What is Milton's stated purpose in "Paradise Lost"?

To justify the ways of God to man

Use of information to promote a point of view

Character speaks is thoughts aloud while stage

What is personification?

giving human qualities to inhuman objects

"Kubla Khan" can best be identified as

an oriental dream picture without a plot

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1
What is Milton's stated purpose in "Paradise Lost"?
To argue against the doctrine of predestination
To justify the ways of God to man
To make his story hard to understand
To assert his superiority of other poets
2
Indented quotes that are longer than four lines are called what?
in-text citations
indented quotes
block quotes
cited sources
3
Jonathan Swift is most famous for which of the following novels?
Ivanhoe
Frankenstein
Robinson Crusoe
Gulliver's Travels
4
A thesis statement:
narrows a topic to a single, central idea
conveys the writer's opinion
asserts something specific aabout the topic
A, B, & C
5
Wearing "an albatross around one's neck" is an expression symbolizing what?
burden
penance
good fortune
great thirst
6
What is Propaganda?
character trait which causes downfall
Use of information to promote a point of view
True story covering an incident from a life
Comparison in which the term "like" is used
7
Jonathan Swift is particularly known as a master of
comedy
satire
poetic elegies
dramatic monologues
8
"Water, water, everywhere/Nor any drop to drink" is an example of which literary device?
foreshadowing
imagery
satire
irony
9
How are the devils in Hell described in "Paradise Lost"?
They have horns and cloven hooves
Branded with marks that identify their sins
Spirits without form
Large and powerful
10
What is a soliloquy?
use of slanted information to promote a point of view
comparison in which the term "like" is used
Character speaks is thoughts aloud while stage
character trait which causes downfall
11
What is personification?
long speech spoken while other characters are on stage
character speaks to the audience of the play
ridiculing human nature in a seemingly serious way
giving human qualities to inhuman objects
12
"Kubla Khan" can best be identified as
an oriental dream picture without a plot
a refashioning of several fabulous travel stories
a translation from an Eastern fairy tale
an oriental adventure ballad of a mongol warrior
13
In "Paradise Lost", what is unusual about the fire in Hell?
It gives no heat
It cannot consume wood
It gives no light
Brimstone has no color
14
Which of the following stories is told in a frame story?
A Modest Proposal
Kubla Khan
Ozymandias
The Rie of hte Ancient Mariner
15
Which of the following stories suggested eating babies as a solution to the problem of poverty?
Paradise Lost
A Modest Proposal
Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
The Chimney Sweeper
16
"The Lamb" and "The Tiger" are an example of what?
Blake's Doctrine of Contraries
How the lamb symbolizes experience
How opposites attract
A Romantic age poem
17
Who wrote "Kubla Khan"?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Milton
William Blake
Jonathan Swift
18
Who wrote "Ozymandias"?
John Milton
William Blake
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Jonathan Swift
19
One of the main characteristics of Romanticism was a love of what?
rules
logic
nature
city life
20
In "Paradise Lost", what is Satan's primary sin?
anger
pride
lust
sloth

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