Practice Test 1-4
Which is the best example of using a rhetorical device effectively, and why?
'Let's hang out this weekend. I know what you're going to say, you have homework. But we can do our homework together!' because you are rebutting an argument before it's made.
Humanism
A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
Idiom
A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.
Meter
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
In the poem Heritage by Countee Cullen, what does the speaker refer to as 'A book one thumbs / Listlessly, till slumber comes'?
Africa
''Oh Sun, why do you shine so hot?'' Which of the following literary devices can be found in this sentence?
Apostrophe
When looking at what the author omits or fails to mention, what are we looking to uncover?
Bias
A bilingual person speaking with a bilingual family member incorporates the grammar and words of two different languages. Which of the following best describes this?
Code switching
Typeface
Commonly referred to as font.
What's involved in the point by point method of development?
Comparing or contrasting two things in the same paragraph
What type of sounds are used to illustrate alliteration?
Consonant sounds only
Which Steinbeck's novel includes significant Biblical imagery, particularly references to Cain and Abel?
East of Eden
Which of the following is an example of an either/or fallacy?
Either you live in the north, or you don't like the snow.
Jane Austen
English novelist who mostly wrote romantic fiction. Known for realism, irony and social commentary, (C/I) (1775-1817). English novelist known for portrayal of the middle-class. Known for Pride and Prejudice, British author who also sought to recover Christendom's values. Wrote Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, etc. Wrote about things that matter. Misunderstood by critics.
Which critical perspective is most likely to examine the structure of a text?
Formalism
The novel Adam Bede, which describes a rural town during the Victorian period, was written by _____.
George Elliott
One benefit of speaking rather than reading is that the speaker can:
Go back to main points if the audience did not respond as expected
According to his autobiography Black Boy, what leads to Richard Wright to become an alcoholic at a very young age?
He is forced to drink by patrons of a bar after he is caught making fun of them
Which of the following statements is most characteristic of James Joyce's childhood and upbringing?
He was from a descending middle class family, attending both boarding and local schools.
What event served as a catalyst for Edgar Allan Poe to begin writing in earnest to earn a living?
He was left out of John Allan's will and had no other means of supporting himself.
The phrase ''the cat's got your tongue'' is an example of which of the following?
Idiom
Which of the following sentences is NOT written with simple subject-verb construction?
In a timed essay exam, you should think about paragraph breaks.
Which of the following grammatical errors needs to be fixed in this sentence? ''The affect of Shakespeare and Marlowe on today's literature is extensive.''
Incorrect word usage
What is the difference between the independent and instructional level of a student?
Independent levels require easier texts than instructional levels.
Why does Whitman use the phrase depart as air in his poem Song of Myself?
It's a simile that he's using to compare his departure from earth (death) to the departure of air, something peaceful and easy.
Which modernist author employed Samuel Beckett as a secretary?
James Joyce
Which of the following types of print media is the most credible source?
Journals
What is Amy Lowell's poem Autumn about?
Leaves falling in both daylight and evening.
What is George Eliot's real name?
Mary Ann Evans
Countee Cullen's marriage to whom was a major event?
Nina Yolande DuBois
Archetypes were first seen in the works of:
Plato and Sophocles
Which of the following is the most accurate way to gauge a student's reading level?
Pretest
Which term best identifies the media as mirrors of social reality?
Representations
Which is an example of a way literature helps to keep interest high?
The Cat in the Hat
The coming-of-age novel has evolved out of which earlier form?
The German Bildungsroman
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Why did people question their faith in humanity throughout the end of modernism?
The horror of WWII
Which of the following BEST describes the cultural effect of humanism on Dante's Divine Comedy?
The narrator's journey is focused on the individual rather than the Church.
Which of the following statements is an example of writing with a passive voice?
The report was finished in early June.
In Swift's Gulliver's Travels, why is Gulliver exiled by the Houyhnhnms?
They discover that he's a Yahoo.
In Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, why does Jerry have two empty picture frames in his room?
They're used as a metaphor for the emptiness in Jerry's life.
The following line for Edgar Allan Poe's ''The Raven'' uses what type of poetic meter? ''Once upon a midnight dreary.''
Trochaic
Which of the following is NOT one of the tools an author can use to reveal tone?
Typeface
Ben Jonson created a large collection of plays, masques and poems during his career which contained all of the following elements except
a focus on life in various historical periods
affect vs effect
affect is a verb and effect is a noun
Beowulf is similar in structure to Caedmon's Hymn because of the _____ verse and use of _____. However, it's different because it's really long, and is classified as _____ instead of a poem.
alliterative; caesura; an epic
The two teams faced off. One team had gone undefeated for three seasons. The other, a young team, was playing their first game. This competition was a David and Goliath match-up.' This passage is an example of which literary term?
allusion
In the poem Heritage by Countee Cullen, what gives the speaker inner peace?
nothing
An example of a morpheme is
the 'de-' in 'deconstruct'
All of the following E.M. Forster novels were adapted into films, EXCEPT:
the longest journey
code switching
the practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation.
Which of the following statements BEST describes expository writing?
Expository writing seeks to explain or inform readers about a subject.
In the _____ stage, an individual is gathering the words and sentences in his brain to be used in the next stage of the listening process.
attending
If you are writing about the reasons the Revolutionary War occurred, what organizational pattern should you use?
cause and effect
Which type of literary nonfiction is a short piece on a single topic?
essay
Who is the target audience for an end-user document?
general public who purchase a product
Which of the following is NOT required when citing a journal article using MLA formatting?
https:// in the URL
Morpheme
in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix)
phoneme
in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
When your brain receives words and sentences and you attach meaning to them, you are in the _____ stage of the listening process.
interpreting
How is syntax absorbed through literature?
passive frequent exposure
Francis Bacon's ideas became the foundation of the modern study of _____.
science
Formalism
strict observance of the established rules traditions and methods employed in the arts. _____ can also refer to the theory of art that relies heavily on the organization of forms in a work rather than on the content.
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
According to John Stuart Mill's harm principle as described in On Liberty, which of the following is NOT acceptable?
A law that requires you to eat well
The Red Summer of 1919 was:
A series of race riots across America
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was written as a reaction to which major event?
American Civil War
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer known especially for his macabre poems, such as "The Raven" (1845), and short stories, including "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839).
Victorian period
An English movement starting in 1837, when Queen Victoria was crowned, and ending in 1901, when she died. This period was marked by prose fiction and non-fiction, with common themes of loss and wistfulness. Realism and its forms were part of this era.
Frederick Douglass should be remembered as all of the following, EXCEPT which one?
An anti-abolitionist orator
George Eliot
English realist writer; Silas Marner and Middlemarch.
Which characteristics of the Romantic movement were expressed through a focus on nature?
Escapism & spirituality
In what way is Jane Austen's work related to modern romantic comedies?
Her characters move from hating to loving each other.
What is the tone of a short story?
The writer's attitude toward his or her subject
