HUM 101 CH 7
A characteristic of an organic narrative is that ____________.
Everything relates to the center of the narrative in a meaningful way.
An accurate statement about Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha is that Quixote _________________.
Has driven himself a bit crazy through his reading of the adventures of old-style knights
An accurate statement about Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha is that Quixote _______________.
Has driven himself a bit crazy through his reading of the adventures of old-style knights.
Which is true of Don Quixote's adventures in The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha?
He rides the aging Rocinante and dreams of the " lady Dulcinea," a local girl who hardly knows he is alive.
_____________ implies contradiction of some kind.
Irony
Which of the following is true of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick?
It achieves unity by focusing on Ahab's quest.
Which is true of irony?
It is reinforced in drama when the audience knows the truth and the character does not.
The ________, usually a poem, primarily reveals a limited but deep feeling about some thing or event.
Lyric
The _____________ is a story told to an audience by a teller controlling the order of events and the emphasis those events receive.
Narrative
Breghel's famous painting of Daedalus and his son Icarus, which is described in W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts," was based on the myth about the father-son duo that became a metaphor for _______________.
Overreaching
The kind of metaphor that tends to evoke an image and involves us mainly on a perceptual level-because we perceive in our imaginations something of what we would perceive were we there- is a __________ ________.
Perceptual Metaphor
The __________ narrative is simple enough on the surface: a protagonist sets out in search of something valuable that must be found at all cost.
Quest
In his short story Vanka, Anton Chekhov uses ____________.
Several levels of narrative
An image essentially appeals to our sense of _________.
Sight
A(n) ______________ is a further use of metaphor.
Symbol
Identify an example of a perceptual metaphor
The earth is like a sphere.
A characteristic of literature is that __________.
The theme of a literary work usually involves a structural decision
Which is true of John Keats's sonnet When I have Fears that was written in 1818 about his impending death?
The tone Keats establishes in the poem gives it an immediacy
An accurate statement about Anton Chekhov's Vanka is that ___________.
The very act of writing leads to the boy Vanka sleeping "soundly".
The villanelle is one of the most difficult forms for English-language poets to use because ____________.
There must be five three-line stanzas and one final four-line stanza.
True or false: Metaphors are tools that are used by writers to intensify language.
True
True or false: T.S. Eliot has said that poets must find the image, situation, object, event, or person that " shall be the formula for that particular emotion" so that readers can comprehend it.
True
In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, how does the protagonist end his quest?
Without discovering who he is beyond the fundamental fact that he is invisible.
Match the following levels of language with their descriptions: 1. Denotation 2. Connotation
1. A literal level where words mean what they obviously say 2. A subtler level where words mean more than they obviously say
Match the following details of language with their descriptions: 1. Metaphor 2. Simile
1. It is a comparison made without any explicit words to tell us a comparison is being made. 2. It is the kind of comparison that has explicit words: "like," "as," "than," "as if," and a few others.
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is said to be a quest narrative because ____________.
As the novel progresses, the question of good and evil becomes murkier and murkier
Why is the structure of Anton Chekhov's short story Vanka considered to be organic?
Because all the details cohere and give readers a deep understanding of the main character
Why is the villanelle one of the most difficult forms of poetry to master for English-language poets?
Because there can be only two rhyme sounds.
Identify a feature of Anton Chekhov's short-story Vanka.
Chekhov uses the narrative techniques of irony, comparison, and contrast.
Identify a feature of Anton Chekov's short-story Vanka.
Chekov uses the narrative techniques of irony, comparison, and contrast.
The kind of metaphor that tends to evoke ideas and gives us information that is mainly conceptual is a ____________ metaphor.
Conceptual
In language, _________ refers to the choice of words.
Diction
A narrative that describes one of the oldest kinds of literature, embodied by epics such as Homer's Odyssey, is a(n) ___________.
Episodic Narrative