American Literature Semester 1 Final exam with 100% correct answers 2024
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American Literature Semest
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American Literature Semest
The Romantic ideals include these five I's: correct answers Individualism,Intuition,Imagination, Idealism, Introspection
This author formulated the ideas of Transcendentalism. correct answers Ralph Waldo Emerson
This author established the elements of the detective story. correct answers E...
The Romantic ideals include these five I's: correct answers
Individualism,Intuition,Imagination, Idealism, Introspection
This author formulated the ideas of Transcendentalism. correct answers Ralph Waldo
Emerson
This author established the elements of the detective story. correct answers Edgar A.
Poe
This author spent two years at a pond studying nature. correct answers Henry David
Thoreau
This author explored the effects of sin, guilt, and hypocrisy. correct answers Nathaniel
Hawthorne
This author is known for Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle. correct answers
Washington Irving
This author explored the indifference of society. correct answers Herman Melville
About 1800, American literature shifted from... correct answers classic to romantic
How did most American writers from the 18th and early 19th centuries acquire their
style? correct answers imitating British writers
Romanticism emphasized the emotions and correct answers the individual
Which one of these writers is considered the most representative of Romanticism?
correct answers Edgar A. Poe
What is a key concept of Transcendentalism? correct answers intuition
Since optimism was important to the transcendentalists, as what did they tend to view
evil? correct answers something that didn't exist.
Who were two major American prose writers who refused to accept transcendentalist
views? correct answers Hawthorne and Melville
Poe's writing appeals to the _____ in all of us. correct answers fear
, While in the chamber, besides "Nevermore," what other word does the raven utter in
"The Raven"? correct answers He didn't say anything else!
According to a majority of interpretations, what IS the Raven? correct answers a
supernatural being-devil
As the poem evolves, what is happening to the character and the writing style of "The
Raven"? correct answers He is getting flustered and there is a lot of repetition.
Throughout "The Raven," the speaker shows an increasing amount of what emotion?
correct answers hysteria
The final stanza ends upon a note of complete ________. correct answers despair
What animal emerges from the pit in "The Pit and the Pendulum"? correct answers rats
Over which part of the body does the pendulum threaten to "open" in "The Pit and the
Pendulum"? correct answers chest
In the "Tell-Tale Heart," the story is told from whose perspective? correct answers
murderer
Which story did Poe create because he needed logic and order in his life? correct
answers "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
As what does Fortunato dress for the carnival? correct answers court jester
Where does Montresor take Fortunato? correct answers to his family's catacombs
At what time does the mysterious guest arrive in "The Masque of the Red Death"?
correct answers midnight
How does the mysterious guest in "The Masque of the Red Death" come dressed?
correct answers A bloody corpse
The excerpt from Emerson's "Self-Reliance" states that each person must trust whom?
correct answers himself or herself
Emerson believed that what is good and bad can be judged only by whom? correct
answers God
Emerson would probably agree that the desire for consistency __________. correct
answers limits the emergence of exciting new ideas
Which idea is an important idea for Emerson? correct answers Live by your principles.
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