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

Tennyson's poetry was deepened and enriched by

• his marriage

• the birth of his son

• the death of his best friend

• training at Cambridge

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

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

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

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.

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

• living

• dying

• competing with others

• sailing

Which of the following works has the clearest plot arc?

• In Memoriam

• Uylsses

• Porphyria's Lover

• Sonnet 43

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