Chapter 1

Question 1

Who wrote “The Vagabond”?

Answer 1

Robert Louis Stevenson

Question 2

What are the themes of “The Vagabond”?

Answer 2

adventure, simplicity, nature, contentment, exploration

Question 3

What is the central idea that gives a work meaning?

Answer 3

theme

Question 4

What is what the author seeks to communicate?

Answer 4

the message

Question 5

Who were the people in Acts 17 that would search the Scriptures to see if what Paul was saying was Biblically accurrate?

Answer 5

the Boreans; the people from Borea

Question 6

What are the themes of “Sonnet 19: On His Blindness”?

Answer 6

human frailty, loss, service

Question 7

Who wrote “Sonnet 19: On His Blindness”?

Answer 7

John Milton

Question 8

What type of background is the large-scale events that surround the writing of a work?

Answer 8

historical background

Question 9

What type of background relates to the customs, habits, and ways of thinking as well as the artistic and literary characteristics specific to a group in which a work was written?

Answer 9

cultural background

Question 10

What is an example of historical background?

Answer 10

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade”; because he was commemorating actual people

Question 11

What is an example of cultural background?

Answer 11

William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”; without knowing the cultural background, one may think that he was praising London for it’s beauty when he was actually praising nature for making London beautiful

Question 12

What type of background is the life experiences of an author and is the most common influence on an author’s work?

Answer 12

biographical background

Question 13

What is the theme of from “Sonnet 26: I Lived with Visions for my Company”?

Answer 13

the inferior satisfaction of imagined companions

Question 14

What is a movement that hailed nature over civilization that William Wordsworth was a leader in?

Answer 14

Romanticism

Question 15

What is a way to analyze literature by using specific evidence in a text to draw conclusions about the text?

Answer 15

Close reading.

Question 16

What is the place and time the work takes place?

Answer 16

Setting

Question 17

Who are those who drive the action of the plot?

Answer 17

Characters

Question 18

What is the use of words that appeal to the senses?

Answer 18

Imagery

Question 19

What is an express comparison of unlike things using the word like or as?

Answer 19

Simile

Question 20

What is an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another?

Answer 20

Metaphor

Question 21

What is an item or character which represents something else - often a bigger idea or an intangible concept?

Answer 21

Symbol

Question 22

What is a comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or animal?

Answer 22

Personification

Question 23

What is the perspective from which a story is told?

Answer 23

Point of view

Question 24

What is the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; the difference between what a character or speaker says and what the text reveals?

Answer 24

Irony

Question 25

Name some examples of point of view.

Answer 25

First person, second person, third person limited or omniscient

Question 26

What are some examples of irony?

Answer 26

Verbal, situational, dramatic

Question 27

What is the writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject?

Answer 27

Tone

Question 28

What is the response which the writer intends from his readers?

Answer 28

Mood

Question 29

What are the themes in “In which a Slight Glimpse is had of San Francisco”?

Answer 29

Adventure, organization vs. chaos, honor

Question 30

What work are these lines from, "'The election of a general-in-chief, no doubt?' asked Mr. Fogg. 'No, sir; of a justice of the peace.'"

Answer 30

In which a Slight Glimpse in had of San Francisco

Question 31

Who wrote "The Gift to Sing"?

Answer 31

James Weldon Johnson

Question 32

What are the themes of "The Gift to Sing"?

Answer 32

suffering, persistence, hope

Question 33

What are the lines "No nights are dark, no days are long, / While in my heart there swells a song, / And I can sing." from?

Answer 33

The Gift to Sing

Question 34

What is a long, narrative poem in elevated style which presents characters and actions of heroic proportions?

Answer 34

epic

Question 35

What are the themes of "The Epic of Gilgamesh"?

Answer 35

eternal life, mortality

Question 36

In Babylonian mythology, who was the sole survivor of the flood who gained immortality because of his survival?

Answer 36

Utnapishtim

Question 37

What is the repeating of words of phrases to communicate meaning or to create an effect?

Answer 37

repetition

Question 38

What is a direct or indirect hint at an event that will take place in the future, often composed of other literary elements such as imagery, symbolism, or dialogue?

Answer 38

foreshadowing

Question 39

Why couldn't Gilgamesh achieve everlasting life?

Answer 39

because it wasn't his destiny, his destiny was to be a great king

Question 40

What are these lines from: "Men will say, 'Who has ever ruled with might and with power like him?'"?

Answer 40

The Search for Everlasting Life

Question 40

What are these lines from: "How can I be silent, how can I rest? He is dust and I shall die also and be laid in the earth forever"?

Answer 40

The Search for Everlasting Life

Question 41

Who was the man who followed Fogg around the world?

Answer 41

Detective Fix

Question 42

Who wrote, "In which a Slight Glimpse is had of San Francisco"?

Answer 42

Jules Verne

Question 43

What is Jules Verne's nationality?

Answer 43

he is French