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Transcendentalism Unit Exam Review

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This person only wore white and lived in isolation

a)

Walt Whitman

b)

Emily Dickinson

c)

Henry David Thoreau

d)

Ol' Ralph

2.

This person wrote in free verse

a)

Henry

b)

Emily Dickinson

c)

MLK Jr

d)

Walt Whitman

3.

Father of Transcendentalism

a)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

b)

Walt Whitman

c)

Henry David Thoreau

d)

Walden

4.

What decade(s) did the transcendentalism movement occur?

a)

1650-1690

b)

1960-1980

c)

Too long ago to count

d)

1830-1850

5.

What was the name of the transcendental commune that is in New England in the 1800's?

a)

Happy Land

b)

Candy Land

c)

Woodstock

d)

Brook Farm

6.

What is a slant rhyme?

a)

When two words have the same ending sound

b)

When two words have the same beginning sound

c)

When two words have a similar ending sound, but not the exact same

d)

When a story has a deeper meaning

7.

What is free verse?

a)

When a story has a deeper meaning

b)

When a poem is written without restrictions

c)

When a poem is written using deep emotion

d)

When two words have the same beginning sound

8.

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

a)

"It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate."

b)

"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear..."

c)

"Fame is a fickle food"

d)

"The life in us is like the water in the river."

9.

a figure of speech that references another work, well-known person, or famous event

a)

Rhetorical device

b)

Personification

c)

Allusion

d)

Anaphora

10.

Anything used to persuade is called a...

a)

Metaphor

b)

Allusion

c)

Literary device

d)

Rhetorical device

11.

A comparison between two unalike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Assonance

c)

Extended metaphor

d)

Simile

12.

"It is a deliverance which does not deliver" is a use of which rhetorical device?

a)

Metephor

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Simile

d)

Consonance

13.

Which of the following is NOT a transcendental belief

a)

Non-conformity

b)

Power the individual

c)

Power of nature

d)

Attached to material wealth

14.

Who lived in the woods for two years and wrote Walden?

a)

Henry David Thoreau

b)

Emily Dickinson

c)

George Clooney

d)

Arthur Miller

15.

Which is an example of Civil Disobedience?

a)

Writing letters to congress expressing your anger

b)

Spray painting stop signs

c)

Running from the cops

d)

Not paying taxes because you don't agree with where the money is going

16.

Who was the author of "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence?"

a)

Gandhi

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Thoreau

d)

Emerson

17.

Who was fired from their job as a journalist due to their opposition of slavery?

a)

Walt Whitman

b)

Emily Dickinson

c)

Gandhi

d)

Waldo

18.

What is a utopia?

a)

The idea of a perfect place

b)

A place in nature where one can be happy

c)

A busy city

d)

A form of government

19.

How did Dickinson's family go against her wishes after the died?

a)

They stopped giving candy to the children

b)

They published her poems that she wanted destroyed

c)

They threw away her white dress

d)

They edited her poetry

20.

Which poet purposefully used grammatical errors and irregular capitalization in their poetry?

a)

Walt Whitman

b)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c)

Sylvia Plath

d)

Emily Dickinson

21.

What did Thoreau do to rebel against the strict rules at Harvard?

a)

Build a cabin in the woods on campus

b)

Wore a different color coat than what was required

c)

Wrote about free individuality

d)

Didn't go to class

22.

What do transcendentalists believe that humans are most connected to?

a)

Nature

b)

Animals

c)

Machines

d)

Literature

23.

(Fill in the blank) A rhetorical device is _________ used to persuade.

a)

punctuation

b)

Capitalization

c)

ANYTHING

d)

Literary device

24.

Personification...

a)

is the deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence to achieve an effect

b)

is the art of persuasion

c)

gives non-living objects human traits

d)

is a figure of speech that references another work

25.

What rhetorical device is being used in the following quote? "Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?"

a)

Anaphora

b)

Allusion

c)

Rhetorical Question

d)

Metaphor

26.

Which of the following stylistic elements appears in all of Emily Dickinson's poems?

a)

The lack of title

b)

The use of dashes

c)

The use of eccentric capitalization

d)

All of the above