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1
Which of these would be the best description for Oscar Wilde's character Lady Bracknell?
The embodiment of moral altruism.
The personification of Victorian earnestness
A Benevolent Dictator
A Domineering Widow
2
How did Victoria writers like Bram Stoker
subtly convey their anxieties towards foreigners and female voluptuousness?
Through sublimation of risqué subjects
Through clear overtones
Through obvious patterns in the text
Through characters like Jonathan speaking explicitly about such subjects
3
The picture below qualifies as:
Satirical
Realistic
Romantic
Impressionistic
4
Which English Premier League team currently sits in first place in the premier league table?
Chelsea
Manchester City
Arsenal
Tottenham
Manchester United
Liverpool
5
An author who uses
ethos
wants to establish her own:
Credibility
Spiritual superiority
Indifference
Callousness
Sentimentality
Emotional gravitas
6
Which of the following are characteristics of a great thesis statement?
It should have some intricacy and originality of thought
It should use broad language such as "meaning" or "author's purpose"
It should address two to three major rhetorical purposes
It should always address some social justice issue
7
Which of the following works, poets, or places is NOT alluded to in Stoker's
Dracula
?
The Bible
Arabian Nights
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Paradise Lost
8
Which of the following categories does Bram Stoker's
Dracula
not embody?
Aestheticism
Epistolary Fiction
Gothicism
Romanticism
Science Fiction
Horror
9
Identify the hair style pictured below.
Hard part
Low Taper Fade
The Skullet
High and Tight
The Bowl
Graduated bob
10
Who recently said, "Live fast, die young, and leave behind a beautiful corpse"? Though she did not coin this line.
JJ Gruber
Marce Rodriguez
Lydia Bogol
David Donndelinger
Addison Hanley
Mary Kirsch
11
The image below suggests what about Gregor Samsa?
His transformation operates primarily on a literal level.
He suffers from split personality syndrome.
His self-conception is that he is purely human.
His identity is both fluid and ambiguous.
12
Identify the poem containing the following line: "Look on my works ye mighty and despair!"
"Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley
"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by W.B. Yeats
"God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
13
Which rhetorical technique draws on expert opinions to prove a point?
Ad hominem argument
Appeal to Authority
Logos
Non Sequitur
14
Which devices are used in the following sentence: "The buzzing bee flew away."
Alliteration and anaphora
Alliteration and personification
Alliteration and paradox
Alliteration and onomatopoeia
15
The line "my childhood, a prison of insecurity, never fully left me," embodies what device?
Personification
Metaphor
Alliteration
Ethos
16
From what language do the following words descend?
Diminuendo, stanza, sonnet, latte.
Portugese
Greek
Italian
French
Latin
Russian
17
From what language do the words
patio, breeze, cockroach,
and
cargo
descend?
German
English
Gaelic
French
Spanish
Portugese
18
Name the story: "Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt the way to the unknown nourishment now."
"Ozymandias"
The Importance of Being Earnest
Dracula
A Modest Proposal
"The New Colossus"
The Metamorphosis
19
Identify the form: "An old silent pond / A frog jumps into the pond / Splash! Silence again."
Ballad
Dramatic Monologue
Haiku
Villanelle
Lyric
Sonnet
20
The sketches below represent what Marian High School fixture?
Mr. Hooley
Brad Pitt
Me
Mr. Holloway
Mr. Watson
Mr. duToit
21
Kafka's
The Metamorphosis
is marked by purposeful use of:
Appeal to Authority
Realism
Romanticism
Ambiguity
22
Identify the device here: "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission."
Aphorism
Appeal to Authority
Hyperbole
Epigram
Parody
Sarcasm
23
Swift's descriptions of the poor in
A Modest Proposal
, especially in animal terms, serve to:
Show that the speaker and Swift are of the same opinions
Emulate Upper-class attitudes towards the poor.
Reveal Swift's disdain for paupers and invalids.
Underscore the humane treatment of the breeders in his plan.
24
Name the devices: "We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot honor this ground beyond its current state."
Parallel Structure, allusion
Onomatopoeia, verbal irony
Inverted Syntax, chiasmus
Caricature, simile
25
Who wrote the following lines? "Round the decay of that colossal wreck / The lone and level sands stretch far away."
William Shakespeare
Sylvia Plath
Percy Shelley
W.H. Auden
26
A poet uses this device to address someone directly:
Apostrophe
Dramatic Monologue
Asyndeton
Anaphora
27
The image below, as used in
Dracula
, can be described as:
Antithesis
A theme
A cathartic moment
Literary naturalism
A motif
A climax
28
Count Dracula, when studied with respect to European folklore and prior vampire tales, is best described as what?
As the progenitor for parasitical behavior among aristocrats
As fully original in his supernatural abilities
As an anomaly unlike any other vampiric characters
As a far-reaching amalgam of various sources
29
Why am I obsessed with making my students learn literary terms?
I'm a sadist
I'm just plain weird.
Who even cares?
It's my job.
30
What device is Willy Wonka using below?
Verbal Irony
Incongruity
Parody
Farce
31
Select the literary device here: "I must be cruel only to be kind."
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Verbal Irony
Paradox
Assonance
Hyperbole
32
How would we describe a clever, concise statement that says something meaningful about life?
As oxymoronic
As idiomatic
As ironic
As epigrammatic
As satirical
As euphemistic
33
The phrase "faded into velvety blackness" exemplifies what literary term?
Imagery
Assonance
Connotation
Onomatopoeia
34
If you recognize the pictures below, you are suffering from...
Sonic the hedgehog
Narcissistic Rage
Brain rot
Persecutory Delusion
Compartmentalization
Schizophrenia
35
What exactly is a rizzler?
Kyle Kiefer
Mr. Watson
Collin VanPoppel
Aiden Fruth
Ryan McGuire
Marce Rodriguez
36
Identify the character below:
Van Helsing
Quincey Morris
Jonathan Harker
Frankenstein's Monster
Dracula
Mina Harker
37
Identify the figure below:
Turkish Quandale Dingle
The Leader
Quandale Dingle
Ugandan Knuckles
Mick Keefer
Baby Gronk
38
An elegy is best described as:
A narrative poem with a rhyme scheme of abab
A fourteen line poem comprised of one octave and one sestet
A poem of musical, emotional quality
A formal poem meditating on death or another solemn theme
39
The science fiction and horror genres both arose out of what movement?
The Renaissance
Romanticism
The Dark Ages
Modernism
The Classical Era
The Reformation
40
Shakespearean sonnets are written in what meter:
Iambic Pentameter
Iambic Tetrameter
Dactylic Hexameter
Iambic Trimeter
41
What do the following works have in common?
Animal Farm, Pilgrim's Progress, The Wizard of Oz
?
They were all written in the 19th century.
They all met with a poor critical review at first.
They are all allegories.
They all started out as plays.
42
What makes a character archetypal?
Its ability to convey anguish and despair.
Its ability to overcome narrative adversity.
Its ability to defy classification.
Its ability to generate moral ambiguity.
Its presence in classical literature.
The frequency with which it is modeled.
43
What is the difference between a symbol and an allegory?
One deals with virtue and the other with vice.
The number of ideas or characters they can stand for.
How one is figurative, while the other is not
How allegories are more common and easier to write.
44
The word
stationery
most nearly means:
Writing Materials
Motionless
Related to transportation
Of fixed duration
45
Stoker and many romantics like Mary Shelley believed that which of the following often corrupts human morality?
Civilization
Death
Intuition
Youth
Emotion
Nature
46
Who said, "Gen Z feels a lot of madness, and this is how we process it"?
Catie Macieczyk
Kyle Rittenhouse
Peter McIndoe
Ryan McGuire
Lydia Bogol
Lil Nas X
47
Which of these types of people would you expect to adopt a didactic tone?
Students
Babies
Professors
Student-athletes
48
Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus" envisions the United States government as what?
A welcoming haven valuing the dignity inherent in even the poorest people
A formidable land of social Darwinism in which only the strong survive
A slumbering political giant ready to wake up and become a world power
A conquering, imperialistic force spreading its enlightenment to others
49
Lyric Poetry is best described as:
Sympathetic and understanding
Objective and empirical
Subjective and emotional
Violent and impassioned
50
Identify the target of the satire below:
Big pharmaceutical companies that rush clinical trials
Close-minded scientists
Elitism in academic communities
The anti-vaccination movement and its selfishness
51
What do the following titles have in common?
Animal Farm
, The Colbert Report, and
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
.
They are all allegories.
They are all famous novellas.
They are all satires.
The all convey politically conservative ideals.
52
From what language do the following words descend? Atlas, Bible, Phobia
French
German
Japanese
Russian
Greek
Old English
53
Shakespeare frequently used blank verse in his plays, which meant:
Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Verse that rhymed but did not have a regular meter
Verse that did not rhyme or have a regular meter
Unrhymed iambic tetrameter
54
From what language do the words lucid, malevolent, and sinister descend?
Greek
German
Latin
Italian
55
Identify the error: Administrators at St. Joseph High are less cruel than Marian High School.
Parallel Construction Error
The writer should use "fewer" instead of "less"
Illogical Comparison
Dangling Modifier
56
Which of the following abilities does Dracula NOT possess?
Control over the weather
Superhuman Strength
Dominion over certain animals
The ability to speak any language without practice
Hypnotism
Qualified immortality
57
What is the source of all great satire?
A direct approach to a problem that lacks subtlety
A feeling of resignment towards the status quo
A dissatisfaction with some aspect of society
A sense of humor used to distract one from reality
58
The Victorian Age was characterized by:
Rapid change and strict social mores
A shift from a monarchy to a republic
Economic equality and political unrest
Radical liberalism and progressive unionization
59
Starting a speech with "Webster's dictionary defines" or a story with "It was a dark and stormy night" exemplifies what?
Allegory
Clichè
Epilogue
Synecdoche
Prologue
Anticlimax
60
The phrase "awfully good" would be an example of:
Paradox
Oxymoron
Literalism
Connotation
Metaphor
Simile
