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66 Cards in this Set
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What memory text did Sandra Cisneros write?
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"Tepeyac"
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Who wrote "My Father's Brain?"
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Jonathan Franzen
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What memory text did Neil Gaiman write?
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"Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Louisville, Kentucky"
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Who wrote "How to Tell a True War Story?"
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Tim O'Brien
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What piece(s) did Langston Hughes write?
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"I, Too, Sing America"
"Let America Be America Again" |
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What were some of Langston Hughes' accomplishments?
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-his first novel won the Harmon gold medal for literature
-helped shape the Harlem Renaissance |
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What memory text did Gish Jen write?
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"The Water-Faucet Vision"
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Rationalist believed that all people could:
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think in a ordered manner, thereby improving their lives
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Jonathon Edwards presents God as a being who is often:
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angry and vengeful
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Explain the accomplishments of William Bradford.
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-a member of the Noncomformists, he was elected governor of Plymouth Colony
-wrote "Of Plymouth Plantations" (1630s) |
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Explain the accomplishments of Jonathan Edwards.
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-helped to bring about the religious revival known as the Great Awakening
-known as "The Last Puritan" -wrote "Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God" |
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Explain the accomplishments of Patrick Henry.
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-representative at Virginia House of Burgesses
-delivered speech against the Stamp Act ("Speech to the Virginia Convention") |
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Explain the accomplishments of Thomas Paine.
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-published the most important written work in support of American independence: Common Sense (during Revolution)
-a forty-seven-page pamphlet that denounced King George III as a “royal brute” -later wrote "The Rights of Man" -wrote Crisis, No. 1 |
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Explain the accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson.
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-3rd president of the U.S.
-helped draft "The Declaration of Independence" |
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Explain the accomplishments of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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-wrote "Nature" and "Self-
Reliance" |
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Explain the accomplishments of Henry David Thoreau.
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-lived on Walden Pond for 2 years
-spent a night in jail for not paying his poll tax in protest of the Mexican War |
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Explain the principles of Romanticism.
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-values feeling and reason over intuition
-reflects on nature's beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development -sees poetry as the highest expression of imagination |
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Explain the principles of Transcendentalism.
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-self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority
-people can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls |
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Emerson is a:
a) Transcendentalist b) Romantic |
a) Transcendentalist
-"Nature" and "Self-Reliance" |
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What are the Puritan principles?
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-born w/ sin (predestination: elect/unregenerate
-world is transitory: God gave humans the world to use -life is a journey to salvation -"City On a Hill" |
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What are the principles of Rationalism?
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belief that human beings can arrive at truth by using reason, rather than by relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or on intuition
-e.g. Cotton Mather: cure for smallpox |
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Name this text.
"These are the times that try men’s souls." |
Crisis, No. 1
-Thomas Paine |
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What structure metaphor did Diane Lefer's "Breaking the 'Rules' of Story Structure" give to "Tepeyac?"
Explain. |
musical improvisation
-often Cisneros states an idea, flies away w/ it and returns to the same image (the way a musician returns to a chord) |
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Why did Jefferson believe it important to show how the original version of the Declaration of Independence was amended?
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he wants people to know the framers' intentions - both what they included and what they did not
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What structure metaphor did Diane Lefer's "Breaking the 'Rules' of Story Structure" give to "How to Tell a True War Story?"
Explain. |
instant replay
*terrible moment in Vietnam -O'Brien tells it again and again, differently each time, obsessed w/ the incident and trying to tell it truly (replay-commentary-replay-commentary) |
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Name this text.
"Either you will go through this door or you will not go through." |
"Prospective Immigrants Please Note"
-Adrienne Rich |
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What structure metaphor did Diane Lefer's "Breaking the 'Rules' of Story Structure" give to "The Water-Faucet Vision?"
Explain. |
wheel
hub of the wheel = desire to seek comfort for the pains of life *every anecdote and every memory becomes another spoke leading to the desire (hub) for comfort* |
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According to Emerson's "Nature," nature wears the colors of:
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man's spirit
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According to "Nature," where should a person go to be alone?
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outside to look at the stars (the stars are unattainable)
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What is Emerson's attitude toward society?
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He values nature highly and has some contempt for society
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The Dark Romantics explored:
a) the reasons for the decay of European society and growth of American society b)the civilization of the Goths c)the psychological effects of sin and guilt as well as the conflict between good and evil d)lessons to be drawn from traditional religions |
c)the psychological effects of sin and guilt as well as the conflict between good and evil
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In "Self-Reliance," what does Emerson call "the hobgoblin of little minds?"
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Consistency
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According to Emerson, what makes someone a fully realized person?
a)Following their own conscience b)Achieving their potential c)Staying pure and wise in spirit |
a)following their own conscience
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In the section called "Economy," from Thoreau's "Walden," which of the following activities best illustrates Thoreau's doctrine of simplicity?
a)writing books about forest plants b)building his own house c)keeping a journal and doing research about the animals he encounters |
b)building his own house
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In the section called "Brute Neighbors" from Thoreau's "Walden," what do the ants symbolize?
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human warfare
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"It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow" (from the Scarlet Letter) refers to:
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a rosebush
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What three ways was the Scarlet Letter interpreted in the course of the novel?
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adultery, angel, able
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Identification:
He was elected governor of Plymouth Colony. |
William Bradford
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Identification:
Transcendentalist leader; he believed, "To be great is to be misunderstood." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Identification.
Jailed for not paying his taxes to protest the Mexican War. |
Henry David Thoreau
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Identification.
Most well-known for the phrase, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" |
Patrick Henry
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Identification.
Writer of Common Sense. |
Thomas Paine
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Identification.
He was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase. |
Thomas Jefferson
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From what text and author does this quote come?
"Perhaps this is behind Thoreau's dictum: In wildness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known in the mountains, but seldom perceived among men." |
Aldo Leopold, "Thinking Like a Mountain"
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From what text and author does this quote come?
"I am here not only to evade for a while the clamor and filth and confusion of the cultural apparatus but also to confront, immediately and directly if it's possible, the bare bones of existence, the elemental and fundamental, the bedrock which sustains us." |
Edward Abbey, "The First Morning"
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From what text and author does this quote come?
"I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"
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From what text and author does this quote come?
The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!" |
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
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From what text and author does this quote come?
"Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. |
Langston Hughes, "I Too Sing America"
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Explanation of symbols:
The Tin Tobacco Box |
*Paul D's heart
-after his traumatizing experiences at Sweet Home and, especially, at the prison camp in Alfred, Georgia, he locks away his feelings and memories in this "box," which has, by the time Paul D arrives at 124, "rusted" over completely *gives up much of his selfhood by repressing his memories -his strange, dreamlike sexual encounter with Beloved - perhaps a symbol of an encounter with his past - causes the box to burst and his heart once again to glow red |
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Explanation of symbols:
Trees |
*serve as sources of healing, comfort, and life
-Denver's "emerald closet" of boxwood bushes functions as place of solitude and repose -beautiful trees of Sweet Home mask the true horror of the plantation in Sethe's memory -Paul D finds his freedom by following flowering trees to the North, and Sethe finds hers by escaping through a forest -Amy Denver imagines the scars on Sethe's back as a "chokecherry tree" -sites of lynchings and of Sixo's death by burning, however, trees reveal a connection w/ darker side of humanity |
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Explanation of Symbols:
The color red |
-Amy Denver's red velvet = image of hope and brighter future
-Paul D's red heart represents feeling and emotion -red rooster signifies manhood to Paul D = which has been denied -Sethe's memory is awash w/ red of her daughter's blood and pink mineral of her gravestone |
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Explanation of Symbols:
black and red ants |
"a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black"
*Could this be referring to the American Revolution? "the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other" -republicans = independence-seeking Americans -black imperialists = Great Britain *makes references to Battle of Bunker Hill - decisive battle of American Revolution "I was myself excited somewhat even as if they had been men. The more you think of it, the less the difference. And certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed." |
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Match the quotation to whom it refers.
"But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day." |
Sethe
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Whose voice does Denver hear when leaving to seek help for Sethe?
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Baby Suggs
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Who is known as the "Last Puritan?"
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Jonathon Edwards
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Identification and Explanation of symbols:
the wolf |
from Aldo Leopald's "Thinking Like A Mountain"
-shot it and saw a "fierce green fire dying in her eyes" -the howl of the wolf = long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men -hard to replace (unlike deer) |
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Identification and Explanation of symbols:
sleepers/railroad ties |
Thoreau, "Walden"
-people devote their lives to building railroads, instead of "tinkering upon our LIVES to improve THEM" "we do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us." *sleepers = each one is a man; the rails are laid on them, and they are covered w/ sand, and the cars run smoothly over them -"so that, if some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon" |
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What was Thoreau's view of his fellow citizens?
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*they were so caught up in making a living that they had become one-dimensional
-"lead lives of quiet desperation" (explains his views in his description of the railroad ties) |
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Identification and Explanation of symbols:
malachite beads |
"Water-Faucet Vision", Gish Jen
narrator uses these to soothe herself when parents were fighting, when mother was pushed out window -lost her beads in sewer: produced agony and lots of crying -in the night, a voice told her that her beads would be returned: turned on all faucets in the house so they would return through town water system: beads did not return |
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Identification and Explanation of symbols.
meat |
"My Father's Brain," Jonathan Franzen
-brain autopsy -narrator translated grams into pounds and pounds into the familiar shrink-wrapped equivalents in a supermarket meat case -is the brain only a piece of meat? |
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From what author and text does this quote come?
"So that, thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell..." |
Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
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From what author and text does this quote come?
"They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging." |
Patrick Henry, "Speech to the Virginia Convention"
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From what author and text does this quote come?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..." |
Thomas Jefferson, "Declaration of Independence"
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From what author and text does this quote come?
"If they looked behind them, there was the mighty ocean...to separate them from all the civil parts of the world..." |
William Bradford, "Of Plymouth Plantation"
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From what author and text does this quote come?
"Please help us, AF in HA" "Yes, Praise the Lord (sometimes shortened to PTL)" |
Gish Jen, "Water-Faucet Vision"
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From what author and text does this quote come?
"Who would've guessed, after all this time, it is me who will remember when everything else is forgotten." |
Sandra Cisneros, "Tepeyac"
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