Literature Ch. 7 Test – Flashcards
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Two major types of literature are poetry and...
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prose
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Identify the imaginative comparison in the following excerpt from "The Day the Dam Broke": "The face that we were all as safe as kittens under a cookstove did not assuage in the least the fine despair..."
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simile
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In "The Day the Dam Broke," Dr. Mallory mistakes what sound for rushing water?
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a boy rollerskating behind him
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In "A Slight Sound at Evening," White revisits an old vacation spot for each of the following reasons except...
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to visit an old friend he had not seen fo years.
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In "A Slight Sound at Evening," White describes a noise as inducing "summer sleep." Here he is using....
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alliteration
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Which is not a sound of the past in "A Slight Sound at Evening"?
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an outboard motor.
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The title "A Miserable Merry Christmas" can be best described as...
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a paradox
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Whose viewpoint dominates Steffen's account in "A Miserable Merry Christmas"?
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Steffens's as a young boy.
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Which best describes the boy's father while he awaits the arrival of the pony in "A Miserable Merry Christmas"?
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He is worried and impatient.
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Identify the imaginative comparison Welty uses in the following sentence from "Listening": "It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass."
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simile
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According to "Listening," what was not a contribution of Eudora Welty's father to her life?
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wise use of money.
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What imaginative comparison does Whittier use in the following statement from "Telling the Bees": "the same brook sings of a year ago"?
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personification
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In "Telling the Bees," what is the speaker's first deduction when he sees someone draping the beehives?
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His lover's grandfather has died.
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What imaginative comparison is the author of "Telling the Bees" using in the phrase "the slantwise rain/ Of light through the leaves"?
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metaphor
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In "Verifying One's References," how does Kipling react when his friend asks to verify what So-and-so has said?
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He is slightly upset.
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According to "Life of Caesar," Caesar showed great fortitude by persevering in spite of all of the following physical problems except which one?
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digestive problems
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How is it that Pompey and Caesar lived peacefully ruling together?
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They both were afraid of Crassus.
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What happened the night before Caesar and Pompey went to battle?
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A flaming light landed in Pompey's camp.
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Caesar believed his plan to use javelins would be best because...
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Pompey's young soldiers did not wish to have their faces injured.
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Caesar feared Cassius because...
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Cassius was a thin, pale man.
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What did Caesar's will reveal?
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his generosity to the Romans.
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In "Sir Francis Drake," the poet...
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is afraid there will be no more men like Drake.
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What does the term GENRE means?
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kind; sort; style; genus
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What is a journal and how does it differ from a diary?
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The diary is usually more intimate than a journal. The journal is more likely to be kept for a specific professional purpose.
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What do both the biography and the autobiography use to tell about an incident in a person's life?
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anecdote
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"Darius Conningway...was telling the Public Utilities Commission in the language of Julius Caesar that they might as well try to move the Northern star as to move him." This quotation from "The Day the Dam Broke" is an example of what literary device?
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allusion
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Identify the following type of imaginative comparison from "A Slight Sound at Evening': " the small steamboat that had a long rounded stern like the lip of a Ubangi..."
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simile
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Give one example of situational irony in Steffens's essay "A Miserable Merry Christmas."
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The boy kept saying that he wanted nothing but a pony, and when he thought he literally got nothing, he became so discouraged, but he really did get a pony.
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Give one example of dramatic irony in Steffens's essay "A Miserable Merry Christmas."
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The boy thought he literally got nothing but he did get something, so he basically got mad for nothing.
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According to "Listening," how did Welty benefit from a knowledge of time?
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It helped Welty to know more about chronology.
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In "Listening" what was a favorite activity for Eudora and her mother?
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They both loved to read.
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According to custom, what did one "tell the bees" and why?
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That Mary had died; because one didn't want them to leave the hives.
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Identify "journey" in the following lines: "For I knew she was telling the bees of one/ Gone on the journey we all must go!"
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death
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According to "Verifying One's References," what is Kipling's philosophy about believing what one hears?
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You need to see something to verify it.
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Who put the life of Caesar in drama form?
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Shakespeare
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What was the island that Caesar conquered that was "beyond the limits of the known world"?
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Britain
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What did Caesar do with the enemy soldiers after he defeated them?
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Pardoned them.
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Define "the Ides of March" mentioned in "Life of Caesar."
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March 15th.
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What allusion does Hayman use in " Sir Francis Drake" in reference to character traits being passed on.
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a biblical allusion to Elijah
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Give at least one positive attribute that Caesar and Drake had in common.
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They were both bold and valiant.
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*play that ends unhappily
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tragedy
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*play that ends happily
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comedy
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*history of a person's life
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biography
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*interpretation of an author's own life
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autobiography
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*personal record of the events in someone's life
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diary
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*a recollection of events from the author's public life
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memoirs
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*a special incident from the life of an important person
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anecdote
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*a contrast between what a character expects to happen and what actually happens
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situational irony
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*a contrast between what the reader knows and what a character in the story knows
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dramatic irony
