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1. What is exposition?
2. What is the role of literary relations in developing literatures?
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
Thomas Hardy, “Nobody Comes”
Tree-leaves labour up and down,
And through them the fainting light
Succumbs to the crawl of night.
Outside in the road the telegraph wire
To the town from the darkening land
Intones to travelers like a spectral lyre
Swept by a spectral hand.
A car comes up, with lamps full-glare,
That flash upon a tree:
It has nothing to do with me,
And whangs along in a world of its own,
Leaving a blacker air;
And mute by the gate I stand again alone,
And nobody pulls up there.
1. The first stanza contains all of the following devices
except
A) consonance
B) personification
C) masculine rhyme
D) simile
E) enjambment
2. What is “Swept by a spectral hand” (7)?
A) the darkening land
B) travelers
C) an instrument
D) the speaker
E) the town
3. In context, the word “spectral” (6, 7) most likely
means
A) mythical
B) invisible
C) shining
D) ghostly
E) loud
4. The purpose of the simile in line 6 is
A) to offer optimism in a dark situation
B) to emphasize the telegraph’s power by humanizing
it
C) to add a soothing tone to an otherwise ominous
mood
D) to present modern technology as otherworldly
E) to highlight the irony of the telegraph wire
5. The rhyme scheme of the poem is
A) abab cdcd efef gg
B) aabbccddeeffggh
C) ababcdc ababcdc
D) abbcdcd effgege
E) abbcdcdc efeefeg
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HEORY
1. What is complication?
2. What do you understand by “historical-typological analogy”?
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
Thomas Hardy, “Nobody Comes”
Tree-leaves labour up and down,
And through them the fainting light
Succumbs to the crawl of night.
Outside in the road the telegraph wire
To the town from the darkening land
Intones to travelers like a spectral lyre
Swept by a spectral hand.
A car comes up, with lamps full-glare,
That flash upon a tree:
It has nothing to do with me,
And whangs along in a world of its own,
Leaving a blacker air;
And mute by the gate I stand again alone,
And nobody pulls up there.
1. The first line of both stanzas
I. ends in a word that is never rhymed
II. sets a scene
III. contains a steady meter
A) I only
B) I and II only
C) II and III only
D) II only
E) I, II, and III
2. The alliteration in line 11
A) contrasts with the consonance in line 13
B) does not match the content of line 11
C) emphasizes the speaker’s unity with the “world”
(11)
D) coincides with the alliteration in the previous line
E) has no bigger purpose
3. We can interpret that the “air” becomes “blacker”
(12) because of all of the following except
A) the speaker’s isolation has become more palpable
B) it mimics the speaker’s emotional state
C) the lights of the car have gone
D) it is later at night now
E) modern technology mars the natural environment
4. The overall tone of the poem is
A) self-pitying
B) eerie
C) nostalgic
D) irreverent
E) sardonic
5. The poem’s theme can be interpreted as
A) the natural environment is lonely
B) the natural world is omnipotent
C) isolation is a common state
D) the benefits of modern technology are dubious
E) technology is bad
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21.
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1. What is rising action?
2. Give information about the formation of the science studying international literary relations.
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
William Wordsworth, “The world is too much with us”
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The Winds that will be howling at all hours
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for every thing, we are out of tune;
It moves us not—Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
1. The first two lines contain an abundance of
A) couplets
B) internal rhyme
C) hyperbole
D) consonance
E) alliteration
2. The rhyme scheme of the poem is
A) aba aba aba aba
B) abbaabba cdcdcd
C) abab cdcd efef gg
D) abaabaabacdcdcd
E) abba abba abba cd
3. The phrase “sordid boon” (Line 4) is
A) a call for an end to industry
B) a sarcastic expletive that mocks our “hearts”
C) a paradox that deplores human nature
D) an oxymoron that points out the irony of society’s
advancement
E) a celebration of nature’s benefits
4. In context of the poem as a whole, we can infer that
the word “world” means
A) society
B) England
C) the man-made world
D) nature
E) people
5. The change in tone beginning in line 9 is best
explained as
A) a change from being wistful to willful
B) a change from regretful to remorseful
C) a change from scolding to lamenting
D) a change from being forlorn to bitter
E) a change from desperation to optimism
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NTRODUCTION TO
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HEORY
1. What is crisis?
2. What can you tell us about the main preconditions of comparative study of literatures of different countries?
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
William Wordsworth, “The world is too much with us”
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The Winds that will be howling at all hours
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for every thing, we are out of tune;
It moves us not—Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
1. The metaphor in line 10 compares
A) a religion to a mother’s breast
B) Paganism to an outdated belief system
C) beliefs to mothers
D) religion to breast milk
E) Pagans to mothers
2. The poem’s structure, style, and content are most
like those of
A) a lampoon
B) a lyric
C) a Spenserian sonnet
D) a Petrarchan sonnet
E) an Elizabethan sonnet
3. The allusions in lines 13–14 illustrate
A) the speaker’s sanguinity
B) the speaker’s predicament
C) the speaker’s fantasy
D) the speaker’s knowledge
E) the speaker’s solution
4. Personification is evident in which of the following
lines?
A) line 14
B) line 5
C) line 6
D) line 8
E) line 13
5. The theme of the poem as a whole can best be stated
as
A) nature is better than technology
B) the natural world has more to offer than people
C) the natural world is a panacea for our troubles
D) we should be reproached for having immersed
ourselves in industry and lost touch with the natural
world
E) we can forget our sins by personifying nature as
godlike
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NTRODUCTION TO
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1. What is falling action?
2. What are the forms of literary contacts and interactions?
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
William Butler Yeats, “That the Night Come”
She lived in storm and strife.
Her soul had such desire
For what proud death may bring
That it could not endure
The common good of life,
But lived as ’twere a king
That packed his marriage day
With banneret and pennon,
Trumpet and kettledrum,
And the outrageous cannon,
To bundle Time away
That the night come.
1. When measured, the beat and meter of lines 1–5 is
called
A) trochaic pentameter
B) iambic trimeter
C) trochaic tetrameter
D) iambic tetrameter
E) iambic pentameter
2. The variation in beat is most evident in which line?
A) line 12
B) line 10
C) line 7
D) line 8
E) line 6
3. Lines 1–4 contain which of the following devices?
A) slant and exact rhyme
B) assonance and consonance
C) alliteration and personification
D) polysyndeton and asyndeton
E) oxymoron and chiasmus
4. The word “it” in line 4 refers to
A) “death”
B) “Her”
C) “soul”
D) “desire”
E) “She”
5. The main difference emphasized in the poem
between “Her” and the “king” is
A) their gender
B) their way of living
C) the object of their desire
D) their attitude
E) their class status
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1. What is resolution?
2. Speak on methodological bases of literary theory.
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
William Butler Yeats, “That the Night Come”
She lived in storm and strife.
Her soul had such desire
For what proud death may bring
That it could not endure
The common good of life,
But lived as ’twere a king
That packed his marriage day
With banneret and pennon,
Trumpet and kettledrum,
And the outrageous cannon,
To bundle Time away
That the night come.
1. In context, the words “banneret and pennon” most
likely mean
A) men and women
B) food and beverage
C) wedding decorations
D) ammunition
E) types of fanfare
2. The use of multiple conjunctions in lines 8–10 is a
device called
A) asyndeton
B) polysyndeton
C) caesura
D) epistrophe
E) run-on sentence
3. The words “night come” (Line 12) contain what
type of beat?
A) anapestic
B) dactylic
C) iambic
D) trochaic
E) spondaic
4. The simile in line 6 reveals
A) the king’s superiority to the woman
B) the king’s love for his wife
C) the woman’s anticipation of her wedding night
D) the woman’s regret that she did not marry
E) the woman’s excitement about death
5. The phrase “To bundle Time away” (Line 11)
means
A) to pass time
B) to protect time
C) to waste time
D) to save time
E) to ignore time
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1. Give definition to the word “literature”.
2. Who are protagonist and antagonist of a literary work?
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
Emily Dickinson, “Success is counted sweetest . . .”
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear!
1. The alliteration in the first stanza serves to
A) soothe the reader
B) highlight the envious tone
C) complement the assonance in the first stanza
D) contrast the consonance in the second stanza
E) emphasize the appeal of success by creating an
appealing sound
2. The rhythm and beat of the poem as a whole can
best be described as consisting of
A) three to four feet of iambs
B) iambic pentameter
C) iambic trimeter
D) three to four feet of trochees
E) trochaic tetrameter
3. Line 5 is an example of what type of measured beat?
A) iambic tetrameter
B) iambic trimeter
C) trochaic tetrameter
D) iambic pentameter
E) trochaic trimeter
4. The poem’s language can be described as consisting
of all of the following except
A) aphorisms
B) homilies
C) epigrams
D) axioms
E) chiasmus
5. The poem’s rhyme scheme is
A) abcb defe ghih
B) abab abab abab
C) abcb abcb abcb
D) abcd efgh ijkl
E) aabb ccdd eeff
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1. What is the role of setting in a literary work?
2. What are the actual problems of comparative theory of present time?
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
Emily Dickinson, “Success is counted sweetest . . .”
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear!
1. The word “comprehend” in line 3 most likely means
A) to eat
B) to figure out
C) to determine
D) to analyze
E) to truly know
2. The words “day” (Line 6) and “victory” (Line 8)
provide an example of
A) feminine rhyme
B) slant rhyme
C) double entendre
D) oxymoron
E) antithesis
3. The structure of the poem consists of
A) a hypothesis, reasoning, and a solution
B) a proposition and evidence
C) one axiomatic sentence and two sentences with
images demonstrating the axiom
D) a theory and examples
E) a question answered by hypothetical situations
4. The overall tone of the poem is
A) pedantic
B) didactic
C) moralistic
D) adagelike
E) envious
5. The poem can be summarized by which of the
following sentences?
A) Only those who have achieved success understand
its sweetness.
B) Success comes only to those who risk and
persevere.
C) Success is best won through hard work.
D) Only those who have not achieved success
understand its sweetness.
E) The victory is always better off.
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