ENGL 102 TEST 2 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
PRACTICE EXAM WITH DETAILED SOLUTIONS
2026
◉ Sylvia Plath. Answer: Mirror
◉ Gerard Manley Hopkins. Answer: The Windhover
◉ E.A. Robinson. Answer: Richard Cory
◉ Elizabeth Bishop. Answer: One Art
◉ John Donne. Answer: Death Be Not Proud
◉ William Shakespeare. Answer: Sonnet 18
◉ Langston Hughes. Answer: Harlem
◉ Countee Cullen. Answer: Yet Do I Marvel
◉ Emily Dickinson. Answer: There's a Certain Slant of Light
, ◉ John Keats. Answer: Ode on A Grecian Urn
◉ Edgar Allan Poe. Answer: Annabel Lee
◉ Connotation. Answer: What a word suggests beyond its basic
dictionary definition; a word's overtones of meaning.
◉ Denotation. Answer: The basic definition or dictionary meaning of
a word.
◉ Imagery. Answer: The representation through language of sense
experience.
◉ Simile. Answer: A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison
is made between two things essentially unlike. The comparison is
made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as like, as,
than, similar to, resembles, or seems.
◉ Metaphor. Answer: A figure of speech in which an implicit
comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. It may
take on of four forms: 1) that in which the literal term and the
figurative term are both names; 2) that in which the literal term is
implied and the figurative term named; 3) that in which the literal
PRACTICE EXAM WITH DETAILED SOLUTIONS
2026
◉ Sylvia Plath. Answer: Mirror
◉ Gerard Manley Hopkins. Answer: The Windhover
◉ E.A. Robinson. Answer: Richard Cory
◉ Elizabeth Bishop. Answer: One Art
◉ John Donne. Answer: Death Be Not Proud
◉ William Shakespeare. Answer: Sonnet 18
◉ Langston Hughes. Answer: Harlem
◉ Countee Cullen. Answer: Yet Do I Marvel
◉ Emily Dickinson. Answer: There's a Certain Slant of Light
, ◉ John Keats. Answer: Ode on A Grecian Urn
◉ Edgar Allan Poe. Answer: Annabel Lee
◉ Connotation. Answer: What a word suggests beyond its basic
dictionary definition; a word's overtones of meaning.
◉ Denotation. Answer: The basic definition or dictionary meaning of
a word.
◉ Imagery. Answer: The representation through language of sense
experience.
◉ Simile. Answer: A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison
is made between two things essentially unlike. The comparison is
made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as like, as,
than, similar to, resembles, or seems.
◉ Metaphor. Answer: A figure of speech in which an implicit
comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. It may
take on of four forms: 1) that in which the literal term and the
figurative term are both names; 2) that in which the literal term is
implied and the figurative term named; 3) that in which the literal
