1. Midterm Review

2. The Rules: Decide an order to go in
Keep hands behind your back while I read the question
The first to hit the stapler answers
If they get it right: They throw from the 1, 2, or 3 point line
If they get it Wrong: The other person gets a chance to answer
If Person 2 is wrong: Both teams consult each other, and the round starts again

3. what did the Puritans originally want their community to be?
“A city on a hill”, a guide to others

4. What movement does Sir Walter Scott Represent?
The Romantics

5. Who is Mrs. Peters?
Sheriff’s wife from story “Jury of Her Peers” Eventually helps out.

6. Name 2 qualities that make a Great man, according to Emerson.
Nonconformist, misunderstood, hard- worker, etc.

7. What Motivated Rev. Parris? What did he want?
Power and $

8. How did Jonathan Edwards Motivate his Audience? What was his message?
FEAR! we are terrible sinners and deserve to go to hell.
Only by God’s grace are we saved.

9. What does Light symbolize?
Knowledge!

10. What does Proctor Say causes the trouble in Salem?
Vengeance/the children/the girls

11. Why is Jim mad at Huck for Hiding after the Fog?
He was worried about him, it was a mean trick

12. Name 3 Romantic Tenets Emotion is superior to reason
free will is superior to law
society corrupts
humans are intrinsically good
nature is holy

13. Why did Romanticism die and Realism start?
Civil War = People suck
Expansion west = Nature can be harsh & Scary

14. Who did Canute kidnap?
Lena

15. Name 3 Gothic Tenets Decaying structures overgrown vegetation
Forlorn characters
themes of human depravity
undead/spectral

16. Who’s the Guy who got Pressed to death in The Crucible?
Giles Corey

17. What is the Puritan vs. Romantic View of the Forest?
Puritans: Evil, of the devil
Romantics: Holy

18. What is the American Paradox?
The idea that we are struggling to choose whether we are intrinsically good and can move beyond our society or totally depraved and remain bound to society.

19. in “On the Divide” what mood does the weather suggest?
Chaotic, cold, desolate, unforgiving, isolating

20. Name 2 characteristics of Realism Writing
Dialect
detailed description
ethical choices made by characters
appearance of being real
nitty gritty human experience

21. What does the yellow wallpaper represent?
Corruption! Her sanity, or The Cult of Domesticity

22. Name 2 lessons Jim teaches HUck
Encourages Huck, confidence
Superstitions for Survival
Common sense Morality
Reverence for the Dead
Be a decent human

23. What does Human depravity mean?
People suck.

24. Who wanted to civilize Huck?
Widow Douglas

25. Name 1 writer who used Gothic Tenets
Edgar Allen Poe
Washington Irving
Nathaniel Hawthorne