V
ARIANT
14.
F
INAL
A
SSIGNMENT ON
T
HE
I
NTRODUCTION TO
L
ITERARY
T
HEORY
1. How do you understand the word “composition”?
2. What points should be considered while analyzing a literary text?
3. Read the poem “Magnolias in Snow” carefully before you begin to answer the questions.
Snow alters and elaborates perspectives,
confuses South with North and would deceive
me into what egregious error
but for these trees that keep their summer green
and like a certain hue of speech mean South.
Magnolias stand for South, as every copy-
reader knows, and snow means North to me,
means home and friends I walked with under boughs
of hemlock when the cold of winter
was a carilloneur that played in china bells.
But still, snow-shine upon magnolia leaves
that wither into shapes of abstract sculpture
when brought inside for garnishment,
does compensate for things I must forego
if I would safely walk beneath these trees:
These dazzleclustered trees that stand in heaped
and startling ornaments of snow, a baroque
surprise. O South, how beautiful is change.
1. The phrase “as every copyreader knows” (lines 6–7)
is used to signify that
A. southerners follow the reading tastes of the North
B. newspapers determine our ideas of places
C. the South is more imitative than the North
D. the idea is a commonplace
E. newsmen are well-read
2. The metaphor of lines 9–10 compares
A. wintertime and white flowers
B. the cold of winter and a bell-ringer
C. the cold of winter and icicles
D. snow-covered trees and a jazz musician
E. the tinkle of ice and Asian music
3. In the third stanza, the speaker finds consolation for
his loss in A. the safety of the natural world
B. the idea of returning to the North
C. the beauty of the natural world
D. the hope of change in the future
E. the excitement of taking risks
4. In line 14, the “things I must forego” refers to
A. the speaker’s northern friends
B. the events of the speaker’s future
C. the differences between North and South
D. the threats he faces in the South
E. the dangers of northern cities
5. Which of the following would best clarify the
syntax of lines 16–18?
A. adding a hyphen to “dazzleclustered”
B. revising “stand in heaped” to read “stand heaped in”
C. changing “stand” to “standing”
D. replacing the comma after “snow” with the verb
“are”
E. adding a comma after “baroque”
Compiled by: ______________ R. Akhmedov
A
PPROVED BY
_______________
B.
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ULTANOV
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NGLISH LANGUAGE AND
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V
ARIANT
15.
F
INAL
A
SSIGNMENT ON
T
HE
I
NTRODUCTION TO
L
ITERARY
T
HEORY
1. What is included into the composition of a literary work?
2. How do genre properties of a literary text influence the process of literary analysis?
3. Read the poem “Magnolias in Snow” carefully before you begin to answer the questions.
Snow alters and elaborates perspectives,
confuses South with North and would deceive
me into what egregious error
but for these trees that keep their summer green
and like a certain hue of speech mean South.
Magnolias stand for South, as every copy-
reader knows, and snow means North to me,
means home and friends I walked with under boughs
of hemlock when the cold of winter
was a carilloneur that played in china bells.
But still, snow-shine upon magnolia leaves
that wither into shapes of abstract sculpture
when brought inside for garnishment,
does compensate for things I must forego
if I would safely walk beneath these trees:
These dazzleclustered trees that stand in heaped
and startling ornaments of snow, a baroque
surprise. O South, how beautiful is change.
1. In line 17, “baroque” can be best defined as
A. irregular and bizarre
B. artistic and beautiful
C. singular and unique
D. musical and melodic
E. foreign and curious
2. The poem uses the surprise of the snowfall to argue
that
A. all of America is in need of change
B. nature is more unpredictable than man
C. a different South would be better
D. all natural events are beautiful
E. greater love of nature can lead to greater love
among men
3. The poem takes place in
A. the library of a southern university
B. winter in the American south
C. an unspecified location
D. winter in the American north
E. March in New England
4. The simile in the first stanza compares
A. magnolias and the Southern accent
B. snow and a painter
C. snow and a deceitful person
D. South and North
E. trees in summer and magnolias
5. Which of the following would best clarify the
syntax of lines 16–18?
A. adding a hyphen to “dazzleclustered”
B. revising “stand in heaped” to read “stand heaped in”
C. changing “stand” to “standing”
D. replacing the comma after “snow” with the verb
“are”
E. adding a comma after “baroque”
Compiled by: ______________ R. Akhmedov
A
PPROVED BY
_______________
B.
S
ULTANOV
M
INUTES
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OF THE MEETING
OF THE
E
NGLISH LANGUAGE AND
LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
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2019
V
ARIANT
16.
F
INAL
A
SSIGNMENT ON
T
HE
I
NTRODUCTION TO
L
ITERARY
T
HEORY
1. What is the theme of a literary work?
2. What is the meaning of the term “literary process”?
3. Read the passage from “A Visit to America” carefully before you begin to answer the questions.
Across the USA, from New York to California and back, glazed, again, for many months of the year, there streams
and sings for its heady supper a dazed and prejudiced procession of European lecturers, scholars, sociologists,
economists, writers, authorities on this and that and even, in theory, on the USA. And, breathlessly between addresses
and receptions, in planes, and trains and boiling hotel bedroom ovens, many of these attempt to keep journals and
diaries. At first, confused and shocked by shameless profusion and almost shamed by generosity, unaccustomed to such
importance as they are assumed, by their hosts, to possess, and up against the barrier of a common language, they write
in their note-books like demons, generalizing away, on character and culture and the American political scene. But
towards the middle of their middle-aged whisk through middle-western clubs and universities, the fury of their writing
flags; their spirits are lowered by the spirit they are everywhere strongly greeted with and which in ever-increasing
doses, they themselves lower; and they begin to mistrust themselves and their reputations - for they have found, too
often, that an audience will receive a lantern lecture on, say, ceramics, with the same uninhibited enthusiasm that it
accorded the very week before to a paper on the Modern Turkish novel. And, in their diaries, more and more do such
entries appear as “No way of escape!” or “Buffalo!” or “I am beaten,” until at last they cannot write a word. And
twittering all over, old before their time, with eyes like rissoles in the sand, they are helped up the gang-way of the
home-bound liner by kind bosom friends (of all kinds and bosoms) who bolster them on the back, pick them up again,
thrust bottles, sonnets, cigars, addresses into their pockets, have a farewell party in their cabin, pick them up again, and
snickering and yelping, are gone: to wait at the dockside for another boat from Europe and another batch of fresh green
lecturers. There they go, every spring, from New York to Los Angeles: exhibitionists, polemicists, histrionic publicists,
theological rhetoricians, historical hoddy-doddies, balletomanes, ulterior decorators, windbags and bigwigs and
humbugs, men in love with stamps, men in love with steaks, men after millionaires’ widows, men with elephantiasis of
the reputation (huge trunks and teeny minds), authorities on gas, bishops, bestsellers, editors looking for writers, writers
looking for publishers, publishers looking for dollars, existentialists, serious physicists with nuclear missions, men from
the B.B.C. who speak as though they had the Elgin Marbles in their mouths, potboiling philosophers, professional
Irishmen (very lepricorny), and I am afraid, fat poets with slim volumes.
1. The primary purpose of the passage is to
A. describe an American phenomenon comically
B. contrast the characters of Europeans and Americans
C. depict a situation with an eye to correcting it
D. comment on a mistaken popular assumption
E. satirize the European intellectual
2. The phrase “shameless profusion” probably refers to
America’s
A. immodest profession
B. immoral behavior
C. ignorant boasting
D. material abundance
E. unchallenged excellence
3. The phrase “the barrier of a common language” is a
reference to
A. failure of people to communicate successfully
B. American failure to understand European culture
C. differences between American and British English
D. differences between American and British accents
E. impenetrable jargon of the scientist and the social
scientist
4. In the lines 9-10 the words “spirits,” “lowered,”
“spirit,” and “lower” can be best understood to mean
A. feelings... depressed... ghost... threaten
B. attitudes... let down... liquor... reduce
C. feelings... decreased... feeling... stare gloomily
D. attitudes... reduced... liveliness... sink
E. frames of mind... depressed... enthusiasm... consume
5. The European lecturers begin to lose confidence in
themselves because
A. they fear the American audiences may not
understand their topics
B. the Americans are indiscriminately enthusiastic
C. the Americans are chiefly interested in odd subjects
like the Turkish novel
D. the American audiences are severe and captious
E. they know that their reputations are undeserved, and
fear discovery
Compiled by: ______________ R. Akhmedov
A
PPROVED BY
_______________
B.
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ULTANOV
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INUTES
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OF THE MEETING
OF THE
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NGLISH LANGUAGE AND
LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
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2019
V
ARIANT
17.
F
INAL
A
SSIGNMENT ON
T
HE
I
NTRODUCTION TO
L
ITERARY
T
HEORY
1. What is the idea of a literary work?
2. What are “literary relations” and “interactions”?
3. Read the passage from “A Visit to America” carefully before you begin to answer the questions.
Across the USA, from New York to California and back, glazed, again, for many months of the year, there streams
and sings for its heady supper a dazed and prejudiced procession of European lecturers, scholars, sociologists,
economists, writers, authorities on this and that and even, in theory, on the USA. And, breathlessly between addresses
and receptions, in planes, and trains and boiling hotel bedroom ovens, many of these attempt to keep journals and
diaries. At first, confused and shocked by shameless profusion and almost shamed by generosity, unaccustomed to such
importance as they are assumed, by their hosts, to possess, and up against the barrier of a common language, they write
in their note-books like demons, generalizing away, on character and culture and the American political scene. But
towards the middle of their middle-aged whisk through middle-western clubs and universities, the fury of their writing
flags; their spirits are lowered by the spirit they are everywhere strongly greeted with and which in ever-increasing
doses, they themselves lower; and they begin to mistrust themselves and their reputations - for they have found, too
often, that an audience will receive a lantern lecture on, say, ceramics, with the same uninhibited enthusiasm that it
accorded the very week before to a paper on the Modern Turkish novel. And, in their diaries, more and more do such
entries appear as “No way of escape!” or “Buffalo!” or “I am beaten,” until at last they cannot write a word. And
twittering all over, old before their time, with eyes like rissoles in the sand, they are helped up the gang-way of the
home-bound liner by kind bosom friends (of all kinds and bosoms) who bolster them on the back, pick them up again,
thrust bottles, sonnets, cigars, addresses into their pockets, have a farewell party in their cabin, pick them up again, and
snickering and yelping, are gone: to wait at the dockside for another boat from Europe and another batch of fresh green
lecturers. There they go, every spring, from New York to Los Angeles: exhibitionists, polemicists, histrionic publicists,
theological rhetoricians, historical hoddy-doddies, balletomanes, ulterior decorators, windbags and bigwigs and
humbugs, men in love with stamps, men in love with steaks, men after millionaires’ widows, men with elephantiasis of
the reputation (huge trunks and teeny minds), authorities on gas, bishops, bestsellers, editors looking for writers, writers
looking for publishers, publishers looking for dollars, existentialists, serious physicists with nuclear missions, men from
the B.B.C. who speak as though they had the Elgin Marbles in their mouths, potboiling philosophers, professional
Irishmen (very lepricorny), and I am afraid, fat poets with slim volumes.
1. The first paragraph presents the typical visiting lecturer as
progressing from
A. modesty to adulation to self-importance
B. enthusiasm to self-doubt to despair.
C. fear to enjoyment to exhaustion
D. expectation to disappointment to stupor
E. snobbery to uncertainty to acceptance
2. The passage presents the American lecture audiences as all
the following EXCEPT
A. opportunistic
B. cordial
C. enthusiastic
D. generous
E. adulatory
3. The series “exhibitionists, polemicists, histrionic
publicists, theological rhetoricians, historical hoddy-doddies,
balletomanes” includes
A. a deliberately puzzling paradox
B. a circumlocution for “experts”
C. an authorial aside
D. a shift in the level of diction
E. an understatement
4. The author probably uses the phrase “nuclear missions” in
order to
A. demonstrate the wide range of lecture topics
B. remind the reader of the potential seriousness of scientific
studies
C. mock the large number of European physicists lecturing in
America
D. satirize the American concern with science at the expense
of the arts
E. play on the similar phrase “nuclear fissions”
5. The phrase describing the “men from the B.B.C. who speak
as though they had the Elgin Marbles in their mouths” is
I. an allusion to a common description of a hoity-toity accent.
II. a play on two meanings of the word “marbles.”
III. a reference to the linguistic versatility of the Europeans.
A. I only
B. II only
C. I and II only
D. II and III only
E. I, II, and III
Compiled by: ______________ R. Akhmedov
A
PPROVED BY
_______________
B.
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ULTANOV
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INUTES
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OF THE
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NGLISH LANGUAGE AND
LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
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2019
V
ARIANT
18.
F
INAL
A
SSIGNMENT ON
T
HE
I
NTRODUCTION TO
L
ITERARY
T
HEORY
1. What is the plot of a literary work?
2. What is the object of literary relations and influence?
3. Read the passage from “A Visit to America” carefully before you begin to answer the questions.
Across the USA, from New York to California and back, glazed, again, for many months of the year, there streams
and sings for its heady supper a dazed and prejudiced procession of European lecturers, scholars, sociologists,
economists, writers, authorities on this and that and even, in theory, on the USA. And, breathlessly between addresses
and receptions, in planes, and trains and boiling hotel bedroom ovens, many of these attempt to keep journals and
diaries. At first, confused and shocked by shameless profusion and almost shamed by generosity, unaccustomed to such
importance as they are assumed, by their hosts, to possess, and up against the barrier of a common language, they write
in their note-books like demons, generalizing away, on character and culture and the American political scene. But
towards the middle of their middle-aged whisk through middle-western clubs and universities, the fury of their writing
flags; their spirits are lowered by the spirit they are everywhere strongly greeted with and which in ever-increasing
doses, they themselves lower; and they begin to mistrust themselves and their reputations - for they have found, too
often, that an audience will receive a lantern lecture on, say, ceramics, with the same uninhibited enthusiasm that it
accorded the very week before to a paper on the Modern Turkish novel. And, in their diaries, more and more do such
entries appear as “No way of escape!” or “Buffalo!” or “I am beaten,” until at last they cannot write a word. And
twittering all over, old before their time, with eyes like rissoles in the sand, they are helped up the gang-way of the
home-bound liner by kind bosom friends (of all kinds and bosoms) who bolster them on the back, pick them up again,
thrust bottles, sonnets, cigars, addresses into their pockets, have a farewell party in their cabin, pick them up again, and
snickering and yelping, are gone: to wait at the dockside for another boat from Europe and another batch of fresh green
lecturers. There they go, every spring, from New York to Los Angeles: exhibitionists, polemicists, histrionic publicists,
theological rhetoricians, historical hoddy-doddies, balletomanes, ulterior decorators, windbags and bigwigs and
humbugs, men in love with stamps, men in love with steaks, men after millionaires’ widows, men with elephantiasis of
the reputation (huge trunks and teeny minds), authorities on gas, bishops, bestsellers, editors looking for writers, writers
looking for publishers, publishers looking for dollars, existentialists, serious physicists with nuclear missions, men from
the B.B.C. who speak as though they had the Elgin Marbles in their mouths, potboiling philosophers, professional
Irishmen (very lepricorny), and I am afraid, fat poets with slim volumes.
1. The parenthetic “very lepricorny” is all of the
following EXCEPT
A. a pun
B. an invented comic word
C. a reference to a common Irish myth
D. a satiric comment on commercial professional
Irishness
E. a euphemism to refer to the Irish
2. From the style and the closing words (“I am afraid,
fat poets with slim volumes”) of the passage, we can
infer that the speaker
A. is apologetic about the contents of this prose.
B. is aware of the disparity between what is expected of
the lecturers and what they present.
C. is a poet who is fat.
D. is eager to cash in on American wealth.
E. is disgusted by the greed of the lecturers.
3. All the following phrases suggest the speaker’s
reservations about the European lecturers EXCEPT
A. “a dazed and prejudiced procession”
B. “such importance as they are assumed, by their hosts,
to possess”
C. “Buffalo!”
D. “ulterior decorators”
E. “windbags and bigwigs and humbugs”
4. The passage employs all the following devices
usually associated with poetry rather than with prose
EXCEPT
A. internal rhyme
B. alliteration
C. simile
D. iambic pentameter
E. consonance
5. The primary purpose of the passage is to
A. describe an American phenomenon comically
B. contrast the characters of Europeans and Americans
C. depict a situation with an eye to correcting it
D. comment on a mistaken popular assumption
E. satirize the European intellectual
Compiled by: ______________ R. Akhmedov
A
PPROVED BY
_______________
B.
S
ULTANOV
M
INUTES
#
____
OF THE MEETING
OF THE
E
NGLISH LANGUAGE AND
LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
«____»
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2019
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