Test Notes

• A change of ________ is a change of ________? style, subject
• What is below myth on the pyramid? music
• What is Nobody's real name? What does it mean? Xebeche, He Who Talks Loud Says Nothing
• Which poem of Wallace Stevens is reminiscent to the beggining and ending of "Dead Man?" "Prologues to What is Possible"
• Northrop Frye was uncomfortable with words that begin with what prefix? "de" because they deal with taking away instead of adding
• William Blake takes the blood of a ________ and puts it in his wound? Dead fawn
• Dr. Sexson would like to see _____________ done to students before they graduate? Physical mutilation
• What ate the three phrases we use to examine "Dead Man?" "Poetry is a destrutive force." "Poetry is the subject of the poem." "All things resemble each other."
• What is the playing of dozens and which novels exemplify it?" A contest of wit. "Mules and Men" and "Invisible Man."
• According to "Invisible Man" imagination inspires ______________? democracy
• What are the names of the two sherrifs in Bill Blake kills with his poetry? Lee and Marvin
• What are the three thing Ike has to leave behind before he can see the bear? His rifle, compass, and watch
• The killing of the bear is a metaphor for what? The destruction of nature
• What are the two forms of imagination? Creative and decreative
• The speech given by the narrator in "Invisible Man" is modeled after what two speeches? The Book of Judas, "Julius Caesar."
• "Trust the tale not the teller." D.H. Lawrence
• Rhinehart is a ___________ figure? trickster
• What starts the race riot? The eulogy for Tod Clifton
• What famous jazz song opens "Invisible Man?" "What did I do to be so black and blue." Louis Armstrong
• What is the unnamed poem that Ike's father reads? "Ode to the Grecian Urn" by John Keats
• Who did Santa Claus rape? Sybil
• Who is Sybil? mythological oracle to the underworld
• "Invisible man is an anti ________________ novel. Horation Alger
• What are the two corresponding phrases for the imagination? Neti Neti (not this not that) Tat twam asi (not this not that.)
• Which novel is a dream novel? "Invisible Man."
• Define parataxis: linking things together with the conjunction "and"
• What is Cole Wilson's mythological title? the demon master of imagination
• What is synaesthesa? A blurring or mixing of the senses
• What is an ehpebe? A young boy who was a candidate for education in ancient Greece.