english tests for exam

which of the following short stories did Poe not write

"Rappaccini's Daughter" **wrote "the cask of amontillado", "the masque of the red death", "the black cat"

when dimmesdale confesses his sin on the scaffold, Chillingsworth cries out

"Thou hast escaped me"

When Pearl asks Hester if she has ever met the Black Man, Hester says:

"once in my life I met the Black Man. The scarlet letter is his mark"

in 1865, Twain published the story, ______, a humorous retelling or tall tale, which won him national recognition as a writer

"the Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

huck makes amends for his trickery after returning from the fog by

- apologizing to Jim

Elements of Romanticism

- celebration of nature - power of individual - supernatural elements - nobility of the primitive

in being civilized by Widow Douglas, Huck dislikes

- wearing new clothes - having to pray before he eats - listening to Bible stories about dead people - eating separately cooked foods

king/dauphin

-pretends to be a reformed pirate to swindle people at a camp meeting - sells Jim for $40

what are ways that the book, Huck Finn, has been challenged

-use of the n word 200 times -portrayal of southerners of African American in stereotypical ways - companionship of a black man and white boy

time period of Romanticism

1820s-1840s

when and where was Ben Franklin born

Boston in 1706

what's the setting of the scarlet letter

Boston in the 1640s

where was the center of the transcendentalist movement

Concord, Mass.

climax of the scarlet letter

Dimmesdale's public confession and death on Election Day

the enlightenment began in ___ and spread to __ before eventually spreading to the American colonies

France, Scotland

what events marked Twain's birth and death

Halley's comet

Mary Jane Wilks

Huck confesses that the duke and king are frauds to her

Pap Finn

Huck's vicious and abusive father

setting of the Raven

Midnight in December

Huck

Narrator of Huck Finn puts money in coffin

what happens when hester takes off her cap and the scarlet letter

Pearl screams

Franklin's yearly publication filled with seasonal weather forecasts, practical household hints, puzzles, and witty sayings was called

Poor Richard's Almanack

who did not write in the dark romantic genre

Ralph Waldo Emerson **Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne did

Mark Twain was a pseudonym name that ____ used

Samuel Clemens

the setting for the beginning of the novel, ________, Missouri, is based on Mark Twain's childhood home, Hannibal, Missouri

St. Petersburg

dialect

The language used by the people of a specific area, class, district or any other group of people.

Huck Finn is a sequel to

Tom Sawyer

Joanna Wilks

Youngest niece of Peter Wilks. She has a harelip.

in the floating house, Jim and Huck make a good haul but also discover

a dead man that was shot in the back

aphorism

a short, pointed statement that makes observation about life

superstition

a widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causes and effects

most of the information the king and the duke know the Wilks family comes from

a young man that they give a caoe ride to a steamboat

tom gets most of his adventurous ideas from

adventure books

duke

character who claims to be a famous actor

which characteristic of Dark romanticism is not featured in "the mask of the red death"

characters fueled by guilt **things that are featured are isolated, remote settings, highly charged emotional states, and symbols of doom/gloom

against which of the following aspects of the enlightenment were the transcendentalists reacting

corruption in growth of cities, trust in logic, materialism and growth of industry

William Wilks

deaf brother of Peter Wilks

in "the masque of the red death" , Prince Prospero's party may be an allegory for extravagance, in which all of the characters and setting are symbolic, to show the moral lesson that

death comes for the wealthy as well as the poor

enlightenment belifs

deism - religious views republic - political institution capitalism - economic institution science - intellectual beliefs

what happens at the end of the party in "the masque of the red death"

everyone dies from the Red Death

hyperbole

exaggerates and makes flaws larger in order to make them visible - used in satire

the new scheme the king and duke work up involves the Wilks family, who

expect Peter Wilk's brothers to come from England to claim their inheritance

what was Franklin's earliest invention as a young boy

flippers and windsurfing

Tom sawyer

forms a gang of boys in St. Petersburg pretends to be Sid

when silas phelps reveals that he and others are going to run the king and duke out of town, Huck

goes to warn them but it is too late

what is Dimmesdale's initial reaction when Hester reveals the truth about Chillingsworth

happy but worried

at age 21, which childhood dream of Twain's was fulfilled

he became an apprentice to a steamboat captain

tom is most pleased about the escape because

he has been shot in the calf

pap comes for Huck because

he heard Huck has a lot of money that he believes is rightfully his

the reason Tom is willing to help huck free Jim is that

he knows Jim is already free and he wants adventure

Huck is shocked when Tom says

he'll steal Jim out of slavery

when someone uses the term "mark twain," they mean that

he/she is measuring the depth of the water beneath the steamboat

what is emerson's personal life prompted the young pastor to question his beliefs and the spur the transcendentalist movement

his wife died

what autobiographical element does Poe include in the Raven

his young wife's untimely death

satire

humorous writing or speech intended to point out errors, falsehoods, or failings - goal is to change that behavior

Transcendentalist beliefs suggest that every ____ is capable of discovering higher truth through ____

individual, intuition

which 2 playwrights collaborated on the ntsij

jerome lawrance an robert e lee

Boggs

kills another man in the middle of town for badmouthing and cussing him after 1 PM

Just before Dimmesdale dies, Pearl:

kisses him

irony

language device where the real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the literal meanings of the words or in a situation in which there is an incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

Pap's drunkenness becomes dangerous to Huck when Pap

leaves him tied in a cabin for several days with no food

enlightenment thinkers saw knowledge as

liberation

what does hester feel after taking off the letter and letting her hair fall freely

like a weight has been lifted from her

regionalism

literary movement that focuses on characters, dialects, customs, history, and landscape of a particular area

Jim

miss watson's runaway slave bitten by a snake when a prank goes wrong

through the gothic writings of the brooding romantics, authors explored

mysteries linked to the subconscious mind and the supernatural

what became key words during the Enlightenment

natural law and reason

Miss Watson

person huck finn offers to be killed if he betrayed the gang

Judge Thatcher

person to whom Huck sold his $6,000 for $1

Aunt Polly

person who reveals that Huck is not Tom

Silas Phelps

preacher best person Huck's every met

Huck's method of escape from pap's cabin is to

pretend he is murdered and thrown in the river

what does the narrator call the bird throughout the Raven

prophet

enlightenment is known as the age of

reason

how does hester make money to support herself and her daughter

she embroiders clothes

what does hester sometimes think about Pearl

she looks like a little elf

directly after what experience does thoreau compose civil disobedience

spending a night in jail for refusing to pay taxes in protest of the mex amer war

Widow Douglas

takes Huck in and tries to civilize him

When Hester and Pearl sit down to take a rest in the forest, what does Pearl want to hear a story about?

the Black man

what symbol present throughout the story foreshadows death in spite of its festivities in "the masque of the red death"

the black clock sounding the hour

Huck wants Mary Jane to go off to the Lorthrops' because

the king and duke could read her face like a book

the duke and king set up a scam called the Royal Nonesuch in which they pretend to be Shakespearean actors. their acts consist of

the king comes onstage on all fours, naked and painted

What flashes through the night sky when Dimmesdale holds his nightly vigils?

the letter A

what does Pear say is the reason the sun does not shine on her mother

the sun is afraid of the scarlet letter

which event in the 1960s parallels the world of the setting of tntsij

the vietman war

When Hester is released from jail, where does she go to live?

to a small abandoned cottage on the outskirts of the town

in "the masque of the red death" why do Prince Prospero and his guests lock themselves in the abbey

to escape disease

the lawyer suggests they dig up the coffin of Peter Wilks

to see if there is a tattoo on Peter's chest

which literary and intellectual movement was influential in Hawthorne's life to the extent that some of their tenets appear in "the scarlet letter"

transcendentalism

T/F: Hawthorne was a direct descendant of John Hathorne, but he added a w to his name to distance himself from his doings in the Salem Witch trials (John was a judge during this)

true

T/F: Puritans believed there was a literal devil always there trying to tempt people with sin

true

T/F: Puritans consider unity very important, so individual sin is seen as a threat to their society, so they deal with it accordingly

true

T/F: although Poe enjoyed success as a writer during his lifetime, he lived his life largely in poverty

true

the motto of transcendentalists was

trust thyself

the reason for the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons is

unclear, no one remembers

Aunt Sally

waits for Tom all night

how could the romantic element of celebrating nature be reflected in a piece of dark romanticism?

would convey regret towards man's destruction of nature