Intro to Lit - Midterm Study
Santiago Nasar is the name of narrator who returns to the village where a murder was committed in Marquez's novel.
b. False
The novel/short story of artistic development wherein the artist moves from juvenilia to maturity is called a bildungsroman.
b. False
Regarding figurative language, ______________________ meaning moves beyond the literal level and into associative, suggestive, implied, and symbolic meanings.
a. Connotative
A synecdoche is a figure of speech defined as "the comparison of dissimilar things."
a. False
E.M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel identifies two types of characters: regular and asymmetrical.
a. False
Mangan's sister is working at the bazaar at the end of Joyce's story.
a. False
The narrator in Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" is a jazz musician named Creole.
a. False
The name of the Northerner who courts Miss Emily in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is
a. Homer Barron
In Marquez's novel, Maria Alejandrina Cervantes is a marginalized character due to her
a. Sexuality
In what country is Hemingway's short story set?
a. Spain
According to Edgar Allan Poe, a short story must possess a "totality" that reaches into a reader's soul for the duration of the reading time.
a. True
After her exile, Angela falls in love with Bayardo San Roman in Marquez's novel.
a. True
Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Non-fiction are the four major literary genres.
a. True
In the legal brief, there were no obvious clues suggesting that Santiago committed a crime against Angela.
a. True
Short story, as defined by M.H. Abrams, is a work of shorter prose fiction that uses the techniques of fiction, introduces a limited number of characters, and reveals much about the protagonist.
a. True
The Gothic is composed of a medieval setting, a macabre subject, the supernatural, and a tension between surface and interior.
a. True
Which of these is NOT an experimental technique of Modernism?
a. closure
In Kafka's "A Hunger Artist," the artist's greatest work (or magnus opus) is
a. his own death
The smell in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is caused by a
a. human body
The sequence of events intended to achieve emotional and artistic effects is called the
a. plot
The key structural metaphor in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" is a
a. train station
At the end of "Everyday Use," Mama and Dee are together back at home while Maggie drives off with her sunglasses on.
b. False
In Marquez's novel, the phrase "horrible duty" refers to Angela's obligation to marry the wealthy stranger.
b. False
James Joyce's story is set in Scotland.
b. False
Updike's "A & P" can be read as an analogue for Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" because Sammy remains an unenlightened prisoner who still believes in shadows.
b. False
Bailey and his family in O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" are originally heading where for vacation?
b. Florida
Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" is an excellent example of
b. Literature of the Absurd
The sister in Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use" who does not go to college and will mostly like marry John Thomas is
b. Maggie
In Gabriel Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Santiago's mother is named
b. Placida Linero
Gilman's short story ends with which of the following images:
b. The "insane" narrator circling around the room, causing her husband to faint.
In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Red Sammy Butts owns/manages a restaurant called
b. The Tower
The final scene in Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" focuses on which of the following:
b. The artist who confesses that he couldn't find the right food to eat and thus dies
Alienation is one of several Modernist themes, according to the powerpoint.
b. True
Hemingway's story is set in Spain, somewhere between Barcelona and Madrid.
b. True
In Hemingway's short story, Jig has a boyfriend who wants her to have an abortion.
b. True
The word epigraph refers to a short quote (maxim, aphorism) at the beginning of a work that thematically encapsulates the story to come.
b. True
Updike's short story is set in Massachusetts, just north of Boston and near the beach.
b. True
The town at the end of Marquez's novel is best described as
b. an open wound
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" opens with which of the following settings:
b. colonial mansion "let so cheaply" on a hereditary estate in the country
Which of the following is NOT an aspect of the novel?
b. force is generated from its totality
Which of following is NOT an attribute of Realism?
b. is concerned with plot only
As a metaphor, the narrator's room in "The Yellow Wallpaper" functions as a
b. prison cell
Regarding point of view, a __________ person narrator always raises issues of intimacy and reliability. This character is also found inside the story.
c. First
James Baldwins story "Sonny's Blues" is set in
c. Harlem
The name of the narrator's boss in John Updike's "A & P" is
c. Lengel
Which of the following terms is concerned with true representation and with dreams, fairytales, and myths?
c. Magic Realism
General locale, historical time, social circumstances and physical location all make up the
c. Setting
The title of Walker's short story refers to what important symbol in that story?
c. quilts
In Baldwin's short story, the phrase "god or monster" refers to
d. An artist
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is set in which Latin American country?
d. Colombia
The name of the main criminal in O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is
d. The Misfit
The symbol of release at the end of "Sonny's Blues" is
d. a cup of trembling
According to the powerpoint, which of these does NOT belong to the existential cycle?
d. divine purpose
In Kafka's "A Hunger Artist," the artist's chosen medium for his art is
d. fasting
Which of the following marks Santiago as a Christ-figure in Marquez's novel?
d. his stigma
