American Literature Test 5

Match each character with the correct work:

• "Topsy"

• St. Clare

• "A Rescue"

• Starbuck

• Moby Dick

•  Deerslayer

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

Match each character with the correct work:

• "Topsy"

• Rivenoak

• Moby Dick

• Queequeg

• "A Rescue"

• Miss Ophelia

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Match the quotation with the correct term.

• alliteration

• "For an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia's natural bridge."

• metaphor

• "the first [day] is the morning, the second the noon, and the third the evening and the end of that thing"

• rhetorical question

•  "Thou blossom bright with autumn dew"

• simile

• "What soulless thing is this that laughs before a wreck?"

• consonance

• "Hoveringly halting, and dipping on the wing"

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

Match each quotation with the correct author.

• Washington Irving

• "The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth?-Because one did survive the wreck."

• Edgar Allan Poe

• "But we loved with a love that was more than love."

• Herman Melville

• "I spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me."

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• "We traversed the whole village, or republic, which covered an area of about thirty acres; but not a whisker of an inhabitant was to be seen."

• William Cullen Bryant

• "Vainly the fowler's eye

  Might mark thy distant flight"

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

 What novel has been called America's only epic?

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Match each quotation with the correct author:

• Edgar Allan Poe

• "While over them the swallows skim, And all is hushed at Shiloh."

• Washington Irving

• "We were now nearly up to the latitude of Cape Horn."

•  Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

• "Is all that we see or seem

  But a dream within a dream?"

• William Cullen Bryant

• "...approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."

• Herman Melville

• "Having heard much of the habits and peculiarities of these little animals, I determined to pay a visit to the community."

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

On what does "Thanatopsis" meditate?

• love

• loved ones

• death

• flowers

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Who alone survived the shipwreck in Moby Dick?

• Captain Ahab
• Queequeg
• Ishmael
• Starbuck

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

In Two Years before the Mast, what was causing the author pain?

• toothache

• earache

• headache

• stomachache

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

What was the name of Captain Ahab's ship?

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.K.6