Dr. Norman Prinsky

English 1102 - Augusta State University

First Quiz on Ch. 16/”Imagery” of RJ8

Chapter Material

1. Roberts and Jacobs in the beginning of the chapter stress the connection between imagery and the: (a) poet's psychology (b) reader's imagination (c) scientific accuracy of poetry's reflection of the real world (d) qualitative difference between poetry and prose

2. Roberts and Jacobs point out in the beginning of the chapter that imagery helps, regarding poets' ideas, to: (a) authenticate them (b) soften them (c) make them seem pleasingly strange (d) decorate them

3. Roberts and Jacobs note that the imagery in the painting they discuss near the beginning of the chapter helps convey its: (a) heroism (b) sadness (c) maturity (d) hope

4. Besides visual imagery, perhaps the most recurrent kind of imagery symbolically conveying the plight of the family (as suggested by the details and Prinsky’s study questions) in the painting is: (a) auditory (b) olfactory (c) tactile (d) gustatory

5. The birds in the sky, as related to the adults in the painting, represent both in imagery and in theme: (a) a parallel (b) a contrast (c) both a parallel and a contrast (d) neither a parallel or contrast

6. What the man in the painting is leaning against, and the bushes lining the road on the side where the family is, help convey the imagery and symbolism of: (a) hemming in (b) veering off (c) opening out (d) reaching up

7. Because of the picture plane as well as proportion in the painting (how much space, how big), greatest emphasis is placed on: (a) the tools (b) the bushes (c) the children (d) the road

8. Roberts and Jacobs discuss how many main kinds of imagery in the chapter: (a) three (b) four (c) five (d) six

John Masefield’s Poem “Cargoes”

9. The word galleon (line 6) in John Masefield's "Cargoes" means: (a) unit of liquid measure (b) very large ship (c) type of aristocrat (d) a fallen woman

10. The word isthmus (line 6) in Masefield's "Cargoes" means: (a) holiday season in South America (b) strip of land connecting two larger land masses (c) relating to Italy (d) proposed route of a journey

11. The word Channel (line 12) in Masefield's "Cargoes" refers to: (a) England (b) Germany (c) Palestine (d) Panama (e) America

12. As implied by R&J’s early comments and study questions on John Masefield's "Cargoes," the poem uses imagery to contrast: (a) the burden of a person's past with the carefree present (b) romantic early eras and modern ugly commercial society (c) animosities and love affairs (d) male and female

13. As pointed out by R&J’s study questions and other assigned reading material, the poem's organization or structure, partly conveyed by the poem's imagery, is a division of its three five-line stanzas into the units of: (a) each stanza completely independent (b) first stanza versus combined second and third stanzas (c) second stanza versus combined first and third stanzas (d) third stanza versus combined first and second stanzas

14. From study of the poem, as well as Roberts and Jacobs’s study questions about it, and the chapter material, Masefield's "Cargoes" makes vivid, thematic use of which of the following kinds of imagery: (a) visual (b) olfactory (c) auditory (d) all of the foregoing

15. From study of the poem, as well as Roberts and Jacobs’s study questions about it, and the chapter material, Masefield's "Cargoes" makes vivid, thematic use of which of the following kinds of imagery: (a) gustatory (b) tactile (c) kinetic (d) all of the foregoing

16. As pointed out by the early questions on John Masefield's "Cargoes," one grammatical peculiarity of the poem is its expressive use of: (a) comma splices (b) sentence fragments (c) subject-verb agreement errors (d) faulty parallelism

17. As indicated or implied by Roberts and Jacobs’s early questions on John Masefield’s “Cargoes,” the grammatical element referred to in the immediately preceding question is caused by: (a) participles (b) infinitives (c) gerunds (d) intransitive verbs

18. The grammatical component referred to in the immediately preceding question helps impart to the poem what feature from movies or films: (a) zoom in (b) pan left (c) zoom out (d) freeze frame

19. As with the immediately preceding three questions, which refer to material in Ch. 14 (“Words”) of Roberts and Jacobs, what grammatical element (also drawing on word choice or grammar) is used for comparison-contrast notably in (a) lines 1, 6, and 11; (b) lines 2, 7, and 12; (c) lines 3-5, 8-10, and 13-15: (a) parallelism (b) repetition (c) chiasmus (d) inverted sentence

Wilfred Owen’s Poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth”

20. As indicated by the study questions in R & J (and Prinsky), Wilfred Owen's poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is divided by imagery into what parts: (a) 4-4-4-2 (b) 9-5 (c) 8-6 (d) 7-7 (e) 10-4

21. The parts of Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth" referred to above are also clearly set off by which literary component: (a) speaker (b) listener (c) setting (d) abstract vs. concrete diction

22. The kind of imagery that predominates in the first part of Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," as suggested not only internally but also by the placement of the poem in the chapter, is: (a) visual (b) auditory (c) olfactory (d) tactile (e) gustatory

23. A key to understanding many of the details of the poem, as well as how the poem works or proceeds, is the concept — relating to the feelings of the speaker about how the young men died — of: (a) substitution (b) elaboration (c) restitution (d) accommodation

24. The dates given for the life of the author of the poem suggest his serious involvement in: (a) Queen Victoria’s government (b) World War I (c) the Great Depression (d) World War II (e) the Korean War

25. Since the “youth” (title) who “die[d] as cattle” (line 1) were generally in their early twenties, the “boys” who “in their eyes” have the “shine” of “holy glimmers of good-byes” (lines 10-11) are probably: (a) the “youth” who died as cattle (b) the children of the youth who died as cattle (c) the younger brothers of the youth who died as cattle (d) all of the foregoing

26. Owen makes vivid use of which device from rhythm and meter and sound effects in lines 1-4: (a) caesura (b) alliteration (c) euphony (d) enjambment

27. The word orisons (line 4) in Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth" means: (a) prayers (b) distant sightlines (c) gifts (d) relatives

28. The word shrill (line 7) in Owen's poem means: (a) small animal (b) high-pitched (c) gently turning (d) intelligent

29. The word demented (line 7) in Owen's poem means: (a) anchored (b) fragrant (c) insane (d) cheapened

30. The word shires (line 8) in Owen's poem means: (a) noblemen (b) thin pieces (c) frights (d) counties

31. The word pallor (line 12) in Owen's poem means: (a) colorlessness (b) friendship (c) small room (d) seaman

32. The word pall (noun; line 12) in Owen's poem means: (a) close friend (b) coffin covering (c) kind of cigarette (d) water container