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1
Which author wrote 'Moby-Dick'?
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
2
What does 'rend asunder' mean in the poem 'Fireworks'?
Tearing apart
Melting
Burning
Exploding
3
What literary device is used in the statement about oyster shells stacking to the stars?
Metaphor
Irony
Simile
Hyperbole
4
How is Mrs. Gargery characterized in 'Great Expectations'?
Her actions
Her appearance
Her thoughts
Effect on other people
5
What rhetorical device is used in King Richard II's speech?
Rhetorical questions
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
6
Who was a Puritan poet and early American writer?
Emily Dickinson
Louisa May Alcott
Phillis Wheatley
Anne Bradstreet
7
What literary device is used in describing Joe as a 'Hercules in strength and also in weakness'?
Metaphor
Allusion
Irony
Simile
8
How does the description evolve in 'The Horse’s Mouth'?
From abstract to concrete
From local to mythic
From mythic to local
From personal to universal
9
Why is 'Him' placed first in 'Paradise Lost'?
To confuse the reader
To emphasize the speaker
To focus attention on the character receiving the action
To follow meter
10
What literary device is used in comparing shrinking appetites to shrinking stomachs?
Irony
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
11
What is the central metaphor in Amy Lowell's 'Fireworks'?
Love
Fire
Anger
Metaphor
12
What best describes the narrative style in 'The Horse’s Mouth'?
Fragments connecting a series of perceptions and reactions
Omniscient narration
Dialogue-driven
Chronological storytelling
13
Which poets emphasized imagination and self-analysis?
Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen
T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens
Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley
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What is the meter used in Herrick's poem?
Free verse
Trochaic tetrameter
Each line begins and ends with a stressed syllable
Iambic pentameter
15
How does Shakespeare’s sonnet differ from traditional praise?
Focuses on nature
Is written in prose
Departs from the Renaissance sonnet-writer’s stock conventions of praise
Uses only similes
16
Who were central figures in the Harlem Renaissance?
Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison
James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison
W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass
Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes
17
What literary device is used in 'sweet sorrow' from Romeo and Juliet?
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor
Oxymoron
18
In 'Essay on Man', what does 'which thou canst not see' refer to?
Nature
God
Direction
Fate
19
Which genre is known for the grotesque and supernatural?
Modernism
Romantic
Realism
Gothic
20
How does the speaker feel about the conflict in 'Fireworks'?
Enjoys the conflict described
Fearful
Indifferent
Sad
21
Which plays are American dramas from 1900–1950?
Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello
Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape
The Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion, Arms and the Man
Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire
22
What line in Herrick's poem refers to delight from opposites?
Line 6
Line 5
Line 8
Line 7
23
Who wrote 'Beloved'?
Alice Walker
Zora Neale Hurston
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
24
Which word in line 1 of King Richard II's speech is pronounced with two syllables?
Cold
Warm
Fire
King
25
What idea is challenged in King Richard II's speech?
Mind over matter
Imagination
Divine right
Power of kings
26
Who is described as defying the Omnipotent in 'Paradise Lost'?
Adam
Eve
Him
God
27
What is the narrative point of view in 'Great Expectations'?
Second person
Third person omniscient
First person
Third person limited
28
Which literary device is used in 'spits and sparkles' in Amy Lowell's 'Fireworks'?
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
