HEng 11 Final Exam Prep

Question 1

What is a major theme in "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" compared to "A Psalm of Life"?

Accepted Answer

Time passes, so live with purpose.

Question 2

What is Steinbeck's writing characterized by?

Accepted Answer

Social novels dealing with economic problems of labor

Question 3

What is a Grotesque Character?

Accepted Answer

Someone you feel both disgust and empathy for

Question 4

How does Phillis Wheatley describe her journey from Africa to America?

Accepted Answer

As a divine and purposeful act

Question 5

Washington Irving was part of this genre of writers:

Accepted Answer

Dark Romanticists

Question 6

What is the order of a funnel introduction?

Accepted Answer

Hook, connection, thesis

Question 7

Which sentence uses subject-verb agreement correctly?

Accepted Answer

Many documents were shredded.

Question 8

Thanatopsis: What advice does the speaker give about how to approach death in the poem Thanatopsis?

Accepted Answer

To accept it calmly and live a full life

Question 9

Which of the following sentences demonstrates the use of inversion?

Accepted Answer

Never have I seen such a pretty sunset

Question 10

What is the right way to cite a passage from the text in MLA format?

Accepted Answer

time” (Longfellow 20).

Question 11

Which of the following is not an example of an aphorism?

Accepted Answer

His ideas were as endless as the sky.

Question 12

Which is NOT a reason that Ben Franklin wrote his autobiography?

Accepted Answer

He needed to make money.

Question 13

What is Holden Caufield’s final goodbye to Pencey Prep?

Accepted Answer

He screamed “Sleep tight ya morons!”

Question 14

Which of the following lines is written in Iambic Pentameter?

Accepted Answer

Two households, both alike in dignity.

Question 15

Which of the following options best describes a writing that uses stream of consciousness

Accepted Answer

the continuous flow of a character's thoughts and feelings

Question 16

Which of the following is an idiom?

Accepted Answer

“No pain no gain”

Question 17

Of Mice and Men is this type of story:

Accepted Answer

novella

Question 18

What rhetorical device is the following statement, “You’ve been as busy as a bee.”

Accepted Answer

Analogy

Question 19

What is the main moral lesson conveyed in “The Devil and Tom Walker”?

Accepted Answer

Greed leads to destruction

Question 20

What is the type of language that provides the reader with a mental image and/or appeals to the other five senses?

Accepted Answer

Imagery

Question 21

Bryant was which of the following:

Accepted Answer

Fireside Poet

Question 22

Language that has a different possible interpretation than what is explicitly stated is called:

Accepted Answer

Figurative

Question 23

Which poetic form is characterized by rhymed pairs of lines in iambic pentameter?

Accepted Answer

Heroic Couplet

Question 24

Nature by Emerson reflects this movement that was focused on innate human goodness and inner spiritual connections

Accepted Answer

Transcendentalist movement

Question 25

Which of these is TRUE about a reverse funnel conclusion?

Accepted Answer

It starts very specific and becomes more general

Question 26

What major event in Sallinger’s life did NOT influence his writing of The Catcher in the Rye?

Accepted Answer

His parents taking him out of school to provide for his family

Question 27

In “The Life of Olaudah Equiano,” what does Equiano fear will happen to him when he is taken aboard the ship?

Accepted Answer

Get killed by the whites

Question 28

This type of thesis does not appear in the final essay.

Accepted Answer

working, implied

Question 29

Which of the following is not a common theme of Dark Romantic writings?

Accepted Answer

Seeking evidence of God’s favor of them

Question 30

What is the STEAL analysis of literature used for?

Accepted Answer

Characterization

Question 31

In “Self-Reliance”, Ralph Waldo Emerson compared society to a:

Accepted Answer

stock company

Question 32

What was Abigail Adams tone in her letter to John Adams (husband).

Accepted Answer

Passive aggressive

Question 33

What step in poetry analysis does the SECOND "T" in TPFASTT represent?

Accepted Answer

title interpreted

Question 34

Which of the following best defines a run-on sentence?

Accepted Answer

multiple independent clauses without proper punctuation or conjunction

Question 35

Which sentence correctly uses Embedded Quotations?

Accepted Answer

In his book about cats, he claims that “cats are mischievous and sneaky.”

Question 36

_________ wrote that miracles could be explained scientifically and proof of God can be found in nature.

Accepted Answer

John Locke

Question 37

What is the theme of Walden?

Accepted Answer

Self reliance and simplicity

Question 38

Which of the following authors is NOT known for being a fireside poet?

Accepted Answer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 39

Which of the following sentences contains a misplaced modifier?

Accepted Answer

She saw turkeys on the way to the school.

Question 40

Allusion is…

Accepted Answer

An implied or indirect reference to a person, place, event

HEng 11 Final Exam Prep

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HEng 11 Final Exam Prep

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