The Night of the Hunter #1
Yes or No: the story is set during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Yes.
Rank these characters from youngest to oldest: John, Pearl, Rachel Cooper, Willa Harper.
Pearl < John < Willa < Rachel
Pearl stony and silent as a gravevard cherub.
Simile / explicit comparison
Complete the blank in this in-text citation for page 45 of The Night of the Hunter:
“The hangman hurried on a little, uncomfortable at this discussion of the family and affairs of the man he had just killed. And yet he knew of no reasonable way of doing silencing the man in the army coat.” (____ 45)
Grubb
Which of these books is part of the Beat Generation?
A. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
B. On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
C. Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
D. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
B. On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
What's written on Preacher's fingers?
LOVE and HATE
Which member of Rachel Cooper’s household is seduced by Preacher and reveals that John and Pearl are being sheltered by Rachel?
Ruby
Marilyn Monroe moved mysteriously through the misty morning.
Alliteration (in M)
Arrange the elements of the MLA Works Cited section in the correct order:
Publisher / Year / Author’s Name / Title of document.
Author’s Name / Title / Publisher / Year.
In Gregory Crewdson’s Untitled, from the series Beneath the Roses (the photograph we analyzed in our first session), what is the color of the tablecloth on the dining table?
Yellow
Who smells "like the cellar, like iron, like old leaves in autumn under the grape arbor"?
Preacher (p. 200)
Book Four is entitled: "A Strong Tree With Many..."
... Birds
Which rhetorical device is used in Martin Luther King Jr.’s lines:
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!"
An anaphora
How should in-text citations look for a book by one author?
A. (Salinger 23)
B. (Salinger, 1951, p. 23)
C. (23 Salinger)
D. (Salinger: 23)
A. (Salinger 23)
What postwar suburban housing development became the symbol of mass-produced, affordable homes for veterans and their families?
Levittown
Which Biblical figure is not mentioned in the novel?
A. Cain
B. Abraham
C. Eve
D. Moses
B. Abraham
What Christmas gift does John give Rachel?
An apple.
Define a pleonasm.
The use of more words than necessary to convey meaning, often through redundant or repetitive expressions. Used for emphasis, but it can also be considered a style fault if unintentional. Example: “I saw it with my own eyes.” (obvious you use your own eyes to see), “a free gift” (a gift is by definition free).
Which of the following is the correct MLA Works Cited entry for Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism?
A. Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press, 2011.
B. Berlant, L. Cruel Optimism. Duke, 2011.
C. Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press, 2011.
D. Lauren Berlant. Cruel Optimism. New York: Duke University Press, 2011.
C. Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press, 2011.
Can you name four main literary genres of the American postwar period (1945–1960)?
Social Realism, Beat Literature, Southern Gothic, Confessional Poetry, Late Modernism, Science Fiction.
What is the name of the river on which John and Pearl escape?
The Ohio River
To which legendary figure is Preacher compared, but misheard by John?
Bluebeard
The “blue men” in The Night of the Hunter.
Synecdoche/ Metonymy.
Where is the mistake in this entry?
Delage, Christian. “The Law of the Father and the Order of Time: Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter.” Law and New Media: West of Everything, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, p. 117-137.
pp. not p. 117-137.
In Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), how much did Betsy pay for the vase that sparked a fight with Tom at the beginning of the novel?
$40