English III Review

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?: 
“It was a rimy morning, and very damp. I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window… Now, I saw the damp lying on the bare hedges and spare grass,…. On every rail and gate, wet lay clammy; and the marsh-mist was so thick, that the wooden finger on the post directing people to our village...was invisible to me until I was quite close under it.”

• personification
• simile
• imagery
• hyperbole

Which time period/group had the primary goal of persuading others to join their quest for independence?
Ex: "If we wish to be free—if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending—if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! "

• Native American
• Puritan
• Revolutionary/Age of Reason
• Romantic

The following is an example of which rhetorical device: 
“'Hope' is the thing with feathers -/ That perches in the soul -”

• personification
• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole

What was the primary purpose of writing in the Revolutionary time period? 
Ex: "Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty...are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us."

• Inform
• Persuade
• Entertain

The following is an example of which rhetorical device: 
“That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?”

• personification
• simile
• metaphor
• rhetorical question

During which time period were the first fiction texts written in America? 

• Native American
• Puritan
• Revolutionary/Age of Reason
• Romantic

What was the primary purpose of writing in the Romantic time period? 
Ex: "Such was the end of Tom Walker and his ill gotten wealth. Let all griping money brokers lay this story to heart. The truth of it is not to be doubted. The very hole under the oak trees, from whence he dug Kidd's money is to be sen to this day; and the neighboring swamp and old Indian fort is often haunted in stormy nights by a figure on horseback, in a morning gown and white cap, which is doubtless the troubled spirit of the usurer. In fact, the story has resolved itself into a proverb, and is the origin of that popular saying, prevalent throughout New England, of "The Devil and Tom Walker.""

• Inform
• Persuade
• Entertain

Which trait of Romanticism is NOT evident in this excerpt?:

"He uncovered the vase, and threw the faded rose into the water which it contained. At first, it lay lightly on the surface of the fluid, appearing to imbibe none of its moisture. Soon, however, a singular change began to be visible. The crushed and dried petals stirred, and assumed a deepening tinge of crimson, as if the flower were reviving from a deathlike slumber; the slender stalk and twigs of foliage became green; and there was the rose of half a century, looking as fresh as when Sylvia Ward had first given it to her lover."

• Appreciation of Nature
• Valuing Emotion over Logic
• Idealizing Childhood/Youth
• A Knack for the Mysterious

The following is an example of which rhetorical device: 
“These are the lips of the lake, on which no beard grows. It licks its chops from time to time.”

• personification
• simile
• imagery
• hyperbole

Which time period/group uses fear to persuade others to conform to their beliefs? 
Ex: "Were it not that so is the sovereign Pleasure of God, the Earth would not bear you one Moment; for you are a Burden to it."

• Native American
• Puritan
• Revolutionary/Age of Reason
• Romantic