English III A Unit Test Review

How does the form of "Song of Myself" help the poem communicate its theme?

a. By moving forward without formal restraints, the poet justifies expressions of freedom in the work

These two brothers had creative powers, and with these powers they took clay and modeled it into animals. They used these animals to contend with one another. Each brother created a more powerful or more cunning animal than the next. They also created fruits, plants, and medicines for good and for evil. Finally, the right-handed twin made man. It is unknown whether or not the left-handed twin assisted in the creation of man. Man was the right-handed twin's favorite creation. How does this support the idea that "The World on Turtle's Back" is a creation myth?

a. It explains the origin of people, animals, and plants

We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess - in the Ring - We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain - We passed the Setting Sun - Why does Dickinson most likely repeat the word "passed" three times in this stanza

a. The words convey a sense of steady motion

In "Civil Disobedience," what happens right after the townspeople "locked the door on [Thoreau's] meditations?

a. Thoreau imagines that the meditations symbolically follow the jailers out of the door

When the girl awoke, she knew that she would bear twins. Even before they were born, there was contention between the twins. There was no peace between these two brothers. When it was time for them to be born, the right-handed twin wanted to be born in the normal way. The left-handed twin saw light in the other direction and was determined to be born through his mother's mouth or nose. In his attempt to be born in the opposite direction, he killed his mother. Based on this excerpt, it is reasonable to conclude that

a. the brothers were opposites and would always be in conflict

What overall effect does Bradstreet achieve in "The Author to Her Book" through her use of hyperbole and metaphor?

b. She conveys the depth of care for her writing

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated." Paine compares tyranny to hell in order to

b. illustrate that the oppression of the British government is far-reaching and evil

The government of England is subjecting the American colonists to laws that take away their unalienable rights. This statement is the Declaration of Independence's

b. minor premise

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,And filter and fibre your blood.Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,Missing me one place search another,I stop somewhere waiting for you. Which statement best summarizes the theme that these lines suggest?

b. the self is complex and an integral part of nature

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till death. Which statement best describes the effect of the language in this stanza?

c. It establishes that the speaker of the poem will be frank and honest

Which statement best describes the rhythm of "Song of Myself"?

c. The rhythm is very similar to the rhythm of everyday speech

They are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God, that is expressed in the torments of hell. And the reason why they don't go down to hell at each moment, is not because God, in whose power they are, is not then very angry with them; as angry as he is with many of those miserable creatures now tormented in hell, who there feel and bear the fierceness of his wrath. Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth; yea, doubtless with many that are now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than he is with many of those that are now in the flames of hell. Based on the excerpt, which statement best describes Edward's opinion, as a minister, of the members of his congregation?

c. They had angered God and were in danger of damnation

In "The Author to Her Book", the main reason Bradstreet uses inversion is to

c. complete the rhyme scheme

In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," what is the significance of the phrase "[Death] knew no haste"?

d. The phrase characterizes Dath as being removed from human concerns

What is the couplet pattern in both "The Author to Her Book" and "A Hymn to the Evening"?

d. consecutive pairs of rhyming lines