American Lit Exam 2

Front 1

What is it that J. Alfred Prufrock prepares "a face to meet"?

Back 1

Faces

Front 2

Prufrock can't seem to look at the faces of the women at the party, so he focuses obsessively on what other body part?

Back 2

Arms

Front 3

With what has the narrator measured out his life?

Back 3

Coffee Spoons

Front 4

What does Prufrock describe as being party of the journey to the tea party in the first stanza of "The Love Song"?

Back 4

One night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants

Front 5

What do the women talk of while they come and go in "The Love Song"

Back 5

Michelangelo

Front 6

Why, probably, is the quotation from Dante about Guido de Montefeltro burning in a flame in hell an appropriate epigraph for "The Love Song"?

Back 6

Both Guido and Prufrock are making confessions

Front 7

The lines "When the evening is spread out against the sky/like a patient etherized upon a table" is an example of:

Back 7

Metaphysical conceit

Front 8

T.S. Eliot's poetry could best be described as:

Back 8

Didactic

Front 9

What dies T.S. Eliot probably mean with the line, "You! hypocrite lectuer! -mon semlable, -mon frere!"

Back 9

Don't think you're any different

Front 10

What does Prufrock suggest when he says, "There will be time to murder and create"?

Back 10

That he wants to change who he appears to be

Front 11

The "sea girls" at the end of "The Love Song" are allusions to what figures?

Back 11

The Sirens in The Odyssey

Front 12

In the second stanza of Prufrock, Eliot compares the fog to what as it moves "Into the corners of the evening?"

Back 12

A cat

Front 13

What is Prufrock trying to suggest in comparing himself to Polonius, the character from Shakespear's Hamlet?

Back 13

The he is nobody important

Front 14

What, probably, is Prufrock's "Overwhelming question"?

Back 14

Can someone love me?

Front 15

Prufrock compares himself to:

Back 15

A pair of claws and insects mounted for display

Front 16

Two ideas that Wallace Stevens focuses on in his poetry

Back 16

-Art as religion (if theres no religion theres art)
-Atheism

Front 17

“…and bid him whip/ In kitchen cups concubiscent curds.” What poetic device does this quote demonstrate?

Back 17

Alliteration (Repeating constant sounds)

Front 18

What is the significance of the fantail pigeons in “The Emperor of Ice Cream” as mentioned in the line: “that sheet/ On which she embroidered fantails once/ And spread it so as to cover her face” ?

Back 18

-Ordinariness

Front 19

What is a metaphysical conceit?

Back 19

Weird metaphor & strange comparison

Front 20

From what group of poets (and one in particular) did Eliot resurrect metaphorical conceit?

Back 20

John Dunn

Front 21

To what event are Prufrock and his listener heading in Eliot’s poem?

Back 21

Tea party

Front 22

What are some of J. Alfred Prufrock’s concerns expressed in Eliot’s poem?

Back 22

-Aging
-Love
-Running out of time

Front 23

As a didactic poet, what subject does E.E. Cummings primarily concern himself with in his poetry, according to the lecture?

Back 23

Self determination

Front 24

What two names/figures does Cummings ironically connect toward the end of his poem “Buffalo Bill’s”?

Back 24

Jesus & Death

Front 25

In Allen Ginsburg’s “Howl,” what does the ancient deity, Moloch, represent?

Back 25

Evil & capitalism

Front 26

Where is Langston Hughes from, as mentioned in “Theme for English B”?

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Salem

Front 27

Why, probably, is the quotation from Dante about Guido de Montefeltro burning in a flame in hell an appropriate epigraph for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

Back 27

both Guido and J.Alfred are making confessions

Front 28

According to lecture, when J. Alfred Prufrock asks if he dares "to eat a peach," it is likely a(n):

Back 28

sexual image, and an indication of a lack of self confidence

Front 29

The line "When the evening is spread out against the sky/ like a patient etherized upon a table" is an example of:

Back 29

metaphysical conceit

Front 30

What is Prufrock trying to suggest in comparing himself to Polonius, the character from Shakespeare's Hamlet?

Back 30

that he is nobody important

Front 31

In the poem "The Emperor of Ice Cream" by Wallace Stevens, what is probably the meaning of this line: "let be be the finale of seem"

Back 31

let "being" or reality be our truth, rather than illusion

Front 32

In the poem, "Emperor of Ice Cream" Stevens writes "let the lamp affix its beam." In this line, the lamp is used as an archetypal image of____

Back 32

truth

Front 33

According to lecture, what probably does the last line of Langston Hugh's "Harlem" suggest

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self destruction and violence

Front 34

What does J. Alfred Prufrock suggest when he says "There will be time to murder and create"

Back 34

that he wants to change who he appears to be

Front 35

According to lecture, what seems to be the central message of "buffalo bill's defunct" probably suggests what

Back 35

water flowing

Front 36

What does Wallace Stevens seem to suggest we should substitute for faith in God

Back 36

living life to its fullest

Front 37

What does the narrator of Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It" see reflected in the granite of the Vietnam War Memorial

Back 37

a woman brushing hair; a white vet; himself

Front 38

in Love song for J Alfred Prufrock the women talk about Michelangelo make prufrock feel

Back 38

intimidated

Front 39

What does the line "they sowed their isn't they reaped their same" probably suggest about the townspeople in e. e. *******'s "anyone lived in a pretty how town

Back 39

they encouraged conformity

Front 40

According to lecture, e. e. cummings uses the image of snow when he writes about children growing up in "anyone lived in a pretty how town" in order to symbolically suggest what?

Back 40

forgetfulness

Front 41

e. cummings' favorite theme is:

Back 41

self-determination

Front 42

What does Stevens suggest with the lines, "The tomb in Palestine/ Is not the porch of spirits lingering

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Christ was not resurrected.

Front 43

What is the occasion that brings everybody together in Stevens' "The Emperor of Ice Cream"?

Back 43

death

Front 44

What does Stevens seem to suggest we should substitute for faith in God?

Back 44

art

Front 45

In "Buffalo Bill's" why did E.E. Cummings isolate the word "Jesus"?

Back 45

Jesus

Front 46

What is the central them of Wallace Stevens' work?

Back 46

atheism- there is no god, you must decide where the meaning in your life comes from; art as religion

Front 47

In Wallace Stevens' "The Emperor of Ice Cream" the line "whip in kitchen cups concupiscent curds" is an example of what literary device?

Back 47

Aliteration

Front 48

What is embroidered on the bed sheet in Wallace Steven's "The Emperor of Ice Cream"?

Back 48

Pigeons

Front 49

What is under the sheet?

Back 49

A dead body

Front 50

According to lecture, what probably is the occasion that brings everybody together in Stevens' "The Emperor of Ice Cream"?

Back 50

Death