English review

Oxymoron

Brief phrases that combine contradictory elements for effect

How do Cleghorn's and Tu Fu's poems differ in tone?

Cleghorn's is serious and Tu Fu's is more nostalgic

Satire

Corrective ridicule of some object of scorn usually outside of the literature itself

What kind of imaginative comparison does Frost use throughout "A Considerable Speck (Microscopic)" in order to characterize the bug he describes?

Dramatic

The following statement by Screwtape is an example of chiasmus: We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over.

False, antithesis

The theme of "Jade Flower Palace" is that the future is unpredictable.

False, nothing lasts forever

Tu Fu uses the rhetorical device of antithesis to sum up the theme of his poem.

False, rhetorical question

In "The Golf Links Lie So Near the Mill," Cleghorn uses dramatic irony to make her point.

False, situational

In "The Grave Grass Quivers," the narrator's ignorance of Doc Martindale's discoveries helps create foreshadowing.

False, suspense

Structural Irony

Generates 2 layers of meaning, one literal and one implied, throughout the entire work (Screwtape)

Litotes

A form of understatement that expresses a positive statement by denying its opposite

Hyperbole

A type of obvious overstatement used by writers to make a point

Pun

A type of wordplay in which the author combines 2 word meanings within a sentence

Situational Irony

In which a story's events violate normal expectations (A Gray Sleeve)

Screwtape refers to "that abominable advantage of the Enemy." In context, what is he alluding to?

Jesus

What kind of imaginative comparison does Tu Fu use in the following lines from his poem? "Ten thousand organ / Pipes whistle and roar."

Metaphor

Sarcasm

Mock praise

Identify the type of irony Frost displays in the final two lines of the poem.

Personification

What type of irony does Goble's gift to the community exemplify within the story?

Situational

Understatement

The representation of something as less important than it truly is

Irony

The use of language to convey meaning other than what is stated or a contradiction in what is expected to happen and what actually happens

For what purpose did Cleghorn write "The Golf Links Lie So Near the Mill"?

To show the injustice of and bring attention to child labor

"A Considerable Speck (Microscopic)" makes use of iambic pentameter.

True

"Scylla Toothless" illustrates the techniques of understatement and hyperbole.

True

One theme that Lewis visits multiple times is Screwtape's favorite method of under- mining Christian faith: distraction and misdirection.

True

The Screwtape Letters forms a classic example of structural irony.

True

The anonymous writer of "Scylla Toothless" uses what type of irony to convey his message?

Verbal

Verbal Irony

When a speaker's meaning differs from what he/she expresses in words

Give an example of foreshadowing from "The Grave Grass Quivers."

When he wishes for a murder case

Dramatic Irony

Which the reader is aware of a plot development of which the characters of the story are unaware (Julius Caesar)

Does The Screwtape Letters qualify as a satire?

Yes