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Quiz 3 Flashcards

1
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what was the romantic period of literature

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The political and economic atmosphere at the time heavily influenced this period, with many writers finding inspiration from the French Revolution. There was a lot of social change during this period.

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what is gothic literature

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  • romantics rejected reason and empiricism
  • intuition, imagination, emotin, and communion with nature
  • subtype of romantic literature
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3
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what author wrote the Mask of the Red death

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edgar allen poe

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what happened to edgar allen poe’s parents

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mother died when he was 2 and his father left

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5
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who raised poe

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his foster father

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what did poe’s foster father want him to be

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he wanted him to get into business just like he did

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why did poe’s foster father disown him

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because Poe wanted to become a writer

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what university did poe drop out of

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university of Virginia

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how much money did poe’s foster father give him that lead to him dropping out

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$150

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10
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who did poe’s fiance marry

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someone else

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what happened after poe went to the army

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he got expelled from west point

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when did poe start writing poetry

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as a teenager

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13
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was poe paid a lot for his published work

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no

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14
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what jobs was poe getting

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working at a magazine job, and the magazine that he owned failed

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what did poe do with his cousin,what happened to his cousin after

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  • married her when she was 13, she died from tuberculosis at age 24
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16
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what was sad about poe’s death

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his wife had died, his old fiance was widowed and they were planning to get married then when he stopped in Baltimore he was found dead outside a tavern in clothes that were not his and he was in a delirium and later died after

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17
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what were poe’s demons

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Alcoholism and other substances

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18
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did poe’s readers think he was insane himself

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yes

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19
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what type of writing did poe write

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literary criticism, he is known for his short stories about the raven

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20
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what was poe considered a father of

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modern detective fiction and horror tales

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21
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what well known modern writer loved poe’s work

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stepehen king

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22
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did poe make money off of his writing, and what did he say we needed better laws on

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  • no he didn’t and he lectured on better copy right laws
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23
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what did poe claim about poetry

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that is should be beautiful above all else

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24
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why did he write gruesome things

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he believed in the insanity of art

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25
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are poe’s stories part of the gothic genre

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yes

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26
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what was poe’s most famous work

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the raven

27
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what is a MASQUE

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a former entertainment in the 16th century with music, singing and dancing

28
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what were the main characteristics of the red death

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dizziness, bleeding on the pores, 1/2 an hour before you die

29
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who is the main character in the MOTRD

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prince prospero he is not a nice guy

30
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what is the setting of the MOTRD

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castled abbey in the country

31
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what does the prince do to escape the read death

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hid in one of the rooms in the abbey

32
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what does the external world could take care of itself

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they thought that they were better than the other people and that they wouldn’t be affected

33
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what were some gothic elements in the Masque

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  1. the weird castellated abbey
  2. prince getting mad bc of the red death
  3. the six chambers
  4. the red death became a thief in the night
34
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is the MOTRD an allegory

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yes because it shows that death is unavoidable

35
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what did the rooms represent

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seven stages of life or the 7 deadly stems

36
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what does prince prospero represent

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that you can’t buy your way out of death

37
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what does the clock represent

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that you can’t buy your wau out of death or situaitns

38
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what evidence of the seven deadly sins are in the story

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pride/vanity; envy; gluttony, lust,wrath/anger,greed, sloth/laziness

39
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what was the setting of the raven

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midnight at night

40
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who was the narrator and why was he suffering

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the narrator is upset about lenore his ex wife and he is looking for some comfort because lenore has died and is hoping that if he reads his books then everything will be okay

41
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what is the narrator struggling with

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finding reason and the narrator is in high emotion and in grief and he is trying to use reason to not open the door

42
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what does the raven represent

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grief

43
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what is the significance of the raven perching above the bust of the pallas athena

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the bird sitting on top and it shows how the bird is sitting on wisdom and grief has more of an impact than wisdom

44
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how does the narrator react to the raven at first

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the narrator was marvelled because the bird is speaking to him and then insinuates that the bird came from hell

45
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what does the raven keep saying

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nevermore

46
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what does the narrator say will happen with the raven

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that the raven will leave him just like the other people have left him before

47
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where did the narrator say the raven learned the word from

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a master

48
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what is a trochee

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a metrical foot with two syllables, the first one accented and the second unaccented

49
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what is an octameter

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8 metrical feet which is 16 syllables

50
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what is alliteration

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repitition of the same initial sounds in words that are close together

51
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what is assonance

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repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together

52
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what is onomatopoeia

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words that sound like the sounds they represent
rustling of each purple curtain

53
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what is personification

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attribution of human characteristics to an animal

54
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what is imagery

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words that describe visual images and thus appeal to our senses

55
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what is an allusion

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brief refernce to a person,place, or thing or idea from history

56
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what wicked thing did the white man give to the native americans

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alcohol and it was referenced as the poision

57
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where did red jacket get his coat

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the british gave it to him and he did not want to assimilate with the other white men

58
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how did his position change in the war of 1812

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used his infkuence to convince the seneca to side with the Americans during the war of 1812

59
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with what greeting does he address the missionaries

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he calls them brothers

60
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who called the meeting

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the native americans or the boston missonary society

61
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red jacket explains that the great spirit gave what

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the land and the animals to them because he loves his red childen

62
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what evil substanced killed thousands according to red jacket

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alcohol

63
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what was another reason red jacket could not accept the white man’s religin

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  • white men has tricked the inidans and he saw hyprocrict
64
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what is red jacket’s attitude toward the attempt to christianize the Seneca tribe

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red jacket said the great spirit made them and that his group would reconsider after seeing how the Christians would behave toward the native americans

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