Tale of Two Cities Review; Eng 2 PAP

15) Dickens' tone in this passage is largely:

b. sarcastic

19) Each of the following is a part of Carton's prophecy Except the:

c. continuation of the Reign of Terror

3) The action of the people in this passage indicates that:

b. they maintain a capacity for some happiness despite their poverty

Book 2, Chapter 7 11) Referring to Monseigneur's chamber as his "sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holies"

biblical allusion

58) "The stillness consequence on the cessation of the rumbling and labogring of the couch, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed."

b. gerund

4) The tone of the end of the passage can best be described as:

b. ominous

26) The repetition of introductory words or phrases at the beginning of each phrase, clause, or sentence

Anaphora

64) Which of the following sets include All prepositions?

a. aboard, across, from, into, like, off, on

7) Jerry is annoyed by his wife's praying because he believes that:

a. his wife is praying for him to fail in his trade

13) To say that "he [Monseigner} must have died at two" (line 17) is an example of:

a. hyperbole

14) according to the passage, Monseigneur's reception occurs every:

a. two weeks

22) This type of diction refers to words that describe concepts that you cannot see, touch, or taste.

abstract

31) In this type of voice, the subject performs the action expressed in the verb.

active voice

32) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another.

alliteration

27) A brief or indirect reference to a person, place, event, or passage in a work of literature; these include Biblical and mythological.

allusion

33) The repetition of the last word of one clause starts the beginning of the next clause.

anadiplosis

29) A short personal entertaining account/story used to bring humor or to illustrate a particular characteristic or trait.

anecdote

36) Starting an opposition or contrast emphasized and supported by parallel structure usually in the same sentence.

antithesis

28) A brief saying embodying a moral; a concise statement of a principle which contains a general truth. Example "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

aphorism

39) A strategy in which an absent person, inanimate object or abstract being is being addressed directly.

apostrophe

41) The repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants.

assonance

43) Commas used with no conjunctions to separate a series of words, helping to speed up the flow of the sentence. It can be a form of parallelism.

asyndeton

2) The simile at the end of the first paragraph highlights the:

b. appearance of the shattered cask

61) Heralded by a courier in advance, and by the cracking of his postilions' whips, which twined snake-like about their heads in the evening air, as if he came attended by the Furies, Monsieur the Marquis drew up in his travelling carriage at the posting-house gate."(book 2, chapter 8)

c. periodic sentence, simile, allusion, onomatopoeia

24) This type of diction uses words or phrases, including slang, used in everyday conversation and informal writing

colloquial

37) This type of diction describes specific, observable things, people or places.

concrete

44) This type of meaning is implied or suggested because of the association in the reader's mind. They are categorized as negative, neutral, or positive.

connotation

30) Identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity, as in BOOST and BEST.

consonance

50) This type of syntax sentence structure is long complicated, wordy, too many ideas rolled into one sentence, and hard to follow.

convoluted

60) "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."

d. anaphora, parallelism, antithesis

59) "It was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, with a large stone court-yard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace before the principal door."

d. appositive

62) "The little narrow, crooked town of Dover hid itself away from the beach, and ran its head into the chalk cliffs, like a marine ostrich. The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction." (Book 1, Chapter 4)

d. personification, simile metaphor, consonance, anadiplosis

63) Which of the following is NOT a coordinating conjunction:

d. since

45) The dictionary definition of a word

denotation

47) The purpose of this type of writing or literature is to instruct or teach a lesson and usually focuses on moral or ethical concerns.

didactic

Book 3, Chapter 15 16) The use of quotation marks at the beginning of paragraphs 3-8 indicates:

e. a multi-paragraph quotation from an important character

20) In terms of plot structure, this episode is most accurately called:

e. epilogue

Read Book 2 Chapter 1 6) Dickens uses Jerry's throwing a boot (only that one action) at his wife as the means of:

e. introducing the idea of jerry's secret trade

12) The tone of the entire passage suggests that Monseigner himself to be a(n):

e. supreme deity in France

23) The repetition of the first word of one clause is also at the end of the same clause

epanalepsis

46) The repetition of the same word or groups of words at the ENDS of phrases, clauses, or sentences

epistrophe

48) A deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis

hyperbole

35) Also known as an understatement, this statement says less that what it means or is implied.

litotes

49) A type of syntax sentence structure in which the main clause or idea is at the beginning of the sentence with string of details following it.

loose

38) A figure of speech that replaces the name of an object, person, or idea with something with which it is associated. Example: Uncle Sam came to save the day

metonymy

42) A recurring main thematic element or subject of a work that is elaborated on in the development of the piece; a repeated pattern or idea.

motif

25) Label the voice of the sentence: The fast ball was thrown by the outstanding pitcher

passive voice

40) A sentence syntax structure in which the main idea is at the end of the sentence, with the details at the beginning.

periodic

21) ___ a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using "wheels" to mean a car.

synecdoche

34) The main idea of a text. It presents the author's assertion or claim with the rest of the essay or piece should support and develop.

thesis