Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement
or answers the question.
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In
Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, the baron obtains the “fatal engine”
from
a. | Ariel. | b. | Clarissa. | c. | Sir Plume. | d. | Sir Fopling. | | |
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“Then
flashed the living lightning from her eyes.”
This line from Pope’s The Rape of the Lock illustrates the
use of
a. | irony. | b. | oxymoron. | c. | alliteration. | d. | apostrophe. | | |
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In The
Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes
a. | English military ambitions. | b. | rivalry between Whigs
and Tories. | c. | preoccupation with upper-class trivialities | d. | conflicts between
commoners and aristocrats. | | |
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In The
Rape of the Lock, the “airy band” refers to
a. | the Baron and
Clarissa. | b. | the musicians of the court. | c. | the empty-headed beaux
and belles. | d. | the sylphs assigned to protect Belinda.
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At the end
of Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, the lock is
a. | turned into a
star.
| b. | kept by the
Baron. | c. | returned to Belinda. | d. | guarded by the
sylphs. | | |
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“True
ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest
who have learned to dance.
’Tis not enough no harshness gives
offense—
The sound must seem an echo to the
sense.”
In these lines, Pope makes use of
a. | sestet. | b. | tetrameter. | c. | blank verse. | d. | heroic
couplet.
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“Not
fierce Othello in so loud a strain
Roared for the handkerchief that caused his
pain.”
These lines from The Rape of the Lock illustrate the use
of
a. | simile. | b. | allusion. | c. | paradox. | d. | oxymoron. | | |
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A
common feature of the mock epic is
a. | internal rhyme. | b. | an inflated
tone.
| c. | a pastoral
setting | d. | dramatic monologue. | | |
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