Question

A few English questions?

Answer 1

13. Which line from William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming" most plainly contains apocalyptic imagery?
"...while all about it/Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds."
"The...tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned..."
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity."
"A shape with lion body and the head of a man,/A gaze blank and pitiless.

14. Which excerpt from James Joyce's "Araby" describes a setting?
"We waited to see weather she would remain or go in..."
"Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance."
"I listened to the fall of the coins."
"The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree..."

15. Which excerpt from Virgina Woolf's A Room Of One's Own contains an allusion?
"She looked at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said."
"Could she even seek her dinner in a tavern or roam the streets at midnight?"
"Chasity had then, it has even now, a religious importance..."
"What Dean Ingle says I will leave in peace."

16. "With the other masquerades/That time resumes,/One thinks of all the hands/That are raising dingy shades/In a thousand furnished rooms."
Which of these best describes this excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "Preludes"?
It is an example of sprung rhythm.
It is an example of iambic pentameter.
It is an example of dialect poetry.
It is an example of free verse.

17. "Your father was walking along a street in Naples when a pig fell on him. A shocking accident. Apparently in the poorer quarters of Naples they keep pigs on their balconies. This one was on the fifth floor. It had grown too fat. The balcony broke. The pig fell on your father."
This excerpt from Graham Greene's "A Shocking Accident" is an example of which of the following?
pathos
humor of situation
humor of character
slapstick

18. Which excerpt from George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant best exemplifies a reflective essay?
"There was a loud, scandalized cry of 'Go away, child! Go away this instant!' and an old woman with a switch in her hand came round the corner of a hut..."
"We began questioning the people as to where the elephant had gone and, as usual, failed to get any definite information."
"The Burmese sub-inspector and some Indian constables were waiting for me in the quarter where the elephant had been."
"It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism..."

Answer 2

i don't know any of the books it referring to sorry

Answer 3

Better to break these into individual questions. For the first, I'd go with "Tide is loosed...ceremony of innocence..."

Answer 4

19. "Feeling for the grass-edge of the path with his toes, he reached inside another window further along the wall..."
Which of these best describes this excerpt from Doris Lessing's "A Sunrise on the Veld"?
It is an example of sprung rhythm.
It is an example of an unreliable narrator.
It is an example of kinesthic imagery.
It is an example of lyrical poetry.

For questions 20-24 choose the correct answer.
20. In Robert Burn's "To a Mouse," the speaker apologizes to the mouse for humankind's control, or _____, over Earth.
anvil
dominion
foresight
symmetry

21. In Lord Bryson's "She Walks in Beauty," the speaker describes the face of the subject as vividly expressive, or
eloquent.
gaudy.
intemperate.
pensive.

22. In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott," he describes how reapers tie grain into bundles called
damsels.
garners.
interlopers.
sheaves.

23. The speaker in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses," states that he plans to leave his royal staff, or _____, to his son Telemachus.
casement
chrysalis
scepter
temper

24. In A Room of One's Own, Virgina Woolf writes about a theater manager who ____, or loudly laughed at, a woman who wanted to be an actress.
graced
guffawed
poached
ricocheted

Answer 5

did you get these answers?