Beloved/Literary Term Quiz

Beloved's character seems at once realistic and fantastic because

• Beloved has uncanny knowledge about Sethe's past.

• Beloved reveals nothing about herself or where she came from.

• Beloved pays unusual attention to Sethe.

• Beloved looks so much like Denver.

Sethe, Baby Suggs, and Ella all represent the experience of

• uneducated women in the nineteenth century.

• women who rejected their children.

• happiness in freedom after being slaves.

• women who suffered in lives of slavery,

The love between Paul D and Sethe is only possible when

• Paul D stops drinking,

• Sethe and Paul D in some way reconcile with their pasts.

• the community intervenes in bringing the two together.

• Paul D admits his affair with Beloved.

The stream of consciousness passages in that Beloved uses to tell her story also reference the experience of

• African women in the Middle Passage.

• African slaves during the Civil War.

• Sethe during Reconstruction.

• indentured servants in the South.

Although Denver suffers from isolation through much of the story, she becomes the heroine by

• making special connections to Beloved.

• explaining Sethe's infanticide to Paul D.

• going to school to learn how to read and write.

• getting help from the community to save Sethe.

Mood can best be described as the heart of a piece of writing, and the _______ can best be described as the mind, what the writer thinks about he/she is describing.

• Metaphor

• Theme

• Tone

• Imagery.

What literary device is used in the quote below?

"The highway is a river of light."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification.

• Apostrophe

In a work of literature, a statement about life or what it means to be human is an example of __________.

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Theme

• Understatement

The women's voices "broke over Sethe and she trembled like the baptized in its wash." What literary device is used in this quote?

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Simile

“Paul D finally woke up and, admitting his ignorance, asked how he might get North. Free North. Magical North . . . The Cherokee smiled and looked around . . . ‘That way,’ he said pointing. ‘Follow the tree flowers,’ he said. ‘Only tree flowers. As they go, you go. You will be where you want to be when they are gone.’”

“So he raced from dogwood to blossoming peach. When they thinned out he headed for the cherry blossoms, then magnolia, chinaberry, pecan, walnut and prickly pear. At last he reached a field of apple trees whose flowers were just becoming tiny knots of fruit. Spring sauntered north, but he had to run like hell to keep it as his traveling companion. From February to July he was on the lookout for blossoms. When he lost them, and found himself without so much as a petal to guide him, he paused, climbed a tree on a hillock and scanned the horizon for a flash of pink or white in the leaf world that surrounded him. He did not touch them or stop to smell. He merely followed in their wake, a dark ragged figure guided by the blossoming plums.”

Directions: In the above passage, Paul D has just escaped the brutality of the chain-gang and has decided to escape to freedom, how is the imagery appropriate to the action?

answer choices

• Paul D appears to be a pathetic figure with no sense of real direction as he wanders the traverse landscape northward.

• Paul D appears to be a tragic-comic figure as he moves through the beautiful scenery in mere rags.

• Paul D appears to be a triumphant figure that symbolically follows the lushness of spring to the promised land.

• Paul D appears to be character whose fate remains ambiguous symbolized by different colored tree blossoms and his refusal to fully engage in his surroundings.