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SALTAmericanLitUnit6
Study help for American Lit Unit 6 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| QUOTATION: "We were now nearly up to the latitude of Cape Horn." | Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
| QUOTATION: "For the third time my soul's ship starts upon this voyage, Starbuck." | Herman Melville |
| QUOTATION: "I spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me." | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| QUOTATION: "The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? - Because one did survive the wreck." | Herman Melville |
| QUOTATION: "While over them the swallows skim, And all is hushed at Shiloh." | Herman Melville |
| QUOTATION: "Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?" | Edgar Allan Poe |
| QUOTATION: "Having heard much of the habits and peculiarities of these little animals, I determined to pay a visit to the community." | Washington Irving |
| QUOTATION: "But we loved with a love that was more than love." | Edgar Allan Poe |
| QUOTATION: "We traversed the whole village, or republic, which covered an area of about thirty acres; but not a whisker of an inhabitant was to be seen." | Washington Irving |
| QUOTATION: "Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight" | William Cullen Bryant |
| QUOTATION: "...approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." | William Cullen Bryant |
| What artist painted Harvest Time: Summer in Farmington Valley? | Thomas Worthington Whittredge |
| Who painted Mountain of the Holy Cross? | Thomas Moran |
| Who painted Kindred Spirits? | Asher B. Durand |
| Who was one of the most important landscape painters of the late nineteenth century? | Thomas Moran |
| What painting portrays William Cullen Bryant teaching Thomas Cole in the ways of nature? | Kindred Spirits |
| Who painted romantic scenes of the American wilderness? | Albert Bierstadt |
| What landscape painting did George Catlin portray? | Niagara Falls |
| What artist painted Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California? | Albert Bierstadt |
| Who painted Native Americans of the western United States? | George Catlin |
| TERM: questions expressing some idea but to which no answer is required or expected | rhetorical questions |
| TERM: America's first great imaginative writers, including Irving, Cooper, and Bryant | Knickerbockers |
| Who wrote Two Years before the Mast? | Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
| Who was the first writer of creative stories and sketches? | Washington Irving |
| What work was instrumental in bringing on the Civil War and the freeing of slaves? | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Who wrote "A Rescue"? | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Which authors are known for their sympathetic portrayals of the mistreated and downtrodden? | Harriet Beecher Stowe and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
| Name America's first novelist. | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Who became famous for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin? | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| What group of stories is Cooper best known for? | Leatherstocking Tales |
| Who wrote Moby Dick? | Herman Melville |
| Who was America's first eminent poet of nature? | William Cullen Bryant |
| What has been called America's only epic? | Moby Dick |
| Who wrote "Thanatopsis"? | William Cullen Bryant |
| Who is the author of "Annabel Lee"? | Edgar Allan Poe |
| What literary term is best expressed by this quotation? "Thou blossom bright with autumn dew." | alliteration |
| What literary term is best expressed by this quotation? "Hoveringly halting and dipping on the wing" | consonance |
| What literary term is best expressed by this quotation? "the first [day] is the morning, the second the noon, and the third the evening and the end of that thing" | metaphor |
| What literary term is best expressed by this quotation? "What soulless thing is this that laughs before a wreck?" | rhetorical question |
| What literary term is best expressed by this quotation? "full of sport, business, and public affairs; whisking about hither and thither, as if on gossiping visits to each other's houses, or congregating in the cool of the evening." | personification |
| What literary term is best expressed by this quotation? "For an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia's natural bridge." | simile |
| Which character was a young hunter reared by the Delaware Indians who had been captured by the Huron Indians? | Natty Bumppo/Deerslayer ("A Rescue") |
| Which character was a young, uneducated slave girl who was purchased by St. Clare? | Topsy ("Topsy") |
| Which character was a Huron chief who wanted Deerslayer to join his tribe? | Rivenoak ("A Rescue") |
| Which character was the Parsee who died at sea and made prophesies to Ahab? | Fedallah (Moby Dick) |
| Which character was Deerslayer's closest friend and the Delaware Chief? | Chingachgook ("A Rescue") |
| Which character was Ahab's first mate and conscience to Ahab? | Starbuck (Moby Dick) |
| Which character is Miss Ophelia's cousin who purchased Topsy for Miss Ophelia to train? | St. Clare ("Topsy") |
| Which character was the native islander who was one of the Pequod's harpooners? | Queequeg (Moby Dick) |
| Who was the narrator and sole survivor of the Pequod? | Ishmael (Moby Dick) |
| Which work of literature presents a sympathetic view of the sailors? | Two Years before the Mast |
| According to the author of "Annabel Lee," who was jealous of them? | the angels |
| Which work of literature is a meditation on death? | "Thanatopsis" |
| Which work of literature describes a Civil War battle fought near a church? | "Shiloh" |
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