English 11 Semester 1 Final Study Guide
· Read the following poems by Anne Bradstreet, and answer the questions that follow.
English 11 Semester 1 Final Study Guide
Verses Upon the Burning of our House
“Thou hast a house on high erect
Fram'd by that mighty Architect,
With glory richly furnished
Stands permanent, though this be fled.
It's purchased and paid for too
By Him who hath enough to do.
A price so vast as is unknown,
Yet by His gift is made thine own.
There's wealth enough; I need no more.
Farewell, my pelf; farewell, my store.
The world no longer let me love;
My hope and Treasure lies above.”
To My Dear and Loving Husband
“Thy love is such I can no way repay;
The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere,
That when we live no more, we may live ever.”
English 11 Semester 1 Final Study Guide
1. Lines that best exhibit Bradstreet’s belief in the afterlife are:
2. The line: “Thou hast a house on high erect/Fram’d by that mighty Architect”:
3. The tone created in the poems, shows that Bradstreet:
· Read the following excerpts from Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” and answer the questions that follow.
“The devil stands ready to fall upon them, and seize them as his own, at what moment God shall permit him. They belong to him; he has their souls in his possession, and under his dominion. The scripture represents them as his “goods,” (Luke 11:21). The devils watch them; they are ever by them, at their right hand; they stand waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it, but are for the present kept back; if God should withdraw his hand, by which they are restrained, they would in one moment fly upon their poor souls. The old serpent is gaping for them; hell opens its mouth wide to receive them; and if God should permit it, they would be hastily swallowed up and lost.”
“The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given, and the longer the stream is stopped, the more rapid and mighty is its course, when once it is let loose. ‘Tis true, that judgment against your evil works has not been executed hitherto; the floods of God's vengeance have been withheld; but your guilt in the meantime is constantly increasing, and you are every day saving up more wrath; the waters are continually rising and waxing more and more mighty; and there is nothing but the mere pleasure of God that holds the waters back that are unwilling to be stopped, and press hard to go forward; if God should only withdraw his hand from the floodgate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God would rush forth with inconceivable fury, and would come upon you with omnipotent power; and if your strength were ten thousand times greater than it is, yea, ten thousand times greater than the strength of the stoutest, sturdiest devil in hell, it would be nothing to withstand or endure it.”
4. What is personified in the paragraph 1? (An example of personification)
5. In paragraph 2, a metaphor is created that:
6. Edwards compares devils to:
7. What does Edwards claim is the only thing protecting mankind?
· Read the following poems from the Romantic/Transcendentalist tradition, and answer the questions that follow.
English 11 Semester 1 Final Study Guide
Thanatopsis By William Cullen Bryant
“ So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”
Psalm of Life By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
“Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.”
English 11 Semester 1 Final Study Guide
8. Bryant says readers should approach death:
9. Longfellow says that death is:
· The following poem by Walt Whitman was first published in 1881, sixteen years after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the end of the Civil War.
· Taking these facts into consideration, read the poem, and answer the questions that follow. (Hint: The poem is an extended metaphor)
O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
10. Who is the “Captain”?
11. What is “the ship”?
12. What is the “fearful trip”
13. Why has the Captain “fallen cold and dead”?
14. The repetition of “heart” creates what kind of tone?
15. Which words represent a brighter side of the poem?
16. What did Transcendentalists believe about human potential and our place in relation to nature and God.
17. Which statements about Transcendentalism are accurate?
I. Transcendentalism was an intellectual movement.
II. Transcendentalism was a largely European movement.
III. Transcendentalism was interested in the human spirit.
IV. Transcendentalists thought that an exploration of nature helped people understand universal truths.
18. Which view of nature does Emerson take?
19. In Nature, what does Emerson mean by describing nature as both comic and melancholy?
20. In Self-Reliance, Emerson writes that society “loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.” Which of these adjectives best reflects Emerson’s attitude in that statement?
21. Which of these statements best reflects Thoreau’s philosophy as expressed in Walden?
22. What does Thoreau mean in the following sentence?
I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. My head is hands and feet
23. What aspect of his philosophy does Thoreau express in the following statement?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
24. What does Thoreau hope to convey with the description of the path his feet had worn to the pondside within a week?
25. What message does Thoreau hope to convey with his anecdote (story) of the strong and beautiful bug in the conclusion of Walden?
26. What is the central idea of Civil Disobedience?
27. In Civil Disobedience, how does Thoreau support his view that the government is abused by powerful individuals?
28. Thoreau’s view of the war with Mexico is best described as …?
29. Based on Civil Disobedience, what can you infer about Thoreau’s political philosophy?
30. How does Civil Disobedience reflect ideas of Transcendentalism?
31. In “Song of Myself,” when the speaker says “I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health,/ Hoping to cease not till death,” what do you think he is beginning?
32. What can you infer about the poet’s attitude from these lines in “Song of Myself”?
These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,/ If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing…
33. Based on the details in “Song of Myself” and “I Hear America Singing,” what can you infer about Whitman’s attitude toward other people?
34. “The singing” the speaker hears in “I Hear America Singing” is
Answer the following questions about rhetorical appeals (ethos/pathos/logos)
35. A Presidential candidate may use ethos in a speech by:
36. A car salesman may use logos by:
37. A protest leader may use pathos to attract more followers by:
38. The commercials for charities that feed hungry children use mostly to get donations:
39. An example of logos might be:
40. Using the words “brutalized,” “murdered,” “burned,” and “bombed” is intended to persuade an audience by: