Quiz 14

Question 1

a prison guard

Answer 1

turnkey

Question 2

a member of the ancient Greek school of Philosophy who believed that real kowledge of things is impossible

Answer 2

sceptic

Question 3

specific words or phrases chosen to evoke an emotional reponse (usually to influence) from the reader or listener by appealing to the emotions

Answer 3

emotive language

Question 4

careless; messy

Answer 4

slip-shod

Question 5

the repetition of the same word or words in the middle of successive sentences or clauses

Answer 5

mesodiplosis

Question 6

intonation; inflection

Answer 6

cadence

Question 7

a narrow strip of land, surrounded by the sea on both sides, that connects two larger areas of land

Answer 7

isthmus

Question 8

dizzying

Answer 8

giddy

Question 9

retribution; revenge

Answer 9

vengeance

Question 10

to consider; to believe

Answer 10

deem

Question 11

petitioning; beseeching

Answer 11

suppliant

Question 12

the art of speaking persuasively

Answer 12

elocution

Question 13

two rhymed lines that contain an independent and complete thought or statement; usually pauses lightly at the end of the first line; the second is more heavily end-stopped, or “closed”

Answer 13

closed couplet

Question 14

reddish color; bloody

Answer 14

ruddy

Question 15

an object of ridicule; a laughingstock

Answer 15

jest

Question 16

poetic form of “A Description of Morning”

Answer 16

ironic or urban pastoral

Question 17

examples of emotive language

Answer 17

ruddy, discompose, slip-shod, stumps, drown’d, shriller, scream’d, etc.

Question 18

This closing line suggests the next generation will continue the same manner of life.

Answer 18

“And schoolboys lag with satchels in their hands.”

Question 19

an example of irony in “A Description of Morning”

Answer 19

Life in the city is demeaning, repetitive, and interdependent; the errors and waste of one person’s gritty job necessitates shoddy labor from another.

Question 20

Central One Idea of “A Description of Morning”

Answer 20

Life in the city is demeaning, repetitive, and interdependent; the errors and waste of one person’s gritty job necessitates shoddy labor from another.

Question 21

rhyme scheme of “An Essay onMan”

Answer 21

heroic couplets

Question 22

What should be the proper study of man?

Answer 22

man

Question 23

man’s main problem in “An Essay on Man”

Answer 23

“He hangs between”

Question 24

“The glory, jest, …”

Answer 24

“and riddle of the world!”

Question 25

rhyme scheme of Johnson’s poem

Answer 25

closed couplets

Question 26

announces the perspective and aim of Johnson’s poem

Answer 26

“Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind, from China to Peru”

Question 27

What “wav’ring Man, betray’d by vent’rous Pride” tries to do

Answer 27

“To tread the dreary Paths without a Guide”

Question 28

an instance of mesodiplosis

Answer 28

“Remark each anxious Toil, each eager Strife”

Question 29

an instant of perfect parallelism

Answer 29

“Each Gift of Nature, and each Grace of Art”

Question 30

one of man’s major problems in “The Vanity of Human Wishes”

Answer 30

“How rarely Reason guides the stubborn Choice, / Rules the bold Hand, or prompts the suppliant Voice”