Mid-Term Test (Nov.8)

1. The test will be based on the material we have covered, i.e. early national literature, F.Franklin, Romanticism, W.Irving, N..Hawthorne, E.A.Poe.

2. Vocabulary Quiz will be based on E.A.Poe's stories "The Cask of Amontillado”,
“MS found in a bottle”, and “The Purloined letter”

to avenge smb
to take revenge on smb for smth
to punish with impunity
to pride oneself on one’s connoisseurship in wine
to drink to smth
to seize smth
to flash with light
to be bewildered
to ejaculate
to wall up the entrance
to wear off
to plaster smth
in vain

hereditary wealth
notoriously known
reveries of fancy
to quiver
a stern of the ship
the salvation of smth
dim, sullen, feeble glow
to believe in superstitions
a stupendous sea
to experience the feeling of awe
concealment
to scrutinize smth
an appalling size
to be doomed to smth
to hover upon
to plunge into
irrepressible reverence
to pace
to ponder upon one’s destiny
to get into whirlpool

to bestow the power
to be susceptible of smth
to waylay smb
to anticipate smth
to conceive
to be thunder-stricken
to grasp smth in agony
to open smth with a trembling hand
to cast a glance at smth
to rush from the house
to fill up the check
human ingenuity
the routine of one’s duty
a disposal of smth
to sacrifice smth
to distinguish smth from smth
to take for granted
a strong relish
to contemplate about smth
pagan legends
to embellish a description
miscellaneous letter
soiled and crumpled letter
to be in search of smth
to be in the view of everybody
inside out
to tear into two
to call for
replace smth by smth
to feel curiosity
to outwit

3. Read E.A.Poe's detective story "The Purloined Letter"