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NTRODUCTION TO
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1. What are the main types of characters?
2. What are the main features of the development of literature in Central Asia?
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
T. S. Eliot, “Morning at the Window”
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs.
1. In line 5, the “waves” are
A) so big they reach the speaker’s window
B) a metaphor for the fog that carries the images of
faces down below up to the speaker at his window
C) part of the poem’s bigger conceit that compares the
scene below to an ocean
D) part of a hypothetical situation thought up by the
speaker
E) a hallucination that characterizes the speaker as
depressed and delusional
2. The subject to which the word “tear” (Line 7) refers
is
A) a passer-by
B) the speaker
C) the brown waves
D) an aimless smile
E) damp souls
3. The words “fog . . . faces from” (Lines 5–6) are an
example of
A) consonance
B) repetition
C) anaphora
D) assonance
E) alliteration
4. The poem’s assonance
A) is found in the words “muddy skirts” (7) and
emphasizes the ugliness of the scene being described
B) is found in the words “faces from” (6) and creates
a soothing sound to ease the speaker’s discomfort
C) is found in the words “fog toss” (5) and creates a
feeling of upward movement to complement the
movement of the waves
D) is found in the words “brown waves” (5) and
emphasizes the disparity between ugliness and beauty
E) is found in the word “rattling” (1) and allows the
reader to hear what the speaker hears
5. Regarding the scene he is describing, the speaker is
A) removed and observant
B) obsessed and upset
C) optimistic
D) fatalistic
E) apathetic
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V
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28.
F
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SSIGNMENT ON
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NTRODUCTION TO
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HEORY
1. In what way are characters being created by the author?
2. What is a flat character?
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
T. S. Eliot, “Morning at the Window”
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs.
1. The people described in the poem are characterized
mostly as
A) ghostlike
B) penurious
C) starving
D) pathetic
E) grotesque
2. The speaker is differentiated from the people he
describes by
I. his wealth
II. his location
III. his actions
A) I only
B) I and II only
C) II only
D) II and III only
E) III only
3. The tone of the poem is developed through
I. diction
II. imagery
III. metaphor
A) I only
B) I and II only
C) II and III only
D) III only
E) I, II, and III
4. The subject to which the word “tear” (Line 7) refers
is
A) a passer-by
B) the speaker
C) the brown waves
D) an aimless smile
E) damp souls
5. The words “fog . . . faces from” (Lines 5–6) are an
example of
A) consonance
B) repetition
C) anaphora
D) assonance
E) alliteration
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V
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29.
F
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NTRODUCTION TO
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HEORY
1. What are basic techniques of characterization?
2. Give 5 sentences as examples of simile.
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
William Carlos Williams, “Contemporania”
The corner of a great rain
Steamy with the country
Has fallen upon my garden.
I go back and forth now
And the little leaves follow me
Talking of the great rain,
Of branches broken,
And the farmer’s curses!
But I go back and forth
In this corner of a garden
And the green shoots follow me
Praising the great rain.
We are not curst together,
The leaves and I,
Framing devices, flower devices
And other ways of peopling
The barren country.
Truly it was a very great rain
That makes the little leaves follow me.
1. The exclamation point in line 8 reveals
A) the speaker’s dismay
B) the leaves’ points of view
C) the farmer’s hatred
D) the greatness of the rain
E) the evil of the rain’s curse
2. When the speaker says, “The leaves and I, / Framing
devices, flower devices” (Line 15), he means
A) the leaves frame and he flowers
B) they are not curst
C) plants frame the land and flower the land
D) both he and the plants are part of the life cycle
E) both leaves and people liven up the barren land by
decorating it and by procreating
3. The speaker’s attitude toward the rain is similar to
A) a stargazer’s attitude toward the universe
B) an artist’s attitude toward his muse
C) an acolyte’s attitude toward his idol
D) a husband’s attitude toward his wife
E) a child’s attitude toward his favorite toy
4. The form and structure of the poem can best be
described as
A) a sonnet
B) a villanelle
C) a sestina
D) free verse
E) closed form
5. The poem contains all of the following devices
except
A) repetition
B) consonance
C) personification
D) assonance
E) alliteration
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V
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30.
F
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SSIGNMENT ON
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NTRODUCTION TO
L
ITERARY
T
HEORY
1. How do you understand the term “point of view”?
2. What is the difference between dynamic and static characters?
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
William Carlos Williams, “Contemporania”
The corner of a great rain
Steamy with the country
Has fallen upon my garden.
I go back and forth now
And the little leaves follow me
Talking of the great rain,
Of branches broken,
And the farmer’s curses!
But I go back and forth
In this corner of a garden
And the green shoots follow me
Praising the great rain.
We are not curst together,
The leaves and I,
Framing devices, flower devices
And other ways of peopling
The barren country.
Truly it was a very great rain
That makes the little leaves follow me.
1. The title suits the poem in that
A) the poetic techniques are novel and
groundbreaking
B) the speaker describes modernism
C) the poem includes details from contemporary life
D) the poem provides commentary on outdated modes
of living
E) the poem is an artifact recording a moment in time
2. The poem’s themes and style are most in line with
A) neoclassicism
B) postmodernism
C) realism
D) imagism
E) naturalism
3. The rain reminds the speaker of
I. his fertility
II. the life cycle
III. the similarities he shares with plants
A) I only
B) I and II only
C) II and III only
D) III only
E) I, II, and III
4. The last two lines of the poem
A) contain iambic pentameter
B) make up the envoy
C) communicate a theme
D) make up a couplet
E) make up a heroic couplet
5. A theme of the poem is
A) the harshness of nature
B) the speaker’s realization that he is united with
powerful nature
C) the greatness of the rain
D) the life cycle
E) the positive and negative effects of nature
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V
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31.
F
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SSIGNMENT ON
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NTRODUCTION TO
L
ITERARY
T
HEORY
1. What do you know about visual imagery?
2. Define basic characteristics of Lyric as a genre.
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
Rabindranath Tagore, “My Country Awake”
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action—
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
1. The use of the word “Where” at the start of several
clauses in the poem is a device known as
A) analogy
B) apostrophe
C) parallelism
D) epistrophe
E) anaphora
2. The poem as a whole is made up of what type of
sentence?
A) cumulative
B) compound-complex
C) periodic
D) compound
E) dependent
3. The words “head... held” (Line 1) and “desert...
dead” (Line 6) contain
A) consonance and imagery
B) internal rhyme and assonance
C) oxymora and alliteration
D) assonance and consonance
E) alliteration and assonance
4. Lines 1, 3, 5, and 6 all contain which sound device?
A) enjambment
B) alliteration
C) consonance
D) assonance
E) rhyme
5. The “dreary desert sand of dead habit”
A) is an implied metaphor stressing the hopelessness
of chronic behavior
B) is an explicit metaphor emphasizing desperation
C) is a conceit that contains alliteration
D) contains a soothing sound to complement the
speaker’s dream of a desert country
E) is part of a bigger simile that uses the natural
environment to describe what the speaker’s country is
and is not
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32.
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SSIGNMENT ON
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NTRODUCTION TO
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HEORY
1. What do you know about auditory imagery?
2. Define basic characteristics of Drama as a genre.
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
Rabindranath Tagore, “My Country Awake”
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action—
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
1. In the grammatical structure of line 7, “the mind” is
A) the dependent clause
B) the predicate
C) the subject
D) the object
E) the appositive
2. In the poem, the speaker addresses
A) his country
B) himself
C) a political leader
D) his parent
E) God
3. The speaker implies his country is all of the
following except
A) fearful
B) limited
C) fettered
D) confined
E) irreparable
4. The poem as a whole is a
I. supplication
II. prayer
III. speech
A) I only
B) I and II only
C) II only
D) II and III only
E) I, II, and III
5. The tone of the poem can best be described as
A) earnest
B) plaintive
C) pious
D) optimistic
E) fatalistic
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V
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33.
F
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SSIGNMENT ON
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NTRODUCTION TO
L
ITERARY
T
HEORY
1. What do you know about kinesthetic imagery?
2. Define basic characteristics of Epic as a genre.
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home”
I paced alone on the road across the field while the sunset was
hiding its last gold like a miser.
The daylight sank deeper and deeper into the darkness, and the
widowed land, whose harvest had been reaped, lay silent.
Suddenly a boy’s shrill voice rose into the sky. He traversed
the dark unseen, leaving the track of his song across the hush of
the evening.
His village home lay there at the end of the waste land, beyond
the sugar-cane field, hidden among the shadows of the banana and
the slender areca palm, the cocoa-nut and the dark green
jack-fruit trees.
I stopped for a moment in my lonely way under the starlight, and
saw spread before me the darkened earth surrounding with her arms
countless homes furnished with cradles and beds, mothers’ hearts
and evening lamps, and young lives glad with a gladness that
knows nothing of its value for the world.
1. The simile in line 2
A) compares gold to a cheapskate to emphasize the
town’s poverty
B) compares the sun to a scrupulous saver to convey
the disappearance of sunlight
C) contrasts the gold to a miser to show the town’s
poverty
D) contrasts the sun to a miser to show how dark it
has become
E) symbolizes darkness
2. Line 3 contains an abundance of
A) anaphora
B) personification
C) hyperbole
D) assonance
E) alliteration
3. In context, the phrases “widowed land” (4) and “her
arms” (13) are
examples of
A) apostrophe
B) conceit
C) metaphor
D) personification
E) passive voice
4. The second sentence of the poem differs from the
first in that
A) it is passive
B) it contains a simile
C) it contains only one independent clause
D) it contains a dependent clause
E) it contains an appositive
5. The third stanza contains a contrast between
A) night and day
B) boy and sky
C) boy and man
D) sound and silence
E) light and dark
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V
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34.
F
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SSIGNMENT ON
T
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NTRODUCTION TO
L
ITERARY
T
HEORY
1. What do you know about organic imagery?
2. What is genre? What are 3 main genres in literature?
3. Read the following poem and answer 5 multiple-choice questions.
Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home”
I paced alone on the road across the field while the sunset was
hiding its last gold like a miser.
The daylight sank deeper and deeper into the darkness, and the
widowed land, whose harvest had been reaped, lay silent.
Suddenly a boy’s shrill voice rose into the sky. He traversed
the dark unseen, leaving the track of his song across the hush of
the evening.
His village home lay there at the end of the waste land, beyond
the sugar-cane field, hidden among the shadows of the banana and
the slender areca palm, the cocoa-nut and the dark green
jack-fruit trees.
I stopped for a moment in my lonely way under the starlight, and
saw spread before me the darkened earth surrounding with her arms
countless homes furnished with cradles and beds, mothers’ hearts
and evening lamps, and young lives glad with a gladness that
knows nothing of its value for the world.
1. The phrase “waste land” (8) implies that
A) the setting is hellish
B) the “home” is in the middle of nowhere
C) a war has just taken place
D) the people of this town are devastated
E) the boy’s home is isolated
2. The poem’s final sentence can best be paraphrased as
A) Happy families are unaware of how valuable their
bliss is to the world.
B) The dark, lonely earth is lit up by the people who
inhabit it.
C) I wish I were part of one of these families.
D) Home is where the heart is.
E) The natural world protects families and makes them
glad.
3.The final stanza reveals the speaker’s
A) keen eye for detail
B) love for his home
C) love for his family
D) loneliness
E) appreciation for the natural world
4.The poem’s form and style are characteristic of a(n)
A) ballad
B) ode
C) elegy
D) villanelle
E) free-verse poem
5. The title of the poem
A) contains the theme
B) introduces the conceit
C) begins the poem’s metaphor
D) is a symbol for heaven
E) introduces the object of the speaker’s desire
Compiled by: ______________ R. Akhmedov
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