Review for Final Exam

Question 1

True or false: In the short story “the boat” one of the topics is tradition.

Answer 1

true

Question 2

What literary device is used in the following passage?
“My earliest recollection of my father is a view from the floor of gigantic rubber boots and then of being suddenly elevated and having my face pressed against the stubble of his cheek, and of how it tasted of salt and of how he smelled of salt from
his red-soled rubber boots to the shaggy whiteness of his hair.”

Answer 2

Imagery

Question 3

In the story pig, what point of view is used?

Answer 3

Third person omniscient

Question 4

What literary device is used in the following passage? “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones.”

Answer 4

Foreshadowing

Question 5

What literary device is used in the following passage? “We lived on the outskirts of Rosedale, over on the wrong side of Yonge street.” What literary device is this?

Answer 5

Setting

Question 6

What literary device is used in the following passage? “with his blue eyes flashing like clearest ice beneath the snow that was his hair. His usually ruddy face was drawn and grey, reflecting the exhaustion of a man of sixty-five who had been working in those rubber boots for eleven hours.”

Answer 6

Characterization

Question 7

Is the character Ann from Claire Rothman’s “Shiva” a flat or a round character?

Answer 7

Round character

Question 8

“With pleasure, the sticker said, and taking Lexington gently by one ear with his left hand, he raised his right hand and deftly slit open the boy’s jugular vein with a knife.” In this previous passage, Lexington is killed. We can say that _________ (2 words) is not present.

Answer 8

POETIC JUSTICE

Question 9

“The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.” What literary device is this?

Answer 9

Setting

Question 10

Is the character Old Man Warner from Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” a flat or a round character?

Answer 10

Flat character

Question 11

What literary device is used in the following passage? “Mr. Summers was very good at all this: in his clean white shirt and blue jeans, with one hand resting carelessly on the black box. He seemed very proper and important as he talked interminably to Mr. Graves and the Martins.”

Answer 11

Characterization

Question 12

“The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white.” What literary device is this?

Answer 12

Setting

Question 13

Is the narrator reliable in the story Traplines?

Answer 13

Yes. (there is no reason to doubt Will’s reliability)

Question 14

Is the character Will from Eden Robinson’s “Traplines” a round or a flat character?

Answer 14

Round character

Question 15

Which literary device is present in the following excerpt?
“We play two-on-one: me against Ruby-Doo and the nurse from “Romeo and Juliet”. The nurse’s name is Charlotte, a pretty, twenty-year-old girl who probably didn’t get cast as Juliet because she’s fat and black.”

Answer 15

Allusion

Question 16

Which literary device is present in the following excerpt? “Cinderella of the basketball court.”

Answer 16

Allusion

Question 17

Is the character Lexington from Roald Dahl’s “pig” an unreliable narrator?

Answer 17

no

Question 18

The fact that Mr. Adam was the first person to question the lottery and that he “was in front of the crowd of villagers” to kill Mrs. Hutchinson is——?

Answer 18

situational irony

Question 19

What is the point of view used in the following passage: “My earliest recollection of my mother is of being alone with her in the mornings while my father was away in the boat.” How so?

Answer 19

First-person POV is used in this passage. The narrator uses the word ‘my’ to affirm the claim.

Question 20

“Though three quarters of our overcrowded world are starving, we are lucky here to have more than enough, thanks to population control. Obesity’s our problem, not malnutrition.” What literary device is used here?

Answer 20

Situational irony

Question 21

“the reason for his own enlistment was precisely so that Cy and I could not be soldiers. “ (200)

Answer 21

Situational irony

Question 22

In Dedalus and Icarus, Icarus flew too close to the sun even though his father told him not to. What is this called?

Answer 22

Poetic justice

Question 23

Which literary device is present in the following excerpt?
“In the winter they sent him a picture which had been taken on the day of the singing, On the back it said “To Our Ernest Hemingway” and the “Our” was underlined.”

Answer 23

Allusion

Question 24

The main character kills an old man and then gets caught. This is an example of ____________

Answer 24

Poetic justice

Question 25

What literary genre is the following story: “Moose, skid, tree. Two parents mourning” ?

Answer 25

Flash fiction

Question 26

What literary device is found in the title of the short story “The Boat”?

Answer 26

Symbolism

Question 27

“But it wasn’t until his good strong heart had pumped the last drop of blood from his body that he passed on out of this, the best of all possible worlds, into the next.” What literary device is used?

Answer 27

Verbal irony

Question 28

Which literary device is present in the following excerpt?

“The lawn was neat and green and I only saw dandelion.”

Answer 28

Symbolism

Question 29

Which literary device is present in the following excerpt?

“First I’m going to have another rose!”

Answer 29

Symbolism