Final exam for lit
Lena and the swan
"A shudder in the loins engenders there the broken wal" is a quote from what poem?
Her hair
5. What is Edmund Spenser referring to in the poem, "what guile is this, that those her gold golden tresses," when he says "tresses"?
December/ Christmas time
What time of the year is the setting of "A Worn Path"?
How does Paul kill himself in "Paul's Case"?
He shoots himself
He regrets it immediately
How does Paul feel about his choice to commit suicide as it happens?
The misfit
In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" what is the name of the main bad guy or antagonist?
Homers dead body
In "A Rose for Emily" what is hidden in Emily's house?
He swallowed lye
In "A Worn Path" what happened to the Phoenix's grandson that requires he get medicine?
Her grandson
In "A Worn Path" who is Phoenix making this journey for?
Zeus
In "Leda and the Swan" who is the swan?
He is mysogynistic and is above women, he murdered his former wife out of jealousy of her happiness
In "My Last Duchess" how does the duke view women? What examples from the poem help us understand his view on women?
Lucrezia de' Medic
In "My Last Duchess" what is the Duke's wife's birth name?
Red carnation
In "Paul's Case" what kind of flower was he wearing in his buttonhole at the beginning story?
Destruction and nourishment to the body
In "Sonny's Blues" what is the meaning of the scotch and milk?
Polio
In "Sonny's Blues," what does Little Gracie die from?
Fifth Avenue's FAO Schwarz
In "The Lesson" what is the name of the store the children are taken to?
Dont get married too young, enjoy your youth
In "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," what is Herrick's message to the young and innocent?
Plexiglass sphere
In Jarrell's notes about "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," how does he define a ball turret?
He looks at her rwlaistically and explains her clumsiness in great detail
In Nims' "Love Poem" what is the twist that Nims takes on normal/conventional love poem?
when the grandmother is reading about the Misfit in in the newspaper at the beginning of the story.
In O'Connor 's " A Good Man Is Hard to Find , " what is an example of foreshadowing?
It is sweet and proper to die for one's country
In Wilfred Owen's poem "Dulce et Decorum Est," what does the title mean in Latin?
It represents the poverty and regular food of the couple
In the "Bean Eaters," what is the significance of the title?
Zeus
In the poem "Leda and the Swan" who is the swan?
How beautiful ahe is on the inside or where her spirit "dwells"
In the poem "She Walks in Beauty" the line "how pure, how dear their dwelling place" is a metaphor for what?
East Tennessee
In the story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," where does the grandma want to take a trip to?
An old woman named Pheonix Jackson
In the story "A Worn Path," who is the main character?
Seattle
In the story "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," where is the location of the 7-11?
Imagery
In the war poem "Dulce et Decorum Est," what is the main literary device that is used to describe war?
The Trojan War
What war does "Leda and The Swan" allude to?
Margaret
In the poem "Spring and Fall" what is the name of the woman mentioned in the poem?
Death
In the quote "But at my back I always hear/Time's winged chariot hurrying near," what does "Time's winged chariot" refer to?
A cat
What animal does the grandmother smuggle into the car in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?
The Pocket Watch, the Stationery, and the Hair
What are some symbols that are used in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily?"
Greek
What civilization gave birth to the myth that inspired the poem "Leda and the Swan"?
Orange
What color is the grandmother's cat's nose in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?
They love her, sylvia doesnt
What do the children think of Miss Moore in "The Lesson"?
Gas shells
What does Five-Nines" mean in the poem "Dulce et Decom Est
Jumpimg from car to car sparatically
What does the word "apoplectic" mean in the line "Yet leaping before red apoplectic streetcars" in "Love Poem"?
Heroin
What illegal substance is found in the raid at the beginning of "Sonny's Blues" that Sonny was "peddling" and using?
She woos men, she is using a fake hairnet to make it seem like her hair is glowing.
What is being said about what the woman is doing in "what guile is this, that those her golden tresses?
Dedication
What is it called when an author dedicates a work to another author?
Men with tragic lives
What is one of the common themes of "Paul's Case" and Sonny's Blues"?
Miss moore
What is the name of the woman who gives the lesson in "The Lesson"?
His past
What is the narrator looking at in "Facing It"?
An anonymous woman and how she is darkly beautiful but yet innocent
What is the poem She Walks in Beauty" about?
Perspectives on love; reality of love
What is the theme between the poems "My Last Duchess," "Leda the Swan," and "Love Poems"?
The unfairness of socioeconomic status
What is the theme of "The Lesson"?
Dramatic lyric
What kind of poem is "My Last Duchess?
Imagery/ metaphor
What literary device does Eudora Welty use in the quote below? She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows, moving a little from side to side in her steps, with the balanced heaviness and lightness of a pendulum in grandfather clock."
The girl who is raped by Zeus
"Leda and The Swan" who is Leda
Jazz pianist
37. In "Sonny's Blues" what is Sonny's calling in life?
No one
38. In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" who dies in the car accident?
Innocent
45. In the poem "She Walks in Beauty," what kind of love is the subject in mourning said to have had at the end?
Mother
Does Paul's mother or father die whenever he was a child?
What instrument does Sonny play?
Piano
Dulce et Decorum Est
The lines "Gas! Gas! Quick boys-An ecstasy of fumbling,/fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; /But someone still was yelling out and stumbling/And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. . /Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,/As under a green sea I see drowning" come from what poem?
Florida
Where is the family headed in " A Good Man is Hard to Find"?
Pitty Sing
Who causes the accident in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?
The painter of the dutchess's portrait
Who is Fra Pandolfin "My Last Duchess"?
James Baldwin
Who is the author "Sonny's Blues"?
Yusef Komunyakaa
Who is the author of "Facing it"?
The grandmother
Who is the last to die in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?
The town
Who is the narrator in "A Rose for Emily"?
Sonny's brother
Who is the unnamed narrator in "Sonny's Blues"?
The Misfit in "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Who said "She would of been a good woman.. .if it had been somebody to shoot her every minute of her life?
Flannery O Conner
Who wrote "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?
Eudora Welty
Who wrote "A Worn Path"?
William Butler Yeats
Who wrote "Leda and the Swan"?
Lord Byron
Who wrote "She Walks in Beauty"?
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Who wrote "Spring and Fall"?
Gwendolyn Brooks
Who wrote "The Bean Eaters"?
Randall Jarrell
Who wrote "The Death of the Bal Turret Gunner"?
A.E. Housman
Who wrote To an Athlete Dying Young"?
Eudora Welty
Who wrote the story "A Worn Path?"
There isnt a title for this sonnet so they just take the first few words as the title
Why is the title of "what guile is this her golden tresses" all lowercase?
