Vic test

Which of the following is true about authors of the Victorian time period?

• They exhibited an unprecedented degree of social mobility in achieving literary success

• They mostly abandoned a traditional viewpoint in favor of the new science

• They represented a diverse group but originated solely from within England itself

• They wrote prolifically but were very limited in their genre choice

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Tennyson's poetry was deepened and enriched by

• his marriage

• the birth of his son

• the death of his best friend

• training at Cambridge

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Which of the following rhetorical devices is evident in the following excerpt from In Memoriam?

"Our wills are ours, we know not how; / Our wills are ours, to make them thine."

• Anaphora

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Antithesis

Answer explanation

ANAPHORA - the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition

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In Tennyson's In Memoriam, all of the following ideas are reflected EXCEPT

• a study of the main speaker as doubter

• a stoic resignation to accept the loss of faith and its subsequent despair

• The reassurance of immortality through mystic insight

• the insistence on truths deeper than those which are grasped by reason

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What is the conclusion of In Memoriam?

• Arthur will achieve immortality through his writing

• Arthur and all souls will join the World Soul

• Arthur and all who trust in Christ will experience bodily resurrection at the 2nd Coming

• Arthur will be remembered for seeking new opportunities in his old age and being brave in the face of death

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Which of the following rhetorical devices is evident in the exert from Ulysses?

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"

• Antithesis

• Chiasmus

• Hyperbole

• Parallelism

Answer explanation

Parallelism - when phrases in a sentence have similar or the same grammatical structure.

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"Crossing the Bar" encapsulates an older Tennyson's perspective on

• living

• dying

• competing with others

• sailing

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Which of the following works has the clearest plot arc?

• In Memoriam

• Uylsses

• Porphyria's Lover

• Sonnet 43

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The final line from "Porphyria's Lover" likely implies the poet's criticism of which of the following for wrongdoing?

"And yet God has not said a word!"

• the speaker

• Porphyria

• Robert Browning

• God

What device is at work in the following line from Sonnet 43?

"I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Anaphora

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