WorksheetsSemester 1 Exam - English 3
Total questions: 94
Worksheet time: 48mins
Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:
Realism and naturalism
Colonial Period
Revolutionary Period
Romantic Period
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Puritans
Colonial Period
Revolutionary Period
Romantic Period
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Persuasion important
Colonial Period
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Romantic Period
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Historical narratives
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Salem witch trials
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Transcendentalism
Colonial Period
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Romantic Period
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Literature had a dark side
Colonial Period
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Romantic Period
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Documents, journals
Colonial Period
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Romantic Period
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Age of Reason
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About 1858-1864
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Literature to give glory to God
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The Great Awakening
Colonial Period
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Oratory
Colonial Period
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Edgar Allan Poe
Colonial Period
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Patrick Henry
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Civil disobedience
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The Gettysburg Address
Colonial Period
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The Declaration of Independence
Colonial Period
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Poor Richard’s Almanak
Colonial Period
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thomas Paine
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The Fireside Poets
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Stephan Crane
Colonial Period
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William Bradford
Colonial Period
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Colonial Period
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Fiction explored the human mind
Colonial Period
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The Red Badge of Courage
Colonial Period
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Romantic Period
Civil War Period
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The Crisis
Colonial Period
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Romantic Period
Civil War Period
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Oratory and pamphlets rallied people to fight
Colonial Period
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1600’s
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America expanding rapidly
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1700’s
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The Scarlet Letter
Colonial Period
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Most creative period
Colonial Period
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Romantic Period
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Writing mainly for the mother country
Colonial Period
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Romantic Period
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Sermons and tracts
Colonial Period
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Emily Dickinson
Colonial Period
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Industrial Revolution influenced writers
Colonial Period
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Newspapers and periodicals
Colonial Period
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Uniquely American literature established
Colonial Period
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The first notable woman poet in America and Europe is
Sarah Goode
Anne Bradstreet
Emily Dickinson
Abagail Adams
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” uses
loaded language
imagery
reason and logic
Emily Dickinson’s poetry is characterized by
strange punctuation and capitals
personal insights
short abrupt poems
all of these
An oratory uses
elevated language
loose organization
lack of reason
all of these
An oratory also uses
rhetorical questions
repetition
parallelism
all of these
A work that uses much parallelism is
Song of Myself
The Raven
Walden
The Declaration of Independence
“Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered” refers to the injustices before the
Civil War
Revolutionary War
Industrial Revolution
war with the Indians
Much of this writers works were published after his/her death.
Emily Dickinson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Anne Bradstreet
Stephen Crane
“The Speech at the Virginia Convention” uses
rhetorical questions
meter
gothic images
a and b
A device that states a common truth in a concise way is called a/an
allusion
aphorism
anecdote
metaphor
Romantic literature emphasized
idealism
individualism
persuasion
The most popular and famous Fireside Poet was
Thoreau
Poe
Lowell
Longfellow
The poet that most revolutionized poetry is
Longfellow
Whitman
Whittier
Poe
Who married his teenage cousin when he was 30 years old?
Emerson
Poe
Bryant
Whitman
The first American writer to be esteemed abroad was
Irving
Poe
Hawthorne
Dickinson
Which writer was an eccentric recluse?
Melville
Emerson
Bradstreet
Dickinson
Which writer’s works had characteristics of romanticism and realism?
Poe
Whitman
Bradstreet
Longfellow
The poem that uses free verse is
“The Raven”
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
“Song of Myself”
“After Great Pain”
Which writer did not give poems a title?
Emerson
Thoreau
Poe
Dickinson
The Transcendentalism philosophy believed in
going beyond the ordinary
individualism
cooperation
a and b
Which writer is a Transcendentalist?
Emerson
Whitman
Poe
Dickinson
Which other writer is a Transcendentalist?
Irving
Thoreau
Longfellow
Bryant
Romanticism was a reaction against
The Age of Reason
the 18th century rationalism
the strict doctrine of the Puritans
all of these
The first really distinctive American literature came from
the Gothic Romantics
the Transcendentalists
the Puritans
18th century oratory
Who wrote Leaves of Grass?
Whitman
Emerson
Thoreau
Longfellow
Which writer’s pamphlets influenced people to fight a war?
Henry
Jefferson
Franklin
Paine
Which element was often seen in Romantic writing?
the supernatural
scientific language
reason
a and b
Which device seems contradictory but is actually true?
aphorism
paradox
allusion
antithesis
Using similar close together grammatical structures creates
parallelism
repetition
restatement
free verse
Which work expresses the writer’s philosophy of individualism?
“The Speech at the Virginia Convention”
“The Devil and Tom Walker”
“Self Reliance”
“The Crisis”
Poetry that does not use a consistent rhyme scheme or no rhyme is called
blank verse
heroic couplets
free verse
prose
What author is most remembered for his civil disobedience?
Thoreau
Bradford
Paine
Whitman
The same word or phrase repeated at the beginning of 2 or more lines is called
chiasmus
anaphora
personification
alliteration
Referring to famous works, people, or events is called
apostrophe
simile
restatement
allusion
A poem that encompasses all of American life is
“The Raven”
“Song of Myself”
“Self Reliance”
“Psalm of Life”.
When the Gothic Romantics looked at the individual they saw
evil
hope
potential
individuality
The Gothic Romantics include
Poe
Hawthorne
Melville
all of these
Many of Poe’s male characters are
heroic
insane
misunderstood
all of these
What literary movement emphasizes external environmental forces and internal stress over which a character has no control?
Romanticism
Realism
Transcendentalism
Naturalism
In this literary movement, a character’s choices directly relate to the story’s outcome.
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Realism
Naturalism
Which writer is a Naturalist?
Crane
Poe
Emerson
Irving
Which work contained aphorisms?
“The Declaration of Independence"
“The Speech at the Virginia Convention"
Poor Richard’s Almanak
a and b
“We hold these truths to be self evident-That all men are created equal.”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Poor Richard’s Almanak
Walden
“I know what course others may take, but give me liberty or give me death!”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Poor Richard’s Almanak
Walden
“The pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot.”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Poor Richard’s Almanak
Walden
“We must fight! I repeat, sir, we must fight!”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Poor Richard’s Almanak
Walden
“God holds you over the pit of hell much as one holds a spider.”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Poor Richard’s Almanak
Walden
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Poor Richard’s Almanak
Walden
“You hang by a slender thread with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it.”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Poor Richard’s Almanak
Walden
“With a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Poor Richard’s Almanak
Walden
“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Poor Richard’s Almanak
Walden
“Simplify, simplify, simplify! Let your affairs be as two or three.”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Poor Richard’s Almanak
Walden
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Poor Richard’s Almanak
Walden
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Poor Richard’s Almanak
Walden
