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| 1. | The overall purpose of an allegory is to teach a moral lesson. |
| A. | TRUE |
| B. | FALSE |
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Read the following lines from John Milton's poem, "How Soon Hath Time." Then answer question 2.
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year! |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | personification |
| D. | alliteration |
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| 3. | How might visualizing be useful as you read? |
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| 4. | Text such as that taken from The Diary of Samuel Pepys was written specifically for publication. |
| A. | TRUE |
| B. | FALSE |
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| 5. | Click on the letter of the word or phrase that means about the same as the underlined word.
He spend many hours at the library because his thirst for knowledge was prodigious. |
| A. | markedly different |
| B. | enormous |
| C. | deliberately harmful |
| D. | impulsive |
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| 6. | The phrase, "But when Alexis I do miss," is an example of which poetic device? |
| A. | allusion |
| B. | rhyming |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | inversion |
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| 7. | In a __________, a writer uses irony, humor, and other techniques to point out problems and criticize the people who are causing them. |
| A. | poem |
| B. | parody |
| C. | satire |
| D. | mock-epic |
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| 8. | Read the following lines from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism. Then answer question 8.
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. This excerpt is an example of a(n) __________. |
| A. | heroic couplet |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | inversion |
| D. | hyperbole |
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| 9. | Which of the following statements about mock-epics is false? |
| A. | A mock-epic describes trivial subjects in an elaborate way. |
| B. | A mock-epic makes fun of society. |
| C. | In a mock-epic, society surpasses the standards set in heroic epics. |
| D. | Mock-epics are known as imitation epics. |
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| 10. | Explain what historical fiction is. |
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