ENGLISH 12B " PRACTICE TEST
"COMPLETE DETAILED CASE STUDY
What is the overall message of this poem? - B.
Every creature on earth is at the mercy of some higher being.
"In which the burthen of the mystery, / In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible
world, / Is lightened:"
(from "Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth)
"Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur, other gifts / Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, / Abundant
recompence"
(from "Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth)
"Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
(from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
"nor yet beside the rill,
Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he;"
(from "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray)
"Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves."
(from "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) - meaning, weight, or significance
reward
, a silly or foolish person
a small stream
the rhythm of a piece of poetry or music
What theme is emphasized in this excerpt from "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats? - B.
Unfulfilled desires and dreams seem sweeter.
Which line of this excerpt from "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley reflects the theme that art alone can last
forever? - Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things
Which quote from Frankenstein brings out the theme of revenge in the novel? - B.
"I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery. Beware,
for I am fearless and therefore powerful."
Which three parts of this excerpt from Frankenstein show that the creature is innocent and helpless like
a newborn child when it first appears in the novel? - and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to
distinguish between the operations of my various senses
I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but, feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.
Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds
Which of these rhetorical devices is used in the opening lines of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice? - B.
irony
Which two parts in these excerpts from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice illustrate the theme of pride? -
that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of
himself. If I may so express it, he has a right to be proud."