Exam

Question 1

At the beginning of Raymond Carver story Cathedral how does the narrator feel about the blind man coming to visit his wife?

Answer 1

He was bothered by his blindness

Question 2

Reading actively often means looking for

Answer 2

Patterns

Question 3

What term describes something the writer states is true about the text

Answer 3

Claim

Question 4

In the lives of the dead, how could the soldiers keep the dead alive?

Answer 4

By telling stories about them

Question 5

Within the thing that carried, what do the letters from Martha provide Lieutenant cross?

Answer 5

Hope

Question 6

The central idea in a literary work is called its

Answer 6

Theme

Question 7

Why is it decided that the lusus naturae should die?

Answer 7

So her older sister can marry

Question 8

What happens in St. Lucie‘s home for girls raised by wolves when Claudette is given a special pass to travel home and visit her wolf family

Answer 8

She does not truly feel at home

Question 9

Which of the following does Asterion not do in the story

Answer 9

Host a ball so that he can choose a bride

Question 10

How many periods are there in the short story “Girl”?

Answer 10

None

Question 11

Symbolism is used in literature to do, which of the following

Answer 11

Add more meaning to the writing that goes beyond what is actually written

Question 12

What kind of stories does the narrator tell herself early in Boys and Girls

Answer 12

Heroic tales in which she rescued somebody

Question 13

What’s the focus of an analysis?

Answer 13

The author’s ability to support their claims

Question 14

What is the name of the alien species in Bloodchild?

Answer 14

Tlic

Question 15

What is the primary setting of the story “The Veldt”?

Answer 15

A virtual reality simulation

Question 16

In Trifles, what does the reader know about Minnie Wright? What kind of person was she before she married Mr. Wright?

Answer 16

Lively and loved to sing

Question 17

In Fences, Troy is skeptical about Cory’s recruitment to play college football because

Answer 17

He does not believe a black man can make a fair wage in professional sports

Question 18

“They told me to take a street car named Desire and then transport to one called Cemetaries and ride six blocks and get off at-Elysian Fields.” This is Blanche’s first line in the play. It sums up the major theme Williams was trying to portray with his characters. What is that theme?

Answer 18

That desires like a drug, and if not manage carefully, it can lead to your death

Question 19

In The Importance of Being Ernest, who is Bunbury

Answer 19

A fictional invalid Algeron has invented so he can get out of social obligations

Question 20

What is the following excerpt referencing within “Ballad of Birmingham”?
“No baby, no, you may not go,
For the dogs are fierce and wild, And clubs and hoses, guns and jails
Aren’t good for a little child”

Answer 20

The freedom marches

Question 21

What kind of poem is Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess”?

Answer 21

Dramatic monologue

Question 22

Why does the speaker in “Porphyria’s Lover” strangle her

Answer 22

He fears she will eventually given to society’s pressure and not be with him

Question 23

What lesson does the following excerpt from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” present?
And to teach, by
his own example,
love and reverence
to all things that God
made and loveth.

Answer 23

Love of all God’s creatures

Question 24

A poem that expresses a story and usually has a refrain like a song

Answer 24

Ballad

Question 25

What is the musical quality of poetry

Answer 25

Rhythm

Question 26

There are two basic pieces of info needed for citation. Which combination below is the correct one?

Answer 26

Aurhor(s) Name(s) and Page Numbers

Question 27

How do a poem theme in town differ

Answer 27

The theme is what the poem says about its topic. The tone is its attitude towards the topic.

Question 28

What political and or social issues are addressed in the stanza of “The Times They Are A-Changin”? Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he who gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside and it’s ragin’ It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin’

Answer 28

Civil rights movement

Question 29

In Shakespeare sonnet, [My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the Sun] what is meant by the couplet, which reads, “And yet by heaven ai think my love as rare/ As any she belief with false compare” lines 13 to 14

Answer 29

The speaker believes his love is at least as wonderful as women who are falsely praised

Question 30

How does the speakers point of view in “O Captain, My Captain,” affect his impression of the poems subject

Answer 30

The speaker admires what Lincoln has done and mourns his death

Question 31

Which term is what is suggested by a word apart from what is literally meant or how it is defined in the dictionary

Answer 31

Connotation

Question 32

Which description represents the lyric?

Answer 32

Shows a writers thoughts or feelings; song like

Question 33

What’s the theme in “Ode to a Nightingale?”

Answer 33

Morality

Question 34

Which statement explains the following simile located in Langston Hughes’ “Harlem”. “Maybe it just sags / like a heavy load” (lines 9-10)

Answer 34

A postpone dream can be something difficult to carry

Question 35

The speaker in “If We Must Die” calls for men to do what

Answer 35

Die fighting back

Question 36

What is the comparison being made in Countee Cullen’s “Saturday’s Child”

Answer 36

The speaker compares the circumstances of his birth to those of the wealthy

Question 37

What’s the then of “The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes?

Answer 37

The struggle of every day, African-Americans

Question 38

As used in Line 7 of The White House, which states, a chafing savage down the decent street the word “decent” means

Answer 38

Conforming with generally accepted standards of respectable or moral behavior

Question 39

The Harlem renaissance influenced American society by

Answer 39

Increasing awareness of African American contributions to American culture and brought about a new wave of expression for African Americans

Question 40

Which of the following is an effective strategy to write more concisely

Answer 40

Reduce phrases to single words

Question 41

As the play opens, how is Mrs Wright’s kitchen described in Trifles

Answer 41

It’s messy and looks hastily abandoned

Question 42

In Fences, for Rose, fences symbolize

Answer 42

Protection

Question 43

In A Streetcar Named Desire, the play’s climax occurs when

Answer 43

Stanley rapes Blanche while Stella is at the hospital

Question 44

In The Importance of Being Earnest, why does Jack decide to “kill off” his brother Earnest?

Answer 44

He wants to rid himself of his double life and he thinks Cecily is too interested in him

Question 45

What term describes using specific words/phrases from an already published author that helps to prove a statement or to lend credibility to an idea

Answer 45

Textual evidence

Question 46

What literary term is the following an example of: “Joan knew that writing Jamie’s paper was wrong, but $100 is a lot to pass up. She did it even though she felt guilty.

Answer 46

Internal conflict

Question 47

The best definition of the literary term tone is

Answer 47

The authors attitude towards the subject he or she is writing about

Question 48

What’s the correct citation below for an article with no author found in a web page titled “Poetry Elements” from the PoetryFoundation website that has page numbers 25-30

Answer 48

(“Poetry” 26).

Question 49

Which term is an example of the following? “While I nodded, nearly napping”

Answer 49

Alliteration