English 12 B Final Exam (44 Q&A)
1. Which of these lines contains the CLEAREST example of dialect in poetry?
Answer - “What then? Poor beastie, thou maun live!”
2. Which line from William Blake’s “The Tyger” contains the CLEAREST example of symbolism?
Answer - “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”
3. Which excerpt from William Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much With Us” is MOST EXPLICITLY critical of modern life?
Answer - “Little we see in Nature that is ours…”
4. Which of these excerpts is MOST CLEARLY an example of narrative poetry?
Answer - “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure dome decree…”
5. Which of these excerpts is MOST CLEARLY an example of apostrophe?
Answer - “O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being…”
6. "Then felt I like some..." This excerpt from John Keats’s “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” is an example of a(n)
Answer - Simile
7. “To Mrs. Saville, England, July 7th, 17— ...." This excerpt from the introductory portion of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is an indication that the novel is
Answer - epistolary
8. Which mood does Tennyson evoke as he contemplates his death?
Answer - optimism
9. Which of these BEST describes the tone of these final words of the speaker concerning the duchess?
Answer - ominous
10. Which of these BEST describes this excerpt from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty”?
Answer - It is an example of sprung rhythm.
11. Which line from Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” BEST conveys a tone of serenity?
Answer - “The sea is calm tonight.”
12. How does Hardy depict human nature?
Answer - fickle
13. Which line from William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming” MOST PLAINLY contains apocalyptic imagery?
Answer - “Surely some revelation is at hand;/Surely the Second Coming is at hand.”
14. Which excerpt from James Joyce’s “Araby” describes a setting?
Answer - “North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street…”
15. Which excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own contains an allusion?
Answer - “Now and again an Emily Brontë or a Robert Burns blazes out…”
16. Which of these BEST describes this excerpt from T.S. Eliot’s “Preludes”?
Answer - It is an example of free verse.
17. This excerpt from Graham Greene’s “A Shocking Accident” is an example of which of the following?
Answer - pathos
18. Which excerpt from George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant BEST exemplifies a reflective essay?
Answer - “It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism…”
19. Which of these BEST describes this excerpt from Doris Lessing’s “A Sunrise on the Veld”?
Answer - It is an example of kinesthetic imagery.
20. In Robert Burns’s “To a Mouse,” the speaker apologizes to the mouse for humankind’s control, or _________, over Earth.
Answer - dominion
21. In Lord Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty,” the speaker describes the face of the subject as vividly expressive, or
Answer - eloquent
22. In Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott,” he describes how reapers tie grain into bundles called
Answer - sheaves
23. The speaker in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Ulysses,” states that he plans to leave his royal staff, or _________, to his son Telemachus.
Answer - scepter
24. In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf mentions that Shakespeare very likely _________, or illegally hunted, rabbits.
Answer - poached
25. Which of these is an objective case personal pronoun?
Answer - them
26. Which of these is a possessive case personal pronoun?
Answer - my
27. Which of these is a possessive case pronoun?
Answer - whose
28. Which of these is NEAREST in connotative meaning to the word "brave"?
Answer - courageous
29. Which of these is a singular reflexive (or intensive) pronoun?
Answer - myself
30. Rosetta took the winnings back to _________ home.
Answer - her
31. Which pronoun can be either singular or plural?
Answer - you
32. Dominoes and hopscotch _________ my grandmother’s favorite games when she was young.
Answer - were
33. Which of these is a singular noun?
Answer - physics
34. Which of these is a singular contraction?
Answer - isn't
35. The teacher _________ began the campaign received a great deal of support.
Answer - who
36. Which sentence contains a comma that is correctly placed but unnecessary?
Answer - Last week, we drove through Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota.
37. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Answer - Before they went on vacation, they made sure that the power was turned off.
38. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Answer - Where did you put my socks, Mom?
39. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Answer - Both of the cats’ collars have little bells on them.
40. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Answer - Our sun is a star; the stars we see in the night sky are actually far-away suns.
41. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Answer - Most colleges require one of two things: a high-school diploma or a GED.
42. Which sentence is punctuated incorrectly?
Answer - After he had gone deaf, Beethoven composed his famous, Fifth Symphony.
43. Which of these correctly indicates that a portion of the quote has been omitted?
Answer - “The violets…have broken the rocks.” – Tennessee Williams
44. Which of these sentences is punctuated correctly?
Answer - John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) was the sixth president of the United States.
Mind you, some people might have different Q&A's, these are just mine. Hope this helps!