English 1302
Final Exam Review
Part I: Literary Terms and Concepts
Directions: Choose the best answer. Mark all answers on a Scantron form.
1. Stopping a story’s forward action to recount an episode from the past is a device called a ______.
A. flashback
B. subplot
C. plot
D. setting
2. A character that sharpens our understanding of a major character by providing
contrast is called a(n) _____.
A. minor character
B. antagonist
C. foil
D. protagonist
3. The position from which an author relates the story is also called the ______.
A. subplot
B. setting
C. epiphany
D. point of view
4. The underlying meaning of a literary work is called ______.
A. theme
B. symbolism
C. plot
D. characterization
5. The point of view that used the pronoun “I” is known as ______.
A. objective
B. third person
C. first person
D. omniscient
6. Readers may detect point of view by determining the grammatical voice of the
speaker. Which is an example of third person?
A. I swam the English Channel.
B. You walk the dog in the park.
C. He thinks that grapes are delicious.
D. We are avid baseball fans.
7. An omniscient narrator knows which of the following about the characters in a
story?
A. Their thoughts, but not their actions
B. Their dialogue, but not their thoughts
C. The actions of the central characters only
D. Their thoughts and actions
8. Words and phrases that appeal to the senses and often put a picture into your mind
are also called ______.
A. plots
B. symbols
C. archetypes
D. images
9. A narrator who misinterprets facts either purposely or naively is called ______.
A. objective
B. unreliable
C. first-person
D. omniscient
10. The turning point or high point in a plot is known as the ______.
A. flashback
B. climax
C. foreshadowing
D. exposition
11. An indirect reference to famous people, events, places, or other works of literature
is called a(an) ______.
A. symbol
B. paraphrase
C. allusion
D. illusion
12. Early clues about what will happen later in a narrative or play is called ______.
A. tone
B. symbol
C. foreshadowing
D. irony
13. The sequence of incidents or events composing a short story is called the ______.
A. plot
B. theme
C. symbol
D. irony
14. The main character in a short story or novel is called the ______.
A. antagonist
B. flat character
C. stereotype
D. protagonist
15. An object, person, situation, or action that suggests larger meanings, in addition to
its literal meaning, is called a ______.
A. point of view
B. genre
C. symbol
D. theme
16. The name for a category of literature such as drama, short story, or poetry is
called ______.
A. local color
B. genre
C. allegory
D. fable
17. The clash between opposing characters or forces that causes tension or suspense
in the plot is called ______.
A. theme
B. setting
C. point of view
D. conflict
18. While winning a lottery is commonly viewed today as a positive event, in the
short story “The Lottery,” the winner of the lottery is stoned to death. This lack
of agreement between expectation and reality is called ______.
A. symbolism
B. irony
C. foreshadowing
D. flashback
19. Which of the following in NOT an element of plot?
A. rising action
B. falling action
C. symbolism
D. climax
20. A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or
a concept is called ______.
A. personification
B. alliteration
C. paradox
D. connotation
21. A word’s suggestion beyond its basic definition, or a word’s overtones of
meaning is called ______.
A. denotation
B. connotation
C. alliteration
D. personification
22. The attitude of a writer toward her subject matter or work is known as the work’s
______.
A. setting
B. tone
C. irony
D. symbolism
23. A comparison of two unlike objects using words such as like or as is called
______.
A. allusion
B. simile
C. personification
D. oxymoron
24. A fixed-form, lyric poem of fourteen lines is known as ______.
A. sonnet
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. limerick
25. Repetition of the same consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words, is
known as ______.
A. rhyme
B. alliteration
C. meter
D. rhythm
Part II: Research Techniques
Library Skills
Directions: Respond to the following items by marking
A = primary source
B = secondary source
26. Opinions of what scholars and other experts believe about your subject
27. Original works
28. Journals appearing on the Internet
Using MLA Documentation Style
29. Which of the following sources demonstrate correct MLA format for a book by
one author?
A. Weinberg, Steven. Dreams of a Final Theory. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
B. Steven Weinberg. Dreams of a Final Theory. New York, Pantheon, 1992.
C. Weinberg, Steven, Dreams of a Final Theory. Pantheon, New York, 1992.
30. Which of the following sources demonstrate correct MLA format for a journal
article?
A. Nebeker, Helen E. “’The Lottery’: Symbolic Tour de Force.” American
Literature. Vol. 46 (1974): 100-07.
B. Nebeker, Helen E. “’The Lottery’: Symbolic Tour de Force.” American
Literature. 46 (1974), pp. 100-07.
C. Nebeker, Helen E. “’The Lottery’: Symbolic Tour de Force.” American
Literature 46 (1974): 100-07.
Please read the following MLA format entry and answer the questions that follow:
Axelrod, Rise B. and Charles R. Cooper. “Chapter 1: Introduction.” The Saint Martin’s
Guide to Writing. 7th ed. New York: Beford, 2004. 1-22.
31. What is the above entry?
A. an Internet source
B. a book
C. a magazine
D. an interview
32.
Who are Axelrod and Cooper in the above entry?
A. editors
B. publishers
C. proofreaders
D. authors
33. What does 7th ed. mean?
A. This item has published only 5 times before.
B. This item has not published until now.
C. This item has published only 6 times before.
D. This item has published only once before.
34. What does “New York” represent in the entry above?
A. home of the editors
B. name of the publishing company
C. the town/place where the item was published
D. a popular town
35. What do the numbers “1-22” indicate?
A. total pages for the publication
B. volume numbers for the publication
C. pages numbers where “Chapter 1: Introduction” is located
D. edition numbers
Please read the following MLA format entry for a journal and identify the parts as indicated:
Walker, Barbara W., RN. “Assessing Gastrointestinal Infections.” Nursing 2004 34.5
(2004): 48-52.
36. Who is “Barbara Walker RN”?
A. Editor of “Assessing Gastrointestinal Infections”
B. Illustrator for Nursing 2004
C. Author of “Assessing Gastrointestinal Infections”
D. Editor of Nursing 2004
37. What are the numbers “48-52”?
A. Journal volume numbers
B. Page numbers for “Assessing Gastrointestinal Infections”
C. Dates of publication
D. Journal issue numbers
38. What is “34”?
A. Journal volume number
B. Total number of pages in article
C. Page where article begins
D. Issue number
39. What is “Assessing Gastrointestinal Infections”?
A. Title of article
B. Title of journal
C. Volume title
D. Issue title
40. What is “.5”?
A. Journal volume number
B. Total number of pages in article
C. Page where article begins
D. Issue number
41. Titles of books, journals, and magazines should be
A. Underlined or italicized
B. In parentheses marks
C. Indented
D. Enclosed in quotation marks
42. Titles of short stories, articles, essays, and chapters should be
A. Underlined or italicized
B. In parentheses marks
C. Indented
D. Enclosed in quotation marks
Which of the following would be a correct in-text citation for the following Works Cited entries?
43. Didion, Joan. Salvador. New York: Simon, 1983.
A. Didion, Joan. P. 47
B. (Didion, Joan p. 47)
C. (Didion 47)
D. (Salvador p. 47)
44. Shuter, Robert. “A Field Study of Nonverbal Communication in Germany, Italy,
and the United States.” Communication Monographs 44 (1977): 298-305.
A. (Shuter 44)
B. (Shuter 300)
C. (Shuter, Robert 300)
D. (Communication Monographs 44)
45. Which of the following is the correct in-text citation for a quote from the
Works Cited entry in which the author is named in the text?
Came, Barry. “Policing Haiti.” Atlantic Monthly Oct. 1994: 20-22.
A. (21)
B. (Came, 21)
C. (“Policing Haiti”- 21)
D. (Came 21)
Directions: Respond to the following items on the research paper by marking
A. paraphrase
B. summary
C. plagiarism
D. common knowledge
E. outside source
46. A condensed statement of the main points of someone else’s passage expressed in
your own words and sentence structure.
47. Information that most educated people know, such as the first president of the United
States was George Washington.
48. Material that provides information and from which you often learn something you
did not know before.
49. The presentation of another person’s words or ideas as if they were your own.
50. The use of your own words, phrasing, and sentence structure to restate the message.
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51. In “Hills Like White Elephants,” the point of view is
a. first person
b. third person omniscient
c. third person objective
d. third person limited omniscient
52. The author of “Hills Like White Elephants” is
a. Ernest Hemingway
c. Shirley Jackson
b. Tim O’Brien
d. James Joyce
53. A predominant symbol in “Hills Like White Elephants” is
a. a group of fish
b. a train station
c. a raging white elephant
d. a keepsake box
63. MLA means
a. Modern Language Association
c. Middle Language Association
b. Modern Literary Association
d. Modern Library Association
64. In MLA documentation, the final page of the research paper is typically titled
a. Works Cited
b. Working Bibliography
c. Bibliography
d. References
65. “Citing a source” means
a. committing plagiarism
b. showing in your paper where you got your information
c. keeping bibliography note cards
d. directly quoting from a source
66. The list of your sources should be organized
a. by the order in which the sources are used in the paper
b. by the length of the articles and books
c. by the names of the publishing companies
d. alphabetically, by the author’s or editor’s last name
67. Which of the following is a correct parenthetical citation for a direct quotation from page 27 of a
book by Ernest Hemingway?
a. (Hemingway 27)
b. (Hemingway, 27)
c. (Hemingway, p. 27)
d. (Ernest Hemingway, 27)
68. Information that is paraphrased from another source does not need documentation.
a. True
b. False
69. In a computer-typed (rather than hand-written) research paper, titles of magazines or journals are
a. underlined
b. italicized
c. put in quotation marks
d. given no mark of punctuation
70.In a computer-typed research paper, titles of books are
a. underlined
b. italicized
c. put in quotation marks
d. given no mark of punctuation
71. In a computer-typed research paper, titles of articles from a journal or magazine are
a. underlined
b. italicized
c. put in quotation marks
d. given no mark of punctuation
72. Which of the following is not included in a Works Cited entry for a book?
a. author’s name
b. publication date
c. Dewey decimal call number
d. place of publication
Regarding the following Works Cited entry, answer the questions below.
Slimp, Stephen. "Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'." The Explicator 57.3 (Spring
1999): 179-181. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale,
2004. Literature Resource Center. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.
73. From what volume number of The Explicator does the above article come?
a. 179-181
b. 70
c. 57
d. 3
74. What publishing company published Short Story Criticism?
a. Explicator
b. Literature Resource Center
c. Stephen Slimp and Co.
d. Gale
75. What kind of work is “Oates’s ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’” as written by
Stephen Slimp?
a. novel
b. journal article
c. short story
d. newspaper review
76. “And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength, and struck.”
The above lines illustrate which of the following poetic devices?
A. personification
B.
illusion
C.
allusion
D. oxymoron
77. “But I hung on like death: / Such waltzing was not easy.”
The above lines illustrate which of the following poetic devices?
A. onamatopoeia
B.
personification
C.
simile
D. allusion
78. “There’s little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, / That curled like a lamb’s back, was shaved; . .
.”
The above lines illustrate which of the following poetic devices?
A. personification
B.
allusion
C.
alliteration
79. In John Donne’s “The Flea,” the speaker compares the flea to
A. the marriage bed of his lover and him
B.
a dreaded disease that will kill his lover and him
C.
a rose that smells so sweet
D. dark beauty in a joyless world
80. assigning an animal or object with the qualities of a human
A. paradox
B. assonance
C.
personification
D. denotation
81. the repetition of consonant sounds in a line, such as “So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep”
A. assonance
B. alliteration
C.
irony
D. connotation
82. a comparison, using “like” or “as,” between two usually unlike things
A. metaphor
B. stanza
C.
alliteration
D. simile
83.
the repetition of the accented vowel sounds, as in old-cold; vane-reign
A. syntax
B. rhyme
C.
alliteration
D. tone
84. a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history
A. oxymoron
B. imagery
C.
irony
D. allusion
85. a fixed form of poetry; a poem containing 14 lines of iambic pentameter, with a set rhyme scheme
A. sonnet
B. syntax
C.
symbol
D. allusion
86. a verbal paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict one another
A. sonnet
B. syntax
C.
oxymoron
D. allusion
87. a type of poem--typically translated as having three lines of five syllables, seven syllables, then five
syllables again—originating in Japan and often dealing with nature
A. sonnet
B. ballad
C.
free verse
D. haiku
88. If I say, “My love is like a rose,” I’ve used a simile. If I say, “My love is a rose,” I’ve used
A. a metaphor
B. a paradox
C.
personification
D. assimilation
89. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool,” the ‘we’ of the poem are
A. soldiers
B. concert pianists
C.
young girls going to a prom
D. pool players
91. Thomas Hardy’s “The Ruined Maid,” plays on the lack of agreement between expectation and reality.
That lack of agreement is called
A. symbolism
B. tone
C.
irony
D. allusion
94. In William Blake’s “The Tyger,” Blake compares God to a
A. lamb
B. playwright
C.
blacksmith
D. carpenter
95. “So much depends upon” this, in William Carlos Williams’ poem:
A. a flea
B. a red wheelbarrow
C.
a summer’s day
D. a rose
99.
Three periods in history during which drama has flourished include
A.
B.
C.
D.
Ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, Modern (post 1800s)
Ancient Greece, the Renaissance, Modern (post 1800s)
Ancient Rome, the Renaissance, Modern (post 1800s)
Ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, Modern (post 1800s)
100.The ‘deadly’ personality trait that tragic dramatists explore in their plays is called
A. personality flaw
B. personal defect
C.
fatal defect
D. fatal flaw
102. The Renaissance is a rebirth of
A. ideas and art of the Middle Ages
B.
ideas and art of Ancient Greece
C.
ideas and art of Ancient Rome
D. ideas and art of the Modern era
104. Shakespeare’s life covered
A. 1492-1540
C.
1725-1770
B. 1564-1616
D. 1604-1690