A. Narrative frame
B. Hortatory sermon
C. Snaring
D. Jamming
Related Mcqs:
- Who write the story “Story Teller” ?
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Shakespeare
C. Thomas Grey
D. Saki - Mr. Covey entered the stable with a long rope; and just as I was half out of the loft, he caught hold of my legs, and was about tying me. As soon as I found what he was up to, I gave a sudden spring, and as I did so, he holding to my legs, I was brought sprawling on the stable floor. Mr. Covey seemed now to think he had me, and could do what he pleased; but at this moment—from whence came the spirit I don’t know—I resolved to fight; and, suiting my action the resolution, I seized Covey hard by the throat, and as I did so, I rose. He held on to me, and I to him. … He trembled like a leaf. …We were at it for nearly two hours. Covey at length let me go, puffing and blowing at a great rate, saying that if I had not resisted, he would not have whipped me half so much. The truth was, that he had not whipped me at all. I considered him as getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me, but I had from him_____________?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Frankin
D. William Apess - Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne’s conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?
A. \Air and Angels\
B. \Satire 3\
C. \The Apparition\
D. \The Indifferent\ - It was the very witching time of night that he, heavyhearted and crestfallen, pursued his travel homeward. Far below, the Tappan Zee spread its dusky waters. In the dead hush of midnight he could hear the faint barking of a watchdog from the opposite shore. The night grew darker and darker; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight. This passage is from________________?
A. A fairy tale
B. An autobiography
C. A detective story
D. A Gothic tale - For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick’s paintings is described as follows: “A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth.” What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?
A. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
B. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.
C. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.
D. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion. - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
A. courtly ideals of the good life
B. carpe diem
C. loyalty to the king
D. pious devotion to religious virtues - In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues; while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim. What is the meaning of the word audacity ?
A. Fearless daring or aggressive boldness
B. Auditory city
C. Authority
D. Insanity or dementia - “It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.” How does this opening sentence of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” NOT immediately suggest the Gothic ?
A. The reference to ancestral halls
B. The uncommon nature of the event
C. The first-person narrator
D. The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate - My present business,” continued he, speaking with lofty confidence, “is merely to inquire my way to the dwelling of my [relative].” … There was a sudden and general movement in the room, which Robin interpreted as expressing the eagerness of each individual to become his guide. This passage exemplifies____________?
A. Jamming
B. Ambiguity
C. Snaring
D. Foregrounding
