6VWO literature oral exam

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6VWO literature oral exam

Which poet was a poet laureate?

1. William Blake
2. William Wordsworth
3. Samuel taylor Coleridge
4. Lord Byron

Mention the five 'I's of Romanticism.

Personification is ....

1. a figure of speech used to compare two unlike things using like or as
2. the use of a person, place, or thing to represent something beyond itself
3. an intentional exaggeration for extra effect
4. giving inanimate objects or other nonhuman beings human characteristics

A simile is ....

1. a figure of speech used to compare two unlike things (not using like or as)
2. the pattern in which rhyme sounds in a poetic stanza
3. a figure of speech used to compare two unlike things using like or as
4. contradictory statement

Mention at least three works by Charles Dickens

In which line of "The Albatross" is an onomatopoeia to be found?

1. It cracked and growled, and roared and howled
2. We hailed it in God’s name
3. The ice did split with a thunder-fit
4. Came to the mariner’s hollo

Which is NOT a characteristic of the Victorian Age?

1. Industrial Revolution
2. Imperialism
3. Strict social conventions and prudery
4. Outbreaks of cholera and the plague

When was Arthur Conan Doyle born and when did he die?

1. 1845-1910
2. 1859-1930
3. 1899-1943
4. 1862-1939

What is Hemingway's Iceberg Theory?

What does the river symbolise in the story "Indian Camp"?

What is NOT a characteristic of or theme in Mark Twain's writing?

1. Poetry
2. Racism
3. Vernacular language
4. Life in the Confederate States

Which in an example of assonance in Annabel Lee

1. And this maiden she lived with no other thought
2. In a kingdom by the sea
3. A wind blew out of a cloud
4. To shut her up in a sepulchre

Why did Norman Morrison choose the Pentagon as the location for his self-immolation?