Unit Three

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Unit Three

• Test Review

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What is the name of the poem that was a
meditation on death?
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Thanatopsis
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Who said Simplify! Simplify!?
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Henry David Thoreau
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Mr. Hooper was a character is which story?
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Ministers Black Veil
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Who was the most famous protégé of Ralph Waldo
Emerson?
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Henry David Thoreau
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Footprints in the sands of time is from what
poem?
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A Psalm of Life
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Which author/poet wrote 1775 poems in his/her
lifetime?
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Emily Dickinson
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Nevermore
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The Raven
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He was jailed for not paying his taxes
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Henry David Thoreau
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Name two of the traits of the American Romantic
hero.
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• Youth
• Innocence
• Love for nature
• Distrust of town life
• Uneasiness with women

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What is a third person omniscient point if view?
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The all-knowing narrator stands outside of the
story and relates the events of the story.
Narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of the
characters.
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Name two positive Romantic writers.
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• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau
• Walt Whitman

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Name two negative Romantic writers.
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• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Herman Melville

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What was the theme of much of Nathaniel
Hawthornes work?
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• Secret sin
• Guilt
• Hipocracy

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Why did Nathaniel Hawthorne write so much about
sin and guilt?
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His ancestors were judges and the Salem witch
trials.
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Who was the first American author to be widely
read overseas?
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Washington Irving
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What was unique about the trees in the forest in
The Devil and Tom Walker?
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The trees were carved with the names of the
people who had sold their souls to the devil.
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Footprints in the sands of time is from what
poem?
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A Psalm of Life
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What was the name of the cat in The Black Cat?
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Pluto
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Who said Whosoever would be a man must be a
nonconformist?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson in Self Reliance
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Elizabeth was a character in what story?
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The Ministers Black Veil
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Name a story that utilized a symbol to get a
message across.
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Ministers Black Veil
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What is the name of a literary device that uses
the words like or as?
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A simile
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Who wrote Song of Myself?
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Walt Whitman
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Who said in all, 28.12-1/2 ?
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Henry David Thoreau in Walden
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Who was nicknamed the Bard of Democracy?
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Walt Whitman
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This literary movement was a reaction against
Rationalism
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Romanticism
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Who wrote Oh Captain, my captain!
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Walt Whitman
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Gothic tale I had walled her up inside the
tomb!
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The Black Cat
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Dark Romantic story utilizing symbolic use of
color.
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The Masque of the Red Death
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A parable whose message speaks to all who have
secret sin.
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The Ministers Black Veil
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Who was known as the father of
transcendentalism?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am a transparent eyeball.
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Nature - Emerson
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Which Romantic Poet was known for his / her free
verse, parallel structure, and cataloging?
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Walt Whitman
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What work was organized into 4 seasons?
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Walden- Thoreau
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That government is best which governs least.
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Civil Disobedience- Thoreau
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What type of literature is characterized by bleak
settings, psychologically tormented characters,
and supernatural elements?
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Gothic / Dark Romantic
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This poet was known for his / her liberal use of
dashes-
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Emily Dickinson
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A simple story that teaches a moral lesson.
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Parable
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A person, place, or thing that has its own
meaning and also represents something larger.
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Symbol
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Which author was known for his use of single
effect?
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Edgar Allen Poe
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A figure of speech that implies a comparison
between two unlike things.
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Metaphor
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Who lived for 2 years on Walden Pond to put the
beliefs of transcendentalism into practice?
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Henry David Thoreau
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When two words have identical sounds in their
final accented syllables. (glove / above)
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Exact Rhyme
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Which dark romantic author was heavily influenced
by the personal tragedy of losing so many loved
ones to tuberculosis?
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Criticized Whitman for leaving his / her people
out of his poems, but wrote in free verse like
Whitman himself?
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Langston Hughes
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Name the two categories of romantic writers and
name one of each.
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Light - (Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman)Dark - (Poe,
Hawthorne, Melville)
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Romantics believed that the ______ was the center
of the universe.
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When the vowel sounds of two words are similar,
but not identical. (glove / prove)
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Slant Rhyme
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The individual
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Name two characteristics of Romanticism
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• A distrust of civilization
• A nostalgia for the past
• A concern for freedom
• Interest in the supernatural
• Love for the natural landscape
• Break the rules of tradition

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Which poet was a recluse from society his / her
poems were not published until years after her
death.
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Emily Dickinson
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Which poet believed in the interconnectedness of
all living things?
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Walt Whitman