Emily Dickinson
What is the main subject in both poems "We grow accustomed to the Dark" and "Before I got my eye put out"?
Sight or eyes
What does deGrasse Tyson believe about parapsychology?
He believes it's nonsense - experiments have shown that its claims aren't supported.
Why is the Moteca man running through the forest?
The Aztecs are chasing him down so they can use him as a sacrifice
In W. H. Auden's poem "Musée des Beaux Arts," what did the "Old Masters" clearly understand?
Human suffering
After a difficult day you might find this in a hug from a loved one.
Solace
In the poem "We grow accustomed to the Dark," what does the speaker mean when they say "fit our vision to the dark"?
Adapt to something.
Why would the tools of science be useless or nonexistent without the five senses?
Without the senses, we would never have been able to create scientific tools that allow us to go beyond our senses. The senses also allow us to perceive information that scientific tools provide.
Line 130-131 "A cup of marvelous golden broth came, smelling of leeks, celery, and parsley" is an example of which type of tone?
Excited, calm
What are most of the people doing in the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus?
They are facing away from Icarus and are unaware of him.
If weather conditions were dangerous and unpredictable, you might call them this.
Precarious
If the speaker of "Before I got my eye put out" had the opportunity to see again, she would feel this way.
Overwhelmed
If we were born with eyeballs that had the resolution of high-performance microscopes, what problems does deGrasse Tyson suggest would have been solved years earlier?
We would have understood what caused the plague and other sicknesses.
What are the two settings of the story?
1. In the streets of a modern-day city and the hospital
2. At night in a forest, in underground cells, and the steps of a temple
Which image in Breughel's painting is most emphasized?
A man wearing a red shirt plowing a field (the ploughman).
The monks will ____________ the temple as a house of worship.
Consecrate
The line "As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp/ To witness her Goodbye" is an example this.
A simile
What does deGrasse Tyson mean by "we register the world's stimuli in logarithmic rather than linear increments"?
The way we perceive changes in light, sound, and other stimuli is not precise. We only pick up on large changes, not small ones.
In the plot with the Motecas and Aztecs, the protagonists arm strains "until the pain became unbearable and he had to give up." How was this event reflected in the second plot?
The protagonist's broken arm is in a cast held up by pulleys
In W. H. Auden's poem, Icarus' fall was "not an important failure" to the ploughman.
What does this say about Auden's view of how people respond to the suffering of other people?
People judge suffering by how it affects their own lives
If you can see a crane far away on the horizon without binoculars, you probably have visual ___________.
Acuity
What might the soul represent in the following lines of the poem "Before I got my eye put out":
So safer - guess - with just my soul
Opon the window pane
Where other creatures put their eyes -
Incautious - of the Sun -
mind/thoughts/memories/experiences/heart
What is the central idea of the text?
Our five senses are important, but they are limited. We need scientific tools to understand what we're unable to perceive with our senses.
At the end of the story, how can you tell the protagonist is having a difficult time staying in the reality of the hospital?
He tries to close his eyes tightly and moans to wake up, reaches out for water to stay awake.
In his version of the Greek myth of Icarus, how did the Roman poet Ovid describe people's reaction to Icarus?
They "stood there amazed, believing them to be gods able to travel the sky."
If someone tends to talk too much when they are nervous, you might say they have a _____________ to do it.
Propensity