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H. English3 S1 Exam
English 3 Honors Semester 1 Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which character directly opposes the Fugitive Slave Law? | Mrs. Bird |
| Over what river does Eliza make her miraculous crossing? | the Ohio |
| Where does Tom first meet Eva? | on a riverboat |
| In what state is the Shelby farm located? | Kentucky |
| To whom does Shelby sell Tom and Harry? | Haley |
| How does St. Clare die? | He is stabbed |
| Who beats Uncle Tom to death? | Legree's overseers |
| Who inherits ownership of Tom when St. Clare dies? | Marie |
| In what city do the St. Clare's live? | New Orleans |
| Who is Eliza's mother? | Cassy |
| Who is Stowe's intended audience and how does she reach them? | Women; uses pictures from every realm of - including religion, sensational pulp fiction, and popular entertainment |
| Most of Stowe's asides are aimed at _______ | Christians |
| Young George has what kind of relationship with Aunt Chloe and Uncle Tom? | Close, family-like, friendly - George teaches Tom to write and jokes around with Aunt Chloe who is a mother figure |
| Why do the slave trackers abandon Loker and who cares for him? | Selfish slave trackers abandon him due to his arrogance; Quakers and Eliza / the other runaway slaves save him (Christian duty) |
| Miss Ophelia | St. Clare's cousin |
| The lock of hair belongs to ___ | Eva St. Clare (worn around Tom's neck) |
| The lock of hair reminds Legree of ___ | His late mother; he feels guilt and remorse |
| Who knocks down Legree? | George Shelby |
| Slavery was not a ___ issue, but rather a ____ issue | Political; Christian |
| Stowe convinced people using an _____ | Emotional Logic |
| The narrator's parents came from | China |
| The Gold Mountain is | America |
| The aunt in the mother's story | killed herself |
| The narrator's mother often | told stories |
| Which of the following does not seem to concern the narrator | becoming wealthy |
| Most of the second chapter consists of | relating a Chinese legend |
| Fa Mu Lan is | a woman warrior |
| During childhood the narrator | received contradictory messages |
| The narrator frequently refers to the custom of | binding girls' feet |
| The narrator relates the inscriptions on the warrior woman's back to | her own mission to write |
| The narrator describes her mother's encounter with | a Sitting Ghost |
| The mother returned to her home village as | a doctor |
| Before returning to the village, them other went to the market especially to buy herself | a female slave |
| The mother would never help with | people who were dying |
| The narrator mentions that her mother always liked to tell | ghost stories |
| Brave Orchid and Moon Orchid are both amazed at | how old the other looks |
| How does Fa Mu Lan come into the story again | as a paper doll |
| Brave Orchid was determined that Moon Orchid do something about her | husband |
| Moon Orchid's husband was | a doctor |
| Whom did Moon Orchid suspect of plotting against her | Mexicans |
| Brave Orchid said that one sign of madness is that a person | says the same thing over and over |
| Where did Moon Orchid finally go | to a mental hospital |
| What caused Moon Orchid's problems | culture shock |
| The narrator says that when she was little her mother cut her | tongue |
| At American school all of the Chinese girls had great trouble | talking |
| The narrator's sixth grade was interrupted by | a long illness |
| The narrator drew up a list of | things she wanted to tell her mother |
| Which of the following things did the narrator not say she wanted to do | become a mathematician |
| The Woman Warrior closes with | a talking-story |
| Five steps of the writing process in order | Brainstorming, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Presenting |
| MLA format for a book with one author | LastName, FirstName. Underlined Title. Publisher (U of ___ P, ___ UP, or Wilson), year (most recent). |
| Purpose of the topic sentence | Explain the paragraph |
| Purpose of the thesis sentence | Explain the paper |
| MLA format for an online database article | Last, First. "Title of Article." Publisher(underlined), vol., date published, page number. Title of Database (underlined), doi: number. Accessed Date. |
| Formatting of works cited page - order and spacing | ~ABC order ~double space |
| Tense in which literature should be discussed in writing | present |
| Identification of proper paraphrasing | *** |
| Definition of argumentation | Writing intended to prove the validity of an idea, or point of view, by presenting sound reasoning, discussion, and argument that thoroughly convince the reader |
| Definition of expository writing | requires the student to investigate an idea, evaluate evidence, expound on the idea, and set forth an argument concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner; accomplished through comparison/contrast, definition, example, analysis of cause/effect, etc |
| Rhetorical question | asking a question whose answer in self-evident; intended to stir emotion |
| Repetition | restating an idea using the same words |
| Restatement | repeating an idea in a variety of ways |
| Parallelism | refers to the repeated use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar in structure or meaning |
| John G. Neihardt | translated Black Elk Speaks |
| Black Elk | -Oglala Lakota Sioux spiritual leader. -Son of a medicine man who believed in and followed Crazy Horse. -came back to the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1889 and with his influence as a "spiritual authority," showed his support for the Ghost Dance movement. |
| Jack Gladstone | Blackfoot tribe; singer/songwriter about Native Americans |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Patrick Henry | wrote the "Speech in the Virginia Convention"; said "give me liberty or give me death" |
| Robinson Jeffers | wrote "Shine, Perishing Republic" |
| Claude McKay | wrote "America"; forceful writing style; born in Jamaica |
| Langston Hughes | "I, too"; Harlem renaissance |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | wrote The Woman Warrior; special type of memoir |
| William Cullen Bryant | ~wrote "Thanatopsis" ~first mature American Romantic ~wrote with common speech of his time ~3 influences: belief in deism, geographic surroundings (nature), Lyrical Ballads ~critics say his poetry is sincere and pious |
| Thomas Paine | wrote "The Crisis: No. 1" |
| Walt Whitman | wrote "I hear America Singing" His words and how he expressed them bothered traditional writers and excited readers; used Free Verse |
| Joseph Campbell | the guru of mythology |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin; made asides to women and Christians to abolish slavery |
| Ralph Waldo Emmerson | "Nature" attempted to find his own identity dropped his name Ralph in college; began writing a journal affected & appealed to many writing style was somewhat plain - like a lecture influenced Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Henry James, Frost |
| MLA format for online database example | Alonso, Alvaro. “Toxicity of Nitrite.” Environmental Toxicology, vol. 21, no. 1, 3 Feb. 2006, pp. 90-94. Wiley Online Library, Accessed 26 May 2009. |
| Poem title punctuation | Quotation marks |
| Purpose of Patrick Henry's "Speech in the VA Convention" | Convince to arm the colonists against the British |
| Metaphors of Patrick Henry's "Speech in the VA Convention" (p.170) | "Lamp of experience" = Owning clarity / guidance "Chains" = restrictions "Storm" = British Military |
| Rhetorical techniques of Patrick Henry's "Speech in the VA Convention" | Repetition, Parallelism, Rhetorical Question, Restatement |
| Songs in Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" | Trade jobs; mechanics, carpenters, shoemaker, mother, young wife, boatman, etc. (all keep America functioning) |
| Free Verse in Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" | Creates his own melody that creates a smooth flow between each line, just as each job flows together smoothly; parallelism helps each job stand out |
| Title meaning of "Thanatopsis" (WCB) | A way of looking at death |
| View of Death in "Thanatopsis" (WCB) | Don't die alone, everyone will join; go peacefully, surrounded by nature |
| Speakers in "Thanatopsis" (WCB) | Speaker (beginning and very end) Nature for the rest |
| RWE Nature excerpt - Transcendentalism | Movement began among Europe writers (1800s) Knowing/exploring nature helped people to understand what is universally true God can be found everywhere, both in nature & human beings Every person possesses intuition/essential understanding of right/wrong |
| RWE Nature excerpt - View / Description of Nature | Identified God with nature; pandeist/pantheist "Wonder handbooks" Thought must precede everything Words have power to effect change Isolate from society's thoughts/past |
| Cadence | Words that rise and fall in emphasis |
| Emerson affected and appealed to many different people | Philosophy concerned humanity, nature, and God Young; hope and ideas that society was on the brink of a new age Society responded to his optimism; "America was the best" Pandeist |
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