ENGL 102 TEST 2

Question 1 

1. The dream in lines 11-20 is a      miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the      boys live.  The “Angel who had a bright key /And … open’d the coffins      and set them all free” (line 13-14) represents __________.

 
those who exploit   the boys but would one day set them free
 
an anti-child labor   activist or legislator or benefactor or law
 
society
 
the church
1.6 points
Question 2 

1. The dream in lines 11-20 is a      miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the      boys live.  The “green plain” (line 15) represents __________.

 
hope for a better   and happier future
 
an anti-child labor   activist or legislator or benefactor or law
 
death
 
the church
1.6 points
Question 3 

1. In line 3, the boy is calling out      his trade; instead of “sweep,” he cries “weep weep weep weep.” This is the      poet’s way of telling the reader that __________.

 
the boy is being   taught by experience
 
the boy knows his   plight and is satirizing those who take advantage of him.
 
the boy is too   young to articulate clearly, let alone sweep chimneys
 
the boy is weeping   out loud in the streets
1.6 points
Question 4 

1. The dream in lines 11-20 is a      miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the      boys live.  The “coffins of black” (line 12) represent __________.

 
the chimneys in   which the boys work
 
the boys’ hostels
 
the streets
 
life
1.6 points
Question 5 

1. In line 3, the boy is calling out      his trade; instead of “sweep,” he cries “weep weep weep weep.” This is the      poet’s way of telling the reader that __________.

 
the boy should work   so his poverty and weeping would be rewarded
 
the boy knows his   plight and satirizes those who take advantage of him
 
the boy is pitiable   and that the reader should weep over his plight
 
the boy is weeping   out loud in the streets
1.6 points
Question 6 

1. “To strive, to seek, to find,      and not to yield” is from what poem?

 
“Barter”
 
“Ozymandias”
 
“Ulysses”
 
“The   Tiger”
1.6 points
Question 7 

1. M. H. Riken proposes six tools or      substructures of the art form, poem. These include paraphrase, rational,      image, metric, sound, and syntax.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 8 

1. Lines 11-12 of Gerard Manley      Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: “And though the last lights off the black      West went / Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—” The images      of sunset and sunrise symbolize God’s __________.

 
imminent   destruction of the world
 
the coming of the   Lord
 
perpetual renewal   of nature
 
creation of life   and death
1.6 points
Question 9 

1. T. S. Eliot appropriated the story      of his poem, “The Journey of the Magi,” from _______?

 
Plato
 
Aristotle
 
Sophocles
 
Matthew
1.6 points
Question 10 

1. The images in _____ create an      impression of child labor.

 
“Autumn”
 
“The Chimney   Sweeper”
 
“Design”
 
“Stopping by   Woods on a Snowy Evening”
1.6 points
Question 11 

1. Another name for Petrarchan sonnet      is

 
English sonnet
 
Italian sonnet
 
Shakespearean   sonnet
 
Miltonian sonnet
1.6 points
Question 12 

1. Lyrical poetry differs from other      writing in the fairly small emotional response that it generates.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 13 

1. The term used for a rhyme in which      the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words      involved (example dance-pants).

 
Masculine rhyme
 
Feminine rhyme
 
Internal rhyme
 
End rhyme
1.6 points
Question 14 

1. When we understand all the      conditions and circumstances involved in a paradox, we find that what at      first seemed impossible is actually entirely plausible and not impossible      at all.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 15 

1. What happens versus what the      reader knows to be true is

 
dramatic irony
 
verbal irony
 
situational irony
 
motivational irony
1.6 points
Question 16 

1. Tropes create meaning that cannot      be expressed any other way.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 17 

1. In this poem, the poet or persona      asks that God “o’erthrow” him, reclaim him as His own, and      “marry” him.

 
“God’s   Grandeur”
 
“Easter   Wings”
 
“Batter My   Heart, Three-Personed God”
 
“The   Lamb”
1.6 points
Question 18 

1. The most significant literary      device in the poem, “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves” is metaphor.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 19 

1. The speaker of “The Chimney      Sweeper” is a dead boy.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 20 

1. Line 3 of George Herbert’s      “Virtue” reads: “The dew shall weep thy fall tonight.” The word “fall”      means __________.

 
end
 
decrease
 
dawn
 
original sin
1.6 points
Question 21 

1. A poem can be organized without      stanza breaks, refrain, or rhythm.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 22 

1. An imagistic poem gives the verbal      representation of a sense experience, as of sight, touch, taste, smell,      and hearing.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 23 

1. The term used for a rhyme in which      the repeated accented vowel sound is in either the second or third last      syllable of the words involved (example hurrying-scurrying).

 
Masculine rhyme
 
Feminine rhyme
 
Internal rhyme
 
End rhyme
1.6 points
Question 24 

1. A metaphor is the imaginative      identification of two similar objects.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 25 

1. The poem “Ode To A      Nightingale” was written by

 
William Wordsworth
 
John Keats
 
Robert Frost
 
Emily Dickinson
1.6 points
Question 26 

1. “Journey of the Magi”      maintains that Christ’s birth was a “hard and bitter agony.”

True
False
1.6 points
Question 27 

1. The three major types of irony are      verbal irony, dramatic irony, and irony of situation.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 28 

1. Edwin Arlington Robinson authored      the poem “God’s Grandeur.”

True
False
1.6 points
Question 29 

1. In _____ rhyme sounds, the      repeated sound is in the final syllable of the words involved (e.g.,      “sight” and “light”).

 
internal
 
feminine
 
approximate
 
end
1.6 points
Question 30 

1. Irony of situation results from      the incongruity between the actual and the anticipated circumstance in      “Ozymandias.”

True
False
1.6 points
Question 31 

1. According to the lecture notes,      the allusion in the poem “Out, Out – -” is from

 
Tennessee Williams’   The Glass Menagerie
 
The book of Revelation
 
Shakespeare’s play MacBeth
 
Yeats’   “Sailing to Byzantium”
1.6 points
Question 32 

1. In Shakespeare’s “That Time      of Year” time is shown to pass via the stages of a plant’s life in      spring season.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 33 

1. In “Ozymandias” the      reader gains his information from a direct observer of a great irony.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 34 

1. In the poem, “It Sifts from      Leaden Sieves,” Dickinson compares snowfall to God’s righteousness      covering the earth.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 35 

1. Keats died of polio.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 36 

1. Irony is the situation or use of      language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 37 

1. The term used for rhymes that      occur at the ends of lines is

 
Masculine rhyme
 
End rhyme
 
Feminine rhyme
 
Internal rhyme
1.6 points
Question 38 

1. Theme is the unifying      generalization of a literary work.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 39 

1. Onomatopoeia is the use of words      that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 40 

1. The term used for a rhyme in which      one or both of the rhyme-words occurs within the line is

 
Masculine rhyme
 
Feminine rhyme
 
Internal rhyme
 
In media res rhyme
1.6 points
Question 41 

1. The poem, “Virtue,” was      written by George Herbert.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 42 

1. Hazlitt defined poetry as      “The universal language which the heart holds with nature and      itself.”

True
False
1.6 points
Question 43 

1. “Ode to a Nightingale”      speaks of two scenes.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 44 

1. “Chimney Sweeper” uses a      dichotomy between the horror that the children experience and what is      said.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 45 

1. Images evoke the senses.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 46 

1. “Journey off the Magi”      alludes to Horace.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 47 

1. Lines 7-8 of Gerard Manley      Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s      smell: the soil / Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.”  “The      soil / Is bare” because __________.

 
humans have sullied   it with their commercial and industrial activities
 
the setting is   winter
 
God has sent   drought as punishment for the sins of humans
 
humans have   improved the landscape
1.6 points
Question 48 

1. Tropes demand intellectual      involvement on the part of the reader.

True
False
1.6 points
Question 49 

1. Which of the following poem was      written by John Donne

 
“Batter My   Heart, Three-Personed God”
 
“Dover   Beach”
 
“Redemption”
 
“Fern   Hill”
1.6 points
Question 50 

1. To paraphrase content is to be      able to summarize a work, to offer its core idea(s).

True
False