University of Toronto Practice Quiz

These are the terms to focus on:

1. and parallelism
1. consonance
2. enjambment, end-stopped lines
3. focalization
4. imagery
5. Literary History
6. New Criticism 
7. New Historicism
8. Short story
9. Simple poetry (Rosenberg), 
10. symbolism
11. Verisimilitude

Quiz Format:

What is Literary History?



What is New Criticism ?





What is New Historicism?



What is Verisimilitude? How does it differ from truth?



What is  focalization?

These are the terms to focus on:

- 7 marks for straight definitions

- 8 marks for application of key terms through close reading of a passage that has been covered from weeks 1-4

- alootook ipellie "walking both sides of an invisible border"

- isaac rosenberg "Break of Day in the Trenches"

- Chimamanda Negozi Adichie "from half of a yellow sun" (the short story)

- Gertrude Stein "Picasso"

- Wilkie Collins "the moonstone (the prologue and first period)

Rebekah Emmanuel Quiz




 Explain/apply  focalization in the Break of the Daiy in the Trenches?

1 . What is enjambment?

a.a type of end-stopped line
b.a line that does not end with punctuation or a natural pause
c.a rare type of lineation
d.none of the above

2. What can enjambment do?

a.provide lines with rhythm
b.allow an idea to flow from one line to the next
c.give a poem a certain mood from anxious to calm
d.all of the above

3. Which of the following lines is enjambed?

a.He told me a secret,
b.something I would not tell others.
c.I swore to him I would never, never
d.tell a living soul.

1. The placement of caesura is critical in:

a.Greek verse
b.Latin verse
c.Anglo-Saxon verse
d.All of the above

2. The placement of caesura is not important in:

a.Greek Verse
b.Latin Verse
c.Modern verse
d.Anglo-Saxon Verse

3. Caesura is a feature of how the line is...

a.Written
b.Read/sung
c.Intended
d.Structured syntactically

4. "The microphone explodes, || shattering the mold. "

This is an example of…

a.Medial caesura
b.Terminal caesura
c.Initial caesura
d.None of the above

1. When is assonance used?

a.Poetry
b.Prose
c.Music
d.All of the above

2. How does assonance differ from alliteration?

a.They are the same
b.Assonance is repetition of both vowel and consonant sounds
c.Assonance is vowel repetition, whereas alliteration is consonant repetition
d.Alliteration is vowel repetition, whereas assonance is consonant repetition

3. Why isn’t assonance rhyme?

a.Assonance is only consonant repetition
b.Assonance is only vowel repetition
c.Rhyme and assonance have nothing in common

4. What is an example of assonance in the passage below?

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees Laughing as it passes through the endless summer

a.Kingfisher flashing
b.River of green
c.Unseen beneath the trees

1. What is anaphora?

a.repetition of a phrase at the end of sentences
b.repetition of a phrase at the beginning of sentences
c.repetition of a phrase in the middle of sentences
d.repetition of a phrase in a direct row

2. How is anaphora different from epistrophe?

a.epistrophe is less compelling
b.anaphora is typically more serious
c.epistrophe is at the end of sentences
d.epistrophe is in the middle of sentences

3. When can anaphora NOT be used?

a.in poetry
b.in prose
c.in technical writing
d.in advertisements

4. Which phrases are examples of anaphora in the following passage?

Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.

a.let us fight
b.to do away with
c.all men’s happiness
d.both a and b

        Make one comment on the below:

We were dancing—it must have

been a foxtrot or a waltz,

something romantic but

requiring restraint,