Engl 60 Jeopardy

Passage I.D.

100

The old Man still stood talking by my side;

But now his voice to me was like a stream

Scarce heard; nor word from word could I divide;

And the whole body of the Man did seem

Like one whom I had met with in a dream;

Or like a man from some far region sent,

To give me human strength, by apt admonishment.

Wordsworth, "Resolution and Independence"

200

Poetry is feeling confessing itself to itself...

J.S. Mill, "Thoughts on Poetry"

300

At the Portals of the Future,

    Full of madness, guilt and gloom,

Stood the hateful form of Slavery,

    Crying, Give, Oh! give me room–

Frances Ellen Harper, "Lines"

400

Cling to this day — cling to it, and to its principles, with the grasp of a storm-tossed mariner to a spar at midnight.

Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"

500

Great universal Teacher! he shall mould

Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask.

Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight"

Context

100

Thoreau didn't want his taxes going to this...

Mexican-American War

200

The 1850 legislation authorizing the kidnapping of formerly enslaved people.

Fugitive Slave Act

300

This mid-19th century event motivated waves of migration to California

Gold Rush

400

Abolitionist leader who published The Liberator newspaper

William Lloyd Garrison

500

Frederick Douglass opposed this relocation scheme 

Liberia colonization

Miscellaneous

100

Husband to the author of Frankenstein

Percy Bysshe Shelley

200

This book discusses the color of ice.

Thoreau, Walden

300

This treatise has a section entitled "privation."

Edmund Burke, Inquiry into the Origins of the Sublime and the Beautiful

400

Frederick Douglass picked up this rhetoric manual in Baltimore.

The Columbian Orator

500

California has plenty of this type of tree, mentioned by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lime tree

Form & Genre

100

Type of poem John Keats wrote about "the nightingale"

Ode

200

Emily Dickinson learned this at church...

Hymn meter or Common meter

300

A literary work in which the author laments the moral state of society or the world.

Jeremiad

400

Rhetorical device that humbles the speaker to the audience

Apologia

500

J.S. Mill compares lyric poetry to this dramatic form.

Soliloquy

Themes

100

Truth and Beauty

Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

200

Lost in the crowd

Hawthorne, "Wakefield"

300

The duty of conscience

Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"

400

Cradle to grave, in these two poems

Wordsworth, "Intimations of Immortality"; Whitman, "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking"

500

In limbo

Rekdal, "West: A Translation"