Deck 10: Literary Analysis Poetry and Essays

Question 1

What is the speaker referring to when he says "I am the darker brother" in "I, Too?"

A)his family role
B)his troubled past
C)his skin colour
D)his angry mood

Answer 1

his skin colour

Question 2

What is the tone of this poem?

A)optimistic
B)angry
C)solemn
D)energetic

Answer 2

optimistic

Question 3

In "I, Too," the speaker says that tomorrow, no one will dare to

A)insult him
B)throw him out
C)hurt him
D)tell him to eat in the kitchen

Answer 3

tell him to eat in the kitchen

Question 4

An advertisement for what insensitively uses an image of Hiroshima in "For the Union Dead?"

A)a movie
B)a brand of safes
C)a brand of watch
D)a skin care product

Question 5

Colonel Shaw served in which war in "For the Union Dead?"

A)world war i
B)world war ii
C)the vietnam war
D)the civil war

Question 6

What animal does the final stanza compare cars to in "For the Union Dead?"

A)zebras
B)fish
C)snakes
D)cats

Question 7

The waists on the stone statues of soldiers are compared to what in "For the Union Dead?"

A)mosquitos
B)swans
C)herons
D)wasps

Question 8

What does Colonel Shaw's father want in "For the Union Dead?"

A)a better monument
B)the ditch
C)nothing
D)his sons weapon

Question 9

What does Colonel Shaw wait for at the end of the poem "For the Union Dead?"

A)a greyhounds gentle tautness
B)a parking spot
C)an end to violence
D)the blessed break

Question 10

What desert does Lowell reference in the first stanza in "For the Union Dead?"

A)sonoran
B)mojave
C)sahara
D)gobi

Question 11

What is St. Gauden's relief made of in "For the Union Dead?"?

A)stone
B)copper
C)marble
D)bronze

Question 12

Allen Ginsberg is traditionally associated with what literary movement?

A)the hippie poets
B)the beat poets
C)the flower children
D)the romantic poets

Question 13

Which industrial tycoon does Ginsberg cite in "America?"

A)larry miles
B)henry ford
C)warren buffett
D)cornelius vanderbilt

Question 14

Ginsberg had an ambition to become which of the following in "America"?

A)sailor.
B)president.
C)rabbi.
D)cartoonist.

Question 15

Ginsberg's vision of America in "America" is inspired from?

A)walt whitman
B)ralph waldo emerson
C)robert frost
D)edgar alan poe

Question 16

Sylvia Plath's poetry is considered part of which movement?

A)modernism
B)confessional poetry
C)realism
D)romanticism

Question 17

The only novel written by Sylvia Plath is?

A)ariel
B)the colossus
C)life studies
D)the bell jar

Question 18

What is the literary device used throughout the poem "Edge?"

A)enjambment
B)alliteration
C)assonance
D)internal rhyme

Question 19

Which character from Greek mythology is used by Plath in her poem "Edge?"

A)medusa
B)medea
C)aerope
D)canace

Question 20

In his essay, "Self-Reliance" Emerson likens self-esteem with what?

A)the ego
B)nature
C)a child
D)a psalm

Question 21

In "Self-Reliance," Emerson talks about how individuals should not conform to what?

A)the churchs morals
B)societal norms
C)the ego
D)their intuition

Question 22

What is the name of the journal launched by the Transcendentalists?

A)the eye
B)transcend
C)the dial
D)nature

Question 23

What is NOT one of the influences upon Emerson's thinking?

A)idealism
B)epicureanism
C)stoicism
D)romanticism

Question 24

What is society compared to in "Self Reliance?"

A)chaos
B)joint-stock company
C)conspiracy
D)nothing

Question 25

Why must men seek solitude as mentioned in "Self Reliance?"?

A)to value society upon return
B)to experience nature
C)to think without the influence of society
D)to find god