WorksheetsEng 5-6 Strats Unit 2 2021
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which of the following answer choices is the best restatement of Macy’s overall philosophical vision of American literature?
It is difficult to find an original perspective in American literature because British literature has been around much longer.
Until American literature can be free from the heavy influences of British literature, it cannot be truly depicted as authentic American writing.
It is difficult to identify American literature as such because the focus lacks how American life is truly depicted.
In which quotation from the passage does Macy most clearly give evidence in support of the philosophical vision identified in the previous question?
But wherever an English-speaking man of imagination may dwell...he is subject to the strong arm of the empire of English literature; he cannot escape it; it tears him out of his obscure bed...He is assigned to the department of the service for which his gifts qualify him, and...by drill-masters and captains who hail from provinces far from his birthplace (paragraph 1).
This may account for one negative characteristic of American literature—its lack of American quality (paragraph 1).
. . . The literary mind is strengthened and nurtured, is influenced and mastered, by the accumulated riches of literature (paragraph 1).
Which of the following best states an implicit philosophical assumption Macy makes in the passage?
Macy believes that literature has a history of capturing the human experience and informing the mind.
Macy implies that every author/writer is familiar with each other's work.
Macy implies that all authors find it difficult to write about things that they have never experienced.
Which of the following poetic structures involves lists of people, objects, or situations?
The author uses a catalogue structure in the poem.
The author uses dramatic monologue to structure the poem.
The author uses an epic theme to structure the poem.
Which quotation from the poem best exemplifies the structure identified in the previous question?
When East, when West, when South, and when by North,/As how the Pole,to every place was reared; (lines 7-8)
Proceeding from the port whence he put forth,/Shews by his compass how his course he steered (lines 5-6)
The gulfs and straits that strangely he had passed (lines 10)
Which line from the poem provide the clearest example of anaphora?
line1
line 3
line 7
Read the following sentence.
"The experience of every sporting event embodies the multiplicity of human
experience."
Based on context and on your knowledge of the meaning of multi-, choose the most likely meaning of the word multiplicity in the sentence
returning to personal interest and isolation
the quality or state of being multiple or various
unable to comprehend understanding
The word downhearted contains the Latin prefix down-. Based on this information, what can you most reasonably conclude is the meaning of downhearted in the following sentence?
The biology class collected ultramicroscopic samples of bacteria at the marsh. When they returned to the lab, they found that there samples had spilled; the
downhearted students' day of work was for nothing.
abundant; occurring in large quantities
discouraged; reduce or lower
extreme;too small to be seen by an ordinary optical microscope
Read the passage. Then, answer the question(s).
But wherever an English-speaking man of imagination may dwell, in Dorset or Calcutta or Indianapolis, he is subject to the strong arm of the empire of English literature; he cannot escape it; it tears him out of his
obscure bed and makes a happy slave of him.
"... he cannot escape it..."
"...he is subject to the strong arm of the empire of English literature..."
"But wherever an English-speaking man of imagination may dwell..."
Which of the following characteristics of the passage best supports the answer to the previous question?
the choice of “dwell” instead of “live” and of “cannot” instead of “can’t"
the inclusion of geographical details such as “Calcutta or Indianapolis”
the use of figurative language such as “empire,” “tears,” and “slave”
Which best describes Emerson's perception of contemporary society?
Emerson criticizes one's obligation to always be compliant with society's conventional way of doing things.
Emerson believes that everything is guided by a higher power.
Emerson is annoyed that society care little about those of lower class standing.
Which quotation best supports the correct answer to the previous question?
"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members...The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs."
"Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost. The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought."
"A boy is independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by; he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He gives an independent, genuine verdict."
from "Self-Reliance"
What does "alienated" mean as it is used in the second paragraph?
joyful
withdrawn
familiarity
from "I've Seen a Dying Eye"
Read the line.
"And then—obscure with fog—
And then—be soldered down "
What auditory device is used in this line?
onomatopoeia
repetition
assonance
from “Salem Witch Trials: Caused by Economics”
What information, if added to this text, would most increase its clarity?
a graph showing a visual of people who were accused, or put to death, for being a witch
a vivid explanation of how Salem Town and the Village used supply-and-demand economics
a vivid explanation if the colonization of the Salem Town and the Village
