English 210 Final Exam

Poetry with no rhyme or meter is called?

Free Verse

Which of the following correctly defines a metaphor?

A direct comparison between two dissimilar

What is the name of the narrator in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man?

He is unnamed.

What image does the stripper have a tattoo of in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man?

An American Flag

The narrator in “Battle Royale” gives a speech based on which historical figure’s writing?

Booker T. Washington

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is a picaresque (a novel genre in which the action is episodic)?

True.

Where does “Petrified Man” by Eudora Welty take place?

A beauty parlor

Which character from “Petrified Man” is accused of rape?

Mr. Petty

What is Mrs. Pike’s favorite attraction from the “freak show” in “Petrified Man”?

The Pygmies

Which character owns the beauty parlor in “Petrified Man”?

Leota

What is the term for characteristics in literary works who display bizarre distortions (physical or characteristics)?

Grotesques

Which of our works focuses on the character Willy Loamn?

Death of a Salesman

What did Willy’s father make and sell in Death of a Salesman?

Flutes

What item makes Willy Loman feel guilty and angry about his own past conduct in Death of a Salesman?

Silk Stockings

What is the name of the character who inspired Willy to become a salesman?

David Singleman

Characters who share similar attributes to highlight their contrasts are called what?

Character Foils

Literary term for an “initiation novel”?

Bildungsroman

Which of the following is NOT a pair of character foils from Death of a Salesman?

Linda and Willy

The literary movement that prioritizes versimilitude, plausibility, and narrative detail, is called what?

Literary Realism

Which poem for our latest unit ends with the revelation that “everything was rainbow, rainbow!”?

“The Fish”

The inclusion of specific elements in a work of fiction that alludes to future outcomes is called what?

Foreshadowing

Which city is Robert Lowell’s poem “For the Union Dead” primarily focused on?

Boston

An advertisement for which item, also called the “rock of ages”, is found in “For the Union Dead”?

A Mosler Safe

Which word is repeated at the end of each line but the last line in Gwendolyn Brook’s Poem “We Real Cool”?

We

In which poem does the speaker paradoxically describe her “dim dears”?

The MotherW

What is the form of the poem “The Children of the Poor”?

Sonnet

Who is the last character to die in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

The Grandmother

Whose shirt does The Misfit put on at the end of “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

Bailey — Hawaiian ShirtW

What causes the car accident in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

A cat