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Composition II: Study Guide- Final Exam

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True or False: The cultural context of a short story is reflected in the cultural background, beliefs, and practices of the characters.
True
True or False: The social context of a work of literature is defined by the social issues with which that text deals.
True
True or False: In "Cathedral" Robert is characterized by his tendency to prejudge people and situations.
False. Correct answer: His interest in and openness to the world around him
In "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver does the narrator change his mind about the blind man when they drink together?
No
In "The Things They Carried," how does Kiowa explain seeing Ted Lavender get killed?
"It was like watching a rock fall"
True or False: "The Things They Carried" takes place during Desert Storm.
False. Correct answer: Vietnam
What does Linda tell Tim O'Brien in his dreams in "Lives of the Dead?"
It is okay she is dead
True or False: Linda's purpose in "The Lives of the Dead" is the reason why Tim learned about death
True
True or False: The narrator's father in "Boy's and Girl's" was a missionary.
False. Correct answer: He was a fox farmer
True or False: The main lesson taught in "The Lesson" happens on a summer morning
False. Correct answer: The week before Christmas
True or False: The girls in "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" were taken away from the pact because their parents were abusing them
False. Correct Answer: Their parents wanted something better for them
True or False: Asterion is a Minotaur in "The House of Asterion."
True
_____ are prose writings between lines of a play that include directions that an author builds in for the actors so that they know where to go and what actions to perform on stage
Stage directions
An ____ is a speech spoken directly to the audience but the other characters cannot hear him/her
Aside
True or False: In Susan Glaspell's "Trifles," the sticky fruit jars, the forced door to the birdcage, and the errant pleat in Mrs. Wright's quilt were all part of the "trifles" Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters noticed at the Wright's farm house
True
In "A Streetcar Named Desire" Blanche is told to "take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at ______"
Elysian Fields
In "A Streetcar Named Desire" Blanche ultimately wants companionship, love, and security from Mitch. True or False?
True
In "Fences" Troy wants to build his fence for what reason?
To keep death away
True or False: In August Wilson's "Fences" Rose decides to care for Raynell because she decides that Raynell is innocent of Troy's sins
True
True or False: August Wilson's "Fences" begins in the 1950's.
True
"I don't want him to be like me! I want him to move as far away from my life as he can get!"
Troy Maxson ("Fences")
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
Blanche ("A Streetcar named Desire")
"I know what stillness is. The law has got to punish crime, Mrs. Hale."
Mrs. Peters ("Trifles")
"Boy, hush your mouth. That's you daddy you talking about. I don't want to hear that kind of talk this morning. I done raised you to come to this? You standing there all health and grown talking about you ain't going to your daddy's funeral?"
Rose Maxson ("Fences")
"Tiger--Tiger! We've had this date with each other from the beginning."
Stanley ("A Streetcar Named Desire")
"She moved from that chair to the one over here and just sat there with her hands held together and looking down. I got a feeling that I ought to make some conversation, so I said I had come in to see if John wanted to put in a telephone, and at that she started to laugh, and then she stopped and looked at me--scared."
Mr. Hale ("Trifles")
A poem that expressed a story and usually has a refrain is a ____
Ballad
If a poet is praising something or someone, this type of poem is known as an ____
Ode
What happens to "Richard Cory" at the end of the poem?
Richard Cory kills himself
"My Last Duchess" refers to whom?
The Duke's last wife who he had killed
In part I of the "Highwayman" we learn that he plans to return to Bess just before daylight unless ___________
The redcoats harass him
True or False: Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" can be classified as a dramatic monologue
True
True or False: Porphyria is strangled with her own hair in the end of "Porphyria's Lover"
True
In "ode to a Grecian Urn" what is the poem praising/ addressing?
The pictures on the urn
True or False: The theme in "Ode to a Nightingale" is morality
True
In Countee Cullen's "Saturday's Child" to whom does the speaker compare her life to?
A privileged person
In Langston Hughes' "The Weary Blues" what is the theme
The struggle of everyday African Americans
True or False: "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay the speaker is trying to rally the troops to fight against oppression
True
True or False: In "Death of a Young Boy by Drowning" by Margret Atwood, the young boy's death was ironic
True
True or False: Bob Dylan's song "The time they are a changin" served an as anthem for the people in the 1960's to serve as a wake-up call for the older generations that there were going to be extreme changes done by the newer generations
True
True or False: The speaker in "O' Captain, my Captain" admires what president Lincoln has done and mourns his death.
True
In W.H. Auden's "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone," how does the quote end: "He was my noon, my midnight, my talk, my ____
song
"Here Captain! Dear Father!/This arm beneath your head;/It is some dream on the deck,/You've fallen cold and dead."
O Captain! My Captain!
"The mother smiled to know her child/Was in a sacred place,/But that smile was the last smile/ To come upon her face."
Ballad of Birmingham
"In one long Yellow string I wound?Three times her little throat around./And strangled her. No pain felt she."
Porphyria' s Lover
"Your door is shut against my tightened face. /And I am sharp as steel with discontent;/But I possess the courage and the grace/To bear my anger proudly and unbent."
The White House
What men or gods are these? What maidens loath?/What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?/What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?"
Ode on a Grecian urn
"The line it is drawn/ The curse it is cast/ The slow one now /Will later be fast."
the times they are a changin
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees./ The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloud seas."
The Highwayman
"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,/ With the stars strung for a rattle; / I cut my teeth as the black raccoon —/ For implements of battle."
Saturday's Child
True or False: The Italian sonnet contains fourteen lines; the first eight present a problem and last six contain the answer to the problem
True
True or False: In William Shakespeare's [ My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun] the poet hold that his mistress is as lovely as any other woman compared to things as false as rose and the sun
True
True or False: A writer uses allusions primarily to connect his or her work to well-known people, events, and places
True
To give human-like characteristics to an inanimate object is called what?
Personification
When the author tells us directly what a character is using precise words and images this is known as what sort of characterization?
Direct characterization
What is the central idea in a literary work called?
Theme
What tense is always used when writing about literature?
Present
True or False: Breaking a large topic down into smaller pieces to better understand it is called a summary
False. Correct answer: Analysis
True or False: To create effective imagery, writers primarily use sensory details
True
If a person is struggling against another character, what sort of conflict is this?
External conflict
True or False: The sonnet [Upon the breeze she spread her Golden Hair] by Francesco Petrarch is an example of an Italian sonnet
True
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