English III- final exam S2 WATTS

Name TWO activities the narrator and Roderick Usher engaged in together in order to cheer Roderick Usher up.

-they read and painted together

"For the first time in years the tears were streaming down his face. But they were for himself now ... 'Long ago,' he said, 'long ago there was something in me, but now that thing is gone ... That thing will come back no more.'" Describe what "thing" Dexter believes will "come back no more."? (2 details)

- The thing is Judy Jones - And she will never be back in his life again

As the protagonist walked along Henderson Creek, describe what "traps" he was trying to avoid AND his method for avoiding them.

- They were frozen geyser-spots that if were to be stepped on the man would fall through and get soaking wet. - He would make the dog go first -would like at the slopes of the snow

What news did the "gray-clad soldier" on horseback bring to Peyton Farquhar? What was REALLY happening here? (2 details)

- the gray clad soldier was actually a soldier from the other side of the war and told Peyton to burn the bridge when it was actually all a trick

"I learned, moreover, at intervals, and through broken and equivocal hints, another singular feature of his mental condition. He was enchained by certain superstitious impressions in regard to the dwelling which he tenanted ..." What is the narrator saying here?

-the narrator is showing how enchanted his friend is and how the house has been draining him emotionally and physically

analogy

A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

dictum

A formal or authoritative statement

forum

Rome's public meeting place

locution

Style or action of speaking

"He succeeded in getting one, which he dropped on his lap. He was no better off. He could not pick it up. Then he devised a way. He picked it up with his teeth and scratched it on his leg. Twenty time he scratched it before he succeeded ..." What is going on here and why? (2 details)

The man was trying to light another fire - He was so cold that he couldn't - But he then used all of them and got it to light

epigram

witty comment

diction

word choice

graffiti

words or drawings scratched or scribbled on a wall

"I'd like to marry you if you'll have me, Dexter. I suppose you think I'm not worth having, but I'll be so beautiful for you Dexter." What was Dexter's immediate reaction to Judy Jones saying this? (2 details)

- Anger, pride, passion, hatred, and tenderness - Then a wave of emotion washed over him with wisdom, of convention, of doubt, and of honor

"Hello, darling." Describe what was going on the moment BEFORE Judy Jones uttered these words. (2 details)

- Dexter and Irene were going to go to a party but Irene was sick and couldn't go - Dexter was watching people dance when Judy comes up to him

"But before he could cut the strings, it happened. It was his own fault or, rather, his mistake." What happened here and why? (2 details)

- He built a fire under a tree - When he went to grab for wood to feed the fire - The branch he grabbed had a bunch of snow on it and so it fell and bye bye fire.

What were the difficulties facing the protagonist when having to build a fire in extreme cold temperatures? (3 details)

- He couldn't feel his fingers so he couldn't light the match - He couldn't find dry wood -He was under a tree with snow falling into the fire

"And then it happened. At a place where there were no signs ..." Describe what happened here. (2 details)

- The man fell through a trap - he got his leg all the way to his knee wet

"You were right, old hoss, you were right," the man mumbled to the old timer on Sulphur Creek." Describe how the protagonist eventually came to feel this way. (2 details)

- The man was laying not able to get back up - He was dying when he realized the old man was right - If he had listened he would most likely not be there about to die

dictatorial

domineering; oppressively overbearing

valediction

farewell speech

affable

friendly

ineffable

inexpressible

graphic

lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts

clamor

loud noise

forensic

referring to legal proceedings or formal debate or rhetoric

epilogue

short speech at conclusion of dramatic work

loquacious

talkative

circumlocution

talking in circles

topography

the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.

choreography

the art of creating dances

logistics

the management of the details of an operation

indict

to charge with a crime; accuse

"You live in West Egg," she remarked contemptuously. "I know somebody there." "I don't know a single------" "You must know Gatsby." "Gatsby?" demanded Daisy. "What Gatsby?" The above exchange between Jordan, Nick, and Daisy is from Chapter 1. Why did Daisy ask, "What Gatsby?" of Jordan?

-Daisy knew a Gatsby before any of this at the start of the war and had a very romantic month with him before he was deployed

"He was, as he found before the summer ended, one of a varying dozen who circulated about her. Each of them had at one time been favored above all others - about half of them still basked in the solace of occasional sentimental revivals." What does author F. Scott Fitzgerald mean by this? (3 details)

-Dexter had realized he was one of Judy's many men who was trapped in her charm and at one point or the other was her favorite

'Judy Simms,' said Devlin with no particular interest; 'Judy Jones she was once.'" What is going on here in this scene? (3 details)

-Dexter is with a business partner and Devlin is saying how his friend is married to the now Judy Simms who Dexter knew as Judy Jones

"There was a fish jumping and a star shining and the lights around the lake were gleaming ... The tune of the piano was playing at that moment had been gay and new five years before when Dexter was a sophomore at college ... It was a mood of intense appreciation ..." What is happening here AND what interrupts the "mood"? (3 details)

-Dexter was relaxing on a dock when Judy comes in on a motorboat and interrupts his peaceful state

How do the events read-aloud by the narrator "Mad Trist" story compare to the events within the House of Usher at this moment? (2 details)

-Every noise happening in the story happen to be occurring within the house

He was worried now - there was a quality of nervous despair in Daisy's letters. She didn't see why he couldn't come. She was feeling the pressure of the world outside, and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all. From Chapter 8, what was the reason Gatsby had not reunited with Daisy AND what was she implying to Gatsby in her letters?

-Gatsby didn't reunite with Daisy because he was waiting to see if someone was going to bother Daisy about the accident and she implied in her letters that she was having second thoughts about being with Gatsby

"He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people - he wanted glittering things themselves." What does author F. Scott Fitzgerald mean by this? (2 details

-He didn't want to be associated with the glittering things he wanted to work his way and get those things for himself

"'Awfully nice girl,' brooded Devlin meaninglessly, 'I'm sort of sorry for her.'" Why did Devlin feel sorry for Judy Jones? (3 details)

-He felt sorry because she married a man that had a bunch of lady friends just like she did with men

"He dug his fingers into the sand, threw it over himself in handfuls and audibly blessed it. If looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble." Describe what is happening here and why. (2 details

-He finally reached land from escaping death

"Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought." Why did the protagonist have this thought at this moment in the story?

-He had just lit the fire and saved himself and he thought of how a women probably wouldn't have and for the men to say that they probably wouldn't have saved themselves so he called them womanish

"His theory of running until he reached camp and the boys had one flaw in it: ..." What was that flaw?

-He had no stamina and would run out of endurance

"'Isn't she a pretty girl, anymore?' ... 'Oh, she's all right.'" How does Dexter take this news? (2 details)

-He is bewildered with that because the woman he knew was always breathtaking and to hear another man say she was alright was crazy

"Keen, poignant agonies seemed to shoot from his neck downward through every fiber of his body and limbs. These pains appeared to flash along well-defined lines of ramification and to beat with an inconceivably rapid periodicity. They seemed like streams of pulsating fire heating him to an intolerable temperature." What is author Ambrose Bierce describing here? (2 details)

-He is describing the feeling of dying by hanging

"He made money. It was rather amazing." How did Dexter Green come about his initial wealth? (2 details)

-He started his own laundromat and washed the rich peoples golf clothes

As Peyton Farquhar continued to run from Union soldiers, what was so unusual about eventually discovering a road which: A) "... led him in what he knew to be the right direction." B) "... was as wide and straight as a city street, yet it seemed untraveled. C) "Not so much as the barking of a dog suggested human habitation."?

-He thought he was on the path home directly to his family but it was too easy to be on the right path so that lets the reader know he has died

"He felt the ripples upon his face and heard their separate sounds as they struck. He looked at the forest on the bank of the stream, saw the individual trees, the leaves and the veining of each leaf - saw the very insects upon them: the locusts, the brilliant-bodied flies, the gray spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig. He noted the prismatic colors in all the dewdrops of a million blades of grass." How was Peyton Farquhar able to see in such detail during this situation? (2 details)

-He was able to see so much because he was hyped up on adrenaline and his senses were heightened because he almost just died

After the protagonist's 3rd fire was put out by "a large piece of green moss," "The sight of the dog put a wild idea into his head." What was the wild idea and how did the dog react? (3 details)

-He was going to use the dog for food/warmth -The dog noticed him being nice for some reason and knew it wasn't good so he backed away from the man

After 7 or 8 days had passed, a terrible storm moves in on the House of Usher, and the narrator cannot sleep. Then, Roderick Usher, holding a lamp, greets him at his bedroom door. How did the narrator describe Roderick Usher's countenance at this moment?

-He was hysterically cadaverous and paranoid

Strictly from a golfing sense, how did Dexter's life change by the age of 23? (2 details)

-Instead of being a caddy he went to playing with his idol

What is "The Mad Trist of Sir Lancelot Canning" about? (2 details)

-It is about a knight, Ethelred, who has to kill a dragon and save the kingdom

"I beg your pardon." Gatsby's butler was suddenly standing beside us. "Miss Baker?" he inquired. "I beg your pardon, but Mr. Gatsby would like to speak to you alone." "With me?" she exclaimed in surprise. "Yes, madame." Describe the setting in which the above exchange takes place from Chapter 3, AND what results from this action.

-Jordan and Nick are at Gatsby's party and Gatsby's butler comes to get Jordan so she and him can discuss Daisy

When I came opposite her house that morning her white roadster was beside the curb, and she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before. They were so engrossed in each other that she didn't see me until I was five feet away. What is the setting in which the above exchange from Chapter 4 is taking place AND who is talking to who?

-Jordan is talking to Nick about what she knew of Gatsby and Daisy -Jordan had just talked to Gatsby the night before of Daisy

"'By Gad!' cried Mr. T.A. Hedrick, 'they ought to put some of these crazy women off the course. It's getting to be outrageous!'" Describe what happened here. (2 details)

-Judy Jones shot a ball and hit T.A. in the gut with it

"The best - caddy I ever saw ... Never lost a ball! Willing! Intelligent! Quiet! Honest! Grateful!" Who said this AND what does he mean?

-Mr. Jones said this and he is talking about Dexter Green being the best caddy he has ever had

They had forgotten me, but Daisy glanced up and held out her hand; Gatsby didn't know me now at all. I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life. Then I went out of the room and down the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together. This the the last sentence of Chapter 5. Describe what took place between Gatsby and Daisy here from start to finish.

-Nick comes home from a date with Jordan and Gatsby startles in by saying hi and convincing nick to invite daisy over for tea. He agrees, and the next day Daisy comes over but the whole time it is awkward and Gatsby eventually knocks over a clock and says Nick I need to go home. Nick left them alone for a while and then he comes back to Daisy happily crying and they end up going outside and being with themselves so nick leaves.

I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon; so everything that happened has a dim, hazy cast over it, although until after eight o'clock the apartment was full of cheerful sun. From the above narration, describe what took place in this scene from Chapter 2.

-Nick is talking here and the scene that took place was Tom B broke Myrtles nose

"Not hear it? - yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long - long - long - many minutes, many hours, many days, I have heard it - yet I dared not - oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am!" What is going on here?

-Roderick Usher is hinting at the point that Lady Madeline was buried alive and he hears her try to break out of the tomb

"You must not - you must not behold this! ... These appearances, which bewilder you, are merely electrical phenomena not uncommon - ..." What is going on here AND what is the narrator trying to get Roderick Usher to realize? (2 details)

-Roderick Usher is telling the narrator all about the ghosts he hears at night and them being real and the narrator is trying to quiet/calm down Roderick

What circumstances led this person to this place? (2 details)

-Roderick Usher wrote to his friend to come help him out of his depression

"The little girl who had done this was 11 - beautifully ugly as little girls are apt to be who are destined after a few years to be inexpressibly lovely and bring no end of misery to a great number of men." What does author F. Scott Fitzgerald mean by this? (2 details)

-She may have been ugly as a young girl but everyone knew she was going to grow up and be beautiful and be a heartbreaker

"The helpless ecstasy of losing himself in her was opiate rather than tonic." What does author F. Scott Fitzgerald mean by this?

-She was his drug and he was unhealthily addicted rather than a tonic that could calm him and make him feel better

"It was the work of the rushing gust - but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline Usher." Describe what happens next. (2 details)

-She went up to Roderick and then collapsed in his arms and died

The "death car" as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend. In specific detail, describe how all the elements from this incident from Chapter 7 involving the "death car" came together, ending with tragedy.

-So nick, Jordan, Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby were all heading home form the Plaza. Daisy and Gatsby were driving together and the rest were in the other car. George found out Myrtle was cheating on him so he locked her in a room but she escaped. She thought that Tom was coming so she ran out into the road but was hit and killed. Daisy was driving the car.

"He worked slowly and carefully, keenly aware of his danger ... He knew there must be no failure." Explain what was going on here AND why failure was not an option.

-The man fell into the trap and got soaking wet. He needed a fire and if he were to fail he could die.

"The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in things, and not in the significances." What does author Jack London mean by this description of the protagonist?

-The man new what stuff was but nit how important they were. He knew it was cold but he only thought of it as just cold and not about how cold it was or how it could hurt him

"So he continued monotonously to chew tobacco and to increase the length of his amber beard." Explain what author Jack London means by this.

-The man was chewing his tobacco and when he went to spit most of the spit got stuck in his beard and it froze onto it

"I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit." Who is talking here and to what are they referring?

-The narrator and Rodericks childhood friend is talking and he is talking about the house itself

"I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment - that of looking down within the tarn - had been to deepen the first singular impression." Describe what is going on here. (2 details)

-The narrator is looking at the reflection of the house of Usher in the black lake

"From that chamber, and from that mansion, I fled aghast." From this point, describe how "The Fall of the House of Usher" ends. (3 details)

-The narrator, while leaving, sees the whole house crumble into the black lake

"A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth. No outlet was observed in any portion of its vast extent, and not torch or other artificial source of light was discernible; yet a flood of intense rays rolled throughout, and bathed the whole in a ghastly and inappropriate splendor." What is being described here AND what do you think Edgar Allan Poe trying to convey about it?

-The painting is being described here and the message conveyed is that in this dark and gloomy house there is a painting that emits light showing that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel

A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing, and I began to look involuntarily out the windows for other cars. So did Gatsby's father. And as the time passed and the servants came in and stood waiting in the hall, his eyes began to blink anxiously, and he spoke of the rain in a worried, uncertain way. The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. Nobody came. At Gatsby's funeral in Chapter 9, why did so few people attend?

-They all said they would try to come but each had excuses as to why they couldn't; being selfish

Tom turned to Daisy sharply. "You've been seeing this fellow for five years?" "Not seeing," said Gatsby. "No, we couldn't meet. But both of us loved each other all that time, old sport, and you didn't know. I used to laugh sometimes - but there was not laughter in his eyes - "to think that you didn't know." What is the setting in which the above exchange from Chapter 7 takes place AND why wasn't Tom Buchanon bothered by Gatsby's declaration?

-They are all together and Gatsby tells Tom that Daisy loves him. -Tom isn't bothered because he barely knew Daisy five years ago and he believes so fully that Daisy loved him when they married and still does

Daisy and Gatsby danced. I remember being surprised by his graceful, conservative fox-trot - I had never seen him dance before. Then they sauntered over to my house and sat on the steps for half an hour, while at her request I remained watchfully in the garden. "In case there's a fire or a flood," she explained, "or any act of God." Describe the setting of this scene from Chapter 6, and how Gatsby felt the evening went.

-This is when Gatsby and Tom went over to one of Gatsby's parties and Tom was bored and wanted to go hang out with another group of women. So Daisy and Gatsby went over to Nicks house in which he was to stand guard just in case Tom were to walk over.

"I told him the truth," he said. "He came to the door while we were getting ready to leave, and when I sent down word that we weren't in he tried to force his way upstairs. He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owned the car. His hand was on a revolver in his pocket every minute he was in the house" - He broke off defiantly. In the above quote from Chapter 9, who is talking here, who is being described here, AND what information is being related to the reader here?

-Tom B is talking and he is describing Mr. Wilson coming to his house and demanding the person who owned the car

"I had learned, too, the very remarkable fact, that the stem of the Usher race, all time-honored as it was, had put forth, at no period, any enduring branch: in other words, that the entire family lay in direct line of descent, and had always, with very trifling and very temporary variations, so lain. " What is the narrator suggesting about House Usher here?

-he is suggesting that the Usher line is inhabited with inbreeding/incest

As Peyton Farquhar works his way through the forest, "By nightfall he was fatigued, footsore, famishing. The thought of ___________________________ urged him on."

-his family

"And now he became conscious of a new disturbance ... a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith's hammer upon the anvil; ... He wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by - it seemed both. Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell." What was the source of the noise Peyton Farquhar was hearing here?

-his pocket watch

As Peyton Farquhar stood on the bridge with a noose around his neck, "He closed his eyes in order to fix his thoughts upon _____________________________.

-his wife and children

"All this the man knew. The old-timer on Sulphur Creek had told him about it the previous fall, and now he was appreciating the advice." What was the advice?

-it was really cold out and he was starting to realize it -never go alone

"The disease of the lady Madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians." What did these physicians diagnose Madeline Usher with?

-she had catalepsy

What did the narrator think was the meaning of the song "The Haunted Palace", which Roderick Usher performed for him? (2 details)

-the haunted palace describes what Roderick is going through with the palace being the mind of Usher

indite

to write, compose

malediction

a curse

eulogy

a formal statement of commendation; high praise

apologist

a person who makes an argument in support of someone or something

lithograph

a print produced by a printing process in which a smooth surface is treated so that ink will adhere only to the design to be printed

interdiction

a prohibition; the act of forbidding

epigraph

a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme.

acclamation

a shout of welcome; an overwhelming verbal vote of approval

ditty

a simple song

polyglot

a speaker of many languages

logo

a symbol or design that serves to identify an organization or institution

jurisdiction

an area of authority or control; the right to administer justice

gloss

an explanation of a difficult expression in a text

edict

an order issued by someone in authority

ecletic

choosing from various sources

lexicon

dictionary