Question: What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samuel Sewall ?
- 1. Anti-Slavery
- 2. Father of american poetry
- 3. Pro Slavery
- 4. Father of American Liteature
Question: The Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay were non-separating Puritans, which meant ?
- 1. They did not want to disassociate from the Church of England
- 2. Separate from church of England
- 3. Start their own beliefs
- 4. Create seperation
Question: Define oral tradition______________?
- 1. The passing on from one generation to another of songs, chants, proverbs, and other verbal compositions after it has been written down.
- 2. The telling of songs, chants, proverbs, and other verbal compositions to a single generation within and between nonliterate cultures
- 3. The use of “like” or “as” to draw a comparison between two unlike things
- 4. The passing on from one generation (and/or locality) to another of songs, chants, proverbs, and other verbal compositions within and between non-literate cultures by word of mouth
Question: The use of a etcetera in the final line is_____________?
- 1. euphemism
- 2. empathy
- 3. alliteration
- 4. onomatopoeia
Question: My present business,” continued he, speaking with lofty confidence, “is merely to inquire my way to the dwelling of my [relative].” … There was a sudden and general movement in the room, which Robin interpreted as expressing the eagerness of each individu
- 1. Jamming
- 2. Ambiguity
- 3. Snaring
- 4. Foregrounding
Question: When the child finds that issues cannot be resolved in 30 minutes he______________?
- 1. will adjust with reality
- 2. becomes adamant and disillusioned
- 3. will find sources elsewhere
- 4. resigns to reality
Question: Thoreau believed that if a government was unjust, people need to resist the government. This is called_____________?
- 1. Following orders.
- 2. Resisting arrest.
- 3. Civil disobedience.
- 4. Mutiny.
Question: What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emerson ?
- 1. Father of Free verse
- 2. Father of american poetry
- 3. Pro Slavery
- 4. Father of American Liteature
Question: Ralph Waldo Emerson was a mentor for a number of early American writers, including_______________?
- 1. Hawthrone
- 2. Stewart
- 3. Thoreau
- 4. A and B
Question: Stopping on a snowy Evening_____________?
- 1. Robert Frost
- 2. Langston Hugues
- 3. Countee Cullen
- 4. Sherwood Anderson