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English Final Exam Questions With Verified Answers "The Twentieth Century and After" - answerConfusion about "modernity" in mid 19th/20th centuries. Expansion/decline of empires through imperialism, bourgeois revolution/rise of middle class and their values, rise of urban life with cities. Modern Britain believed its all falling apart, skeptical irresolution, and in a hard/dry world. Traditional stabilities weakening/pace of change accelerating/mass dislocations of populations/mixing o...

If God is dead, Ivan Karamazov insists, everything is permitted An invention of the late 1800s: the light bulb The problem of normativity concerns the gap between is and ought Nietzsche wants science to become more playful Dostoevsky: the vision of the anointed inevitably leads to narcissism A two-level theory includes a deep level that ____ what happens at the surface level. determines and explains Doyle's vision is tragic in that Sherlock Holmes has to mak...

Praxis II 5038 made from ETS practice exam 2023 Sonnet - Answer-fourteen lines in length, has the requisite rhyme scheme, and is written in iambic pentameter. Ode - Answer-a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. Ballad - Answer-Anonymous narrative poems; the ballad stanza is a four-line stanza of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines with a rhyme of abab or abcb. a poem or song na...

Career Explorations UNIT TEST (1) Questions and Answers 80% Which statement best describes the rhyme schemes of "To My Dear Loving Husband" and "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty"? Both poets primarily use couplets to link ideas about love and devotion; Bradstreet uses inversion to complete rhymes. Both poets use couplets for rhyme scheme and structure, inverting sentences when needed to maintain the rhyme. Bradstreet uses couplets throughout; Wheatley uses couplets and inverts s...

Shakespeare - Answer 1564-1616 154 poems survived 38 plays William Faulkner - Answer - 1897-1962 - The Sound and the Fury - As I Lay Dying - A Rose For Emily William Chaucer - Answer (1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales - Answer - Written by Chaucer - Takes place in middles ages with a cross section of society - literary context is "frame tale" - pilgrims all on their way to Canterbury and they take turns telling tales to amuse the others frame tale - Answer story within a stor...

Metaphysical Poetry - Answer- Uses conceits and uses intellectual and philosophical language. Makes abstract comparisons using conceits. ie. John Donne. Michael Wigglesworth - Answer- Clergyman who wrote "Day of Doom" and "Meat out of the Eater". He wrote lyrical, theological poems. Puritan. Connotation - Answer- the feelings or emotions surrounding a word. (ie. home = pleasant haven) motif - Answer- Phase, image, action, that unifies a work of literature by recurring throughout it....

Career Explorations UNIT TEST (1) 80%. Which statement best describes the rhyme schemes of "To My Dear Loving Husband" and "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty"? Both poets primarily use couplets to link ideas about love and devotion; Bradstreet uses inversion to complete rhymes. Both poets use couplets for rhyme scheme and structure, inverting sentences when needed to maintain the rhyme. Bradstreet uses couplets throughout; Wheatley uses couplets and inverts sentences as needed fo...

  1 Paleolithic religious beliefs a. did not include belief in life after death. b. centered around the idea that human beings needed to appease the forces of nature. c. centered around the idea that forces of nature had been created to serve human beings. d. made a clear distinction between nature and the supernatural. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Neolithic Age? a. Human beings established villages. b. Human beings...

  1 Paleolithic religious beliefs a. did not include belief in life after death. b. centered around the idea that human beings needed to appease the forces of nature. c. centered around the idea that forces of nature had been created to serve human beings. d. made a clear distinction between nature and the supernatural. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Neolithic Age? a. Human beings established villages. b. Human beings...

(Lady) Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978 -c. 1015): Novelist, diarist, and courtesan. She was the author of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), the first known novel; the diary nikki; and a collection of tanka poems. The daughter of the court official Fujiwara Tametoki, she sat in on the classical Chinese literature lessons that her brother received, in spite of the Heian traditions against higher education for women. (Sei) Shonagan (c. 966 - c. 1013): Like Lady Murasaki, was a lady-in-waiting of th...