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But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. This victim is killed because of_____________?
A. A letter
B. His clouded eye
C. His pact with the devil
D. His loud heart beat
Define oral tradition______________?
A. The passing on from one generation to another of songs, chants, proverbs, and other verbal compositions after it has been written down.
B. The telling of songs, chants, proverbs, and other verbal compositions to a single generation within and between nonliterate cultures
C. The use of “like” or “as” to draw a comparison between two unlike things
D. The passing on from one generation (and/or locality) to another of songs, chants, proverbs, and other verbal compositions within and between non-literate cultures by word of mouth
What does the priest’s son’s prayers for the punishment of the tribe’s iniquities tell us about the Zuni tribe ?
A. They are nosey and stays busy tending to other people’s business
B. The Zunis are spiritual and have a strong moral code that they live by and teach to their children
C. That the Zunis are afraid of earthquakes and floods
D. That the Zunis like to make up stories for pure entertainment
Which of the following is NOT considered a write for the Transcendentalism Movement ?
A. Emerson
B. Hawthrone
C. Thoreau
D. Stewart
I knew him, however, as both mathematician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. I knew him as a courtier, too, and as a bold intriguant. Such a man, I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary political modes of action. Who is speaking ?
A. Brown
B. Brom Bones
C. Rip
D. Dupin
Who coined the phrase ‘Lost Generation’ ?
A. Hemingway
B. Gertude Stein
C. F. Scott Fitzserald
D. Sherwood Anderson
Maria Stewart is associated with what major American literary movement ?
A. Idealism
B. Slavery
C. Romanticism
D. Nationalism
My present business,” continued he, speaking with lofty confidence, “is merely to inquire my way to the dwelling of my [relative].” … There was a sudden and general movement in the room, which Robin interpreted as expressing the eagerness of each individual to become his guide. This passage exemplifies____________?
A. Jamming
B. Ambiguity
C. Snaring
D. Foregrounding
I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Covey’s], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. … I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon men, and behold a man transformed into a brute!” ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess
Define trickster tale ?
A. A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work.
B. The struggle found in fiction
C. Giving human qualities to animals or objects
D. A story about a mischievous, supernatural being
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