English Final Exam
Which way does the speaker in "Fire and Ice" prefer his/her world ends?
Fire
Literary criticism is important for which of the following reasons?
It exposes readers to new points of view about a literary work. It strengthens and validates one's own interpretation of a literary work. It provides cultural and historical context about a literary work. *All of the above.*
As the play opens, how is Mrs. Wright's kitchen described?
It is messy and looks hastily abandoned.
Original Source:From the start, Frankenstein was a tremendous success. At its Los Angeles premiere, lines formed for the 10 A.M. showing and remained until midnight; the theater dropped the usual shorts and newsreel to fit in more showings. In New York, Frankenstein drew crowds on a rainy opening night and became Broadway's biggest hit. Extra showings were scheduled, with the Mayfair Theatre selling tickets as late as 2 A.M. The film's first week set a new house record of $53,800 [].From page 23 of a book, The Men Who Made the Monsters, by Paul M. Jensen PARAPHRASE:According to Paul M. Jensen, the film Frankenstein drew hordes of viewers as soon as it opened. In Los Angeles, where the film premiered, people stood in line even for morning shows, and the theater eliminated newsreel footage and short films in order to present the feature more often. In New York, where crowds turned out in the rain, the theater added extra late-night shows, and the first week's take of $53,800 broke box-office records (23).
Acceptable
The student is quoting from page 195 of the following essay: Pérez-Torres, Rafael. "Between Presence and Absence: Beloved, Postmodernism, and Blackness." Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Casebook. Ed. William L. Andrews and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 179-201. Print.
According to Pérez-Torres, Beloved "offers a radical revisioning and recounting of history" (195).
What does Brabantio do when he finds out his daughter married Othello?
Accuses Othello of sorcery and disowns Desdemona
Using databases from the Blinn Library better to use than Google when searching for scholarly articles. Why?
The library databases, like MLA Bibliography and Project Muse, have search options that can narrow your results to ONLY academic articles, which makes research easier. Libraries have already paid the access fees to get articles, and if I were to google the article, the website most likely would ask for $.
The student is quoting from page 420 of the following book: Kerman, Joseph, and Gary Tomlinson. Listen. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford, 2008. Print. Which option below properly integrates the material?
Kerman and Tomlinson assert that punk rockers "reacted against the commercial flashiness of much rock with what we might call an anti-aesthetic: All expression was possible, including no expression. All musical expertise was acceptable, including none" (420).
Which of the following is an important symbol for Desdemona?
handkerchief
What does Desdemona ask Emilia to put on her bed?
her wedding sheets
Which of the following is NOT true of the sonnet?
Because of its brevity and discipline, only the most conservative poets use it.
Bianca can be read as a foil character for Othello. What is one important insight that her character provides?
Bianca's confronting Cassio and giving him an ultimatum reminds readers that Othello's manipulative and violent response to Desdemona's infidelity is irrational.
Shakespeare is known for writing what kind of verse in his plays?
Blank verse
Which of the following items is a secondary, scholarly source for an essay on Othello?
Bob Roug's article comparing contemporary race relations to the reception of Othello by Shakespeare's Elizabethan audiences, published in Shakespeare Studies.
Which part of Iago's "master plan" has come to fruition by the end of Act 2?
Cassio has been demoted, losing his job as lieutenant
The feeling of relief and emotional purification experienced by the audience after the catastrophic events of the tragedy occur is often referred to as _____________
Catharsis
Who does Othello want to kill?
Desdemona and Cassio
Cassio has hired the musicians in Act 3 to play for whom?
Desdemona and Othello
All of the following are conventions of form for the haiku except:
Haiku are written in iambic pentameter.
What is Hamartia, and what type of character contains this quality?
Hamartia is a tragic flaw that triggers the downfall of a tragic hero
At the end of 2.1, Iago offers some insight into why he wants to bring down Othello and Cassio. Select all of the reasons suggested in Iago's monologue at the close of 2.1.
He thinks Othello has slept with Emilia. He's jealous that Cassio got promoted instead of him. He thinks Cassio has slept with Emilia.
Which statement offers the best articulation of the story theme?
Hope and Beauty can enrich people's lives.
Who kills Roderigo?
Iago
The student is quoting from page 339 of the following essay: Mayer, Sylvia. "'You Like Huckleberries?' Toni Morrison's Beloved and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in African American Literature and Culture. Ed. Werner Sollors and Maria Diedrich. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994. 339-46. Print. Harvard English Studies 19
Mayer claims that Morrison uses the character of Amy "to explore . . . the conflict between 'freedom' and 'civilization' in a society deeply affected by slavery" (339)
Which option is the BEST title for an argumentative poetry analysis essay?
Metaphors that Mislead: It's not about the Boys
What happened to Mrs. Wright's bird?
Mr. Wright killed it.
Othello states to Desdemona at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 3, "The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue; / That profit's yet to come 'tween me and you." This comment is significant because it tells the reader that
Othello and Desdemona have yet to consummate their marriage.
Why is it funny when someone slips on a banana peel?
The person thought his will and strength would guarantee his safe passage through daily life, but in his unthinking lockstep arrogance, he did not account for the random chances for horrible calamity strewn all around us by an uncaring universe.
What, according to convention, do we expect to happen at the climax of a tragedy?
The protagonist must make a decision and his choice will be in error.
To what is Marvell alluding in the following lines from "To His Coy Mistress" ? I would Love you ten years before the Flood.And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. (7-10)
The rebirth of civilization after Noah's flood and the Jewish conversion at the apocalypse
Which of the following are two ways in which the crime scene has been altered by the end of the play?
The stove has been fired up and Mrs. Wright's quilt has been altered.
Which of the following is true of block quotations?
They are not allowed in essays written in this class. Our essays are all too short to need a longer quotation.
Othello orders a feast to celebrate is marriage and what else?
They won the war against the Turks
When Emily Dickinson writes, "But Microscopes are prudent," she seems to be using the image of a microscope as a symbol for science as a whole (3). What figure of speech is this?
metonymy
Which elements of the story contribute to a symbolic representation of darkness? Select all the apply.
moonless night electric lights
If I use the Library Catalog to search for scholarly arguments written about Othello, which of the following keywords will help me?
"criticism" of the author
Which of the following pairs of words from poems we have read is an example of eye rhyme? (Hint: If you're not sure how to pronounce a word, please look it up; most online dictionaries will speak the work for you.)
'temperate' and 'date'
Match each example text to the appropriate figure of speech, or figurative language, that it embodies. __5__"Nice wheels! Your corvette must be fast." __4__"if this old ninny-woman, Fate, cannot do better than this... she is an old hen who knows not her intention." __1__"My brother acts just like Harry Potter." __2__"I just love it when my mom lectures me" __3__"My citizenship papers are typed up in red tape."
1. allusion 2. sarcasm 3. metonymy 4. personification 5. synechdoche
Which of the following items is considered a scholarly source?
A article about Othello that is written by Harold Bloom, one of the foremost literary scholars, and published in the journal Shakespeare Studies. An eBook discussing the use of rhyme and blank verse in Othello that is edited by 3 drama and literature professors at the World Shakespeare Bibliography, housed at the University of Texas A&M.
The exposition of Othello points to an impending war between Venice and the Turks, and as Act 1 ends, Othello is leaving for battle. By Act 2, the war is over. Why?
A storm in the Mediterranean Sea has destroyed the Turkish fleet.
Why would Sheriff Peters and the County Attorney be interested in knowing about the bird Mrs. Hale finds in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket?
It establishes Mrs. Wright's motive.
When writing about literature, we avoid confusing the work's author with the narrator, speaker, or character. Which option below appropriately introduces a quotation from a literary work?
Mrs. Mallard begins writing her story with a note of foreshadowing in the first sentence, sharing the detail that she "was afflicted with a heart trouble" (569).
How do you indicate omissions within a quotation?
ellipsis points
Emilia tells Desdemona that she would cheat on her husband "for all the whole world" (4.3.76). As she elaborates, in what circumstance does she say would be unfaithful?
for her husband, to improve his situation
At the end of the play, Cassio gets promoted to
governor
The speaker of a poem is
not necessarily the poet.
According to Major-General Jonathan Shaw, the military advisor hired by the National Theatre (and interviewed in "Behind the Lines"), how did he first think Iago should dress?
not strictly conforming to military standards
According to Major-General Jonathan Shaw, the military advisor hired by the National Theatre (and interviewed in "Behind the Lines"), how should Iago dress?
not strictly conforming to military standards
What life event is "Metaphors" about?
parenthood
Please match the poem below to its correct descriptor. "Upon the breeze she spread her golden hair" --Petrarch "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" --Shakespeare
1. Italian Sonnet 2. English Sonnet
Original Source:At [Frankenstein's] Los Angeles premiere, lines formed for the 10 A.M. showing and remained until midnight [The Men Who Made the Monsters, by Paul M. Jensen PARAPHRASE:Paul M. Jensen says that people stood in lines to see Frankenstein when it opened in Los Angeles; however, this does not prove that viewers liked the film (23).
Unacceptable
Original Source:From the start, Frankenstein was a tremendous success.From page 23 of a book, The Men Who Made the Monsters, by Paul M. Jensen Paraphrase:Paul M. Jensen points out that the film Frankenstein was a tremendous success (23).
Unacceptable
Which of the following best describes the crucial difference between drama and the other major genres of fictional prose and poetry?
Unlike prose and poetry, drama is written primarily to be performed.
Act three opens with comedy. Cassio trades puns with the Clown, who pays the musicians to STOP playing music. Cassio then asks the Clown to get whom?
Emilia
Please place the follow events in the order in which they occur in Act 3.
Emilia picks up the handkerchief that Desdemona has dropped. Emilia gives Desdemona's handkerchief to Iago, who says he will leave it in Cassio's lodgings Iago tells Othello that Cassio has spoken of his love for Desdemona in his sleep, and has used her handkerchief to wipe his beard. Othello believes Iago and tells him to murder Cassio and that he will murder Desdemona.
According to the lecture video "Iago and Othello" assigned for today, which character is described as an agent of destruction?
Iago
What did French philosopher Henri Bergson argue comedy tends to target?
Inelastic automatism
Who was the first black actor to play Othello on the British stage?
Ira Aldridge
The student is quoting from page 52 of the following book: Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. New York: Vintage, 1993. Print.
Morrison criticizes white authors for using black characters as mere props to expose their own characterizations: Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but free; not repulsive, but desirable; not helpless, but licensed and powerful; not history-less, but historical; not damned, but innocent; not a blind accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny. (52)
How does Desdemona die?
Othello smothers her.
According to Othello's monologue in Act 1, why did Desdemona fall in love with him?
Othello told her exciting stories about his exciting life.
Which of the following examples shows the proper way to quote fiction in an essay?
When the narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then," the word "then" foreshadows the town's eventual discovery of Miss Emily's insanity (Faulkner 518).
Whom does Iago talk down from suicide? (this is the person who threatens to drown themselves because the person they love has wed another!)
Roderigo
Read the following excerpt, and note its identified source. Then decide which choice quotes the source more accurately and correctly using MLA (2016) style.Original Source: Most [magazine] editors test their covers in focus groups in an endless search for the magic that will make their magazines fly off the shelves—and to avoid costly mistakes. —Katharine Q. Seelye
Seelye argues that magazine editors seek "the magic that will make their magazines fly off the shelves" (604).
Select all the statements about rhyme that are correct.
Shakespeare uses rhyme to make comments and for special occasions such as songs and epilogues. Shakespeare uses rhyme as a clue to character or situation. Shakespeare uses rhyme and a variety of rhyme patterns to distinguish special characters in each play.
The student is quoting from the following article accessed in an online database: Hamlin, Annemarie, and Constance Joyner. "Racism and Real Life: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the Undergraduate Survey of American Literature." Radical Teacher 80 (2007): 12-18. Academic OneFile. Web. 13 Nov. 2008.
Some critics argue that "students of Huck Finn can begin to see the social construction of race and its impact on blacks and whites through the novel's narrator, especially when the narrative is placed alongside something more contemporary like Morrison's work" (Hamlin and Joyner)
How is the plot of a story different from its action?
The action is merely the events in a story, whereas the plot involves the way the author recounts the events to shape readers' responses.
Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide which paraphrase of the passage conveys the important information while avoiding plagiarism.Original source: Thomas Jefferson had made it unmistakably clear to Lewis and Clark that their foremost objective was to find "the direct water communication from sea to sea formed by the bed of the Missouri & perhaps the Oregon." But in his detailed letter of instructions to Lewis, Jefferson devoted more words to the Indian nations than to any other topic. Not only was Jefferson intensely curious about the tribes, he wanted Lewis and Clark to wean their loyalties away from the despised British traders and enfold them into the orbit of American trade and commerce.
Thomas Jefferson's instructions to Lewis and Clark laid out their main goal, which was to find a water route west to the Pacific Ocean. Jefferson's letter, however, also made clear his great interest in the Indian nations they would meet and his secondary objective: Lewis and Clark should work to persuade Indian nations to trade with Americans and not the British (Jones 130-31).
"Monologue for an Onion" is considered what kind of poem?
dramatic monologue
Which of the following kinds of changes may you make to a quotation when you include it in your essay?
You may make minor changes in order to reconcile the quotation's grammar and syntax with your own prose.
When the speaker of "The Flea," says, "[W]e're met, / And cloister'd in these living walls of jet," he's clearly not talking about a jet plane (14-15). In this context, the word "jet" refers to
a compact velvet-black coal that takes a good polish and is often used for jewelry a deep, intense black (color)
The technical term for a run-on line is "enjambment." What does this mean?
a line of verse that does not end in punctuation, and the thought continues in the next line
Which of the following most appropriately defines a story's theme?
a story's central idea or message
What is this a good example of? "Setting is important to Chekhov's "The Lady With the Dog""
a topic idea
Active reading usually involves which of the following?
asking a series of questions while you read
Some poets will repetitively use a vowel sound, like the i in the line "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee" (Shakespeare 14). This repetition is called
assonance
When Othello opens, the audience learns that, just before the play started, Othello promoted Cassio and eloped with Desdemona. This rapid introduction to the text's central conflict(s) shows that the play
begins in medias res.
A scholarly article is written:
by experts in the field of study
Original passageI get my first glimpse of Stonehenge while mired in a five-mile traffic jam. It's just after midnight, a few hours before sunrise on summer solstice, the longest day of the year. From my car, I can see the familiar stones bathed in an eerie blue light that gives the venerable monument the feel of an empty film setthough it won't be empty for long. I'm one of 30,000 people hoping to see the sun rise over the stones. We've been stuck for hours on the A303, a highway that, infamously, runs just a few hundred yards from Stonehenge. At 2 in the morning, I pull into a parking lot reserved for solstice celebrants about a mile from the site. Security guards make sure I'm not carrying immoderate amounts of alcohol, and I walk the rest of the way with an exuberant crowd of new agers, students, and local residentsany one of whom could be a pagan.Eric A. Powell, "Solstice at the Stones," Archaeology Sept./Oct. 2003: 36. PARAPHRASE: Powell relates his experience driving on a summer solstice to see the sun rise over Stonehenge. From where he is stuck in traffic on highway A303 at midnight, Stonehenge looks empty. However, 30,000 people will soon be there. It is 2 a.m. before he gets to the parking lot. Guards check to verify that he doesn't have too much alcohol, and he walks with the other celebrants the mile to the famous monument (36). I have heard that Stonehenge was closed to visitors for years, but, as Powell tells us, it is open once again to the public. I hope to go there on a summer solstice someday to share with others what must be a supremely mystical encounter.
effective and acceptable
What is the typical topic or subject of a conventional sonnet?
personal relationships
In Othello's final monologue, his statement that he is not easily jealous
reinforces that he is a conventional tragic hero whose flaw has caused his own downfall
Which of the following can you do if you have a topic idea but not a thesis?
research outlining drafting *all of these are correct*
What task does Othello set before Iago in Act 3 scene 2?
send some letters back to Venice
Which of the following words is an example of onomatopoeia?
shriek
What is the correct term for a figurative (rather than literal) statement that one thing is like something else?
simile
The italicized information in the following line from Trifles is what? COUNTY ATTORNEY: [Rubbing his hands.] This feels good. Come up to the fire, ladies.
stage directions
What term describes the suggestions provided by the playwright for how to produce and perform a drama?
stage directions
How many total syllables (both stressed and unstressed) are in one line of iambic pentameter?
ten
In Act 4, Othello's speech changes from verse to prose, which suggests
that Othello is deteriorating physically, psychologically, and emotionally
Why does Othello give money to Emilia?
to imply that she is a madam and that Desdemona is a *****
When asked by the Duke about her marriage, Desdemona chooses
to side with her husband
What is the temporal setting of "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"?
we are not told
What word goes in the blank (i.e. the name of the song)? My mother had a maid called Barbary.She was in love; and he she loved proved mad And did forsake her. She had a song of ______ .
willow
