UIL Lit Crit Practice Test 2001

What musical device is illustrated by "last but not least" and "stroke of luck"?

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

• metathesis

• apocope

What is propounded without requiring a reply or intended to produce a reply?

• cosmic question

• erudite question

• leading question

• rhetorical question

• Socratic question

Clocks strike in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, but clocks did not exist in ancient Rome. What did Shakespeare create?

• anachronism

• poetic license

• hyperbole

• litotes

• miles gloriosus

What is a scene, incident, or speech in the course of serious fiction or drama, sometimes introduced, i is sometimes thought to break the emotional intensity and by contrast to heighten the seriousness of the story?

• stream of consciousness

• interlude

• synopsis

• exposition

• comic relief

What device is employed in Gulliver's Travels in the following statement? "Last week I saw a woman flayed [skinned alive], and you will hardly believe how much it altered her appearance for the worse."

• understatement

• overstatement

• metonymy

• apostrophe

• simile

What is a recurrent grouping of verse lines in terms of lengths, metrical form, and, often, rhyme scheme?

• refrain

• stanza

• couplet

• verse

• poesie

"Preparation for fighting a war is like preparation for taking a cruise in a small sailing boat--there is no end to it." These opening lines by E.B. White prepare the reader for what type of comparison?

• metaphor

• analogy

• conceit

• parable

• oxymoron

"So flash'd and fell the brand Exalibur.

But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm

Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,

And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him

Three times and drew him under in mere."

What verse form did Tennyson choose for these lines from "The Passing of Arthur"?

• heroic couplets

• free verse

• blank verse

• villanelle

• vers de société

"Its quick soft silver bell beating, beating,

And down in the dark one ruby flare

Pushing out red light like an artery."

What device does Karl Shapiro use in each of these lines from "Auto Wreck"?

• assonance

• consonance

• allusion

• alliteration

• metathesis

What sustained and formal poem setting forth meditations on death or another solemn theme?

• elegy

• limerick

• epic

• sonnet

• ballad