English IV Midterm
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| What literary element is illustrated by the following? “This sea that bares her bosom to the moon;” | Personification
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| What do the following lines from “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” mean? These beauteous forms, Through a long distance, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye. | The speaker has never forgotten the beauty of the place.
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| What literary element is illustrated by the following? "The Child is father of the Man." | Paradox
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| What literary element is illustrated by the following? "Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;" | allusion
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| In “The World Is Too Much with Us,” the speaker wishes to be ____. | closer to the beauties of the natural world
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| What is the rhyme scheme of “The World is Too Much with Us”? | abbaabbacdcdcd
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| In “It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free,” the speaker talks directly to ____. | a child
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| In “My Heart Leaps Up,” the speaker believes that ____. | people of all ages should view nature with childlike wonder
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| Early in the poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth admires the country around Tintern Abbey for its ____. | natural beauty
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| In the five years since the poet’s last visit, the land around the Abbey has ____. | provided the poet with many happy memories
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| In “The World Is Too Much with Us,” the poet laments that people are out of tune with ____. | nature
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| Which of the following would NOT be considered an element of prose? | use of rhyme
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| In the last stanza of “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” the poet speaks directly to ____. | his sister
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| In the following lines from “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth does not complete the sentence until the end of the third line. What literary element is illustrated by this? | enjambment
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| In “My Heart Leaps Up,” the speaker admires ____. | a rainbow
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| In “A Poison Tree,” the speaker contrasts a straightforward approach to anger with ____. | quietly planning revenge
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| The fate of the speaker’s foe suggests that anger can be ____. | deadly
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| Which of the following is an example of slant rhyme? | name/lamb
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| Descriptive words and imagery in the first stanza of “The Lamb” suggest that the lamb is a symbol of ____. | innocence
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| In “The Tyger,” the speaker questions ____. | whether the Tyger and the Lamb had the same creator
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| In “The Tyger,” Blake creates a metaphor that compares the stars to ____. | warriors
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| In “A Poison Tree,” the fruit is attractive to the speaker’s foe because ____. | it looks pretty and it belongs to the speaker.
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| At the end of “A Poison Tree,” the speaker reports the outcome ____. | with gladness
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| In “The Tyger,” that animal is presented as ____. | a frightening force of evil
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| In the poem “The Lamb,” what does the lamb symbolize? | Christ
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| What makes Blake’s poems so unique? | Several of them are accompanied by a hand-painted illustration.
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| Which of the following is not a characteristic of Romanticism? | value for the aristocracy
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| The speaker in “John Anderson, My Jo” is most likely ____. | John Anderson’s wife
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| In “John Anderson, My Jo,” the speaker talks directly to ____. | John Andreson
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| In the second stanza of “John Anderson, My Jo,” the verbs clamb and totter help define the conditions of ____. | youth and age
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| In “To a Mouse,” the line “wee sleekit cow’rin’, tim’rous beastie” describes ____. | the mouse
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| The speaker in “To a Mouse” is most likely ____. | a farmer
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| The speaker in “To a Mouse” considers the mouse better off than he is himself because the mouse ____. | lives only in the present, not the past or future
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| The poem compares the wrecking of the mouse’s burrow to the ____. | ruin of even well-planned human efforts
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| Which of the following phrases is NOT an example of dialect? | “proving foresight may be vain”
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| The phrase “and forward though I canna see” is best stated in today’s standard English as ____. | I cannot see the future.
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| In “John Anderson, My Jo,” the word sleep symbolizes _____. | death
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| In standard English, “Your bonnie brow was brent,” means ____. | Your handsome forehead was unwrinkled.
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| The speaker in “To a Mouse” feels that the “best laid schemes o’ mice and men ____.” | often go awry
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| Robert Burns was born in 1759 and died in ____. | 1796
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| Burns was often referred to as ____. | the ploughman poet
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| All of the following are archaic forms of the pronoun you EXCEPT ____. | Thus
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| Which of the following is an example of sight rhyme? | beastie/breastie
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| According to the writer of A Vindication of the Rights of Women, women are all too often trained to be ____. | merely decorative
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| In A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Wollstonecraft states that women should avoid traditionally “masculine” behaviors such as ____. | hunting and gambling
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| Throughout A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Wollstonecraft argues that women are ____. | capable of reason
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| According to A Vindication of the Rights of Women, marriages are most successful when based on ____. | respect and friendship
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| Wollstonecraft’s argument in A Vindication of the Rights of Women is primarily directed to ____. | both men and women
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| Early in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Wollstonecraft states that the chief source of misery in her society is the ____. | neglect of women’s education
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| A comparison repeated in various ways throughout A Vindication of the Rights of Women draws parallels between women and ____. | hothouse flowers
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| The tone, or author’s attitude toward the subject, of A Vindication of the Rights of Women can be best described as ____. | reasoned
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| Which of the following is NOT a reason Wollstonecraft gives in support of her thesis? | Men have to spend a lot of money to keep their wives well dressed.
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| Wollstonecraft concludes A Vindication of the Rights of Women by urging a change in thinking to prevent women from being viewed as ____. | “beautiful flaws in nature”
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| The word vindication means ____. | a defense or justification
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| A rational person is ____. | reasonable
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| If in a congenial mood, you might ____. | give a friend a gift
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| Someone who has a faculty for math ____. | is good at math
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| Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognized as the founder of ____. | the women’s rights movement
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| A four line poem or stanza | quatrain
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| A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm | meter
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| The repetition of consonant sounds, typically within or at the end of non-rhyming words | consonance
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| A group of lines forming a unit in a poem | stanza
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| The repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words | assonance
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| The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds | rhyme
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| A reflection of the writer’s attitude toward a subject | tone
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| The basic unit of meter; consists of one or two stressed and one or two unstressed syllables | foot
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| Two lines of rhymed verse that work together as a unit to express an idea or make a point | couplet
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| The pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or poem | rhyme scheme
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| A passage repeated at regular intervals with variations, usually in a poem or song | refrain
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| The “word pictures” that writers create to help evoke an emotional response in readers | imagery
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| Rhyming that occurs at the ends of lines | end rhyme
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| The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech or piece of writing | repetition
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| A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things to help readers perceive the first thing more vividly and to suggest an underlying similarity between the two | metaphor
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| An approximate rhyme based on assonance | slant rhyme
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| Any person, animal, place, object, or event that exists on a literal level within a work but also represents something on a figurative level | symbol
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| A figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or idea is given human qualities | personification
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| The voice of a poem, sometimes that of the poet, sometimes that of a fictional person, an animal, or a thing | speaker
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| An artistic movement that values imagination and feeling over intellect and reason | Romanticism
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| The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | alliteration
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| A figure of speech that uses the words like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things | simile
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| A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people | dialect
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| The main idea of a story, poem, novel, or play, sometimes expressed as a general statement about life | theme
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| Rhyme that occurs when the appearance of the rhyming units match exactly but the sounds do not | sight-rhyme
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