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2.4.3 Test (TST): Romanticism and Transcendentalism 1. Short-response prompt (15 points) Text: "712" Emily Dickinson uses personification throughout the poem "712." Explain what she personifies in the poem. Then, analyze the impact of her use of personification on the overall meaning of the poem. Be sure to use specific details to support your answer. Emily Dickinson utilizes several different personifications of death throughout the poem. Dickinson says at the very beginning of the poem that because she hadn't stopped for death, death had stopped for her. This is because she hadn't stopped for death. In addition to that, she talks about how death is a civil matter. The effect of this personification on the content of the poem as a whole is to further drive home the point that death is not intended to be something that people should be afraid of. In general, she personifies death in her portrayal of the subject. The concept of death being given a human-like aspect through the use of personification. The speaker gives the impression that he is looking forward to death, and even praises the individual for his manner and charming nature. 2. Short-response prompt (15 points) Text: "The Raven" Analyze how the raven in Edgar Allen Poe’s "The Raven" helps to develop the speaker’s character. Be sure to use specific details from the poem to support your ideas.
The speaker in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" is lamenting the loss of his wife, Lenore, who passed away. The speaker of this poem starts off by describing hearing someone knock on his door. The speaker experiences some anxiety as a result of this knocking because he asked it to stop multiple times, but it did not stop. The speaker had a positive reaction when the Raven first showed there, as evidenced by his use of the phrase "this ebony bird bewitching my gloomy imagination into smiling." He inquires on the bird's "lordly name," to which the bird responds, "nevermore." This assertion is made by the bird throughout the entirety of the poem in a continuous fashion. The speaker is pushed further into an uncomfortable state, and as a result, he begins to yell at the bird in response to its repeated usage of the phrase "nevermore." 3. Short-response prompt (15 points) Text: Civil Disobedience" Read the introductory paragraph of "Civil Disobedience" I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe - "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing the army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the
people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure. Explain how this paragraph fits into the larger structure of Thoreau’s essay. Then, evaluate the effectiveness of the introduction by determining how clear, convincing, and engaging the introduction helps to make the overall points. Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your ideas. The introduction helps to highlight the "efficacy," or lack thereof, of the government by pointing out some of its shortcomings. Thoreau wrote these words with the intention of persuading his audience to develop a greater sense of autonomy and independence from the state. Therefore, when he discusses the Mexican war in the opening, he brings up the fact that the people wouldn't have given their approval to it if it weren't for a small number of people who cited the "standing government" as their pretext. He suggests that the ideal state for a government is one in which it exercises no authority at all. In addition to this, I would like to point out that the government is pretty inconvenient.
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