ENGL 228 Final Review – Flashcards
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Which set of Americans does Whitman not attempt to speak for?
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He wants to speak for all Americans.
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In Howell's story why does Editha ask George not to read her letter immediately?
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She doesn't want to be pushy; she wishes to leave him "free, free, free."
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In Dickinson's poem about the Carriage the character driving is
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Death
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How does the "I" of Whitman's "Song of Myself" typically regard the earth?
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As a lover enticed by things in nature he can smell and touch.
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Why is Editha described toward the end of Howells's short story as speaking "more like a culprit than a comforter"?
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She knows she pressured George to go to war.
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What does the "ornithologist" offer Sylvia in return for the white heron's whereabouts?
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money
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From "A New England Nun" "If Louisa Ellis had sold her birthright she did not know it, the taste of the pottage was so delicious, and had been her sole satisfaction for so long." In this passage, Freeman alludes to ________.
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the biblical story of Jacob and Esau
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From Jewett: Read the following passage and mark the best interpretation: "Not a bird's whistle, which would have a sort of friendliness, but a boy's whistle, determined, and somewhat aggressive. Sylvia left the cow to whatever sad fate might await her, and stepped discreetly aside into the bushes, but she was just too late. The enemy had discovered her..."
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the boy represents urban destruction of nature
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In Chopin's text, how does Désirée first learn that her baby is not completely white?
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Désirée compares her baby with the mixed-race son of her maid.
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Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" features Mrs. Mallard who, after her initial shock and grief, feels
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free
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The cultural clash in "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" is represented by
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confusion over the interpretation of western poetry
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What does W.E.B. Du Bois find to compliment about Booker T. Washington?
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his success in taking advantage of existing racial terms to provide aid to black farmer
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Which of the following best describes Du Bois's disagreement with Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" in The Souls of Black Folk?
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He shows how Washington's agenda to postpone demands for equal voting and civic rights and concentrate instead on industrial training is ultimately counterproductive and demeaning.
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In Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Exposition Address," Washington tells a story that repeats "Cast down your bucket where you are." This repeated phrase is representative of his approach to race relations and should be interpreted as:
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African-Americans should not try to effect political or social change, but should work in their current position.
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In "A Sweatshop Romance" the Lipman's are embarrassed by David when he reveals that the carpet
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has been bought with credit.
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Which of the following does the first man the characters see on shore do, in Crane's "The Open Boat"?
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He waves his hands, but they don't understand what he means to tell them
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"To Build a Fire" is set in
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the Yukon
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In "The Yellow Wallpaper," why does the narrator feel she has to hide what she is writing from John and his sister?
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They believe that thinking makes her hysterical, and they do all they can to make her sleep and stop her from writing.
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In "Open Boat," what is the first plan the four men devise toward being rescued?
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They hope the crew of a life-saving station will notice them.
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In Crane's "The Open Boat," when dawn arrives after the first night, what plan do the Captain and crew decide on?
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They will row into the surf until the boat sinks, then swim for shore.
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In Cather, Rosicky's house is described as
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Cheerful and warm
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Which of the following could be described as the key formal characteristic of high modernist works?
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Fragmentation
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Rosicky left New York because
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he was disturbed by its emptiness.
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One possible reading of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is that:
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The narrator is considering suicide
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Most "high modernist" literature interprets modernity as:
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An experience of loss, alienation, and ruin
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Which of the following best describes Sandburg's attitude toward Chicago?
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Chicago is not perfect, but the citizens are real. It has both strengths and flaws.
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In Trifles, what has happened to Mr. Wright?
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He was found dead with a noose around his neck.
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What does Sandburg imply in "Chicago" with the epithet "Hog Butcher for the World"?
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Chicago is famous for its slaughterhouses.
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Match the following passage with the most reasonable interpretation: "When I was a girl—my kitten—there was a boy took a hatchet, and before my eyes—and before I could get there—If they hadn't held me back I would have—hurt him."
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Mrs. Peters identifies with Mrs. Wright's need to murder her husband
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Match the following passage with the most reasonable interpretation: "Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,/ Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,/ Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people,/ Laughing!"
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Chicago has its faults, but it is more alive than any other city
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Match the title and author with the following passage: " In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo."
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Eliot, "The Love Song"
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is an example of:
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High Modernism
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In Eliot's "Love Song," what does Prufrock hope to hear while walking along the beach?
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mermaids singing to themselves
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In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," of whom are the women who come and go talking?
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Michelangelo
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"The Red Wheelbarrow" utilizes:
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Vivid imagery to paint a picture
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When does Hurston feel most colored?
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when thrown against a sharp white background
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Match the following passage from Toomer with the most reasonable interpretation: "White and whitewash disappear in blood. Who set you flowing? Flowing down the smooth asphalt of Seventh Street..."
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The North corrupts black culture
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Where did Zora first learn that she was colored?
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Jacksonville
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Match the following passage from Toomer with the most reasonable interpretation: "And her slim body, white as the ash of black flesh after flame."
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The contrast between beauty and ugly violence
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Match the following passage with the most reasonable interpretation: "Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"
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African Americans want to be perceived as human beings
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Match the passage from Wright with the most reasonable interpretation: "Coulda killa man wida gun like this. Kill anybody, black er white. And if he were holding his gun in his hand, nobody could run over him; they would have to respect him. It was a big gun, with a long barrel and a heavy handle"
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Dave believes that a gun will make people respect him since it blurs the color line
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What musical tradition most influenced the cadence and rhythm of Hughes' poetry?
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jazz
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In Faulkner: Why is Sarty bleeding when the Snopes family gets in the wagon headed for Major de Spain's farm?
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He got in a fight with another boy, who called Abner a barn burner.
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In Faulkner: Why do farmers continually hire Abner as a sharecropper?
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They admire his ferocity.
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The tone in Hughes' "I, Too" could best be described as
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proud and confident
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In Plath's poem, what is an art?
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dying
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Kerouac's writing style is
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stream of consciousness
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What major event does Plath refer to in her poem?
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The Holocaust
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In O'Connor's story, what are the names of Mrs. Freeman's two daughters?
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Glynese and Carramae
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The narrator in Rich's poem takes all of the following items except:
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fish
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In Cisneros' text, Cleofilas has the following relationship with her husband
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abusive
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In Cisneros' text, Cleofilas likes to watch
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telenovelas
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Spiegelman describes his relationship with his father as
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conflicted
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The Garcia family must flee their country because
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they were going to be accused of rebellion and treason.
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In Alvarez' story, from which country did the family immigrate?
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Dominican Republic
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In Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp" the men name the baby Luck because
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They believe him to be good luck
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Which of the following best describes Whitman's attitude toward the American lives he wants to catalogue and represent?
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He is willing to go to great efforts to make himself the common element in connecting these people
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Judging from her poetry, Dickinson focused most of her attention on
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The natural world
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The Goophered Grapevine challenges
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the pro slavery plantation narrative
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Match the following passage from "The White Heron" with the most reasonable interpretation "Has she been nine years growing now... heron's secret and give its life away"
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Sylvia will not reveal the heron's whereabouts and join the masculine, social domain
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Freeman's A New England Nun can be read as
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A statement about Freeman's own personal and career choices
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Chopin's The Storm was never published in her lifetime because
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Of its frank description of adultery without cost
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Match the following passage to the most reasonable interpretation "He simply wishes to make it possible... closed roughly in his face"
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Critique of the "melting pot" ideal
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In "A Sweatshop Romance" the love interest that wins the heart of Beile
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encourages her to stand up for herself
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What does Zitkala Sa mean by her statement that through her experiences at the boarding school and through her acquisition of literacy she has become "neither a wild Indian nor a tame one"
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These experiences have separated her from her own culture while reinforcing her difference from white culture
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In the open boat after the others have dropped off to sleep the correspondent sees a long loud swishing astern of the boat and a gleaming trail phosphorescence... monstrous knife" What had the correspondent seen
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the fin of a shark
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In London's text which of the following best describes the dogs responses to the man
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The dog is completely independent from the man
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The following passage from Crane's The Open Boat "When it occurs to a man... and no temples"
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Naturalism
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In Mending Wall, whom does the speaker briefly consider blaming the wall's disrepair on?
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Elves
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What does Rosicky want his boys to do after he is gone?
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He wants them to be "here" and to work the land.
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How do the speaker and his neighbor proceed along the wall?
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They parallel each other with the wall exactly in the middle between them.
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Match the title and author with the following passage: "Laughing the stormy... Handler to the Nation."
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Sandburg, "Chicago"
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The mother in Anderson's "Mother" is worried that her son
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will lose his dreams and his creativity
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Match the title and author with the following passage: "glazed with rain water beside the white chickens"
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Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow"
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Which of the following is not a question that J. Alfred Prufrock asks of his listener during the poem?
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Are my arms and legs too thin
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Match the following Hurston passage with the most reasonable interpretation: "Joe got his candy and left the store. ... Nothin' worries 'em."
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White people don't understand that African Americans
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In "The Gilded Six-Bits," what does Joe throw at the front door every Saturday night?
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silver dollars
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What is ultimately discovered to be at the end of Otis Slemmons' watch chain?
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a gilded half-dollar
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What does Hurston feel less "American" because of her race? (sic)
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no (LOL)
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In Hemingway: Why is Harry dying?
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He contracted gangrene after a cut on his leg became infected.
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In Hemingway: Why are Harry and the woman arguing?
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He is afraid to die.
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In "Almos' a Man," Dave wishes to buy a gun because:
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The gun is a means of manhood
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In Ellison what effect did his grandfather's last words have on the protagonist?
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He thought of them as a curse.
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"We Real Cool" embodies this philosophy of poetry:
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Poetry as social activism
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As which African American writer did the protagonist in Ellison visualize himself as he wrote his graduation oration?
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Booker T. Washington
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From what perspective does "We Real Cool" appear to be told?
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the perspective of the pool players
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In Ellison, which phrase does the protagonist accidentally say during his post-battle royal oration?
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social equality
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Kerouac's novel is set in this year
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1960
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In O'Connor's story, what does the Bible salesman steal from Hulga in the hayloft?
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her leg
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In the story, men who come into contact with Fleur usually?
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Suffer some kind of mishap or calamity
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In O'Connor's story, what does the bible salesman give as his name when he introduces himself to Mrs. Hopewell?
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Manley Pointer
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To whom does the story "Fleur" assign responsibility for the men's death in the meat locker?
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All of the above.
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In O'Connor's story, why does Hulga ask Mrs. Freeman questions about how her daughter's boyfriend cured her sty by popping her neck the morning after the Bible salesman has called for Mrs. Hopewell?
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Hulga wants to avoid answering her mother's questions about the Bible salesman.
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Sexton's "Sylvia's Death" is written for?
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The poet Sylvia Plath
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In O'connor's Story how old does Hulga say she is when the Bible salesman first asks her?
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17
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In Faulkner: Which of the Snopes family gets called to testify before the Justice of the Peace in the story's opening pages?
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Sarty
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In Hemingway: What does Harry think the woman feels for him?
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She treats him unconsciously as one of her many possessions.
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In Faulkner: What did Abner do differently for the second barn burning than he did for the first?
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The first time he warned his landlord with a messenger.
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In Faulkner: When he's not burning barns, what kind of fires does Abner build?
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Small neat fires
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In Zora Neale Hurston's "How It Feels to be Colored Me" Hurston says that she would offer "Howdy-do-well-I-thank-you-where-you-goin" when she was a young girl in Eatonville?
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Northern white tourists bound for Orlando
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How does Hurston feel about being "colored"?
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nonchalant-it doesn't bother her at all
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In " the Occurrence at owl creek bridge" the main character
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Imagines his escape
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An example of personification in Twain's "Jim Smiley and his jumping frog" is
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The nearby animals' "laughter" at the outcome of the $40 bet
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In "an occurrence at Owl creek" Farquhar is to be hanged for
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Attempting to burn Owl Creek Bridge
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In "the story of an hour" Mrs. Mallard has loved her husband
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Sometimes
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Henry, a character in "the goophered grapevine" is a bodily metaphor for
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The goopher's impact on the grapes
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Match the title and the author with the following passage, "Dear loyalty, that suffered a sharp pang as the guest went away disappointed later in the day, that could have served and followed him and loved him as a dog loves"
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Sarah orne jewett " A white heron"
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Which of the four men does most of the rowing in "the open boat"?
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The oiler and the correspondant
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In London's text, the landscape and setting is described as:
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Cold and dark
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How do the four men in Crane's "open boat" find themselves in a lifeboat in the first place?
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They rowed one of the many lifeboats away from a sinking steamboat
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Match the following passage with the most reasonable interpretation. "I shall be telling this with a sigh/ somewhere ages and ages hence/ two roads diverged in a wood, and I/ I took the one less traveled by/ and that has made all the difference."
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The author feels wistful because of missed opportunities
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Dr. Ed warns Anton Rosicky to look after his
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Heart
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In Trifles, what evidence do Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find which could potentially implicate Minnie Wright in her husband's murder?
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A dead canary
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In his previous life, Wing Biddlebaum was named Adolph Myers and help what occupation?
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School master
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In Hemingway: What are the unspecified birds that fly about near their tent?
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Vultures
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In Langston Hughes "theme for English B" the speaker directly addresses
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A college instructor
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Match the following passage with the most reasonable interpreatation of Roethke's "Cuttings": "this urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks, cut stems struggling to put down feet/ what saint strained so much/ rose on such lopped limbs to a new life?
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A tenacity of life
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In Ellison, what gift does the gathering of leading white citizens give to the protagonist after the battle royal and his speech?
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Five dollars
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When the protagonist in Ellison is invited to give his graduation speech to" a gathering of the town's leading white citizens" he is invited to take part in a "battle royal" before he speaks. Why does he object to fighting?
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He doesn't want to distract the whites from his upcoming speech
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Spiegelman uses the following animal to represent the Nazis
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cat
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How do the other characters react to the narrator in "fleur"?
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They barely notice her
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In "at the Cadian Ball" the phrase "C'est Espagnol, ca" is used to explain:
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Calixta's flirtacious reputation
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Chopin's "at the cadian ball" includes Cajun characters who
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Represent the multi racialness of the society
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Sa is enticed to come to the missionary school by the promise of
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Red apples
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In Howell's story Editha sees the war as
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Sacred
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in the excerpt from Up from Slavery, what is the first thing that the speaker remembers witnessing after delivering his speech?
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Overnor bullock rushing the platform to take his hand
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What is the name of the voice that addresses us?
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Walt
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After prolonged investigation, the narrator decides that by daylight, the wallpaper resembles "an interminable string of toadstools." But by moonlight, the wallpaper has two patterns, one in front and a second one underneath the first. What are they?
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Prison bars in the front, with a woman locked behind them
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In "the yellow wallpaper" the narrator believes that the attic room where John installs her was once used for what purpose?
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A nursery
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Of the many voices recorded in Whitman's "Song of Myself," which is the loudest?
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The voice of the happy poet, recording these wonders
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In "Desiree's Baby," what does Denise do when Armand rejects her?
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Walks into the bayou with the infant and they are never seen again
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Match the following passage from Freeman with the most reasonable interpretation: "A little yellow canary that had been asleep in his green cage at the south window woke up and fluttered wildly, beating his little yellow wings against the wires. He always did so when Joe Dagget came into the room.
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The canary's behavior is representative of Louisa's fears that marriage will disrupt her orderly, peaceful lifestyle.
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Match the title and author with the following passage: "Cast down your bucket where you are."
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Booker T. Washington, "Up from Slavery"
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DuBois wrote, "Capitalism cannot redeem itself" in:
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"The Souls of Black Folk"
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To whom does Booker T. Washington acknowledge sending a copy of his "Atlanta Exposition Address" some time after its delivery?
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President Grover Cleveland
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What does Zitkala-Sa refer to as the "civilizing machine?"
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The Quaker boarding school
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In London's story, which of the following best describes the dog's way of knowing and responding to its surroundings?
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The dog responds instinctively to its surroundings.
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In "Harlem," the author advocates:
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Following your dreams before it is too late
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In Hemingway: What do the italicized inset passages represent?
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True experiences that he had planned to write about, but now never will
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In Hemingway: Which of the following settings is not described in one of Harry's inset tales?
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Rio de Janeiro
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In Ellison, what gift does the gathering of leading white citizens give to the protagonist after the battle royal and his speech?
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A college scholarship
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In Bishop's poem, the character reads this magazine:
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National Geographic
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What does the protagonist's grandfather in Ellison's text tell his family on his deathbed?
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That life is a war and he has been a traitor all his days
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Although the fighters in Ellison's text have been blindfolded, midway through the fight the protagonist can make out the shapes of the other fighters. How?
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He has sweated through the fabric until it became transparent
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Sexton's poem "The Starry Night" references a painting by
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Van Gogh
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In O'Connor's story, in which discipline has Hulga received a Ph.D.?
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Philosophy
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In O'Connor's story, why does Hulga ask Mrs. Freeman questions about how her daughter's boyfriend cured her sty by popping her neck the morning after the Bible salesman has called for Mrs. Hopewell?
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Hulga wants to avoid answering her mother's questions about the Bible salesman
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The narrator does not recount Fleur's rape in detail; she says only, "I closed by eyes and put my head in my arms, tried to hide, so there is nothing to describe but what I couldn't block out." What incident seems to stand in for a description of the rape within the logic of the story?
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Lily's fight with the sow
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To whom does the story "Fleur" assign responsibility for the men's death in the meat locker?
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The narrator, Fleur, and the men themselves (all of the above)
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What does Cleofilas do at the end of Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek?
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She goes back to Mexico
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"...if he even see a straddle-bug start to go anywhere, he would bet you how long it would take him to get wherever he was going to, and if you took him up he would foller that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where was bound for and how long he was on the road." is an example of
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a tall tale
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In the story "A white heron," the protagonist
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Keeps silent about the heron's whereabouts
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Why is Louisa's dog, Caesar, kept tethered in his kennel?
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He bit the neighbour
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In "The Yellow Wallpaper" the narrator believes that she is saving which person from the influence of the yellow wall-paper by inhabiting the attic room herself?
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Her infant baby, whose name is never given
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Which of the following is the most reasonable interpretation reasonable interpretation of the use of the term "trifles" in the play's title?
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"Trifles" is the term that the men in the play use to refer to women's work.
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In "The Gilded Six-Bits," what does Missy conclude is the reason fro Joe slipping the gilded half dollar under her pillow?
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to imply that he can pay for Missy's services as well as Slemmons can
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In "Almos' a Man," what happens shortly after Dave gets his gun?
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He accidentally shoots and kills Jim Hawkins' mule.
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In Faulkner the following passage "Now he could hear his father's stiff foot as it came own on the boards with clocklike finality, a sound out of all proportion to the displacement of the body it bore and which was not dwarfed wither by the white door before it, as though it had attained a sort of vicious and ravening minimum not to be dwarfed by anything." symbolizes:
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The father's unwillingness to change his approach to life
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In Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," what is the understated theme?
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violence toward the child
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In Ellison, how does the protagonist get out of the battle royal?
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He throws the match to save one of the whites from losing his bet.
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In Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," the father is described as
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drunken and dirty
