God's grandeur questions and answers

Question 1

The dream in lines 11-20 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the boys live. The “Angel who had a bright key /And … open'd the coffins and set them all free” (line 13-14) represents __________.

those who exploit the boys but would one day set them free

an anti-child labor activist or legislator or benefactor or law

society

the church

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Question 2

The dream in lines 11-20 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the boys live. The “green plain” (line 15) represents __________.

hope for a better and happier future

an anti-child labor activist or legislator or benefactor or law

death

the church

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Question 3

In line 3, the boy is calling out his trade; instead of “sweep,” he cries “weep weep weep weep.” This is the poet’s way of telling the reader that __________.

the boy is being taught by experience

the boy knows his plight and is satirizing those who take advantage of him.

the boy is too young to articulate clearly, let alone sweep chimneys

the boy is weeping out loud in the streets

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Question 4

The dream in lines 11-20 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the boys live. The “coffins of black” (line 12) represent __________.

the chimneys in which the boys work

the boys’ hostels

the streets

life

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Question 5

In line 3, the boy is calling out his trade; instead of “sweep,” he cries “weep weep weep weep.” This is the poet’s way of telling the reader that __________.

the boy should work so his poverty and weeping would be rewarded

the boy knows his plight and satirizes those who take advantage of him

the boy is pitiable and that the reader should weep over his plight

the boy is weeping out loud in the streets

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Question 6

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" is from what poem?

"Barter"

"Ozymandias"

"Ulysses"

"The Tiger"

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Question 7

M. H. Riken proposes six tools or substructures of the art form, poem. These include paraphrase, rational, image, metric, sound, and syntax.

True

False

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Question 8

Lines 11-12 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: “And though the last lights off the black West went / Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—” The images of sunset and sunrise symbolize God’s __________.

imminent destruction of the world

the coming of the Lord

perpetual renewal of nature

creation of life and death

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Question 9

T. S. Eliot appropriated the story of his poem, “The Journey of the Magi,” from _______?

Plato

Aristotle

Sophocles

Matthew

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Question 10

The images in _____ create an impression of child labor.

"Autumn"

"The Chimney Sweeper"

"Design"

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

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Question 11

Another name for Petrarchan sonnet is

English sonnet

Italian sonnet

Shakespearean sonnet

Miltonian sonnet

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Question 12

Lyrical poetry differs from other writing in the fairly small emotional response that it generates.

True

False

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Question 13

The term used for a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved (example dance-pants).

Masculine rhyme

Feminine rhyme

Internal rhyme

End rhyme

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Question 14

When we understand all the conditions and circumstances involved in a paradox, we find that what at first seemed impossible is actually entirely plausible and not impossible at all.

True

False

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Question 15

What happens versus what the reader knows to be true is

dramatic irony

verbal irony

situational irony

motivational irony

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Question 16

Tropes create meaning that cannot be expressed any other way.

True

False

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Question 17

In this poem, the poet or persona asks that God "o'erthrow" him, reclaim him as His own, and "marry" him.

"God's Grandeur"

"Easter Wings"

"Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God"

"The Lamb"

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Question 18

The most significant literary device in the poem, "It Sifts from Leaden Sieves" is metaphor.

True

False

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Question 19

The speaker of "The Chimney Sweeper" is a dead boy.

True

False

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Question 20

Line 3 of George Herbert’s “Virtue” reads: “The dew shall weep thy fall tonight.” The word “fall” means __________.

end

decrease

dawn

original sin

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Question 21

A poem can be organized without stanza breaks, refrain, or rhythm.

True

False

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Question 22

An imagistic poem gives the verbal representation of a sense experience, as of sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing.

True

False

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Question 23

The term used for a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved (example hurrying-scurrying).

Masculine rhyme

Feminine rhyme

Internal rhyme

End rhyme

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Question 24

A metaphor is the imaginative identification of two similar objects.

True

False

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Question 25

The poem "Ode To A Nightingale" was written by

William Wordsworth

John Keats

Robert Frost

Emily Dickinson

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Question 26

"Journey of the Magi" maintains that Christ's birth was a "hard and bitter agony."

True

False

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Question 27

The three major types of irony are verbal irony, dramatic irony, and irony of situation.

True

False

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Question 28

Edwin Arlington Robinson authored the poem "God’s Grandeur."

True

False

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Question 29

In _____ rhyme sounds, the repeated sound is in the final syllable of the words involved (e.g., "sight" and "light").

internal

feminine

approximate

end

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Question 30

Irony of situation results from the incongruity between the actual and the anticipated circumstance in "Ozymandias."

True

False

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Question 31

According to the lecture notes, the allusion in the poem "Out, Out - -" is from

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

The book of Revelation

Shakespeare's play MacBeth

Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"

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Question 32

In Shakespeare’s "That Time of Year" time is shown to pass via the stages of a plant's life in spring season.

True

False

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Question 33

In "Ozymandias" the reader gains his information from a direct observer of a great irony.

True

False

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Question 34

In the poem, "It Sifts from Leaden Sieves," Dickinson compares snowfall to God's righteousness covering the earth.

True

False

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Question 35

Keats died of polio.

True

False

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Question 36

Irony is the situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy.

True

False

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Question 37

The term used for rhymes that occur at the ends of lines is

Masculine rhyme

End rhyme

Feminine rhyme

Internal rhyme

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Question 38

Theme is the unifying generalization of a literary work.

True

False

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Question 39

Onomatopoeia is the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound.

True

False

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Question 40

The term used for a rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme-words occurs within the line is

Masculine rhyme

Feminine rhyme

Internal rhyme

In media res rhyme

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Question 41

The poem, "Virtue," was written by George Herbert.

True

False

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Question 42

Hazlitt defined poetry as "The universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself."

True

False

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Question 43

"Ode to a Nightingale" speaks of two scenes.

True

False

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Question 44

"Chimney Sweeper" uses a dichotomy between the horror that the children experience and what is said.

True

False

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Question 45

Images evoke the senses.

True

False

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Question 46

"Journey off the Magi" alludes to Horace.

True

False

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Question 47

Lines 7-8 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil / Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.” “The soil / Is bare” because __________.

humans have sullied it with their commercial and industrial activities

the setting is winter

God has sent drought as punishment for the sins of humans

humans have improved the landscape

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Question 48

Tropes demand intellectual involvement on the part of the reader.

True

False

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Question 49

Which of the following poem was written by John Donne

"Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God"

"Dover Beach"

"Redemption"

"Fern Hill"

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Question 50

To paraphrase content is to be able to summarize a work, to offer its core idea(s).

True

False