The use of “whale-road”for sea and “lifehouse” for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?

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1. The use of \whale-road\for sea and \lifehouse\ for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?

   A. symbolism
   B. simile
   C. metonymy
   D. kenning

2. In Beowulf, what is the significance of the term whale-road ?

   A. The term is an allusion to Beowulf’s golden torque.
   B. The term represents the comitatus ethic.
   C. The term is an example of kenning.
   D. The term is an example of caesura.

3. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?

   A. Percy Bysshe Shelley
   B. William Wordsworth
   C. George Gordon, Lord Byron
   D. all of the above

4. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?

   A. Sir Thomas Malory
   B. Geoffrey Chaucer
   C. Caedmon
   D. John Gower

5. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?

   A. Bede
   B. Sir Thomas Malory
   C. Geoffrey Chaucer
   D. Caedmon

6. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?

   A. Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.
   B. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.
   C. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with women’s rights.
   D. World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.

7. According to the literary critic, Paul Fussell, which of the following was a central trope of English poetry written during the Great War ?

   A. Patriotic imagery
   B. Irony
   C. Nihilism
   D. Apocalyptic imagery

8. A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?

   A. Marxist criticism
   B. Reader-response criticism
   C. Psychoanalytic criticism
   D. New Criticism

9. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?

   A. The leading characteristic of the age
   B. Monarchs or political events
   C. The primary author of the age
   D. The language of the age

10. “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?

    A. Samson Occcum
    B. John Winthrop
    C. Benjamin Franklin
    D. Mayflower Compact