2016Amlit First Sem. Final, WORKS: 17 Points Total 1 Pt. Each Unless Marked

2016AmLit First Sem. Final, WORKS: 17 points total 1 pt. each unless marked

Your Name: ______Score: _____/17

1)Arthur Miller told the literal story of ______, which took place in 1692 and resulted in the hangings of nineteen people. This play was inspired by the fear of communism in the 1950s, a political climate we refer to as ______. When a story is told “on two levels” – with figurative and literal meaning, we call it an______(fill in the blanks; three point total).

2)Miller tried to reveal what similarities between the two time periods:

a)The way officials were elected, how Christianity is perceived, and the way the Puritans established their society

b)Corruption in authority, emotion and fear instead of evidence, the naming-of-names to save oneself

c)The similar use of figurative language that occurred during both of the time periods

d)The similarities in custom, dress, language, and entertainment

3)At the beginning of the year, we read a colonial-era poem from Anne Bradstreet’s Ninth Muse entitled, “Prologue.” What are some reasons we still discuss Anne Bradstreet today?

a)She administered the polio vaccine to children and wrote about it

b)She thought colonies should be divided by gender and made divisive comments on this subject

c)She was an African-American slave and fought against slavery

d)She was the first published female in the American colonies and wrote poetry

4)Aboard the Arbella in 1630, John Winthrop delivered his famous sermon to future colonists of Massachusetts: “A Model for Christian Charity.” Using a famous biblical reference, Winthrop warned fellow colonists to “consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” Winthrop’s use of vivid, descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses is defined by what literary term?

a)synecdoche

b)alliteration

c)imagery

d)satire

5)Evangelical Protestant Minister Jonathan Edwards delivered his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” many times during The Great Awakening. What was the Great Awakening?

a)It was a time they asked all the colonists in all the colonies to wake up at the exact same time.

b)It was originally a reform movement in America that sought for equal treatment regardless of gender, race, and religion.

c)It was a religious revival in America that sought emotional responses from the colonials in an attempt to rescue souls from “spiritual darkness” and reaffirm Christian values in the colonies

d)It was when the authorities admitted that there were not actually witches and they had a flawed justice system.

6)The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. He is of purer eyes than to bear you in his sight; you are ten thousand times as abominable in his eyes as the most hateful, venomous serpent is in ours.

This passage from “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” highlights which of the sermon’s central themes:

a)If you just believe in God, you can guarantee yourself a life of prosperity

b)Spiders are scary insects and they burn in fires

c)God is all-powerful and your fate is entirely up to him

d)Every good person started by comparing themselves to a spider

7)Who was Phillis Wheatley?

a)a former slave who became educated and the first African American to publish poetry in America

b)the preacher who delivered the famous “Model of Christianity”/”City on a Hill” speech

c)the youngest girl in The Crucible and the one who accused John Proctor

d)a woman who went to live at Walden pond and wrote about it

8)Choosing either Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” or Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” identify a trait that would reveal the short story as typical of American Romanticism (+/-1820 – 1865). Please circle the story you chose. ______

9)Responding with a different one than in #8, identify a “Romantic” trait from Alfred Bierdstadt’s painting (on the overhead):

______

10)In the movie Glory, Colonel Shaw requests that his mother keep sending him the writings of Emerson. What was the Transcendentalist view on slavery? What Transcendentalist belief supported this view? (two points).

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11)In The Complete Prose Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson is quoted as saying, “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”In a complete sentence, relate this quotation to a fundamental (or fundamentals) of Transcendentalism.

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12)Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

This first stanza of Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” is recognizable as Dickinson poem because it

a)is clearly translated from Hebrew

b)is from a man’s perspective

c)is so hilarious

d)talks about death and uses metaphor

For me those that have been boys and that love women,
For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be
slighted,
For me the sweet-heart and the old maid, for me mothers
and the mothers of mothers,
For me the lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
For me children and the begetters of children.

13)In this excerpt from Whitman’s “Song of Myself” he begins each phrase with “For me,” indicating the use of:

a)end rhyme

b)anaphora

c)metaphor

d)asyndeton

2016AmLit Semester One, WORDS (20 points; .5 each)Your Name: ______Score: _____/20

1-4. Directions:Rewrite the following paragraph, adjusting THE BEGINNING of the sentences for maximum variety;each sentence should start differently, using one of each of the following: a participle, dependent marker, preposition, and transitional word. No sentence should start with a noun. Do not change the meaning of the sentence or overcomplicate the exercise – I have made it easy for you (four points).

Twain was a savvy man, understanding that an anti-slavery novel would do better with a young, white narrator. He also used a satirical tone when he wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His novel wasn’t well-received at first, however. He would probably be as surprised as anyone that the book is still being read if he were alive today.

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5-8. Directions:Identify the independent and dependent clauses (*note: there may be more than one in each or only one) in each of the following sentences.

1)Many believe Bradstreet and Wheatley shared a common tone because of their use of submissive language with aggressive sentiments.

2)If there were not a final in this class, I wouldn’t have realized all I had learned.

3)Semicolons are not used to introduce quotations.

4)When you read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, you might find that it is both entertaining and enlightening.

9-10. Directions In no more than three sentences, explain how the author’s use of point of view or perspective contributes to the meaning passage.

* Supplemental page required: “The Birthday Party” by Katherine Brush (two points).

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11-13. Directions: Fix these comma splices using THREE DIFFERENT methods/sentence constructs. You do not need to say what you've done, but you do need to use four different approaches and they all need to be properly punctuated.

“Persimmons” was my favorite poem we read this year, it is by Li Young Lee.______
“Persimmons” might be considered an elegy, it is about loss of language, virginity, culture, parents, and eyesight.______
Elegies generally have three stages, the stages of “Persimmons”’ were not in order.______

14-16. Directions:Put in the proper punctuation for the quotations below. If the quotation is punctuated correctly, leave it as-is.

Returning to the cave, Huck aligns his fate to Jim’s“Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain’t a minute to lose. They’re after us!” (Twain 69).

Even though he’s talking about life on the reservation, high schoolers everywhere identify with Sherman Alexie when he says “Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community” (54).

In “One Stick Song,” Alexie says that “Poetry = Anger x Imagination (2).”

17-20. Directions: Without changing the subject, rewrite the following sentences to make them grammatically correct. If the sentence is correct, write “correct.”

1)Identifying strongly with his love of the river, the name of author Mark Twain used to be Samuel Clemens.

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2)Standing up to the institution of slavery, slaveholders feared Frederick Douglass’ strong stance.

______

3)Buried in late work, Ms. Stafford reconsidered her late-work policy.

______

4)Running for the bus, the rain started coming down in buckets and I got all wet.

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21-24. Directions:Circle the correct word choice.

I would rather have a test then/than a paper.

There were less/fewer movies showed in this class last year.

The movie had a profound affect/effect on the students.

Who/whom did she invite to the dance?

25-30. Directions:Circle the correct conjugation of the verb.

Neither Tom nor Huck is/are old enough to vote.

Both Huck and Jim escape/escapes their captors and find/finds solace on Jackson’s Island.

The class, including many of the non-believers,like/likesHuckleberry Finn better than they thought they would.

Either the test or the quizzesis/arethe majority of his math grade.

I wonder if your familyknow/knowswhat you've been up to.

In period four thereis/aretwo students whobeg/begsfor Will to be moved to their class.

31-33. Directions: Explicitly using the three-steps of quotation integration and Dave Matthews’ article, answer the following: Does David Matthews support Alan Gribben’s 2011 republication of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?* Supplemental page required: “Dumbing and Numbing down Jim” by David Matthews.

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34-36. Directions: Choosing between ethos, pathos, and logos, fill in the blank with the word that best defines Aristotle’s terms for reasoning and rhetoric:

______Greek for “word,” this means to persuade through reasoning
______Greek for “character,” this means to persuade by establishing authority as an author with trustworthiness and credibility
______Greek for “suffering” or “experience,” this means to persuade by appealing to the reader’s emotions, sympathies, or imagination

Cross out an answer worth one point that you didn’t know and write the number of the question here: _____

Name one thing you thought would be on the test, but wasn’t:

Name one thing you enjoy about this class:

Name one thing you would like to change about this class:

14)The novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been met with trouble from its inception. When it was first published, what was one concern? (you may use your Born to Trouble video guide) ______

15)Allan Gribben -- the Auburn University Professor who, in 2011, republished a version ofAdventures of Huckleberry Finnwhich replaced offensive words – has explained, “this is not an effort to render Huckleberry Finn colorblind…Race matters in [these] books. It’s a matter of how you express that in the 21st century.” Using your notes from the New York Times’ debates, provide one piece of evidence from a source who would agree with Gribben and one piece of evidence from a source who would not.You may paraphrase or quote directly; just make sure you credit your source (two points each/four points total):

a)______

______

b)______

2015 AmLit Semester One, WORDS & WRITING (15 points; .5 each)Your Name: ______Score: _____/15

Writing.

Directions:Rewrite the following paragraph, adjusting THE BEGINNING of the sentences for maximum variety;you should start one sentence with each of the following: a participle, dependent marker, preposition, and transitional word. No sentence should start with a noun. Do not change the meaning of the sentence or overcomplicate the exercise – I have made it easy for you.

______

Directions:Identify the independent and dependent clauses (*note: there may be more than one in each or only one) in each of the following sentences, and punctuate the sentence appropriately. If the punctuation is already proper, leave as-is.

5)Many believe Bradstreet and Wheatley shared a common tone because of their use of submissive language with aggressive sentiments.

6)If there were not a final in this class I wouldn’t have realized all I had learned.

7)Semicolons are not used to introduce quotations.

8)When you read Adventures of Huckleberry Finnyou might find that it is both entertaining and enlightening.

The following is an excerpt from Calvino'sIf on a winter's night a traveler.

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel ever other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell others right away, “No, I don’t want to watch TV!” Raise your voice—they won’t hear you otherwise—“I’m reading! I don’t want to be disturbed!” . . . So here you are now, ready to attack the first lines of the first page. You prepare to recognize the unmistakable tone of the author . . .

Directions:In no more than two sentences, and using an example from the excerpt, explain how Calvino's use of point of view affects the reader.

Directions: Fix these comma splices using FOUR DIFFERENT methods/sentence constructs. You do not need to say what you've done, but you do need to use four different approaches and they all need to be properly punctuated.

1. I love this class, it is my favorite.

2.Don't let Ms. Stafford fool you, shedoesn't like any of her classes.

2. I don't exactly "skip class," sometimes I just don't show up when I'm supposed to.

3. I ate food that was not properly refrigerated, I got super sick.

Directions:Put in the proper punctuation for the quotations below. If the quotation is punctuated correctly, leave it as-is.

Returning to the cave, Huck aligns himself with Jim in an absolute fashion“Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain’t a minute to lose. They’re after us!”

Directions: Circle the correct conjugation of the verb.

Neither Tom nor Huck is/are old enough to vote.

Both Huck and Jim escape/escapes their captors and find/finds solace on Jackson’s Island.

The class, including many of the non-believers,like/likesHuckleberry Finn better than they thought they would.

Either the test or the quizzesis/arethe majority of his math grade.

I wonder if your familyknow/knowswhat you've been up to.

In period four thereis/aretwo students whobeg/begsfor Will to be moved to their class.

24. Choosing between ethos, pathos, and logos, fill in the blank with the word that best defines Aristotle’s terms for reasoning and rhetoric:

______Greek for “word,” this means to persuade through reasoning
______Greek for “character,” this means to persuade by establishing authority as an author with trustworthiness and credibility
______Greek for “suffering” or “experience,” this means to persuade by appealing to the reader’s emotions, sympathies, or imagination

Name one thing you thought would be on the test, but wasn’t:

______

Name one thing you enjoy about this class:

______

Name one thing you would like to change about this class:

______

Cross out an answer worth one point that you didn’t know (if you knew everything, I suggest you cross out this question).

Write in the proper possessive of the word.

5)After taking a bite, Mia described the ______(burrito/burrito’s/burritos/burritos’) flavor as spicy and rich.

6)The ______(canary/canary’s/canaries/canaries’) songs drifted from their yellow beaks into the auditorium.

7)The papers for periods three and four are almost all graded. These ______(class/class’/classes/classes’)grades are always entered before period five’s.

Without changing the subject, ewrite the following sentences to make them grammatically correct. If the sentence is correct, write “correct.”

8)Overwhelmed by the amount of late work piling up on her desk, Ms. Stafford vowed to change her policy.

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9)Gasping after the five-mile run in the summer sun, the bottle of cool water quenched Andrew’s thirst.

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10)Running for the bus, the rain started coming down in buckets and I got all wet.

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Edit the following sentences to make them grammatically correct. If the sentence is already correct, leave it as-is.

11)One of the most common types of mistakes that inexperienced physicians make is misreading symptoms, another that occursabout as frequently is recommending inappropriate treatment.