ENGL 102 Test 2

ENGL 102 Test 2 Liberty University

Set 1

1. The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice.   Yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “Tho’ the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.”  This is dramatic irony in the sense that __________.
2. 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 __________.
3. 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 __________.
4. 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 __________.
5. In lines 7-8, the narrator is trying to ________ Tom when he tells him, “Hush Tom never mind it, for when your head’s bare, / You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.”
6. Which poem focuses on a husband’s jealousy?
7. The tiger in Blake’s poem of the same name symbolizes
8. The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice.   Yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “Tho’ the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.”  This is dramatic irony in the sense that __________.
9. Image is a verbal representation of a series of experiences as of sight, touch, smell, and hearing
10. The poem, “God’s Grandeur,” was written by Emily Dickinson.
11. The major figure of speech often used to interpret Shelley’s “Ozymandias” is irony of situation
12. Assonance is the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words
13. According to the lectures and notes, _____ is a writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself.
14. 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 __________.
15. Tropes demand intellectual involvement on the part of the reader.
16. 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.
17. A metaphor may have one of four forms.
18. Lines 1-4 of William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” reads: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.”
    In these lines, the speaker metaphorically compares himself to __________.
19. Emily Dickinson authored the poem “There is no Frigate like a Book.”
20. “Journey off the Magi” alludes to Horace.
21. Emily Dickinson authored “Ozymandias.”
22. The lamb is a symbol of innocence in this poem.
23. “Ode to a Nightingale” concerns immortality.
24. Voltaire defined poetry as “The music of the soul.”
25. William Blake wrote “The Tiger.”
26. In order to understand meter, divide each line into feet and scan the feet.
27. The poem, “Ulysses,” was written by William Blake.
28. The predominant theme of “The Road Not Taken” is choices.
29. According to Emily Dickinson, “[Poetry] makes my body so cold that no fire can warm me … and makes me feel as if the top of my head were taken off”
30. The Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet is divided into three quatrains and a rhyming couplet.
31. Consonance is the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words.
32. Lyrical poetry differs from other writing in the fairly small emotional response that it generates.
33. Scansion is the process of measuring verse.
34. In this poem, the poet or persona asks that God “o’erthrow” him, reclaim him as His own, and “marry” him.
35. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” is a symbol of the existential dilemma.
36. Lines 11-14 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—/ Because the Holy Ghost over the bent / World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.” The word “bent” in line 13 means __________. The term used for rhymes that occur at the ends of lines is
37. In the poem, “Ozymandias,” the main character, Ozymandias, is depicted as a proud servant.
38. In “Ode to a Nightingale,” the bird suffers as does man.
39. William Blake wrote “The Chimney Sweeper.”
40. In “The Chimney Sweeper,” _____ argues against child labor and advocates an end to it.
41. Poetry, according to Carl Sandburg, is “The synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”
42. Lines 1-4 of William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” reads: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.” These lines emphasize __________.
43. William Butler Yeats wrote the poem “Sailing to Byzantium.”
44. Understatement downplays or intentionally minimizes something.
45. Theme is the unifying generalization of a literary work.
46. Three analytical approaches are (1) focus, (2) content, and (3) style.
47. The phrase “frigate like a book” is an example of a metaphor.
48. A synonym of hyperbole is exaggeration.
49. The rhyme scheme of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “God’s Grandeur” is abba abba cd cd cd.
50. The poem “Virtue” was written by

Set 2

1. The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. Yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “Tho’ the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” This is dramatic irony in the sense that
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. Yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “Tho’ the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” This is an ironic expression of the narrator’s
6. Emily Dickinson authored “Ozymandias.”
7. A quatrain contains 4 lines.
8. “Ode to a Nightingale” concerns immortality.
9. Stressed and unstressed syllables are indicated by diacritical marks.
10. Which famous critic said that it was vital to know the Bible if one is to understand literature.
11. The name for the basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse-usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables.
12. In “Ode to a Nightingale,” the bird suffers as does man.
13. What animal is mentioned in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”?
14. A paradoxical statement is a figure of speech in which an apparently self-contradictory statement is nevertheless found to be true.
15. Lines 11-14 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—/ Because the Holy Ghost over the bent / World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.” The word “bent” in line 13 means
16. The first line of “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley reads, “I met a traveler from an antique land.” Antique here best means: _
17. “Kubla Khan” represents an extended metaphor.
18. Lines 5-8 of William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” reads: “In me thou seest the twilight of such day / As after sunset fadeth in the west, / Which by and by black night doth take away, / Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.” In these lines, the speaker metaphorically compares himself to
19. The following is an excerpt from “Kubla Khan”: “It little profits that an idle king…”
20. A poem’s rational structure is the order in which the ideas in the poem are expressed.
21. The poem “Virtue” was written by
22. Assonance is the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words.
23. 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).
24. In _____ rhyme sounds, the repeated sound is in the final syllable of the words involved (e.g., “sight” and “light”).
25. The speaker of “The Chimney Sweeper” is a dead boy.
26. A synonym of hyperbole is overstatement.
27. Lines 9-12 of William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” reads: “In me thou seest the glowing of such fire, / That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, / As the death-bed whereon it must expire, / Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.” In these lines, the speaker metaphorically compares himself to
28. “Ode to a Nightingale” speaks of two scenes.
29. Image structure is the order in which images appear in a poem.
30. A poem’s sound structure is its rhyme scheme and systematic and repeated use of similar sounds.
31. The poem, “Fern Hill,” was written by Dylan Thomas.
32. Assonance is the close positioning of the same or similar vowel sounds.
33. argues that poems are tropological, not logically propositional in nature
34. The term used for rhymes that occur at the ends of lines is
35. A couplet is two successive lines that have the same rhyme.
36. “Ode to a Grecian Urn” has the following phrase: “beauty is truth, truth beauty.”
37. Edwin Arlington Robinson authored the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
38. The term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes (example push- rush).
39. Assonance, according to the Power Point presentation, emphasizes ideas and slows pace.
40. Internal rhyme has one or both of the rhyme-words within the line.
41. Shakespeare’s sonnet that deals with the autumn years of his life is entitled
42. Byron defined poetry as “The lava of imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.”
43. Scansion is the process of measuring verse.
44. In what poem does a boy lose a hand?
45. A metaphor is the imaginative identification of two similar objects.
46. The poem, “Ozymandias,” was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
47. In “Eight O’Clock” a man awaits the arrival of his train.
48. Arnold was concerned about the failing influence of Christianity.
49. “Dover Beach” begins with an idyllic scene that soon changes to a fierce attack.
50. Image is a verbal representation of a series of experiences as of sight, touch, smell, and hearing.