J. Payne
English III
Midterm Exam- Review
Puritans
1. What are the beliefs of the Puritans about salvation, the bible, and the government?
2. What is the philosophy/beliefs of the Deists?
3. Who wrote “The World on a Turtle’s Back”?
The Crucible
4. What is the historical events that led the author to write this play?
5. Who is Arthur Miller? Who is his wife?
6. What is a crucible?
7. What motivates: Abigail, John, Giles, Mary, Elizabeth, Tituba, Rev. Hale, and Rev. Parris? What is the fate of each of these characters?
8. Why does Rev. Hale visit the Proctors, and what happens when he does?
9. What is the theme of the play?
10. Is John Proctor a hero?
11. Be able to identify: allusion, (verbal, situational, and dramatic) irony, symbol, alliteration
12. Review the story “The World on the Turtle” for characters, conflicts, resolution and world view of the creating culture.
Dark Romanticism and Gothic tales
13. What are the characteristic of the writing of Dark Romanticism / Gothic literature?
14. What elements in Poe’s life affected his writings?
15. Who were the important relationships in Poe’s life?
16. Was Poe successful in his personal and financial life? Why/why not?
17. What about his life did Hawthorne want to hide?
18. What does Hawthorne have in common with Poe?
19. How are the two authors different?
20. What does macabre mean?
21. What is an allusion?
22. What is the difference between tone and mood?
23. Who are the heroes and villains of each story?
24. What is unique about many of Poe’s narrators?
25. What was unusual about Poe’s death?
26. How did Poe feel about other authors?
27. What are the elements of Gothic stories?
28. What is melodrama?
29. Define suspense and foreshadowing.
“Masque of the Red Death”
30. What type of story is this?
31. What is the Red Death?
32. Who is the mummer?
33. What is the climax and resolution of the story?
34. What is “avatar”?
35. What are the symbolic meaning of the castle, the color of each of the rooms, the clock
36. What is the allusion of Prince Prospero’s name
37. What is the sequence of events? (Who? What? When? Where? Why?)
“Fall of the House of Usher”
Who is:
38. Roderick
39. Madeline
40. The narrator
41. What are they symptoms of Madeline’s illness?
42. What is the setting?
43. What is the stories mood?
44. What are the conflicts?
45. What is the resolution?
“The Black Cat”
46. Who are the characters?
47. What is the setting?
48. What motivates the narrator?
49. What crimes does the narrator commit?
50. What does the narrator fear?
51. Who is Pluto?
52. What is the resolution of the story?
“The Raven”
53. What is the rhyme pattern?
54. What is the story?
55. What does the narrator want most?
56. What does he call the raven?
57. What does the Raven say?
58. What is the setting? Time and place.
59. What happens at the end?
“Rappaccini’s Daughter”
60. Who wrote this story?
61. In what city does this take place?
62. Who are the main characters?
63. What motivates the protagonist to approach the daughter?
64. What is unusual about the garden?
65. What is unusual about the daughter?
66. What type of life does the daughter lead?
67. What is the significance of the butterfly?
68. What happens to the flower he throws to Beatrice?
69. What happens to Giovanni’s wrist?
70. How did Beatrice become what she is?
71. What does Giovanni blame Beatrice for? Is it her fault?
72. What happens to each character at the end?
73. Who is Professor Pietro Baglioni?
74. What is “supernatural” about the story?
75. Is Giovanni in love with Beatrice?
76. Is she in love with him?