american lit puryer final exam study guide

at the conclusion of walden explain the significance of the story of a beaten path outside his door

"i did not live a week before my feet forged a path and although its been 5 or 6 years since i've walked it, i must say its still noticable"

modernism

(1990s) story seems perfect, going up, and right at the end it takes a hard, unexpected drop

what are two superstitions that you found in these two chapters

1. dont count what your going to have for dinner = bad luck 2. if a man owned a beehive, died, and nobody tells bees by sunrise = bees quit and die

what are the three tenets of transcendentalism

1. god is present in all aspects of nature 2. everyone is capable of learning gods existence 3. nature symbolizes spirit (the world is good)

find two examples of satire in ant chapters of huck finn

1. huck scares away the men, pokes fun at the fear of disease back then 2. huck played trick on jim, pokes fun at the ignorance of the uneducated

what is an example of a description of dan i webster that uses the tall tale technique of understatement

A frog needs only an education to do anything.

rhythm

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

anti transcendentalism

Focuses on limitations/destructiveness of the human spirit

What does Emerson mean by the following aphorism from "Self-Reliance"? "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit"

Humans interpret nature through their experiences

What trick does Huck play on Jim?

Jim is asleep when Huck returns to the raft. He sits down next to Jim and pretends to be asleep. When Jim wakes up, Huck tries to make him believe that he dreamed the events of the past evening.

Why had Jim run away?

Miss Watson was going to sell him

what is a positive and a negative about the society that huck is growing up in

P: no social media or video evidence N: smaller population, everyone knows everyone, if one gets lost everyone goes to look

How does Smiley's mare make him "uncommon lucky"?

The excited mare wins in spite of her illnesses.

what is the function of the sound of the drums and bugles in the third stanza of beat beat drums

The sound drowns out any argument against war.

when jim says "dah you goes, de ole true huck; de only white genlman dat ever kep' his promis to ole Jim," why does huck REALLY feel sick

This is said to Huck after he lies to save him from the men in the boat. This is significant because it impacts Huck in a different way than he expected. He was not ready for his heart to love a slave. In fact, he was just getting ready to turn him in.

how are thoreaus experiences in his night in jail in civil disobedience and his time in walden similar and different

Thoreau says that he realized that people should live their lives simply and refuse to worry about little things that the soul can live without (Walden lines 38-104). In "Civil Disobedience," he explains that sometimes in government, there are little frictions that cannot be avoided and that we should just "let them go" and not fight them (lines 82-83). OR similar because he is stripped of wordly attachments but different because he was forced to live in jail but chose to live in the woods

Hyperbole

a figure of speech exaggerating or overstating a claim or point

what does the imagery in because i could not stop for death reveal about the speakers feelings about death

accepts death will eventually come it cannot be avoided and is a slow journey to get to

why does huck decide to run away from the widow and society

adventure different grounds and escape their ownership of him, father came back in town

overstatement

an exaggeration for emphasis or for humorous effect (also called hyperbole)

Transcendentalism

an intellectual movement that emphasized the dignity of the individual and advocated a simple, mindful life

tone

attitude toward his or her subject

what does the narrators attempt to leave when wheeler is out of the room suggests about him

believes that Wheeler will never stop talking

why is the fact that simmons call twain a wonderful subject an example of verbal irony

both simmons and twain know twain is faking

Where are Huck and Jim trying to go in ch15

cairo to be among the free states

name two qualities that twain says made him a good subject

capable of acting, good at tolerating pain

describe death in because i could not stop for death

carriage driver

what do the images in lines 9-12 of because i could not stop for death most likely represent

childhood

What figurative language does Thoreau use in "Civil Disobedience" to clarify his concept of how to deal with unjust laws?

compares gov to a machine and injustive to levers, springs, and pulleys

how does the dialect of the following excerpt describe the bull pup? "his underjaw'd begin to stick out like the fo' castle of a steamboat and his teeth would uncover and shine like the furnaces

competitive and had the same winning spirit as owner

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

confides themselves childlike for their age OR follow their own mind in the crowd

situational irony

contrast between what is expected and what actually happens

what three tests does the women give to huck to prove that hes not eho he says he is

country knowledge, thread/needle ability, how he caught/threw

Imagery

creates vivid impressions for the reader

in SONG of myself in what way does the speaker believe that life and death are similar

death leads forward to new life

in a noiseless patient spider what does the spider do that makes it seem more like a human

decides how to explore its surroundings

with what detal does the narrator emphasize the atmosphere of death in another country

deer hanging in window shop

what is a result of twains actions with the mesmerizer

develops a disbelief of mesmerism

Dialect

distinct form of a language spoken in one geographic area or by a particular group

tall tale

distinctively American form of storytelling featuring outlandish characters and events, often with a comic effect

what rumors does huck find out about huimself

either he, jim, or dad killed him

Quatrain

four-line stanzas, that echo the simple rhythms of church hymns

cataloging

frequent lists of people, things, and attributes

when jim sees huck for the first time who does he think he is

ghost/dead person

what does emerson say is the only thing wrong in "self reliance"

going against your nature

summarize in one sentence thoreaus objections to a standing government in civil disobedience

government is sometimes inconvenient and can be abused

what detail helps you predict that twain will try to trick dr. peake into believing in mesmerism

had great influence on townspeople

in i hear america singing how does whitman celebrate the individual qualities of the workers

he "sings"/ celebrates what they do

why did thoreau leave the woods in walden

he had more lives to live and his life in the woods had drawn to a close

how does the speaker most clearly uses an affectionate tone towars women in i hear american singing

he says they are in the house at work but still singing their work

how does huck trick the men in the canoes

he tells them hes with father who is infected with small pox

why does huck fall asleep in the canoe? why does he think hes dreaming when he wakes up

hes convinved jim is dead so he goes to sleep and thinks hes dreaming when he wakes up because all the fog was gone and he was going head first down a big stern

how do huck and jim get seperated

huck was trying to tie down the canoe/raft but the sapling broke and the current ripped he raft from the canoe

why, when jim yells out "dah's carol" does huck feel like he'll die of miserableness

hucks civil habits are kicking back in that he is the reason a runaway slave is going to be free

what does the speaker wonder in my life closed twice before its close

if life will unveil a 3rd event

why does the woman get suspicious of huck that hes not really who he says he is

kept trying to convince her that they should hunt for jim during the say to see hum and he said a different name

what rumors does huck find out about his father

killed huck to get money from him

what rumors does huck find out about jim

killed/ kidnapped huck bc disappeared same night

figurative language

makes abstract ideas more appealing and easier to grasp

in beat beat drums what belief does the author express about war

more important than anyone's work or happiness

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

parson walkers wife wouldnt get better

What tenet of transcendentalism does the following quotation from Nature best demonstrate? "The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right"

people can discover the truth on their own

free verse

poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhyme and meter.

describe jims situation when huck finds him

raft was littered,smashed, jim is beaten and asleep with hsi arm over the side of the raft

in song of myself in what way is the grass an equalizer of people

receives all groups of people the same

Parallelism

related ideas phrased in similar ways

why does twain soon dislike hearing people talk about his feats in the show

remembering his lie made his ashamed

repetition

repeated words or phrases at the beginning of two or more lines

did huck do the right or wrong thing by sving jim? does huck think he did the right or wrong thing

right, but he thinks he did the wrong thing because society tells him he is above slaves

what does jim say is the first thing he'll do when he gets to a free sate and why us huck sorry to hear him say it

say up $ to buy a wife and children, hes sorry to hear him say it because that wasnt supposed to be how it worked-- to steal children that werent his own

what does the capitalization in lines 19-20 represent of my life had stood a loaded gun

she forcefully is able to kill because she represents a gun

anecdote

short accounts of personal incidents

how does smileys inability to resist a bet help the stranger to cheat him in the contest

simley was so desperate for a bet he left his prize frog with the stranger and the stranger had time to intoxicate his frog

who does huck meet on the river as hes paddling ashore ans what do they want

slave hunters looking for a runaway slave

at the end of ch 16 how do huck and jim get seperated again

steamboat came straight for the raft so they dove off opposite sides

why is hicks trick on Jim such an important part of their journey together

teaches huck a lesson that every human beng should be treated with respect and equality no matter what

in all these poems what does whitman express a belief in

the importance of individuality

if the two events that closed twice in my life closed twice before its close are the deaths of loved ones what does the speaker most likely mean in lines 7-8

the loved one goes to heaven but hell is brought to those affected on earth

theme

the underlying message or the central idea of a work that can be stated in one sentence

satire

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

why does emerson say that it is better to interact with nature rather than people

the world imprisons us and nature sets us free

what is the mountains reply in line 8 of my life had stood a loaded gun

they echoes her

in what ways are the speakers in bevause i could not stop for death and i heard a fly buzz when i died similar

theyre dead

give two ways hucks shows his intelligence

thorough preparation and good liar

what does thoreau use the example of a fire in walden to explain

to explain how people spend too much time in everyone else's business

explain the context and significance of the quote: git up and hump yourself jim! there aint a minute to lose. theyre after us

to get up get going, dont dilly dally its time to go

why does dickinson most likely use dashes in much madness is divinest sense

to highlight someone who is mad and pauses in dialogue due to crazy mind

why does huck get in the canoe to paddle ashore

to turn jim in

describe the trick that the narrators friend from the east seems to have played on him

told him to ask simon about leonadas w smiley (fake person) so he would talk about jim smiley

how do both essays demonstrate emersons belief in the self

transcendentalist view so he sees everything as good especially the individual

explain what the aphorism "imitation is suicide" in "self reliance" means.

trying to be like others kills your own spirit

what is the speaker most proud of in part 52 of song of myself

untamed and untranslatable nature

why does twain pretend to be hypnotized

wants audiences attention

what does dickinsons use of slant rhyme in the soul selects her own society call attention to

what she thinks is important

dramatic irony

when readers know more about a situation or character than the characters do

what rumors does huck find out about jackson island

womans husband and friend are going to the island to hunt for jim at midnight

slant rhyme

words that do not exactly rhyme

essay

work of nonfiction, often loosely structured, expressing the writer's personal views 0n a single subject

local color

writing that brings a region alive by portraying its dress, mannerisms, customs, character types, and speech