Study Guide

GG- The Great Gatsby takes place during what time period?

1920s

open boat- Why does the correspondent have trouble swimming to shore?

A hidden current has trapped him

Sinners -What emotional appeal does Edwards use when he emphasizes the everlasting nature of God's wrath?

Appeal to fear.

Sinners -Edwards directs his sermon on God's wrath toward congregation members who

Are yet to be born again.

CB -What does Coyote's greed predict?

Ask buffalo bull for another cow.

Dark Romantics-Roderick Usher suffers from...

Bad nerves

GG- Why does Nick return West after Gatsby's death?

Because the east haunts him of memories of Gatsby

GG-What word does Nick use to describe Daisy and Tom at the end of the novel?

Careless

Romantic- Romantic writers generally believed...

Cities are centered around ugliness and corruption

GG- Why is Gatsby's love for Daisy doomed to fail?

Daisy can never live up to what he thinks of her

Romantic-Romantics responded to the institution of slavery by...

Emphasizing its cruelty

Sinners -Why does Edwards say that people in his congregation have yet to drop into the pit of hell?

Gods hands hold them up each moment.

CB -How does Coyote's trickster nature lead to the absence of buffalo living along the Swah-netk'-qhu?

Greed makes his disregard buffalo bulls instructions, and buffalo bull distrusts him.

Romantic-Romanticism celebrated all of the following EXCEPT:

Growing Industrialization

World -What does the twins' competition to make animals in this creation myth explain?

How nature keeps each type of animal in check.

mississippi Paraphrase the hyperbole in the following excerpt. "I planned a siege against my pilot, and at the end of three hard days he surrendered."

I repeatedly asked Bixby to teach me

Romantic- Romantic writers rejected rationalism because they thought that

Imagination yielded greater truths

Dark Romantics-The setting for "The Fall of the House of Usher" is an old house...

In the wood on a cliff

GG-Who tells Nick that they don't need to be careful because it "takes two to make an accident"?

Jordan

gettysburg-What is one effect that The Emancipation Proclamation had on the Union army?

Nearly 200,000 african americans joined the union army

GG- Be able to discuss the difference between "New Money" and "Old Money."

Old money =inheritance from your family for a long time New money= earns this generation or winning the lottery

PP -What is an example of unintentionally revealed hypocrisy in Bradford's writing?

Pilgrims stole from the native americans and considered the stolen items gifts from god but when the native americans took tools from the pilgrims bradford considered it a crime.

CB-How are Coyote's cleverness and foolishness evident in this trickster tale?

Plans to cook the cow's bones and then allowed the old woman to outsmart him.

TC -Which of the following is a consequence of Mary's going back to the side of the girls?

Proctor is arrested

IOWList three symbols and discuss the significance of each.

Quilt- Her mother's story with a passing through many generations. Silver Button- Sarah's motivator to help sarah become a lawyer. Red Thread- Represent the culture of handful.

CB -Buffalo Bull refuses to share a pipe with Coyote because

Sharing a pipe is a sign of friendship.

Equiano -Which part of the narrative has details that most effectively explain why Equiano feared the sailors?

The anecdote of the beating and death of a white sailor.

When Thoreau uses the metaphor "I wanted to live deep and suck the marrow of life," he means that he

The chief purpose of every one's life should be to glorify God

World -What does the gods' reaction to the woman's fall tell you about the role of the gods in Iroquois culture?

The gods are not concerned with human matters.

open boat-How does the following excerpt exhibit naturalism? "As each salty wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water."

The ocean controls the boat fate

Equiano -What did Equiano find most disturbing about the slave markets?

The separation of families.

GG- What are the ways that Gatsby tries to impress Daisy?

Throwing parties, buying mansions, having shirts.

When does Thoreau believe the government will stop interfering with citizens?

When people are prepared to govern themselves/ when people stop obeying laws

World -The Iroquois would be most likely to honor the left-handed twin...

When preparing for war.

frog- Which description of Dan'l Webster uses the tall tale technique of understatement?

a frogs needs only an education to do anything

much madness-The people treated as insane in "Much Madness is divinest Sense—"

are those who speak opposing viewpoints

I hear america- In "I Hear America Singing," Whitman celebrates the individual qualities of the workers by...

ascribing to teach his or her own song

Both "Self Reliance" and "Nature" demonstrate Emerson's

belief in the self

frog-The narrator's attempt to leave when Wheeler is out of the room suggests that he--

believes the wheeler will never stop talking

OutcastWhich excerpt gives the reader a sense of the regional aspects of the story?

but at the head of .......

Crisis -What support does Paine use for his idea that "Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America"?

children in america should be spared from fighting in wars

Crisis -Paine calls the British claim of dominance "impious" because he believes that the British...

claim a right over people that only God has

Thoreau says he wants to live at Walden because he

desires to live life more fully

Equiano -Equiano was surprised at the cruelty of the sailors when they

discarded food instead of giving it to the captives

TC -What is an example of dramatic irony in this play?

elizabeth tells danforth that proctor did NOT commit adultery

PP -William Bradford's description of the colonists' victory in the "First Encounter" reveals the cultural characteristic that the colonists

felt that god protected them in their endeavors.

According to "Self-Reliance," the indication of a great person is a person who-

follows his or her own mind in a crowd

self reliance- What does Emerson say is the only wrong in "Self-Reliance"?

going against nature

TDI -What was Jefferson's opinion about changing long-established governments?

governments should continue unless the problems they causes are insufferable

OutcastWhich of the following best describes the feelings that the four outcasts have about one another immediately after they are driven out of Poker Flat?

hostility and indifference

What is more important than facts or reason to a transcendentalist?

intuition

Outcast What important plot development is brought on by Uncle Billy's stealing of the mules?

it strands the travelers

GG- The only character who knows the whole truth about the accident and all of the complex relationships involved is

nick

mississippi Paraphrase the following excerpt. "A day came when I began to cease from noting the glories and the charms which the moon and the sun and the twilight wrought upon the river's face

one day, i stopped seeing the river's beauty

TDI -To prove that King George III had established "an absolute tyranny" over the colonists, Jefferson provides a long list of the King's offenses. Each offense begins, "He has. . . ." This an excellent example of which rhetorical device?

parallelism

TDI -As support for the argument for independence, Jefferson says that the king has refused to

pass laws that are good of the people

dark romantics-. "The Minister's Black Veil" teaches us...

people fear what they don't understand

Outcast. What is the main message of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"?

punishment without justice is as bad as a crime

VC -Henry says, "we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight!" The repetition in this quotation most likely would have caused Henry's patriotic audience to

react warmly and enthusiastically

TDI -What does Jefferson say had been the king's reaction to the colonists' repeated petitions?

refusing to listen to their pleas

gettysburg- According to The Gettysburg Address, men gave their lives on the battlefield at Gettysburg to

save the nation

TC -What is Ann Putnam's greatest grief?

seven children died in infancy

TC -How does the audience know early in the play that Abigail can't be trusted?

she lied about dancing in the woods

TC -What best describes Mary Warren's character arc throughout the play?

she was a timid, mousy girl at first but became more aggressive and assertive

What word is Thoreau's motto for how to live?

simplicity

open boat- The men's inability to get help from people on shore is an example of naturalism because it--

suggests that the men are not in control

gettysburg . What is one thing Lincoln hopes the Emancipation Proclamation will do?

suppress armed rebellion

TDI -Jefferson's reference to the reliance on the protection of Divine Providence suggests that

the colonists believed that their course of action was morally correct

Dark Romantics-Poe's "The Raven" is about...

the dealing of grief for a lost love

frog- How does Smiley's mare make him "uncommon lucky"?t

the excited mare wins in spite of her illness

TC -When asked about the events in the forest at the beginning of Act I, Abigail says—

the girls were just having fun

dark romantics- The irony of "The Minister's Black Veil" is...

the minister wears his sin whereas the congregation hides it

frog- Wheeler's claim that Smiley will bet "on anything that turned up you ever see" is best supported by Smiley's bet on--

the parsons wife not getting well

Dark Romantics- The Dark Romantics explored...

the psychological effects of sin and guilt

TC -What motivated Arthur Miller to write The Crucible?

the red scare

mississippiWhat scared Twain the first time he steered the steamboat?

the steamboat was very close to other boats

Dark Romantics- Symbolically the house of Usher is...

the usher family itself

VC -From the options listed below, which is the best example of persuasion through an emotional appeal?

there is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! our chains are forged!

OutcastWhat is the most important effect that Tom Simson and Piney Woods have on the outcasts? t

they bring out the best in each of the outcasts

VC -Henry urges his listeners to distrust the British because

they smile while they prepare for war

PP -Bradford called his group of Puritans "pilgrims." Why does he call them "pilgrims"

they were religious wanderers braving the unknown.

Crisis -Paine suggests that the war is justified because the king and his armies act like...

thieves in the night

The paradox of Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" is

to be a good citizen, sometimes you must break the law

gettysburg According to The Gettysburg Address, given on the sight of the bloody battle, what is the "great task" remaining before living? t

to make sure that government for the people and by the people survives

VC -Henry most likely begins his speech with polite references to other speakers

to make them want to listen to his speech

TC -Abigail's motivation for frightening Mary Warren, Mercy, and Betty is...

to save herself from trouble

What image does Emerson use to show his transcendental belief that humans, nature, and God are connected in his essay "Nature"?

transparent eyeball

Crisis -What does Paine say will be a result if the fight for independence fails?

unsafe homes for the children

gettysburg-According to The Gettysburg Address, what was the Civil War "testing"?

whether a nation that offers freedom to its citizens can survive

An important similarity between Whitman and Dickinson is their-

willingness to break away from literary conventions

dark romantics- The Fireside Poets got their name by...

wrote poems read by families around the home fireplace