Dr. Prinsky

Engl. 1102

Quiz 2 on (Second Session on) Ch. 14/”Words” in RJ7

Specific Questions on Richard Eberhart’s Poem “The Fury of Aerial Bombardment”

1. In Richard Eberhart's "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment," the word relent (line 2) means: (a) loan a second time (b) wind up a line (c) cause a rip (d) soften in temper

2. In Eberhart's "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment," the word ravens (used as a verb; line 12) means: (a) hungrily devours (b) paints black (c) speaks insanely (d) suddenly attacks

3. In Eberhart's "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment," the word avidity (line 12) means: (a) dampness (b) extreme eagerness (c) blinding brightness (d) cowardice

4. As Roberts and Jacobs point out in more than one place in chapter 14, and as evident from reading the poem itself, Eberhart's "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment" makes good use of the contrast in diction between: (a) high and low usage levels (b) literal and figurative (c) parallelism and chiasmus (d) abstract/general and concrete/specific

5. As Roberts and Jacobs point out in more than one place in chapter 14, in Eberhart's "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment," the poem expressively or thematically uses: (a) idiom (b) dialect (c) slang (d) jargon

6. Eberhart’s "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment" clearly divides, by way of word choice and content and the speaker’s purposes in the parts, into the parts of: (a) first stanza vs. second & third & fourth stanzas (two parts) (b) first two stanzas vs. second two stanzas (two parts) (c) first three stanzas vs. last stanza (two parts) (d) first and fourth stanzas vs. second and third stanzas (two parts) (e) each stanza separate (four parts)

7. A link between stanzas 1 and 2, via the first half of their first lines, is created through all of the following except which one: (a) (b) middle or standard diction (c) parallelism (d) repetition

8. A change is marked in the third stanza by the use of which kind of sentence, incorporated in the lines: (a) declarative (b) exclamatory (c) imperative (d) interrogative (e) compound

9. Van Wettering and Averill are training for positions as/in: (a) ball turret gunners (b) navigator-bombardiers (c) anti-aircraft artillery specialists (d) specialists in ammunition supply

10. As indicated by the speaker’s reference to particular names, the speaker’s familiarity with the list, and the speaker’s familiarity with technical material, and the speaker’s familiarity with the progress of the names on the list, the identity of the speaker is: (a) a general on a military training base (b) an aerial gunnery instructor (c) a writer of technical manuals (d) an aerial gunnery student

11. A grim irony of the poem is that the two students named: (a) performed anonymously in class but spectacularly in action (b) understood the material better than the teacher (c) finally mastered the material but were killed right away (d) disliked each other because of their ethnic backgrounds

12. The distinctive rhyme scheme (see Ch. 19 for how lowercase letters are used to indicate rhyme sounds) of a-b-b-a is used in which stanza or stanzas: (a) first (b) second (c) third (d) fourth (e) first through third

13. The envelope rhyme-scheme pattern referred to in the immediately preceding question might subtly relate to the subject in the poem of: (a) study (b) solitude (c) safety (d) sparseness (e) soteriology

Mid-chapter or end-chapter material

14. Roberts and Jacobs note that in analyzing Wallace Stevens’ poem “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” the noticing of particular diction referring to what helps convey the contrast between life’s visual reality with psychological disillusionment of humdrum routine: (a) temperature (b) height (c) motion (d) color

Specific Questions on Stephen Spender’s Poem “I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great”

15. As indicated by the poem and by the demo essay on the poem, probably the principal function or purpose of Stephen Spender’s poem “I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great” is: (a) criticism (b) definition (c) exculpation (d) narration (e) polemic

16. As indicated by the demo essay, the poem’s first part and second part are aimed at, and utilize, respectively: (a) technological and natural (b) Anglo-American and foreign (c) positive and negative (d) individuals and groups (e) conformity and nonconformity

17. As indicated by the demo essay, expressive use is made of what grammatical component or element in the first stanza of Spender’s poem “I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great”: (a) parallelism (b) inverted word order (c) antithesis (d) passive voice

18. As indicated by the demo essay, expressive use is made of what grammatical component or element in the second stanza of Spender’s poem “I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great”: (a) gerund (b) infinitive (c) participle (d) auxiliary verb (e) expletive construction

19. Vivid use is made in the first stanza of: (a) dangling modifier (b) split infinitive (c) faulty predication (d) sentence fragment

20. The stylistic device referred to in the immediately preceding question helps to stress: (a) isolated or separate aspects and actions (b) actions remaining in suspension (c) communal actions aimed at a nation’s progress (d) actions leading to tragic mistakes

21. How should the following words from the poem be classified or categorized, with regard to diction or word choice — “think” (line 1), “great” (line 1), “soul’s” (line 2), “history” (line 2), “ambition” (line 4), “spirit” (lines 6 and 15), “desires” (line 8), “precious” (line 9), “delight” (line 10), “ageless” (line 10), “pleasure” (line 12), “love” (line 13): (a) concrete/specific (b) slang (c) abstract/general (d) formal or high level of usage

22. The kind of words referred to in the immediately preceding question helps the poem’s dimension of the: (a) satirical (b) philosophical (c) historical (d) scientific

23. Imagery (see Ch. 16/”Imagery” in RJ7) connecting the first and second stanzas of the poem includes all of the following kinds except which one: (a) physiological (b) brightness (c) temporal (d) botanical (e) mechanical

24. The speaker’s word “traffic” (line 14) helps connote (review “connotation” in Ch. 14/”Words” of RJ7, as well as in the chapter on word choice in the English composition handbook) which time period: (a) ancient (b) medieval (c) Renaissance (d) eighteenth-nineteenth century (e) twentieth century

25. The speaker’s word “traffic” (line 14) evokes all of the following kinds of imagery (see Ch. 16/”Imagery” in RJ7) except which one: (a) tactile (b) visual (c) auditory (d) olfactory (e) kinetic