nominee of the Democratic Party.

a type of parallelism that emphasizes the contrasting meanings between two similar expressions

Which of the following characteristics is true of transcendentalism?

Christopher Newman cannot marry the one he loves because

Henry James was noted for his psychological realism.