Midterm

Question 1

Under the Lion’s Paw

Answer 1

Hamlin Garland

Question 2

The Atlanta Exposition Address

Answer 2

Booker T. Washington

Question 3

The Souls of Black Folk

Answer 3

W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 4

To Build a Fire

Answer 4

Jack London

Question 5

Editha

Answer 5

William Dean Howells

Question 6

A White Heron

Answer 6

Sarah Orne Jewett

Question 7

The Yellow Wallpaper

Answer 7

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Question 8

Adventures of Huck Finn

Answer 8

Mark Twain

Question 9

The Open Boat

Answer 9

Stephen Crane

Question 10

Daisy Miller

Answer 10

Henry James

Question 11

Serepta Mason
Trainor the Druggist
Abel Melvany

Answer 11

Edgar Lee Maters

Question 12

Miniver Cheevy

Answer 12

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Question 13

The Road Not Taken

Answer 13

Robert Frost

Question 14

Mending Wall

Answer 14

Robert Frost

Question 15

After Apple Picking

Answer 15

Robert Frost

Question 16

Birches

Answer 16

Robert Frost

Question 17

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Answer 17

Robert Frost

Question 18

Desert Places

Answer 18

Robert Frost

Question 19

From Winesburg, Ohio

Answer 19

Sherwood Anderson

Question 20

Sonnet

Answer 20

Poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter

Question 21

Dynamic Character

Answer 21

Character who undergoes a significant change in a story

Question 22

Flat character

Answer 22

One whose nature is summed up in one or two traits

Question 23

Round character

Answer 23

One with a complex, many-sided personality

Question 24

Static character

Answer 24

One who is the same at the end of the story as at the beginning

Question 25

Stock Character

Answer 25

One who is stereotyped, taken from prototypes in previous lit.

Question 26

Alliteration

Answer 26

Repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds

Question 27

Allusion

Answer 27

Reference to previous work of literature

Question 28

Assonance

Answer 28

Repetition of similar vowel sounds

Question 29

Iambic pentameter

Answer 29

Poetic meter, five stressed syllables per line

Question 30

Dramatic monologue

Answer 30

A lyric poem ft. a one-sided conversation in a dramatic setting

Question 31

Conceit

Answer 31

Elaborate, extensively developed metaphor which may be intellectually complex, far-fetched, or strained in its execution