Midterm Exam - Literary Passage Analysis
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
The first paragraph is characterized by all of the following except:
A. Parallel Structure
B. Exclamatory Sentence
C. Hyperbolic Language
D. Metaphorical Allusions
E. Rhetorical Questions - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅D. Metaphorical Allusions
(Mrs. Williams' confirmed answer)
The minister's subtlety is most clearly demonstrated by which characteristic of his
"confession?"
A. Euphemistic Language
B. Mollifying Tone
C. Lack of Specificity
D. Reliance on Abstractions
E. Introductory Physical Gestures - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅C. Lack of Specificity
(Mrs. Williams' confirmed answer)
From the second paragraph, it can be inferred that typical Puritan practices might not suffice
for a sinner who seeks
A. Purification
B. Preparation
C. Pity
D. Piety
E. Penance - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅E. Penance
(Mrs. Williams' confirmed answer)
In context, the word "typified" (Line 22) most nearly means
, A. Made Common
B. Repeated
C. Represented
D. Continued
E. Characterized - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅C. Represented
(Mrs. Williams' confirmed answer)
The statement that the visions with "their misty lack of substance: are "the truest and most
substantial things" (Lines 33-35) in the minister's experience is an example of
A. Metonymy
B. Oxymoron
C. Personification
D. Foreshadowing
E. Paradox - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅E. Paradox
(Mrs. Williams' confirmed answer)
The phrase, "For all that" (line 34) would best be restated as
A. For that reason
B. Because of all that
C. Instead of all that
D. In spite of all that
E. On behalf of all that - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅D. In spite of all that
(Mrs. Williams' confirmed answer)
In the third paragraph, the shift from a discussion of a specific case to that of universal truths
is signaled by
A. "Around us" (Lines 36)
B. "Meant by Heaven" (Line 36)
"To the untrue man" (Line 37)
"The whole universe" (Line 37)
"Within his grasp" (Line 38) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A. "Around us" (Lines 36)
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
The first paragraph is characterized by all of the following except:
A. Parallel Structure
B. Exclamatory Sentence
C. Hyperbolic Language
D. Metaphorical Allusions
E. Rhetorical Questions - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅D. Metaphorical Allusions
(Mrs. Williams' confirmed answer)
The minister's subtlety is most clearly demonstrated by which characteristic of his
"confession?"
A. Euphemistic Language
B. Mollifying Tone
C. Lack of Specificity
D. Reliance on Abstractions
E. Introductory Physical Gestures - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅C. Lack of Specificity
(Mrs. Williams' confirmed answer)
From the second paragraph, it can be inferred that typical Puritan practices might not suffice
for a sinner who seeks
A. Purification
B. Preparation
C. Pity
D. Piety
E. Penance - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅E. Penance
(Mrs. Williams' confirmed answer)
In context, the word "typified" (Line 22) most nearly means
, A. Made Common
B. Repeated
C. Represented
D. Continued
E. Characterized - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅C. Represented
(Mrs. Williams' confirmed answer)
The statement that the visions with "their misty lack of substance: are "the truest and most
substantial things" (Lines 33-35) in the minister's experience is an example of
A. Metonymy
B. Oxymoron
C. Personification
D. Foreshadowing
E. Paradox - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅E. Paradox
(Mrs. Williams' confirmed answer)
The phrase, "For all that" (line 34) would best be restated as
A. For that reason
B. Because of all that
C. Instead of all that
D. In spite of all that
E. On behalf of all that - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅D. In spite of all that
(Mrs. Williams' confirmed answer)
In the third paragraph, the shift from a discussion of a specific case to that of universal truths
is signaled by
A. "Around us" (Lines 36)
B. "Meant by Heaven" (Line 36)
"To the untrue man" (Line 37)
"The whole universe" (Line 37)
"Within his grasp" (Line 38) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A. "Around us" (Lines 36)
