Engaging Lit Final Exam

Question 1

reading with an assumption of being edified and enlightened

Answer 1

Expect the best

Question 2

Reading with an awareness of the threefold task that a literary author performs for us

Answer 2

Read on a continuum

Question 3

Reading as a Christian with an awareness of how the work responds to Christian assertions

Answer 3

Be aware

Question 4

Reading to weigh the truth claims of the literature that is being read

Answer 4

Evaluate

Question 5

Freytag’s Pyramid is a diagram that helps us in the analysis of poetry

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Jacob borrows the term “temporal bandwidth” from what novel ?

Answer 6

Gravity’s Rainbow

Question 7

Jacob states that there is a close relationship between the current situational model of existence and …

Answer 7

Anxiety/Depression

Question 8

Jacob argues that one of the best actions to take when faced with the feeling of being at a “frenetic standstill” is to…

Answer 8

Break bread with the dead

Question 9

Jacobs argues that we should always read old books as a way to escape technology and social media

Answer 9

False

Question 9

Alan Jacobs argues that reading decreases a person’s “temporal bandwidth”

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Active reading involves [[1]] with the text, that is, critically [[2]] with the [[3]].

Answer 10

1: dialoguing
2: engaging
3: material

Question 11

Passive reading is reading for fun and [[1]]. It has [[2]] but isn’t rigorous enough for doing [[3]] assessment.

Answer 11

1: relaxation
2: merit
3: critical

Question 12

Anton Chekov stated, “You are right in demanding that an [[1]] should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: [[2]] a problem and [[3]] a problem correctly. It is only the second that is [[4]] for an artist.”

Answer 12

1: artist
2: stating
3: solving
4: obligatory

Question 13

As one of the basic elements of fiction, what is the term for “a sequence of events” in a story/

Answer 13

Plot

Question 14

As one of the basic elements of fiction, what do we call the “time frame and physical location” of a story?

Answer 14

Setting

Question 15

The most important character in a story is called the __________

Answer 15

Protagonist

Question 16

As one of the basic elements of fiction, what is the term for the narrator’s perspective on the story’s action?

Answer 16

Point of view

Question 17

As one of the basic elements of fiction, what is the term for a dominant idea that runs the entire length of the story?

Answer 17

Theme

Question 18

As it concerns the use of symbols in literature, the term of the literal, definitional meaning of a word is…

Answer 18

Denotation

Question 19

Literature is a form of creative writing that tells a compelling story about what?

Answer 19

Themes

Question 20

All the best literature ever written is put into a list called what?

Answer 20

The Literary Canon

Question 21

Which of the following is the correct plot sequence for the Comic-U?

Answer 21

Prosperity, obstacles, tragic threat, happiness

Question 22

According to “Literary Styles in the Bible,” ___ of the Bible consists of narrative.

Answer 22

43%

Question 23

According to “Literary Styles in the Bible,” ___ of the Bible consists of poetry.

Answer 23

33%

Question 24

According to "Literary Styles in the Bible," ___ of the Bible consists of prose discourse.

Answer 24

24%

Question 25

According to the video "Literary Styles of the Bible," you don't need to be concerned about the different literary styles that are present in the Bible.

Answer 25

False

Question 26

Prose discourse in the Bible forces you to think logically and consistently but it does not necessarily expect you to do anything about it.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

What are the three types of narratives mentioned in "Literary Styles in the Bible"?

Answer 27

History, Parable, Biography

Question 28

"What is the Bible?", technically, the Bible is...

Answer 28

A small library of books that all emerged out of the history of the people of ancient Israel

Question 29

What is the Bible?, The Hebrew scriptures are referred to as...

Answer 29

TaNaK

Question 30

According to the lecture slides, the Gothic Mode represents fiction that was first popularized in which eighteenth-century country?

Answer 30

England

Question 31

Gothic stories include what three elements?

Answer 31

Medieval setting, macabre subject matter, the supernatural

Question 32

What are the two principal aims of Gothic stories?

Answer 32

Evoke terror, examine what lies beneath the orderly mind

Question 33

In fiction, Bildungsroman refers to what kind of story?

Answer 33

Coming-of-age

Question 34

A Bildungsroman story deals with a character's [[1]] years or [[2]] education

Answer 34

1: formative 2: spiritual

Question 35

Select three features of a Bildungsroman story.

Answer 35

Goal is maturity, self-discovery, grand struggle

Question 36

A Kunstlerroman story is the story of [[1]] development wherein the [[2]] moves from [[3]] to [[4]].

Answer 36

1: artistic 2: protagonist 3: juvenilia 4: maturation

Question 37

In a Kunstlerroman story, the protagonist must overcome obstacles, deal with rites of passage, and eventually arrive at a ________

Answer 37

Artistic identity

Question 38

According to the lecture slides, narrative nonfiction tells a real-life about real people and ______ .

Answer 38

Events

Question 39

According to Abrams, the novel is the extended prose narrative that "permits a greater variety of [[1]], greater complication of [[2]], ampler development of [[3]], and more sustained and subtle [[4]] of character.

Answer 39

1: characters 2: plot 3: milieu 4: exploration

Question 40

As a mode, Magic Realism gives us a language for talking about ________________ occurrences

Answer 40

Natural/supernatural

Question 41

Select three elements that are a part of the “magic” portion of Magic Realism.

Answer 41

Myth, fairytale, dream

Question 42

Select three elements that are a part of the “realism” portion of Magic Realism.

Answer 42

Measurable, quantifiable, replicatable

Question 43

In Magic Realism, "magic" is concerned with veritas, which means _________.

Answer 43

Truth

Question 44

In Magic Realism, "realism" is concerned with scientia, which means ___________ .

Answer 44

Knowledge

Question 45

As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot [[1]] between [[2]] and [[3]], so long, that is, as the only possible [[4]] we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don’t like.

Answer 45

1: distinguish 2: taste 3: judgement 4: verdicts

Question 46

As it concerns the use of symbols in literature, the term for "the implied, suggestive, and associational meaning of a word" is...

Answer 46

Connotation

Question 47

The best poetry seeks to make [[1]] concrete by creating vivid [[2]] appealing directly to the [[3]].

Answer 47

1: abstract 2: imagery 3: senses

Question 48

In poetry, the term "assonance" means repeated _____ sounds

Answer 48

vowel

Question 49

In poetry, the term "consonance" means repeated _________ sounds

Answer 49

consonant

Question 50

According to "Literary Styles in the Bible," poetry in the Bible forces you off your familiar path into new territory

Answer 50

True

Question 51

According to "Literary Styles in the Bible," good stories always have a character who wants something.

Answer 51

True

Question 52

Patterns of syllable and accent

Answer 52

meter

Question 53

a template in which poets arrange and explore challenging emotional and intellectual materials

Answer 53

form

Question 54

a grouping of lines

Answer 54

stanza

Question 55

how line breaks are used

Answer 55

lineation