ENG 252 Midterm Study Notes Graded A+
"He won't be made ashamed to please his brother" reveals that friction exists between
Silas and his brother. - Answers-True
"Hills Like White Elephants" is set in: - Answers-Spain.
A White Heron: - Answers-Several themes are developed in the story, but the primary
theme is one of self-discovery. "A White Heron" is an initiation story, a narrative in which
the protagonist changes in a significant way as the result of an experience.
According to the author, the real forces of evil in "Under the Lion's Paw" are: - Answers-
legal systems which are unfair to renters and which create parasitic landlords.
After Apple Picking: - Answers-The major theme in the poem is the journey of life and
the eventual death that everyone faces. The chore of apple picking is symbolic of life
and sleep is symbolic of death.
Anderson defines the grotesques as individuals who: - Answers-have become obsessed
with an idea or concept.
Anecdote of the Jar: - Answers-Deals with our sterile ideas being imposed on the
natural world.
The jar represents art, man, imagination.
Nature is represented by the wilderness which also represents reality and unordered
chaos.
At the end of "Barn Burning" the dawn is coming, the day birds are singing, and the boy
continues his journey with our looking back. These clues indicate that: - Answers-a
better life awaits him.
Barn Burning: - Answers-The conflicts of the story include the wealthy vs the poor, the
aristocrat vs. the white trash, the loss of the old order to a new conflict with the
progressive South. - Youth, Courage, Family, Choices, Justice.
Charlie has come to Paris because: - Answers-he wants his daughter back and of a
deep sense of loneliness.
Charlie's first mistake was: - Answers-leaving the Peter's address with the bartender.
Chicago: - Answers-"Chicago" is a poem about the great city of Chicago that embraces
everything that the city has to offer, from hog butchers to railroads, from construction
sites to prostitutes. Strength and Skill. Love.
Crane's world view is closely related to: - Answers-naturalism.
, Design Theme: - Answers-Indicates that the poem is skeptical about the extent to which
the Creator was benign and he wonders about the degree of his involvement with his
creations and fears the answers to his questions.
Desiree's Baby: - Answers-Chopin deals with a treatment of mixed blood, racial identity,
and its psychological burden and points out the evils of a system
that creates and condemns miscegenation as it affects the lives of the innocent.
E.E. Cummings experimented mainly with: - Answers-typographical innovations.
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses: - Answers-Critics are praising Cooper, and Twain
contends if they are praising him, then they have never read him.
Fog: - Answers-This is a good example of Imagism. Man and the Natural World,
Change, Awe and Amazement.
For the man, the "white elephant" is the: - Answers-child.
For the speaker in "Mending Wall," the wall symbolizes order, harmony, and discipline. -
Answers-False
Gertrude Stein describes the people of the post-World War 1 years as: - Answers-a lost
generation.
Gertrude Stein describes the people of the post-World War I years as a lost generation.
- Answers-True
In 'Hands' Biddlebaum's hands are compared to: - Answers-the wings of an imprisoned
bird.
In "A Man Said to the Universe" Crane regards the universe as: - Answers-under no
obligation to humans.
In "After Apple-Picking" sleep after a day's work is likened to death after a life's work. -
Answers-True
In "Babylon Revisited" Charlie believed that the survivors possessed: - Answers-
character.
In "Barn Burning" the Snopes family has moved because the father: - Answers-suffered
paranoiac fantasies of persecution, was a sharecropper, and willfully destroyed
property.
In "Desiree's Baby," with whom does Arman think he is getting even by agreeing that
Desiree should return to the Valmonds? - Answers-God
"He won't be made ashamed to please his brother" reveals that friction exists between
Silas and his brother. - Answers-True
"Hills Like White Elephants" is set in: - Answers-Spain.
A White Heron: - Answers-Several themes are developed in the story, but the primary
theme is one of self-discovery. "A White Heron" is an initiation story, a narrative in which
the protagonist changes in a significant way as the result of an experience.
According to the author, the real forces of evil in "Under the Lion's Paw" are: - Answers-
legal systems which are unfair to renters and which create parasitic landlords.
After Apple Picking: - Answers-The major theme in the poem is the journey of life and
the eventual death that everyone faces. The chore of apple picking is symbolic of life
and sleep is symbolic of death.
Anderson defines the grotesques as individuals who: - Answers-have become obsessed
with an idea or concept.
Anecdote of the Jar: - Answers-Deals with our sterile ideas being imposed on the
natural world.
The jar represents art, man, imagination.
Nature is represented by the wilderness which also represents reality and unordered
chaos.
At the end of "Barn Burning" the dawn is coming, the day birds are singing, and the boy
continues his journey with our looking back. These clues indicate that: - Answers-a
better life awaits him.
Barn Burning: - Answers-The conflicts of the story include the wealthy vs the poor, the
aristocrat vs. the white trash, the loss of the old order to a new conflict with the
progressive South. - Youth, Courage, Family, Choices, Justice.
Charlie has come to Paris because: - Answers-he wants his daughter back and of a
deep sense of loneliness.
Charlie's first mistake was: - Answers-leaving the Peter's address with the bartender.
Chicago: - Answers-"Chicago" is a poem about the great city of Chicago that embraces
everything that the city has to offer, from hog butchers to railroads, from construction
sites to prostitutes. Strength and Skill. Love.
Crane's world view is closely related to: - Answers-naturalism.
, Design Theme: - Answers-Indicates that the poem is skeptical about the extent to which
the Creator was benign and he wonders about the degree of his involvement with his
creations and fears the answers to his questions.
Desiree's Baby: - Answers-Chopin deals with a treatment of mixed blood, racial identity,
and its psychological burden and points out the evils of a system
that creates and condemns miscegenation as it affects the lives of the innocent.
E.E. Cummings experimented mainly with: - Answers-typographical innovations.
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses: - Answers-Critics are praising Cooper, and Twain
contends if they are praising him, then they have never read him.
Fog: - Answers-This is a good example of Imagism. Man and the Natural World,
Change, Awe and Amazement.
For the man, the "white elephant" is the: - Answers-child.
For the speaker in "Mending Wall," the wall symbolizes order, harmony, and discipline. -
Answers-False
Gertrude Stein describes the people of the post-World War 1 years as: - Answers-a lost
generation.
Gertrude Stein describes the people of the post-World War I years as a lost generation.
- Answers-True
In 'Hands' Biddlebaum's hands are compared to: - Answers-the wings of an imprisoned
bird.
In "A Man Said to the Universe" Crane regards the universe as: - Answers-under no
obligation to humans.
In "After Apple-Picking" sleep after a day's work is likened to death after a life's work. -
Answers-True
In "Babylon Revisited" Charlie believed that the survivors possessed: - Answers-
character.
In "Barn Burning" the Snopes family has moved because the father: - Answers-suffered
paranoiac fantasies of persecution, was a sharecropper, and willfully destroyed
property.
In "Desiree's Baby," with whom does Arman think he is getting even by agreeing that
Desiree should return to the Valmonds? - Answers-God
