ENGL 216 quiz 4 solutions complete answers

ENGL 216 quiz 4 solutions complete answers 

 

In Heart of Darkness, his last words are “The Horror! The Horror!”:

 

"The Darkling Thrush" takes place at the end of a day, at the end of the year, at the end of a century.

 

In Heart of Darkness, what does Kurtz place around his home in the Congo?

 

"Call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or by any name you please – it is not a matter of any importance" is from which work?

 

In Heart of Darkness, Marlowe encounters _______ at the Outer Station:

 

This poem by Yeats contains an image of a gyre, symbolic of paradoxes of time and eternity, change and continuity, spirit and the body, life and art:

 

In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock believes the mermaids will sing to him.

 

In Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush," the bird is depicted as strong, healthy, and large.

 

In “Journey of the Magi,” the Magi have a hard and cold time finding Christ.

 

In “Church Going,” Larkin seems to suggest that belief in the unbelievable is preferable to no belief at all.

 

By the beginning of World War I, nearly half of the earth’s surface was under British domination.

 

The early twentieth century brought countless advances in technology, including:

 

The speaker in this poem is spiritually hungry:

 

In Heart of Darkness at the Outer Station, Marlowe sees chained natives.

 

In Heart of Darkness at the Central Station, a man tries to extinguish a fire with:

 

In Modern literature, writers embrace absolutes.

 

This poem by Yeats presents vividly the misery of old age.

 

“Journey of the Magi” does not embellish the biblical account of the Magi’s journey to find Christ.

 

Hardy’s point in “The Convergence of the Twain” is that it is human arrogance to think humans can subdue nature.

 

A Room of One's Own imagines that Shakespeare's equally talented sister:

 

Heart of Darkness is structure as a frame narrative (a story within a story):

 

The end of the nineteenth century is also known as:

 

In this work, the author contemplates and analyzes the dimensions of social space for women.

 

This poem is a reactionary poem in which the speaker reacts to a horrible war and the lie being told about it:

 

This work proposes that writing is a gendered space.

 

The links "In a solitude of the sea / Deep from human vanity, / And the Pride of Life that panned her, stilly couches she" are from what work?

 

This work focuses on the relationship between women and fiction.

 

"Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling, ' Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time" are lines from which poem?

 

A Room of One’s Own suggests that women writers need forerunners, for masterpieces are not solitary in nature.

 

Conrad pulls from personal experience in his writings.

 

"Dulce Et Decorum Est" means which of the following:

 

In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock is confident and self-assured.

 

Heart of Darkness contains psychological realism.

 

This poem is full of stumbling, fumbling, tired, hopeless, dying men depicting a ghastly scene of war and of a man drowning in poisonous gas.

 

In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock believes himself to be like Hamlet.

 

“Dulce Et Decorum Est” means:

 

“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” could be interpreted as a poem celebrating carpe diem.

 

This work suggests that to be effective, female writers must curb emotions and embrace a new (feminine) language:

 

In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock has measured out his life with coffee spoons.

 

"Dulce Et Decorum Est" describes a man's death from inhaling gas.

 

Layers of narration in Heart of Darkness can be viewed as a reflection of the Modern lack of absolutes.

 

In this poem by Auden, the speaker is at a museum contemplating pictures.

 

This poem is the keystone poem of Modern Period.

 

This work hypothesizes about Shakespeare’s genius sister who, because a woman, was unsuccessful and committed suicide.

 

A Room of One's Own imagines that Shakespeare had a gifted sister named:

 

In “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave” there is a conviction that upon death one goes to a happier place.

 

This author adamantly decrees, "It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare."

 

The third and fourth lines of this poem state, “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”:

 

Oscar Wilde can be seen as an early modern, a forerunner of the twentieth century's renovations of dramatic form.

 

This work states, “[F]or great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh”:

 

"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" can only be interpreted as a work about fighting death.

 

In "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" there is a perception that no one cares if one lives or dies.

 

In "Journey of the Magi," the Magi return home and are comfortable with their old ways of life.

 

This author posits "It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare":

 

This poem argues that men should fight death.

 

This work stresses the importance of money and a private room for women: 

 

Virginia Wolff describes this novel as "deformed and twisted" in comparison to Jane Austen: 

 

When reading Heart of Darkness, white/light always refers to 'good' and black/dark always refers to evil. 

 

In Heart of Darkness, Kurtz is faithful to the intended.

 

"The Darkling Thrush" takes place during which season? 

 

This poem by Yeats present vividly the misery of old age.