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