2025 ENGL 1102 Final Exam

Dramatic irony is when:

• something happens that is the opposite of what you would expect to happen

• something funny happens after something sad

• the audience/reader knows something that the character does not

• a character is alone on stage and expresses his/her thoughts out loud

The people of ____ are under attack from Grendel.

• Herot
• Geatland
• Higlac
• Germany

An allegory is a story in which:

• Characters, setting and actions stand for something beyond their literal meaning

• a story in which characters, settings, and symbols have magical powers

• a story in which characters, settings, and symbols have new definitions

• a story in which characters, settings, and symbols know one another

Why is Beowulf an epic poem?

• it's a long, narrative poem which begins in Media Res; has a large, vast setting

• Outstanding hero who has superhuman courage.

• Universal ideas such as good and evil

• Written in heightened poetic language.

• All of the above.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of an epic?

• It is a story that is told that is told in a serious manner

• It uses elevated language.

• It uses plain, straightforward language.

• It depicts a hero battling forces that threaten in the world order.

The pilgrims are traveling to Canterbury because —

• the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket is there

• they want to escape the plague that is attacking London

• the innkeeper has dared them to make the journey

• it is part of a longer tour of England

Between 400-449 AD, who invaded the British Isle?

• Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
• Angles and Saxons
• Jutes and Normans
• Gauls

The stories from The Canterbury Tales were originally written in -

• Old English

• French

• Middle English

• Elizabethan English

Identify the rhetorical appeal being used in the following scenario: Iago telling Roderigo that he himself has license to criticize and hate Othello because of how long they have worked together.

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

The Danish King

• Hrothgar
• Higlac
• Healfdane
• Beowulf