Question

Can someone check my answers on these questions?

"Heroes' wits are kept there in heavy vases,/ and wits of fancy lords in snuffboxes and tweezer cases." this excerpt from Pope's The Rape of the lock __?
a. Uses satire to ridicule the upper classes. <-
b. uses irony to portray the ruling classes as noble.
c. uses sarcasm to indicate the contempt for the lower classes.
d. uses understatement to downplay the rift between the classes.

Answer 1

"The number of souls in Ireland being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couples whose wives are breeders, from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples, who are able to maintain their own children..." Why does Swift include these sorts of "facts and statistics" in his essay?
a.to make his use of verbal irony more effective
b.to reinforce his stated arguments.
c.to head off opposition to his stated arguments.
d. to demonstrate that he is well-educated.

"Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heacen did a recompence as largely send/ He gave to Mis'ry all he had, a tear/He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend." Keeping in mind that this epitaph is Gray's own, how does he want to be remembered?
a.as a melancholy person who nonetheless found a true love.
b.as a person who learned too late what life is for.
c.as a person who achieved worldly success but never happiness.
d.as a happy person who expected little from life.

Answer 2

oops I forgot to mark my answers

#2 a
#3 a or d I think

Answer 3

Sorry hun, can't find the first question anywhere and I really dont know the other 2 lol

Answer 4

Thanks anyway, these are some weird questions anyways. Its not important, I was just hoping someone could verify I was right.

Answer 5

What course are you taking?

Answer 6

Brit Lit-comparitive, we're reading some odd stuff.

Answer 7

Seems a bit too high for me :P Sounds like your planning to major in Literature lol

Answer 8

I don't understand the language of British Literature. Yeah, I have always loved writing and books, but I didn't think British ones would be so different.

Answer 9

I know what you mean. Moving to foreign countries that study British English is a bit weird lol They call my english wrong only because they haven't learned my kind of speech :|

Answer 10

Yeah I've noticed that, I get told I pronounce things wrong because I have an accent. That on top of reading foreign British style English, I sound awful.

Answer 11

Where you from?lol

Answer 12

US, but I have a heavy northern accent. Its because my family is Native and I grew up near the border of Canada.

Answer 13

Born in Minnesota here lol, been to about 2 handfuls of states, lived in Canada as well, my sister's living there now with her family lol

Answer 14

I have a weird accent too I guess, or at least I get told, eh :P

Answer 15

Then you understand too. Its really annoying though when people point it out, especially in class cause then I look like I can't read or something. It makes me really self conscious.

Answer 16

Aww I wouldn't worry about it at all :) Bet you sound great ^^ Really helps to just keep your mind to yourself, not wandering around other people's loud thoughts. Obviously isnt easy though, you get used to it though.

Answer 17

Fallin' asleep?

Answer 18

Hahah no, I'm working on an essay. I'm just about finished.

Answer 19

I'm just about to finish an exam lol Would've been done if my internet didn't cut off at 3am ;-;

Answer 20

What kind of essay are you working on?

Answer 21

What is your exam on? I'm writing about some of the authors of the works we are reading. Particularly Swift, who's satires are actually kinda interesting....in a morbid kind of way.

Answer 22

Nice(: I'm doing an exam on Shakespeare and Order and Chaos stuff. Wouldn't have seemed too hard if I read through everything properly lol

Answer 23

Heh, I do that sometimes. In fact I didn't a single book in my last English course. We had pairs of books such as King Leer and A Thousand Acres, and since I knew the plots from reading in high school I just bs'd the whole course. Got an A too which is the funny part!

Answer 24

I think I just finished King Lear....Not reading it as well lol

Answer 25

Only British Literature my High school ever had us read was Shakespeare, and only the really popular ones like Lear and Romeo and Juliet

Answer 26

It's funny because you do it throughout your whole 4 years in high school, no matter what grade lol You're always gonna get a famous shakespeare play to write about.

Answer 27

Yeah. Needless to say I got tired of Shakespeare rather quickly, at least in high school. Now I love plays and theatre, its actually really interesting.

Answer 28

I love reading, just not dramas. Then again, I'm not looking to major in literature like you. Im more interested in Engineering lol

Answer 29

Understandable. My father is an engineer, said he always got D's in English, but he can do more math than I ever thought about....guess there has to be some kind of trade off for intelligence in subjects like that.

Answer 30

I think I'll head out for now, I have class tomorrow and I need to turn in my essay. goodnight Yuba!

Answer 31

Night(: Sleep tight Shana!