Dr. Prinsky

English 1102

Quiz on Ch. 18/"Tone: The Creation of Attitude in Poetry," of RJ7

1. In Chapter 18, Roberts and Jacobs explain that tone is attitudes in the poem and poetry (and the same for fiction writers in works of fiction) that the poet: (a) creates and deflects (b) ignores or hinders (c) admires but belittles (d) expresses and controls

2. In Ch. 18, Roberts and Jacobs explain that in tone a crucial relationship is not only between the poet and reader but also between the poet and the: (a) speaker (b) author (c) society (d) genre

3. In Ch. 18, Roberts and Jacobs analyze the tone and themes of the painting: (a) Pabo Picasso’s Guernica (b) James A. Whistler’s The Little White Girl (or Symphony in White, No. 2) (c) Pieter Brueghel’s Peasant Dance (d) Fernand Leger's The City

4. Roberts and Jacobs explain that the painting they analyze, referred to in the immediately preceding question, has a tone that is: (a) angry (b) joyous (c) sinister (d) thoughtful

5. Key elements in the painting referred to in question #3, above, are all the following except which one: (a) steps (b) cars (c) towers (d) truncated human figures (e) truncated letters

6. One of the recurrent elements of the painting (#3 above) as noted in question #5, suggests that people move to cities, or think of cities as places, to: (a) move up (b) kick back (c) tread lightly (d) roll over (e) dive in

7. A key stylistic device of the painting (#3 above), noted by Roberts and Jacobs, suggests that urban life is: (a) enlightening (b) fragmented (c) drab (d) controlled

8. Roberts and Jacobs present Cornelius Whur's "The First-Rate Wife" as an example of a poem with a tone that is: (a) unconsciously offensive (b) lovingly warm (c) sexually explicit (d) spoken by a woman

9. In Whur's "The First-Rate Wife," the noun effusion (line 1) means: (a) blending (b) swearing (c) muddying (d) outpouring

10. In Whur's "The First-Rate Wife," the verb indite (line 1) means: (a) compose a poem (b) charge with a crime (c) point something out (d) blow a kiss

11. In Whur's "The First-Rate Wife," the noun mien (line 6) means: (a) tendency toward viciousness (b) miserliness with money (c) face or facial expression (d) egotistical self concern

On Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est”

12. As Roberts and Jacobs explain, Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" has a tone that is mainly: (a) condescending and superior (b) enthusiastic and stirring (c) bitter and ironic (d) calm and objective

13. On the basis of the subject matter or content of events during combat versus events after combat, the poem is organized or structured: (a) stanza 1 (lines 1-8) vs. stanzas 2-4 (b) stanzas 1-2 vs. stanzas 3-4 (c) stanza 3 vs. stanzas 1, 2, and 4 (d) stanzas 1 & 4 vs. stanzas 2-3

14. Based on the speaker’s actual experience, the speaker’s reference to a particular age group in the last four lines of the poem, and the tone of voice in which the speaker addresses the “you” (stanza 4; lines 17, 21, and 25), the “you” addressed by the speaker is almost certainly: (a) an older man, not a combat veteran (b) a young friend of the speaker (c) the speaker’s squad leader (d) a woman, having the female perspective

15. The brevity of stanza 3 (“In all my . . . “) helps convey or suggest: (a) the short life of the speaker (b) the lack of equipment of the speaker and other soldiers (c) public support for the speaker’s army (d) the impact of the event on the speaker’s dreams

16. In Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est," the word shod in "But limped on, blood-shod"(line 7) means: (a) provided with shoes (b) timid around people (c) proud because of ancestry (d) injured not too badly

17. In Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est," the word floundering (line 12) means: (a) catching fish (b) arrogantly showing off (c) struggling clumsily (d) establishing a basis

18. In Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est," the word writhing (line 18) means: (a) recording in print (b) enclosing in cloth (c) overturning an injustice (d) twisting in pain

19. In Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est," the adjective ardent (line 26) means: (a) heavily forested (b) intensely devoted (c) sharply fanged (c) carefuly painted

20. The figure of speech describing the soldiers in lines 1-2 of Owen’s poem is: (a) metaphor (b) simile (c) personification (d) understatement (e) apostrophe

21. The figure of speech referred to in the immediately preceding question suggests that the young soldiers have been all the following except which one: (a) brought to greater determination (b) turned old before their time (c) physically injured (d) exhausted (e) made prone to illness

22. The peculiar typography of the second word of line 9 (“Gas . . . fumbling”) catches the tones of all the following except which one: (a) change from intense to even more intense (b) sudden comprehension of something not fully understood before (c) foreign influences in the war (d) alarm

23. The adjective describing the kind of dreams the speaker has (first line of stanza 4: “If in some . . . pace”), is the figure of speech: (a) metaphor (b) simile (c) paradox (d) understatement (e) apostrophe

24. The figure of speech referred to in the immediately preceding question helps suggest or convey or express the speaker’s: (a) solace in sleep (b) disturbance from Oedipal yearnings (see Sophocles’ Oedipus the King in Ch. 22/”The Tragic Vision,” especially lines 985-987) (c) inclination to the power of imagination shown in poetry (d) psychological and physical empathy with the fatally-injured soldier

25. The figure of speech used by the speaker to describe the dead soldier’s face in the second half of line 20 is: (a) metaphor (b) simile (c) paradox (d) understatement (e) apostrophe

26. The figure of speech referred to in the immediately preceding question helps convey or suggest that: (a) economic causes of war are as important as ideological ones (b) war is never justified (c) young soldiers lose their innocence in war (d) families and loved ones are as much casualties of war as actual members of the military

On Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Workbox”

27. As pointed out by Roberts and Jacobs, Thomas Hardy's poem "The Workbox" exemplifies: (a) comic paradox (b) tonal metaphors (c) situational irony (d) amorous hyperboles

28. In terms of simple plot (with reference to before and after the main surface action in Hardy’s poem), the two main parts of the poem can be seen as: (a) stanzas 1-2 vs. stanzas 3-10 (b) stanzas 1-4 vs. stanzas 5-10 (c) stanzas 1-5 vs. stanzas 6-10 (d) stanzas 1-6 vs. stanzas 7-10

29. The primary function of stanza 10 in relation to stanza 9 of the Hardy poem is to: (a) parallel (b) undercut (c) reinforce (d) augment

30. Basic subjects covered by Hardy’s poem include all the following except which one: (a) baseless husbandly jealousy (b) regrettable wifely concealment (c) potential consequences for jilted lovers (d) murder as a solution to getting along in life

31. In Hardy's "The Workbox," the word joiner (line 3) means: (a) carpenter (b) extrovert (c) unionizer (d) priest

32. In Hardy's "The Workbox," the word borough (line 4) means: (a) tunnel in the ground (b) urban community (c) request for use of something (d) breed of dog

33. In Hardy's "The Workbox," the word proferrer (line 7) means: (a) sex offender (b) moneymaker (c) giver (d) fisherman

34. In Hardy's "The Workbox," the word doom in the following lines — "'And while I worked it made me think/ Of timber's varied doom'"(lines 17-18) — means: (a) deadly ruination (b) ultimate outcome (c) world's end (d) decree of death

35. In Hardy's "The Workbox," the adjective wan (line 36) means: (a) extensively open (b) triumphantly successful (c) magically powerful (d) bluishly pale

36. The tones in the husband’s address of his spouse in Hardy’s poem as “little wife” (line 1) are all of the following except which one: (a) guilt because of infidelity (b) partly unwitting male condescension (c) husbandly affection (d) concern to protect

37. The ironies of the term used to designate the husband’s profession in Hardy’s poem are all of the following except which one: (a) the wife will never be able to get rid of the workbox on the basis of its not being made well (b) a wedge has been driven between husband and wife (c) neither husband nor wife enjoys social gatherings (d) a romantic relationship has been severed in the past

38. The tones of the wife’s response (stanza 7) to her husband’s question (stanza 6) could be characterized as all the following except which one: (a) irritated (b) submissive (c) evasive (d) complaining (e) defensive

Other chapter material

39. Roberts and Jacobs note that the verbal irony in E.E. Cummings' poem "she being Brand/ -new" helps suggest that the poem is not only about a new car but about: (a) sex (b) capitalism (c) deceit (d) politics

40. Roberts and Jacobs note and illustrate that the poetry of Alexander Pope exemplifies the genre and tone of: (a) sonnet (b) elegy (c) satire (d) ballad

41. As indicated both in the poem as well as Roberts' and Jacobs' comments and the sample or demo essay on it, Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B" is basically: (a) an expository essay analyzing poetry of the 1920's (b) a book review of a novel (c) a mini research paper (d) an autobiographical essay, almost like a letter to the teacher

42. As indicated both in the poem as well as Roberts' and Jacobs' comments and the sample or demo essay on it, Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B” has all the following tones (as expressed by the speaker) except which one: (a) daring (b) scornful (c) confident (d) objective (e) intelligent

43. The speaker of Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B” is, relative to the author of the poem: (a) older in physical age but younger in mental age (b) much older (c) about the same age (d) much younger