Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?

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1. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?

   A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
   B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures
   C. ironic understatement
   D. stress on every third diphthong

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

5. “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

6. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.” ?

   A. Oxymoron
   B. Metaphor
   C. Simile
   D. Synecdoche

7. Which of the following is NOT a rhetorical purpose of “An Indian’ Looking Glass for the White Man” ?

   A. Critic the way white people’s society treats people of color wrong.
   B. Making peace
   C. Working together
   D. both B and C

8. Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?

   A. Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
   B. Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.
   C. Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.
   D. Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed

9. Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?

   A. Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
   B. Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.
   C. Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.
   D. Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed

10. Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ?

    A. finding spiritual meaning
    B. Critic slavery
    C. Defend Slavery
    D. Both B and C