Honors English 12 Exam Study Guide

-A close reader pays attention to diction because diction relates
a) imagery
b) tone
c) theme
d) setting

-An author's choice of words in a text is known as
a) syntax
b) tone
c) diction
d) imagery

-Syntax refers to
a) word order
b) word choice
c) sentence order
d) sentence choice

- Connotation refers to word meaning in opposition to
a) annotation
b) denotation
c) notation
d) allocation

-Authors employ imagery to
a) paint a picture in the mind of the reader.
b) help the reader understand the work.
c) create emotional support for the thesis or theme.
d) make the setting more realistic.

-Beowulf's chief motivation is
a) gold
b) loyalty
c) trust
d) pride

-Which character best represents the way societies treat those who deviate from societal norms?
a) Beowulf
b) Wealthow
c) Grendel
d) Unferth

-Which man questions Beowulf's abilities?
a) Hrothgar
b) Unferth
c) Wiglaf
d) Wealthow

-Weregild is
a) the price that must be paid to the family of a slain warrior
b) the price that must be paid to warriors to fight for their Lord
c) the price that must be paid to the Lord by his warriors
d) the price that must be paid to the wives of slain warriors

- The Anglo-Saxon concept of Fate suggests that
a) humans are not governed by Fate;
b) humans are completely governed by fate
c) past actions of humans influence future actions
d) humans' lives are completely governed by Chance

- Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales can best be described as
a) an estate satire
b) a medieval romance
c) an epic
d) a homily

-"The Pardoner's Tale" is a(n)
a) exemplum
b) allegory
c) part of a framed narrative
d) all of the above

-"The Wife of Bath's Tale" is a
a) frame
b) medieval romance
c) exemplum
d) all of the above

- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight can best be described as
a) an estate satire
b) a medieval romance
c) an epic
d) a homily

- The purpose of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is to
a) reinforce notions of chivalry
b) reflect life in medieval England
c) critique life in medieval England
d) demonstrate the passion of Christ

- The Green Knight serves chiefly to
a) present an element of the supernatural
b) represent fertility symbols
c) test Gawain's chivalry
d) cut off Gawain's head

- The episode in Bergilak's castle chiefly acts as a test of Gawain's
a) honesty
b) chastity
c) piety
d) faith

- Gawain finds Bergilak's castle as a result of his own
a) honesty
b) chastity
c) physical strength
d) faith

-The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus documents the European movement from
a) theological dogmatism to British Romanticism
b) theological dogmatism to secular humanism
c) secular humanism to mythic thought
d) secular humanism to theological dogmatism

-The two characters that most closely serve as foils to Macbeth are
a) Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff
b) Macbeth and Macduff
c) Banquo and Macduff
d) Banquo and Fleance

-What event immediately precedes Macbeth's lowest point in the drama?
a) the killing of the chamberlains
b) the killing of Duncan
c) the killing of Banquo
d) the killing of Macduff's family

- By Act V, what is Macbeth's attitude on life?
a) It is completely pointless and must be ignored.
b) It is completely pointless and must simply be tolerated.
c) It is completely important and must be ignored.
d) It is completely important and must simply be tolerated.

- Macbeth compares his killing spree to
a) being drowned in a sea of blood
b) being covered in a shower of blood
c) wading through a pool of blood
d) getting shot by a super-soaker full of blood

-John Donne's "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" compares the souls of lovers to
a) a lump of gold
b) an intertwining vine
c) the legs of a compass
d) both a) and d)

- The extended metaphysical comparison of two unlike objects is called
a) paradox
b) metaphor
c) conceit
d) imagery

-John Donne's "Holy Sonnet 10" ends with a(n)
a) conceit
b) paradox
c) exemplum
d) category

- "Carpe diem" can best be translated to
a) Don't give up.
b) Make the best of your life
c) Seize the day
d) Eat your wheaties

- Carpe diem poets cite what fact as their reason for acting in the moment?
a) Life is an opportunity
b) As humans, we may die at any moment.
c) The past lives forever.
d) There is always tomorrow.

- English Romanticism is a response to
a) the French Revolution
b) the Industrial Revolution
c) both a) and b)
d) neither a) nor b)

-English Romanticism sets itself up to contrast with
a) Classicism
b) Renaissance humanism
c) Neoclassicism
d) Postmodernism

-Romantics value
a) symmetry
b) order
c) assymetry
d) none of the above

-The poetry of Robert Burns is considered pre-Romantic because
a) it directly responds to the French Revolution
b) it came immediately after the Age of Reason
c) it deals with themes of nature and common language
d) it makes use of iambic pentameter

-Robert Burns' "To a Louse" criticizes
a) Pride
b) Avarice
c) Lust
d) Envy

- Robert Burns' "To a Mouse" underscores the concept that
a) humans are subject to the whims of fate
b) humans are subject to the whims of nature
c) humans are subject to the whims of authority
d) humans are subject to the whims of beasts

-William Blake's concept of the sublime involved
a) multeity in unity
b) denying the poetic genius
c) seeing things as they really are
d) rejecting the Devil's party

- William Blake changed the final stanza of "The Tyger" to reflect
a) tranquility
b) multeity
c) symmetry
d) asymmetry

- Both "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" reflect questions of
a) Nature
b) creation
c) God
d) all of the above

-William Wordsworth's concept of the sublime involved
a) multeity in unity
b) denying the poetic genius
c) seeing into the life of things
d) rejecting the Devil's party

- "Tintern Abbey" discusses the feelings created by
a) friends
b) love
d) nature
e) politics

- Wordsworth's "London, 1802" reflects a longing for the return of
a) Chaucer
b) Shakespeare
c) Milton
d) Blake

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge's concept of the sublime involved
a) multeity in unity
b) denying the poetic genius
c) seeing things as they really are
d) rejecting the Devil's party

- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner demonstrates the power of language through
a) the speech of the mariner
b) the power of the albatross
c) the senselessness of the mariner's violence
d) the gambling of Life and Life-in-Death

- The mariner achieves redemption by recognizing
a) the beauty of nature
b) the power of curses
c) multeity in unity
d) both a) and c)

- "Ode on a Grecian Urn" focuses upon the ________________ of imagination.
a) positivity
b) limitlessness
c) spontaneity
d) formulaic quality

- Why are unheard melodies the sweetest?
a) Because you don't have to listen to bad music.
b) Because the music is the hardest part to discover.
c) Because the music becomes anything you want it to be.
d) Because the music is ruled by your reason.

-In The Quiet American, European interests in Vietnam are symbolized by
a) Pyle
b) Phuong
c) Fowler
d) Vigot

- In The Quiet American, the Vietnamese people are symbolized by
a) Pyle
b) Phuong
c) Fowler
d) Vigot

- The character most associated with Pascal's Wager is
a) Pyle
b) Phuong
c) Fowler
d) Vigot

- Which character is the most dynamic (i.e., changes the most)?
a) Pyle
b) Phuong
c) Fowler
d) Vigot

- A major theme of The Quiet American is
a) Postcolonialism
b) Postmodernism
c) Post-Romanticism
d) Post-Raisin Bran