English 10 Fall 2021 Exam

The passage suggests that the two inescapable elements of human existence are

• sin and death

• crime and punishment

• frailty and sorrow

• death and redemption

• cemetery and prison

The author provides specific place names (Vicinity of Cornhill, Isaac Johnson's lot) in order to give the passage a sense of

• immediacy

• timelessness

• irony

• realness

• personification

The "sweet moral blossom" refers to the

• wild rose

• emerging prisoner

• end of the novel

• penalty for crime

• footsteps of Saint Ann

What is achieved by the author's closing the passage with a reference to "human frailty and sorrow"?

• The author creates suspense by foreshadowing the next chapter.

• The passages closes on a reiteration of where it began

• The idea of death is emphasized

• The plot of the story is set in motion

• The conflict of the story is introduced

The reference to Ann Hutchinson is an example of

• allusion

• personification

• imagery

• extended metaphor

• rhetorical fallacy

The pairing of the rose bush and the prison door is an example of

• simile

• allegory

• juxtaposition

• foreshadowing

• allusion

The overall impression created by this passage can best be described as

• optimistic

• terrifying

• ambiguous

• gloomy

• humorous

All of the following describe a possible purpose of the passage EXCEPT

• it introduces the tone of the novel

• it suggests the main conflict

• it introduces the central, most important image of the story

• it suggests a potential theme to be developed

• it establishes the time and place of the novel

The word "penetrative" most nearly means what?

• piercing

• disinterested

• ambivalent

• sad

Which of the following figures of speech is used in these lines: "A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight"?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allusion