ENGL 102 _Test_2.docx test practice materials 2021.pdf

Question 1 1.6 out of 1.6 points

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 .

Selected Answer: an anti-child labor activist or legislator or benefactor or law

Question 2 1.6 out of 1.6 points

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 .

Selected Answer: the boy is pitiable and that the reader should weep over his plight

Question 3 1.6 out of 1.6 points

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 .

Selected Answer: hope for a better and happier future

Question 4 1.6 out of 1.6 points

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.”

Selected Answer: comfort

Question 5 1.6 out of 1.6 points

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 .

Selected Answer: the boy is too young to articulate clearly, let alone sweep chimneys

Question 6 1.6 out of 1.6 points

When Alexander Pope wrote that a literary critic of his time would "damn with faint praise,"

he was using a verbal paradox.

Selected Answer: True

Question 7

Which poem mentions “a Page / Of prancing Poetry”?

Selected Answer: "There is no Frigate like a Book"

Question 8

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A harsh, discordant, nasty-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds is a(n)

Selected Answer: cacophony

Question 9

defines “poetry [as] the music of the soul.”

Selected Answer: Voltaire

Question 10

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Samuel Johnson defined poetry as "The art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling

imagination to the help of reason."

Selected Answer: True

Question 11

The first three stanzas of "Virtue" show that all of nature is ephemeral.

Selected Answer: True

Question 12

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Assonance, according to the lecture lessons/presentations, emphasizes ideas and slows pace.

Selected Answer: False

Question 13

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The speaker in Shakespeare's "That Time of Year" compares himself to autumn/winter,

night, and a burnt-out fire.

Selected Answer: True

Question 14

In "Death Be Not Proud," the speaker is afraid of Death.

Selected Answer: False

Question 15

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In "The Chimney Sweeper," argues against child labor and advocates an end to it.

Selected Answer: Blake

Question 16 1.6 out of 1.6 points

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 .

Selected Answer: the world is both curved or round and misused by humans

Question 17 1.6 out of 1.6 points

A trope is a device in which one object or idea is compared with a dissimilar object or idea.

Selected Answer: True

Question 18 1.6 out of 1.6 points

"Journey of the Magi" has the following phrase: "It was (you may say) satisfactory."

Selected Answer: True

Question 19 1.6 out of 1.6 points

As literature, the Bible contains an organized view of life that comprehends and subsumes

even man's artistic creations.

Selected Answer: True

Question 20

The lamb is a symbol of innocence in this poem.

Selected Answer: "The Lamb"

Question 21

Understatement downplays or intentionally minimizes something.

Selected Answer: True

Question 22

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Sometimes the thought pattern of a poem, such as "Virtue," is reflected in the rhyme

scheme.

Selected Answer: True

Question 23 1.6 out of 1.6 points

The following is an excerpt from "Ozymandias": "It little profits that an idle king."

Selected Answer: False

Question 24 1.6 out of 1.6 points

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).

Selected Answer: Masculine rhyme

Question 25

The premise of "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God" is that

Selected Answer: Only God can deliver and save the speaker

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Question 26 0 out of 1.6 points

A poem's meter helps to convey the tone, which then helps to establish meaning.

Selected Answer: False

Question 27 0 out of 1.6 points

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 .

Selected Answer: late winter

Question 28 0 out of 1.6 points

One possible theme of is that responsibilities are more important than the beauties of

life.

Selected Answer: "Ozymandias"

Question 29 1.6 out of 1.6 points

According to the lectures and notes, is a writer's or speaker's attitude toward the

subject, the audience, or herself or himself.

Selected Answer: tone

Question 30

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

Selected Answer: End rhyme

Question 31

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

“fall” means .

Selected Answer: end

Question 32

The phrase "frigate like a book" is an example of a metaphor.

Selected Answer: True

Question 33

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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 .

Selected Answer: the setting is winter

Question 34

The poem "Ode To A Nightingale" was written by

Selected Answer: John Keats

Question 35

Edwin Arlington Robinson authored the poem "God’s Grandeur."

Selected Answer: False

Question 36

The poem, "God's Grandeur," was written by Emily Dickinson.

Selected Answer: False

Question 37

The tiger in Blake's poem of the same name symbolizes

Selected Answer: created evil

Question 38

Emily Dickinson authored the poem, "It Sifts from Leaden Sieves."

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Selected Answer: True

Question 39 1.6 out of 1.6 points

Image is a verbal representation of a series of experiences as of sight, touch, smell, and

hearing.

Selected Answer: True

Question 40 1.6 out of 1.6 points

"Ozymandias" makes extensive use of verbs such as raps, deals, and makes.

Selected Answer: False

Question 41

Tropes are communication tools that work to condense thought.

Selected Answer: True

Question 42

A metaphor is the imaginative identification of two similar objects.

Selected Answer: False

Question 43

An octave is a ten-line stanza or the first ten lives of a sonnet.

Selected Answer: False

Question 44

Rhyme scheme could be relied upon to trace a poet's thought patterns.

Selected Answer: True

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Question 45 1.6 out of 1.6 points

The lines "When my mother died I was very young, / And my father sold me while yet my

tongue could scarcely cry 'weep!'" appear in:

Selected Answer: "The Chimney Sweeper"

Question 46 1.6 out of 1.6 points

The phrase “Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest” (line 8) in William Shakespeare’s

"That Time of Year…" is a metaphor for .

Selected Answer: sleep

Question 47 1.6 out of 1.6 points

"It Sifts from Leaden Sieves" is developed through a series of metaphors for snow.

Selected Answer: True

Question 48

William Butler Yeats wrote the poem "Sailing to Byzantium."

Selected Answer: True

Question 49

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The last 5 lines of “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley reads: “My name is Ozymandias,

king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” / Nothing beside remains.

Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands

stretch far away.” One can infer from these lines that the subject was once .

Selected Answer: a mighty ruler

Question 50 0 out of 1.6 points

Frost uses direct methods to communicate his theme in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy

Evening."

Selected Answer: True

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