unit 4

Question 1

What is the theme for “The Golf lies So near the Mill”?

Answer 1

There is something wrong with a society that forces children to work while men play

Question 2

What type of irony is the theme of “The Golf lies So Near the Mill” ?

Answer 2

its convoyed through situational irony

Question 3

How is the story ironic ?

Answer 3

there is an ironic reversal of roles; the children over worked in factories and watch rich men play golf

Question 4

How does Leghorn wants the reader to feel ?

Answer 4

the author wants the reader to be indigent (angry) at the factory owners who take such advantage of children

Question 5

Who is the irony directed to ?

Answer 5

to the reader (the reader’s indignation toward the mill owners)

Question 6

What is the theme of “Jade Flower Palace” ?

Answer 6

the future is unpredictable

Question 7

What does Tu Fu use to sum up the theme at the end of the poem ?

Answer 7

a rhetorical question

Question 8

What type of irony does the “Jade Flower Palace” employ ?

Answer 8

situational irony

Question 9

Why does Tu Fu use situational irony ?

Answer 9

A once great King and his palace are now nothing but ruins. All his greatness has melted before the passing of time

Question 10

What is the tone and atmosphere of “Jade Flower Palace” ?

Answer 10

melancholy and reflective

Question 11

In “The Grey Grass Quivers”, the pivotal irony of the plot center what ?

Answer 11

donation of a plot of land

Question 12

Doc Martiandale’s initial comments bout Eli Goble’s tracking knowledge is an example of what ?

Answer 12

foreshadowing

Question 13

The story what leads to the resolution of a crime ?

Answer 13

“situational irony”

Question 14

Does the resolution of “The Grey Grass Quivers” conforms a Biblical worldview ?

Answer 14

yes

Question 15

Why was Doc Martiandale surprised of Eli Goble’s gift of the park ?

Answer 15

giving gifts is inconsistent with Goble’s character

Question 16

“Scylla Toothless” forms an example of what ?

Answer 16

understatement and hyperbole

Question 17

What tone was “Scylla Toothless” ?

Answer 17

primarily a humorous tone

Question 18

What does “Letter from a West Texas Constituent” satirize ?

Answer 18

the federal government farm subsidy program

Question 19

What is the real message of the letter ?

Answer 19

that government farm subsidies are illogical and wasteful

Question 20

What does the Letter exemplifies ?

Answer 20

structural irony

Question 21

What is the underlying tone of the Letter ?

Answer 21

one of anger

Question 22

What is the considerable speck ?

Answer 22

a mite (a very small insect)

Question 23

How does Frost characterize the “speck” ?

Answer 23

using personification

Question 24

What type of irony does Frost use all over his poem ?

Answer 24

situational irony

Question 25

What is the main target of Frost's irony ?

Answer 25

people who, at least to his mind, do not show intelligent or clear thinking in their writing ("Mindless Writing")

Question 26

What is the general tone of "The Day the Dam Broke" ?

Answer 26

best described as humorous

Question 27

What type of irony did Thurber use throughout the poem ?

Answer 27

dramatic irony

Question 28

Why does he use dramatic irony ?

Answer 28

beginning of the 1st paragraph, the reader knows that dam has not broken, but the characters do not

Question 29

The essay was written for what ?

Answer 29

the sheer fun of it, it was evident by the tone which is one of course humorous

Question 30

"The Screwtape Letters" as a whole exemplifies as what ?

Answer 30

structural irony

Question 31

Screwtape refers to the peaks and trails of human life as what ?

Answer 31

law of undulation

Question 32

What dow Screwtape refers to when he speaks "the abominable advantage of the Enemy" ?

Answer 32

the incarnation

Question 33

What does Screwtape least understand ?

Answer 33

God's love

Question 34

How does Screwtape want people to define "real life" ?

Answer 34

Screwtape wants people to think real life as the things that they can perceive through their senses

Question 35

What does he have to gain from this definition ?

Answer 35

If he can keep humans thinking about that, they will never consider eternal spiritual realities and listen to God

Question 36

Describe the three major results of being unsatisfied with "the Same old thing"

Answer 36

- the dissatisfaction creates the desire for more of a thing while decreasing the pleasure a person can get out of it. This excess twists natural pleasures into something illegitimate as they overrun God's boundaries - this can distract people from real problems by focusing on what is then fashionable to consider as the "real problem" - the desire for something new can become a philosophy all its own where anything new is automatically better, or "progressive'

Question 37

Screwtape Letter is an example of what ?

Answer 37

"satire"

Question 38

What is an ordinary person in Screwtape letter ?

Answer 38

"the patient"

Question 39

irony

Answer 39

the use of language to convey meaning other than what a state or a contradiction in what is expected to happen and what actually happens

Question 40

verbal irony

Answer 40

irony occurring when a speakers meaning differs from what he or she expresses in words

Question 41

sarcasm

Answer 41

a type of irony the takes the form of a mock praise

Question 42

structural irony

Answer 42

sustained verbal irony that generates two layers of meaning, one literal and one implied, throughout the entire work

Question 43

dramatic irony

Answer 43

a type of irony in which the reader is aware of a plot development of which the characters of the story are unaware

Question 44

understatement

Answer 44

the representation of something as less important than it truly is

Question 45

litotes

Answer 45

a form of understatement that expresses a positive statement by denying its opposite

Question 46

satire

Answer 46

corrective ridicule of some object o scorn usually outside of the literature itself

Question 47

pun

Answer 47

a type of wordplay in which the author combines two word meanings within a sentence

Question 48

oxymoron

Answer 48

brief phrase that combine contradictory elements for effect

Question 49

hyperbole

Answer 49

a type of obvious overstatement used by writers to make a point

Question 50

situational irony

Answer 50

a type of irony in which a story's events violate normal expectations