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Lit 2: The Literatures of the World
::)Final Examination
::)Prof. ETM Solmerano
I. Poetry Analysis Test
Read the poems carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
By William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
1. This poem is a/an:
a. ode
b. elegy
c. sonnet
d. song
e. simple lyric
2. The poem is concerned primarily with the:
a. eternal nature of love
b. idea that nature never changes
c. transient nature of flowers
d. idea that humanity creates eternal objects
e. eternal nature of summer
3. Line 1 contains a:
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. apostrophe
e. allusion
4. The comparison here is between the speaker’s beloved and:
a. spring
b. summer
c. winter
d. fall
e. May Day Eve
5. The figurative use of “a summer's day” (lines 1-2) suggests all of the following EXCEPT:
a. how much like a summer’s day is the person addressed
b. the shortness of life
c. the contrast between the fleeting days of summer and the eternal quality of love
d. the ugliness of life
e. continuous, but ever-changing nature
6. An alliteration is found in:
a. line 1
b. line 2
c. line 3
d. line 4
e. line 8
7. Lines 13-14 of the poem can best be described as:
a. blank verse
b. Rhymed triplet
c. free verse
d. pastoral elegy
e. rhymed couplet
8. Lines 5-6 employ the figure of speech called:
a. personification
b. allusion
c. apostrophe
d. paradox
e. metonymy
9. The speaker’s attitude toward the person addressed can be best described as:
a. haltingly condescending
b. admiringly romantic
c. profusely deferential
d. mildly derogatory
e. thoroughly disgusted
10. The descriptive detail in lines 3-8 serves what specific purpose in the poem:
a. personification of the speaker
b. exemplification of the severity of nature
c. allusion to classical sources
d. imagery suggesting the joy of nature
e. exemplification of unchanging nature
Musée des Beaux Arts
By W. H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
11. This poem is a/an:
a. ode
b. elegy
c. sonnet
d. song
e. simple lyric
12. The “Old Masters” mentioned in the poem are:
a. poets
b. painters
c. martyrs
d. saints
e. landlords
13. The antecedent of the pronoun “they” in line 9 is:
a. children
b. Old Masters
c. the aged
d. someone else
e. What antecedent?
14. The allusion in the poem to the “dreadful martyrdom” probably refers to:
a. fall of Icarus
b. suffering of the ploughman
c. pain of childbirth
d. Crucifixion of Christ
e. massacre of the innocents
15. In the poem the drowning of Icarus is:
a. an event that could have been avoided
b. an act of determined by fate
c. a sign of God’s displeasure
d. an added illustration of martyrdom
e. a subject appropriate for art
16. The poem begins with:
a. a general statement
b. a vivid image
c. a bemused ironic statement
d. a mythological allusions
e. an apostrophe to artists
17. The speaker states that Icarus’s death was:
a. the result of failure to obey
b. a sign of God’s wrath
c. a moment of historic importance
d. an event that produced no reaction
e. the result of a misjudgment of the sun’s power
18. The speaker suggests that the miraculous birth was
a. an event that pleased only the aged
b. a great moment in the history of religion
c. the beginning of Christianity
d. a popular subject of art
e. an event that drew the ploughman to the manger
19. The poem expresses:
a. moral indignation
b. religious fervor
c. aesthetic appreciation
d. direct and matter-of-fact comment
e. misanthropy
20. The tone of the poem is:
a. sublime
b. sentimental
c. ironic
d. indignant
e. vitriolic
II. Figurative Language
Identify the figure of speech used in the following examples.
21. Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. irony
d. understatement
e. hyperbole
22. I stood in the mires of Usher and looked for the light on Sinai.
a. allusion
b. antithesis
c. paradox
d. symbol
e. metonymy
23. Her voice is full of money.
a. metonymy
b. synecdoche
c. understatement
d. hyperbole
e. metaphor
24. No man is an island.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. apostrophe
e. symbol
25. Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
a. apostrophe
b. personification
c. paradox
d. irony
e. allusion
26. My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. oxymoron
d. allusion
e. antithesis
27. Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears.
a. metonymy
b. synecdoche
c. understatement
d. allusion
e. apostrophe
28. I had so much homework last night that I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home.
a. hyperbole
b. understatement
c. antithesis
d. irony
e. oxymoron
29. We talked with each other about each other tough neither of us spoke.
a. metonymy
b. paradox
c. synecdoche
d. personification
e. irony
30. Give them nothing, but take away from them everything.
a. antithesis
b. irony
c. symbol
d. paradox
e. litotes
31. Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone without a dream in my heart and without a love of my own.
a. apostrophe
b. personification
c. allusion
d. antithesis
e. symbol
32. Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. apostrophe
e. allusion
33. Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.
a. antithesis
b. irony
c. symbol
d. paradox
e. metonymy
34. The cat, quick as lightning, pounced on the rat.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. oxymoron
d. allusion
e. hyperbole
35. “I'm really glad that you have come to visit,” said the spider to the fly.
a. hyperbole
b. understatement
c. antithesis
d. irony
e. allusion
::)Final Examination
::)Prof. ETM Solmerano
I. Poetry Analysis Test
Read the poems carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
By William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
1. This poem is a/an:
a. ode
b. elegy
c. sonnet
d. song
e. simple lyric
2. The poem is concerned primarily with the:
a. eternal nature of love
b. idea that nature never changes
c. transient nature of flowers
d. idea that humanity creates eternal objects
e. eternal nature of summer
3. Line 1 contains a:
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. apostrophe
e. allusion
4. The comparison here is between the speaker’s beloved and:
a. spring
b. summer
c. winter
d. fall
e. May Day Eve
5. The figurative use of “a summer's day” (lines 1-2) suggests all of the following EXCEPT:
a. how much like a summer’s day is the person addressed
b. the shortness of life
c. the contrast between the fleeting days of summer and the eternal quality of love
d. the ugliness of life
e. continuous, but ever-changing nature
6. An alliteration is found in:
a. line 1
b. line 2
c. line 3
d. line 4
e. line 8
7. Lines 13-14 of the poem can best be described as:
a. blank verse
b. Rhymed triplet
c. free verse
d. pastoral elegy
e. rhymed couplet
8. Lines 5-6 employ the figure of speech called:
a. personification
b. allusion
c. apostrophe
d. paradox
e. metonymy
9. The speaker’s attitude toward the person addressed can be best described as:
a. haltingly condescending
b. admiringly romantic
c. profusely deferential
d. mildly derogatory
e. thoroughly disgusted
10. The descriptive detail in lines 3-8 serves what specific purpose in the poem:
a. personification of the speaker
b. exemplification of the severity of nature
c. allusion to classical sources
d. imagery suggesting the joy of nature
e. exemplification of unchanging nature
Musée des Beaux Arts
By W. H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
11. This poem is a/an:
a. ode
b. elegy
c. sonnet
d. song
e. simple lyric
12. The “Old Masters” mentioned in the poem are:
a. poets
b. painters
c. martyrs
d. saints
e. landlords
13. The antecedent of the pronoun “they” in line 9 is:
a. children
b. Old Masters
c. the aged
d. someone else
e. What antecedent?
14. The allusion in the poem to the “dreadful martyrdom” probably refers to:
a. fall of Icarus
b. suffering of the ploughman
c. pain of childbirth
d. Crucifixion of Christ
e. massacre of the innocents
15. In the poem the drowning of Icarus is:
a. an event that could have been avoided
b. an act of determined by fate
c. a sign of God’s displeasure
d. an added illustration of martyrdom
e. a subject appropriate for art
16. The poem begins with:
a. a general statement
b. a vivid image
c. a bemused ironic statement
d. a mythological allusions
e. an apostrophe to artists
17. The speaker states that Icarus’s death was:
a. the result of failure to obey
b. a sign of God’s wrath
c. a moment of historic importance
d. an event that produced no reaction
e. the result of a misjudgment of the sun’s power
18. The speaker suggests that the miraculous birth was
a. an event that pleased only the aged
b. a great moment in the history of religion
c. the beginning of Christianity
d. a popular subject of art
e. an event that drew the ploughman to the manger
19. The poem expresses:
a. moral indignation
b. religious fervor
c. aesthetic appreciation
d. direct and matter-of-fact comment
e. misanthropy
20. The tone of the poem is:
a. sublime
b. sentimental
c. ironic
d. indignant
e. vitriolic
II. Figurative Language
Identify the figure of speech used in the following examples.
21. Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. irony
d. understatement
e. hyperbole
22. I stood in the mires of Usher and looked for the light on Sinai.
a. allusion
b. antithesis
c. paradox
d. symbol
e. metonymy
23. Her voice is full of money.
a. metonymy
b. synecdoche
c. understatement
d. hyperbole
e. metaphor
24. No man is an island.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. apostrophe
e. symbol
25. Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
a. apostrophe
b. personification
c. paradox
d. irony
e. allusion
26. My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. oxymoron
d. allusion
e. antithesis
27. Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears.
a. metonymy
b. synecdoche
c. understatement
d. allusion
e. apostrophe
28. I had so much homework last night that I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home.
a. hyperbole
b. understatement
c. antithesis
d. irony
e. oxymoron
29. We talked with each other about each other tough neither of us spoke.
a. metonymy
b. paradox
c. synecdoche
d. personification
e. irony
30. Give them nothing, but take away from them everything.
a. antithesis
b. irony
c. symbol
d. paradox
e. litotes
31. Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone without a dream in my heart and without a love of my own.
a. apostrophe
b. personification
c. allusion
d. antithesis
e. symbol
32. Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. apostrophe
e. allusion
33. Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.
a. antithesis
b. irony
c. symbol
d. paradox
e. metonymy
34. The cat, quick as lightning, pounced on the rat.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. oxymoron
d. allusion
e. hyperbole
35. “I'm really glad that you have come to visit,” said the spider to the fly.
a. hyperbole
b. understatement
c. antithesis
d. irony
e. allusion