G11 ELA

What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton believe was an essential key to American women's rights?

• a. a joining of forces with American abolitionists

• b. the ability to vote on the laws of the land

• c. formal education for all American women

• d. adopting separate laws for women

What does the red badge of courage symbolize in Stephen Crane's novel by the same name?

• a. honesty and integrity

• b. skill with a rifle

• c. war wounds

• d. comrades in arms

What device does Nathaniel Hawthorne use throughout The Scarlet Letter to encourage readers to think carefully and critically about the novel's meaning?

• a. foreshadowing

• b. characterization

• c. metaphor

• d. textual ambiguity

Why is Whitman considered a key figure in the transition from Romanticism to Realism?

• a. He saw beauty in the flaws as well as the perfections in the country and its people.

• b. He had moral issues with the practice of slavery in America.

• c. He highly valued the English literary tradition.

• d. He revised and added to his collection Leaves of Grass many times.

Dickinson wrote many poems in which the speaker is already dead, such as the one beginning "Because I could not stop for Death." Based on this poem, what did Dickinson believe happens after death?

• The soul ceases to exist.

• The soul meets the "king" and enters heaven.

• The soul goes on for eternity.

• The soul is haunted by common houseflies.

Which characteristic of Realism is still evident in most poetry written today?

• the use of rigid rhyme schemes

• the use of simple diction instead of lofty language

• the use of iambic pentameter

• the use of language that idealizes nature

What feedback should you offer a writer during a poetry workshop?

• a. your thoughts about the poem's strengths and how to make the poem’s message more clear.

• b. what you know about the topic of the poem, including details the write could add to the poem

• c. what you think the teacher would say about the poem’s strengths and weaknesses

• d. your opinion about how the poem compares to other poems you have read in class

Which way of performing a poem generally involves the LEAST amount of revision or tweaking of the original work?

• a. a poetry reading

• b. a slam poetry competition

• c. a spoken word performance

• d. a song recording

What was Sojourner Truth's background?

• She was a wealthy suffragist and social activist.

• She was born in Africa and kidnapped into slavery.

• She was a highly educated woman.

• She was born a slave in New York.

Which phrase best describes the rhetorical purpose of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

• a. to encourage the assembled audience to pray for the dead Union soldiers

• b. to distract his audience from the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg

• c. to present the Civil War as a fight for both national unity and human equality

• d. to argue that the Civil War was necessary as a response to Southern aggression