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“Changing Identities, Shifting
Times” Review Jeopardy
American Literature
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Lit Terms
Prufrock
Imagists
The Turtle
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Lit Terms 100
• When you run across an unfamiliar word in a
sentence, where can you find context clues to
help define it?
Lit Terms 100
• In the text around the word
Home
Lit Terms 200
• Where is repetition used in these lines from
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
– “…there will be time/For the yellow smoke that
slides along the street/Rubbing its back upon the
window-panes;/There will be time, there will be
time”?
Lit Terms 200
• The first and last lines
Lit Terms 300
• What music device does Eliot use in the
following excerpt from “The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock”?
– “Before the taking of toast and tea.”
Lit Terms 300
• Alliterations
Lit Terms 400
• Identify two characteristics of Imagist poetry
Lit Terms 400
• Limited number of words, appeals directly to
the senses, concrete nouns, evoke strong
emotion
Lit Terms 500
• What is the literary term for “a brief reference within
a work to something (usually well-known) outside it”
Lit Terms 500
• Allusion
Lit Terms 600
• Which of these is characteristic of a dramatic
monologue?
– A character addresses the reader
– The listener is silent
– The author addresses the reader
– It occurs only in drama
Lit Terms 600
– The listener is silent
Prufrock 100
• Whose thoughts and feelings are expressed in
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
Prufrock 100
• The thoughts of the speaker
Prufrock 200
• In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” what
two things are compared here?
– “When the evening is spread out against the
sky/Like a patient etherized upon a table”
Prufrock 200
• The evening and a patient
Prufrock 300
• Describe the mood established in the line “the
evening is spread out against the sky/Like a
patient etherized upon a table”?
Prufrock 300
• Sad, melancholy
Prufrock 400
• When Eliot describes “The muttering
retreats/Of restless nights in one-night cheap
hotels/And sawdust restaurants with oystershells,” what is he saying about the nature of
love?
Prufrock 400
• Sometimes love occurs in sordid or “unromantic”
surroundings
Prufrock 500
• What are the women who are “talking of
Michelangelo” doing in “The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock”?
Prufrock 500
• They are talking about art
Prufrock 600
• When the speaker says he is “pinned and
wriggling on the wall” in “The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock,” what image does he create?
Prufrock 600
• The image of a bug
Imagists 100
• For whom is the Ezra Pound writing “A Few
Don’ts,” the essay that defines his rules for
good poetry?
Imagists 100
• Other writers/would-be writers of poetry
Imagists 200
• Pound encourages the use of
______________ instead of the vagueness of
abstractions
Imagists 200
• The concrete (meaning solid objects, not the
actual substance concrete!)
Imagists 300
• Is the image Williams creates in his poem “The
Red Wheelbarrow” designed to encourage a
particular emotion, or is it subjective to the
reader?
Imagists 300
• The image is open to interpretation based on
the individual reader’s emotional and
intellectual response
Imagists 400
• In “The Red Wheelbarrow,” which of the
following conveys and image of something
concrete that you could feel or see?
– So much
– Depends
– Upon
– Wheelbarrow
Imagists 400
• Wheelbarrow
Imagists 500
• What mood is evoked by the imagery in “In a
Station of the Metro”?
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Imagists 500
• Loneliness, a feeling of searching or wishing
Imagists 600
• Which of the senses are engaged by Williams’s
poem “This is Just to Say”?
– “I have eaten/the plums/that were in/the
icebox/and which/you were probably/saving for
breakfast/Forgive me/they were delicious/so
sweet/and so cold”
Imagists 600
• Sight, Taste, Touch
The Turtle 100
• In “The Turtle,” from The Grapes of Wrath,
where does the turtle live that is like the
climate of the people suffering from the
Oklahoma drought?
The Turtle 100
• Hot and dry (drought!)
The Turtle 200
• How is the universal theme “the struggle for
survival” illustrated in “The Turtle”?
The Turtle 200
• The turtle trying to cross the road, amid much
danger
The Turtle 300
• In “The Turtle,” from The Grapes of Wrath,
how do the sedan driver and truck driver
provide important clues to the theme?
The Turtle 300
• They represent the fact that some things will
help us through the struggle, and some things
will hinder/slow us.
The Turtle 400
• From the sentence “His front wheel struck the
edge of the shell, flipped the turtle like a
tiddlywink, spun out like a coin, and rolled it
off the highway,” you can figure out that a
tiddlywink is something that ___________
The Turtle 400
• Flips