Test 2

Which of the following poem was written by John Donne

"Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God"

In this sonnet, _____, the octave introduces a series of images, and the sestet presents two significant symbols.

"Spring"

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:

"The Chimney Sweeper"

According to Plato, poetry should be for art's sake, and not interpreted, analyzed, and dissected.

False

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

False

Assonance is the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words.

False

Consonance is the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words.

False

Dactylic is two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.

False

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

False

George Herbert wrote a poem titled "Honor."

False

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

False

In the poem, "Ozymandias," the main character, Ozymandias, is depicted as a proud servant.

False

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

False

Norway is the setting of "The Chimney Sweeper."

False

The speaker of "The Chimney Sweeper" is a dead boy.

False

"Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God" thematizes the power of ____ to save.

God

The poem "Ode To A Nightingale" was written by

John Keats

Which famous critic said that it was vital to know the Bible if one is to understand literature.

Northrop Frye

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

Only God can deliver and save the speaker

The term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes (example push- rush).

Slant or imperfect rhyme

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

True

"Ode to a Nightingale" speaks of two scenes.

True

A foot in poetry usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables.

True

A metaphor may have one of four forms.

True

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

True

A trope is a figure of speech.

True

Byron defined poetry as "The lava of imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake."

True

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

True

Meter refers to the regular beats that occur in a poem.

True

Monometer is a metrical line containing one foot.

True

Not all poems have a theme.

True

Stressed and unstressed syllables are indicated by diacritical marks.

True

The major figure of speech often used to interpret Shelley's "Ozymandias" is irony of situation.

True

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

True

The poem, "Ozymandias," was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

True

The predominant theme of "The Road Not Taken" is choices.

True

The speaker in Shakespeare's "That Time of Year" compares himself to autumn/winter, night, and a burnt-out fire.

True

Theme is the unifying generalization of a literary work.

True

Ulysses is a mythological hero.

True

Verbal irony means a difference between what is said and what is actually meant

True

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

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 __________.

a messenger from God who sets the boys free with the key of death and blissful life in heaven

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 __________.

a mighty ruler

What happens versus what the reader knows to be true is

dramatic irony

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." The boy's statement testifies to his __________.

good heart and innocence

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

In "Journey of the Magi" Eliot ephasizes the wise men's _____

suffering

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 pitiable and that the reader should weep over his plight

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