WorksheetsTranscendentalism, Rhetorical Devices, and Plato
Total questions: 64
Worksheet time: 1hrs 3mins
Which of the following practices would a Transcendentalist likely support?
Spending time in solitude in nature.
Pursuing wealth and status.
Following societal trends.
Engaging in competitive sports.
What does Transcendentalism suggest about nature?
Nature is a barrier to understanding the universe.
Nature is a mere backdrop for human activities.
Nature is a source of truth and understanding.
Nature is irrelevant to human development.
What does Emerson "become" in nature?
Worried constituent
Peaceful oaf
Transparent eyeball
Grotesque cartographer
From a poor family, Thoreau reduced his needs to the simplest level na managed to live on very little money . He worked his way through _________ University. Which university did he attend?
Columbia
Harvard
Yale
Stanford
With Emerson’s help, he began writing and publishing poems and essays in the transcedentalist journal called:
The Atlantic
The Day
The Dial
The Transcedentalism
What were the beliefs that the transcendentalism or subgenre of American romanticism was based on?
That the natural and spiritual worlds are connected.
Empiricism, the exaltation to the individual in relations with nature and society.
Belief in a higher reality validated by felt experience or without considering pure reason.
For transcendentalists there is no ideal spiritual state.
What inspired Henry David Thoreau to write his master work: Walden?
His job as a lower.
His time at Harvard.
His four years traveling through USA.
His two years stay near a pond.
He wrote “civil disobedience” after a night in jail, what did he opposed to in this book?
Slavery and the Mexican-American War.
Religious dominance and the war against Indians.
Public power and liberty.
Religious freedom and the Mexican-American War.
Which of the following would least appreciate transcendental ideas?
A Puritan teacher
A Unitarianism
A Pragmatism Teacher
A romantic poet
Transcendentalists believe that ___________ , humanity, and nature share a universal soul.
God
Animals
Literature
Government
The Transcendentalists believed in self-reliance and free thought.
True
False
In Walden, Thoreau is advocating for...
attention to detail
more social freedom
less individuality
simple, structured living
What is the transcendentalist belief about nature?
nature is "just there"
nature is awe-inspiring and reflects spirituality
nature is unstable and changes too much
nature is the origin of evil
Transcendentalism encourages:
following the rules
being like everyone else
joining the majority opinion
not conforming to what others do and say
According to the Transcendentalists, the way to discover spirituality is:
by looking inwards & connecting to nature to discover self
by listening to what your parents & following the rules
by going to church every Wednesday & Sunday
by listening to music & reading poetry
What is Emerson’s overall perspective on society?
Society helps people achieve their potential.
We must accept society’s rules.
Society is all that stands between us and the forces of chaos.
Society conspires to deny people their individual freedoms.
What is the best paraphrase for "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string" (2)?
Follow your instinct; it's where good art comes from.
Follow your instinct; all people flourish when following this advice because it's such a steadfast fact of nature.
Follow your instinct; everyone is depending on you.
Follow your instinct; God is the iron string that connects us all.
What did Thoreau believe was the purpose of his escape to Walden Pond?
To live deliberately and confront the essential facts of life
To relax and take a break from society
To avoid paying taxes
To find a new career path
What did Thoreau conclude about the amount of things we actually need?
We need to accumulate as many possessions as possible
We need to constantly buy new things
We need very few things
We need as much as we can get
What did Thoreau deeply value, similar to his friend Emerson?
Following the rules of society
Social status
Self-reliance
Material possessions
What did Thoreau view as an often unnecessary distraction?
Technological progress
Nature
Money
Other people's opinions
What did Thoreau believe we should look to for spiritual significance?
Nature
Other people's opinions
Material possessions
Money and technology
What did Thoreau argue people are morally obliged to challenge?
The importance of technology
The need for taxes
The government's good intentions
Unfair laws
What did Thoreau's essay 'Civil Disobedience' become influential in inspiring?
The French Revolution
Peaceful resistance movements
The American Revolution
The Mexican-American War
What do AP Scorers look on the AP English Language and Composition exam for from student writers?
perfect grammar
style and unique voice
complete subjects and predicates
eloquent language
What is rhetoric?
an argument
a speech
persuasion
all of the above
Which quality is most important to a student's success on the AP English Language and Composition exam?
stamina
competitiveness
attitude
arrogance
What is the "tone" of a text?
The feeling the passage evokes from the reader
The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject
The time and place of the story
The summary of events in the story
A. Sam was mortified when he was called to come up onstage during the assembly.
B. Sam was embarrassed when he was called to come up onstage during the assembly.
What is the following an example of?
“To err is human; to forgive divine.”
chiasmus
zeugma
epistrophe
antithesis
What are you analyzing in the rhetorical analysis essay?
Whether you agree or disagree with the author
Whether the author is effective
The tools/strategies the author uses to reach his/her audience
The tools/strategies the author uses to achieve his/her purpose
A _____ _____ is used for effect, emphasis, or provocation, or for drawing a conclusionary statement from the fact at hand.
(a)
The writer's (a) expresses his/her opinion, purpose, meaning, or position.
A statement that appears to be self-contradictory but upon closer inspection contains some truth or validity
(a)
What is an allegory?
A literary work used to symbolize and reveal deeper meanings about life
The use of a protagonist to represent a cave
The use of similes, metaphors, and personification
The use of story telling to teach about nature and culture
3. What do the prisoners see in the cave?
Shadows
Puppet Masters
The sun
Wild Animals
4. When liberated, to what does the prisoner walk to?
Water
Light
Food
Other prisoners
5. What happens when the prisoner sees the sun?
He weeps tears
He shouts for joy
He prays to the Gods
He suffers sharp pains
6. What does the sun represent in the allegory?
Knowledge
Science
Religios
Government
7. Plato asserts, “..do you not suppose that he would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them.”
a. Felicitate means: exonerate
b. Felicitate means: congratulate
c. Felicitate means: commiserate with
d. Felicitate means: eviscerate
8. What does the cave represent in the allegory
Sadness
Power
Art
Ignorance
9. Plato believes that conferring honors in the cave is ____?
Noteworthy
Entertaining
Redundant
Miserable
10. If a prisoner returned to the cave, how would he be received?
With honors
With prayer
With mistrust
With work orders
11. What does Plato argue is “very natural”?
a. Wanting to dwell in the cave
b. Wanting to dwell in the upper world
c. Wanting to descend to human affairs
d. Wanting to descend into the earth
15. What is the obligation for a man with knowledge?
a. To thank others
b. To create shadows
c. To educate others
d. To write a paper
16. Plato suggests that once a prisoner sees the light he can never___________?
a. Confer honors again
b. See clearly again
Be puppet master
Resume his old life in the cave
In the following sentence, what word is an example of synecdoche? 'Joan saved up five thousand dollars to get some new wheels.'
some
wheels
saved
dollars
What is one reason that an author might use synecdoche in literature?
To explain big ideas more simply.
To confuse the reader.
To introduce a new character
To have more natural spoken dialogue.
What is the definition of synecdoche?
Writing a sentence where the words start with the same letter.
Using an idea to stand in for a saying
Using part of something to represent the whole.
Comparing two unalike things to one another.
In the following sentence, what word is an example of synecdoche? 'Dan loves to take his boat out on the waves.'
Dan
waves
out
boat
The White House issued a statement.
Metonomy
Synecdoche
Allusion
Allegory
In literature, an ________ is used when someone speaks directly to someone who is not there, someone who is dead, to an inanimate object, or abstract idea.
Apostrophe
Assonance
Alliteration
Anaphora
