american lit

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Test review (week 11)

EXAM QUESTIONS:
  1. According to WS a 'change of style is a change of ______"? ~subject
  2. What is below myth on our pyramid? ~music
  3. In the movie Dead Man what is Nobody's name and what does it mean? ~Xebeche, he who talks loud saying nothing
  4. Which Steven's poem is reminiscent to Dead Man's beginning and end? ~prologues to what is possible
  5. Northrop Frye was very uncomfortable with words that started with this prefix. ~'de' decreation and demythologize
  6. William Blake take the blood of a _____ and puts it in his wound. ~dead fawn
  7. If the mad Doctor Sexton had his way, what would he like to see happen to us to remember his class forever? ~physical mutalization to some part of the body
  8. What are the 3 phrases we used from WS to examine Dead Man? ~ 'poetry is a destructive force,' 'everything resembles one another,' and 'poetry is the subject of the poem'
  9. The contest of wit that happens in IM is an example of what? ~playing the dozens
  10. Democracy is inspired by what? ~imagination
  11. What are the names of the 2 sheriffs that William Blake killed with his poetry? ~Lee and Marvin
  12. What are the 3 things that Ike has to leave behind to find the Bear? ~ watch, rifle, and compass
  13. What are the 2 forms of imagination found in WS? ~decreative and creative
  14. The speech in IM concerning Tod Clifton is modeled from what 2 literary works? ~ Julius Caesar, and The book of Judges
  15. What said 'trust the tale, not the teller'? ~ D. H. Lawrence
  16. What is 'intentional fallacy?' ~the work of literature actually means what the author intended it to mean
  17. In IM the character of Rhinehart represents what mythological figure? ~the trickster
  18. What started the race riot in IM? ~the eulogy
  19. What famous jazz song is featured in the opening of IM? ~'What did I do to be so black and blue' by Louis Armstrong
  20. In The Bear what is the poem that Ike's father is referring to? ~ode on the Grecian Urn' by John Keats
  21. Who did Santa Klaus rape? ~Sybil
  22. Who is Sibyl mythologically speaking? ~the oracle that led people into the underworld
  23. The IM is an example of a anti- _______ _____ novel. ~Horatio Alger
  24. 2 corresponding phrases in Hindu that explain the imagination are? ~Neti Neti (not this, not that) and Tat Tvam Asi (that thou art)
  25. What novel have we read that is considered a 'dream novel'? ~ IM and Mules and Men
  26. How many light bulbs did the IM have in his 'cave'? ~1369
  27. Define parataxis. ~streaming many thoughts together with the conjunction 'and'
  28. What is Cole Wilson's (the cannibal) mythological title? ~Demon master of initiation
  29. What does synaesthesa mean? ~the blurring and mixing of the senses
  30. What is an ephede? ~a young boy who was a candidate for initiation in the Greek world (a student)
  31. What does an integrative person do? ~they put everything in 'kitchen sink person' ex) James Joyce
  32. Name 3 places that we have discussed in class where you find 'the sea mirroring the sky' ~The New World, Dead Man, and Exodus 24:9

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