ENGL 1302 Week 4 Midterm Exam

A three line stanza is a _____.

A single line may be called a __________.

Irony emphasizing that human beings are involved in forces beyond their control is _____.

A comparison between two unlike things, not using "like" or "as" is a/an ________________.

A poem about the simple pleasures of country life may be known as a _____.

Blank verse is _______________.

The meaning, or dictionary definition, of a word is the _____.

Alliteration is the ______________.

Sensory content is known as ______________.

A poem with fourteen lines is usually a/an _______________.

A poem of lamentation about a death is a/an _____.

A group of poetic lines is a/an _____.

A caesura is a/an ______________.

A four-line stanza is a ____________.

A figure of speech in which one thing can be applied to another with which it is closely associated is _____.

Giving human characteristics to something non-human is called _________.

Something which ridicules societal behavior or customs is called _____________.

Addressing a person not present is a/an _____.

Irony in which the language stresses the importance of an idea by stating the opposite of what is meant is _____.

Overstatement is also known as _____________.

A form of narrative poetry is the ____________.

Crude, heavy-handed verbal irony is also known as ______________.

The act of determining the patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables within a line of poetry _____.

A figure of speech in which the actual intent is expressed in words which carry the opposite meaning is ______________.

Words and phrases describing what is seen, heard, smelled, tasted, and touched are known as ____________.

Write an essay (separate introduction, body paragraph[s],conclusion) about the following poem.

·         minimum of 300 words

·         The submission will not be a summary of the poem or a line-by-line retelling of the poem's meaning.

·         Include information about how at least six different literary devices affect the poem, referring to specific items within the poem using line numbers or by citing words/phrases that support the discussion.

·         Be sure to include your interpretation of the poem within the analysis of these devices. 

"Design" by Robert Frost

courtesy of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25880/25880-h/25880-h.htm#DESIGN

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,On a white heal-all, holding up a mothLike a white piece of rigid satin cloth—Assorted characters of death and blightMixed ready to begin the morning right,Like the ingredients of a witches' broth—A snow-drop spider, a flower like froth,And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?What brought the kindred spider to that height,Then steered the white moth thither in the night?What but design of darkness to appal?—If design govern in a thing so small.

When a character in a story refers to his sleep being like Rip van Winkle's sleep, it is an example of

A moment of illumination in which something hidden or not understood becomes immediately clear is called an ________.

Characters are caused to take action as a result of _______.

The writer's arrangement of happenings is ______________.

A brief work of fiction is known as a/an _____.

Hints of what is to come can be termed ______________.

Something that stands for or represents something else is a/an _____.

When the protagonist is the narrator, the point of view is _____.

Explain how setting is important in one of the assigned short stories. Be sure to include the title of the short story. If you have already used a short story title to answer a short answer question, use another short story to answer this question.

A speaker addresses one or more unseen listeners in a _____________.

Events out of chronological sequence are known as _____________.

The perspective from which a story is told is______.

The happenings in a story comprise the _______.

In narrative structure the conflict before the climax is the _____.

Give the title of an assigned short story that uses first person point of view. If you have used a short story title for a short answer question already, choose another short story to answer this question.

In narrative structure, the section in which events lead to resolving the tension in the climax is known as _____.

Techniques and modes of presentation that reveal or create the author's attitude toward his subject reflect _____.

Recounting a sequence of events is _____.

The author's manipulation of language, including the placement of words, is _____.

The point of greatest tension in a story is the _____.

Characters which are well developed are called _______.

The diagram which depicts narrative structure is known as  _____.

The central idea of a story is the ____________.

The way the author selects and arranges words is _______.

The resolution of a story is _________.