Dr. Norman Prinsky

English 1102 - Augusta State University

Quiz on Ch. 14/"Words: The Building Blocks of Poetry," RJ8


Directions: Same as for previous quizzes. References to Roberts and Jacobs may mean editorial material at the beginning of the chapter, comments on poems, questions on poems, or editorial material at the end of the chapter. For questions relating to grammar, don’t forget that your composition handbook is a resource.

1. As pointed out by Roberts and Jacobs, the words of the poem create the poem’s: (a) speaker (b) characters (c) setting (d) rhythm and meter (e) all of the foregoing

2. How words can have multiple meanings, and different meanings of the same word used by the writer, is exemplified by Roberts and Jacobs regarding the use of which word by Mercutio in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: (a) grave (b) house (c) fall (d) poem (e) tree


3. Mercutio’s (and Shakespeare’s) use of the word — and joke — referred to in the immediately preceding question depend on which action in Shakespeare’s poetic drama: (a) Mercutio has just been asked by Romeo to be best man at the wedding with Juliet (b) Mercutio has just been rejected by yet another potential sweetheart (c) Mercutio has just been fatally stabbed (d) Mercutio has just been enrolled in university studies by his father


4. As pointed out in Roberts and Jacobs, the technical name for word choice in English studies is: (a) lexicon (b) verbiage (c) diction (d) selection


5. According to Roberts and Jacobs, the words and images A.E. Housman uses--"three score years and ten" and "cherry . . . hung with bloom"--in his poem "Loveliest of Trees" illustrate word choice that is: (a) specific/concrete (b) general/abstract (c) formal/high (d) figurative/comparative


6. According to Roberts and Jacobs, the words and images Richard Eberhart uses--"infinite spaces" and "eternal truth"--in his poem "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment" illustrate word choice that is: (a) specific/concrete (b) general/abstract (c) formal/high (d) figurative/comparative


7. According to Roberts and Jacobs, the number of levels of usage is: (a) two (b) three (c) four (d) five


8. As pointed out by Roberts and Jacobs, the words such as “lexicographers” and “construed” in Robert Graves’ poem “The Naked and the Nude” are easily classifiable as: (a) high or formal level (b) middle or neutral level (c) low or informal level (d) dialect (e) jargon


9. As pointed out by Roberts and Jacobs more than once (though they don’t use the technical term), Graves’ poem “The Naked and the Nude” draws on a contrast in what other component of words: (a) antonyms (b) pronunciation (c) etymology (d) spelling


10. As pointed out by Roberts and Jacobs, the speaker’s use in Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Man He Killed” of words and phrases such as “many a nipperkin,” “thought he’d ‘list,” and “off-hand like” constitute which level of usage: (a) high or formal level (b) middle or neutral level (c) low or informal level (d) jargon


11. As indicated by Roberts’ and Jacobs’ discussion of “idiom,” one feature of the idiom of a language (which often gives non-native language-learners difficulty) is: (a) nouns (b) verbs (c) adjectives (d) conjunctions (e) prepositions


12. According to Roberts and Jacobs, the different words used in different areas of the country to refer to the metal object used to carry water, or to refer to soft drinks, illustrate the facet of word choice called: (a) idiom (b) dialect (c) slang (d) jargon


13. As pointed out by Roberts and Jacobs, the speaker in E.E. Cummings’ poem “Buffalo Bill’s Defunct” makes use of what kind of diction in the phrase “blue-eyed boy” in referring to Buffalo Bill, to help convey theme and meaning: (a) high or formal level (b) middle or neutral level (c) slang (d) dialect (e) jargon


14. According to Roberts and Jacobs, the phrases "gives me an A" and "I'm dropping out" from Linda Pastan's poem "Marks" illustrate the facet of word choice called: (a) idiom (b) dialect (c) slang (d) jargon


15. As pointed out in Roberts and Jacobs (as well as in the chapter on word choice in the composition handbook), a word's dictionary meaning is called: (a) denotation (b) connotation (c) genotype (d) sememe


16. Roberts and Jacobs cite in their discussion of the dictionary meaning of the word house how many different meanings of the word: (a) three (b) five (c) seven (d) ten


17. Roberts and Jacobs discuss a shift of meaning from centuries ago to today in the word describing "love" used in Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress": (a) "deep" (b) "vegetable" (c) "sweet" (d) "merry"


18. As pointed out in Roberts and Jacobs, a word's emotional, psychological, or social overtones are called its: (a) denotation (b) genotype (c) connotation (d) sememe


19. With reference to the subject of the immediately preceding question, Roberts and Jacobs discuss at some length the emotional, psychological, and psychological overtones in words used in what area of American life: (a) sports (b) advertising (c) politics (d) romance


20. According to Roberts and Jacobs, the technical term for word order and sentence structure in English studies is: (a) semantics (b) syntax (c) series (d) syllepsis


21. According to Roberts and Jacobs, the effect of Donne's variation of word order and sentence structure in the following example from "Holy Sonnet 14"--"Reason, Your viceroy in me, me should defend"--helps convey the theme of: (a) God's abstract justice (b) human beings' feeling of distance from the Lord (c) the personal aspect in relating to God (d) the apparent irrelevance of language in religious matters
 

22. As pointed out by Roberts and Jacobs, the lines from Donne's "Holy Sonnet 14" "for I,/ Except You enthrall me, never shall be free,/ Nor [shall I] ever [be] chaste, except You ravish me" embody the A-B-B-A pattern in word order and sentence structure called: (a) syzygy (b) chiasmus (c) apophasis (d) paronomasia

23. Roberts and Jacobs point out that the lines in E.A. Robinson's poem "Richard Cory" "So on we worked, and waited for the light,/ And went without the meat, and cursed the bread" illustrate the facet of word order and sentence structure: (a) complexity (b) ambiguity (c) comma splice (d) parallelism


24. Although not noted by Roberts and Jacobs, the phrase “So on we worked” in E.A. Robinson’s poem “Richard Cory” represents (with regard to word order and sentence structure): (a) regular word order (b) Latinate word order (c) inverted word order (d) Greek word order


25. The stylistic element referred to in the immediately preceding sentence helps convey or suggest: (a) the lengthiness of the word (b) the straightforwardness of the work (c) the easiness of the work (d) the joyousness of the work


26. In Robert Graves's poem "The Naked and the Nude," the word lexicographers means: (a) sea voyagers (b) dictionary makers (c) map designers (d) machinery repairmen


27. In Graves's poem "The Naked and the Nude," the word construed means: (a) fastened (b) built (c) verified (d) interpreted


28. In Graves's poem "The Naked and the Nude," the word dishabille means: (a) not trustworthy (b) partly dressed (c) without property (d) broken plates


29. With regard to whether a stanza refers to “the naked” or “the nude” or both “the naked” and “the nude” (this poem — especially some of its words — illustrates why English 1102 and Humanities are superior in subject matter to all your other courses on campus), the structure or organization of the poem is: (a) stanza 1 vs. stanzas 2-4 (two parts) (b) stanzas 1 and 4 vs. stanzas 2-3 (two main parts, or three parts, with the third part looping back to the first part) (c) stanza 2 vs. stanzas 1, 3, and 4 (two parts) (d) four separate stanzas (four parts)


30. Roberts and Jacobs note that word choice in Graves's poem "The Naked and the Nude" helps convey its theme of the contrast between: (a) truthful and deceitful (b) sexual and chaste (c) male and female (d) Christian culture and pagan culture


31. As pointed out by Roberts and Jacobs, a grammatical element that helps impart the philosophical depth or extent of Graves’s “The Naked and the Nude” is the: (a) infinitive (b) gerund (c) article (d) pronoun


32. In Graves’s “The Naked and the Nude,” the speaker’s use of polysyllabic or fancy words such as “lexicographers” and “construed” and “deficiency” (vs. “dictionary makers,” “understood,” and “lack”) [lines 2-4] helps convey or suggest, especially in context, with reference to dictionary makers: (a) satire (b) neutrality (c) praise (d) indifference


33. In William Blake's poem "The Lamb," the word mead (line 4) means: (a) paper (b) merit (c) meadow (d) wandering


34. In Blake's poem "The Lamb," the word vales (line 8) means: (a) coverings (b) low-lying geography (c) precious objects (d) bills of purchase


35. The clear organization or structure of William Blake's poem "The Lamb" is into the two parts (each stanza being one main part) of: (a) good and evil (b) human and animal (c) artificial and natural (d) question and answer (e) naked and nude


36. A good question that R & J ask about the poem in the study questions is who the speaker is: (a) lamb (b) God (c) adult (d) child


37. Roberts and Jacobs point out that lines in William Blake's poem "The Lamb" such as "Little Lamb, who made thee?/ Dost thou know who made thee? (lines 1-2) illustrate the facet of word order and sentence structure: (a) complexity (b) ambiguity (c) repetition (d) inversion


38. In Blake's poem "The Lamb," the length of the lines, the number of syllables of most of the words, and the sentence structure underlying most of the lines all point to which main aspect of childhood: (a) mischievousness (b) simplicity (c) neediness (d) perspicacity


39. 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


40. 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


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


42. 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


43. 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


44. 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)


45. As indicated in the illustrative essay on Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem "Richard Cory," diction or word choice is repeatedly used in the poem to: (a) elevate Cory (b) demean Cory (c) both elevate and demean Cory (d) none of the foregoing
 

46. As indicated in the illustrative essay on "Richard Cory," diction is used in the poem to bring out the meanings in "down" and "pavement" to suggest the adult general public's: (a) common sense (b) work ethic (c) sexual appetite (d) low status
 

47. As indicated in the illustrative essay on "Richard Cory," the surname of the title character may be derived from the famous English king: (a) Richard I ("the Lionhearted") (b) Richard II ("the Poetic") (c) Richard III ("the Bloody") (d) Richard IV ("the Corseted")
 

48. One possible meaning of the word "sole" (including its sound) not mentioned as possibly applicable in the illustrative essay on "Richard Cory" -- but would help explain the suicide -- is: (a) the undersurface of the foot (b) singular (c) soul (d) alone (e) a type of flatfish
 

49. As indicated in the illustrative essay on "Richard Cory," the word "favored" in "clean favored" means: (a) shaven (b) preferred (c) honored (d) all of the preceding
 

50. As indicated in the illustrative essay on "Richard Cory," as well as the chapter material, the word arrayed draws on what elements of word choice and figurative language to suggest or convey something about the title character (terms may be reviewed in the chapter and in "A Glossary of Important Literary Terms" at the back of the textbook): (a) low or colloquial level of usage, plus metaphor (b) high or formal level of usage, plus allusion (c) middle level of usage, plus simile (d) jargon, plus understatement