Razi University English Dept. Final Exam - Literary Terminology PDF

Razi University English Dept. "The Practice of Literary Terminology" Final Exam Time limit: 40 minutes %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Part I. For each of the following questions there are 4 answers. C...

Razi University English Dept. "The Practice of Literary Terminology" Final Exam Time limit: 40 minutes %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Part I. For each of the following questions there are 4 answers. Cross (x) the best answer in your answer sheet. (0/4 point each) 1. Which of the following is not a definition for "literature"? a. Whatever is written in verse or prose is literature. b. Literature is a work with a certain feature. c. Literature is the scientific study of language. d. Literature is a verbal art the medium of which is the word. 2. "My Last Duchess" is in …. a. blank verse b. heroic couplets c. ballad stanzas d. Shakespearian sonnets 3. In the following extract, what is personified, and why? "His sister stood beside them in her apron To tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw, As if to prove saws knew what supper meant, Leapt out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap- He must have given the hand…" a. "Sister," because she is a person. b. "Supper," because it tells something. c. "Saws," because it is as if it knows something. d. "Hand," because it belongs to a man. 4. If a clown or a beggar in a drama speaks not in a grand and kingly manner but like an ordinary man, it is …. a. narrative b. decorous c. symbolic d. Poetic 5. In the extract below, "Joan doth keel the pot" is image-bearing, because …. "When blood is nipped and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit, tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot" a. Joan is hungry b. It makes us excited c. It makes a shape in our minds d. It makes line 4 harmonious with line 3 6. Which of the following is not a function of imagery? a. It makes a poem more decorated. b. It helps the poet to exactly present his or her subject. c. It provides the reader with something which s/he can touch. d. It makes the poem necessarily more didactic. 7. The theme of a story is …. a. The topic that its writer chooses to write about b. The feeling that its writer intends to excite in the reader c. The main thought that its writer expresses about its subject d. The technique of point of view that its writer uses in it 8. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a dramatic monologue? a. There is no clue of the presence of a listener. b. A single speaker utters the entire poem. c. The speaker addresses an audience. d. It is a form of character revelation. 9. Which extract does not go with its title? a. "As fair art thou, my bonie lass, / So deep in luve am I" is from "A Red, Red Rose." b. "And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, / In blanched linen, smoothed and lavender'd" is from "The Eve of St. Agnes." c. "If goodness lead him not, yet weariness / May toss him into my breast" is from "the Pulley." d. "Open unto the fields and to the sky; / All bright and glittering in the smokeless air" is from "Strange Fits of Passion have I known." 10. Which of the following in a poem does not include a simile? a. "Her wig, like Jane's, is red." b. "I wondered lonely as a cloud." c. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" d. "John speaks Greek as naturally as a pig squeaks." 11. Each part below includes an overstatement, except …. a. And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the sees gang dry. b. She dwelt among the untrodden ways. c. There lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords. d. But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me. 12. If a 20th-century poet refers us, in his/her work, to a 16th-century poem for more concentration, s/he has given us …. a. an allegory b. an allusion c. an Archetype d. a paradox 13. A figure of speech in which a thing is designated by the name of a thing resembling it or closely related to it is …. a. a metaphor b. a synecdoche c. a metonymy d. an apostrophe 14. Which of the following statements does not include a paradox? a. "Make haste slowly." b. "All men are wicked." c. "Failure is success." d. "I'm unable, yonder beggar cries, To stand or move! If he says true, he lies." 15. The three main types of poetry are …. a. dramatic, lyric, elegiac b. dramatic, lyric, epical c. dramatic, lyric, narrative d. tragic, lyric, comic 16. Which of the following is not a lyric poetry? a. a romance d. an ode c. a song d. a sonnet 17. Which of the following is right about a symbol? a. In a symbol, one part of the figure completely replaces the other part. b. A symbol works on personified abstractions. c. If a nightingale is a symbol, it is both a nightingale and something else. d. A symbol can be precise as well as vague. 18. "The Faerie Queen" by Edmund Spenser is mainly …. a. mythological b. metaphorical c. elliptical d. allegorical 19. Which of the following statements is not true about persona and/or autobiography in a poem? a. Not every poem should be regarded autobiographical. b. In some poems the persona may resemble the poet. c. Biographical data are all irrelevant to poems. d. To fully understand some poems, we should know enough about their authors. 20. Which of the following statements is wrong about poetry and prose? a. Prose is as accurate as poetry. b. Poetry is more rhythmical than prose. c. Prose is written in sentences, poetry in lines. d. Poetry signals its presence by form. 21. All statements below are correct about an allusion in a work of literature, except …. a. It excites the reader to share his/her knowledge to understand the work. b. It makes the work more compact with meaning. c. It takes for granted that the reader is informed enough to realize the work. d. It cannot be in the form of imitations or parodies. 22. Which of the following is not a metonymy? a. "Dick the shepherd blows his nail" 'for "Dick the shepherd blows his hand" b. "Count heads" for "Count people" c. "He is studying Milton" for "He is studying the works of Milton" d. "A fair Rose lived in the North" for "A beautiful child lived in the North" 23. The following extract is from "The Pulley." Which statement below cannot be a conclusion for it? "So strength first made a way, Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honor, pleasure, When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in bottom lay." a. When God was creating man, He wanted to give him all treasures except rest. b. When all treasures had found man, rest was still laying at the bottom. c. Rest was the last treasure which found its way to man. d. God wanted man wise, strong, honorable, and pleasing. 24. Which of the following statements is wrong? a. "Winter" is by Shakespeare. b. "The Tyger" is by Wordsworth. c. "A Red, Red Rose" is by Burns. d. "Drinking" is by Cowley. 25. If you are reading a narrative poem, which item below is not significant? a. I should know that it tells a story, or relates a series of events, leading up to a climax. b. I should discover its key situations and focal points, and their relationship to its main climax. c. In comparison with other types of poetry, I should read it more slowly to assimilate its imagery and discover its sound patters. d. I should discover its setting and situation, and should understand how these are interdependent on its physical and psychological traits. 26. Which of the following sentences is not correct? a. A dramatic narrative is a poem in which the incidents are narrated by a participant affected by the events described. "The Prisoner of Chillon" is a dramatic narrative. b. A dramatic lyric is a poem in which the poet puts subjective thoughts and emotions into the mouth of an appropriate character, so that there is added force and vividness to the expression. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a dramatic lyric. c. A dramatic monologue is a verse form in which some characters express their thoughts and feelings. "My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue. d. A soliloquy is a poem in which a solitary speaker reveals his or her inner thoughts to an audience. "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" is a soliloquy. 27. Which statement below is not right? a. In non-poetic discourse, ambiguity denotes compatible meanings. b. In poetry, ambiguity is multiple but compatible meanings. c. in Prose, ambiguity can be comic, or puzzling, or both. d. In poetry, mystery is integral to the ambiguous. 28. Which statement below is wrong? a. A myth is an amplified allusion. b. A narrative dramatizing a people's beliefs about the creation of the world is an archetype. c. The Golden Bough comparatively studies the primitive origins of myth. d. In literature, archetypes can be shown in images, descriptive details, plot patters, or character types. 29. Which statement below is wrong about Northrop Frye's archetypal criticism? a. Monomyth is the one complete and whole story which consists of all literature. b. Romance corresponds to the summer, to the achievement of happiness, and is at the top of the circle of monomyth. c. Comedy corresponds to the spring, to freedom, and is midway between romance and anti- romance to the right of the circle. d. Tragedy corresponds to the winter, to disaster, and is midway between romance and anti- romance to the left of the circle. 30. All titles go with writers, except …. a. The Golden Bough is a book on anthropology by James Frazer. b. "The Haystack in the Floods" is a narrative poem by William Morris. c. Youth is a novel by D. H. Lawrence. d. "Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known" is a poem by William Wordsworth. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Part II. 1. Discuss literature as a verbal art. For doing this, you should explain 3 issues (points). One issue is: literature as a kind of art the medium of which is the word. 2. Briefly discuss allegory in the following poem by William Browne. For doing this, you should examine 3 issues in the poem. One issue is: symbol in the poem. A Rose A rose, as fair as ever saw the North, Grew in a little garden all alone; A sweeter flower did Nature ne'er put forth, Nor fairer garden yet was never known: The maidens danced about it morn and noon, And learned bards of it their ditties made; The nimble fairies by the pale-faced moon Watered the root and kissed her pretty shade. But well-a-day! – the gardener careless grew; The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.