Irony means that there is a gap, or discrepancy, between what one says/expects and what one means (verbal irony), or what really happens (dramatic irony). Which of the following lines is NOT ironic?
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. ("My Last Duchess")
The Count your master's known munificence Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed At starting, is my object. ("My Last Duchess")
And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. ("Song")
[...] I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain. ("Porphyria's Lover")
Which of the following lines does not contain double meanings?
Haply I may remember, And haply may forget. ("Song")
[those passions] yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed ("Ozymandias")
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. ("Ode to a Grecian Urn")
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! ("Ozymandias")
Which of the following statement is WRONG about dramatic monologue?
We as readers need to figure out the who, what, where, when and how of the main story.
The monologuist always speaks alone to him/herself.
We cannot trust what the monologuist says.
The genre reflects the poets' attempts to meet the readers’ need for stories in Victorian society, when novel was a popular genre.
Which of the following lines do NOT have their rhymes, including alliteration, assonance, consonance and end rhyme, enhance their meanings effectively?
Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.("Ozymandias")
Heard a carol, mournful, holy, Chanted loudly, chanted lowly, Till her blood was frozen slowly, And her eyes were darkened wholly, Turn'd to tower'd Camelot. For ere she reach'd upon the tide The first house by the water-side, Singing in her song she died, The Lady of Shalott.
It little profits that an idle king,/ By this still hearth, among these barren crags,/ Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole/ Unequal laws unto a savage race,/ That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;/ The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep/ Moans round with many voices.
Which of the following are questions for facts (or yes/no answer), but not rhetoric questions with more implied?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Who is this? And what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they crossed themselves for fear.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
"The Lady of Shalott": which of the following is definitely a WRONG analysis?
The web Shalott weaves can be seen as a work of art.
Images of action and sound are connected with Lancelot.
Seeing "shadows of the world" appear on her mirror, Shalott says she is half sick of them.
Who has the last word in the poem matters, so in the 1833 version, Shalott is more assertive than the poem's final version.
"Ulysses" by Tennyson: choose the definitely WRONG interpretation of this poem.
Ulysses is contradictory in calling his son "mine own Telemachus," "most blameless," but also to distinguish himself from the son.
Ulysses feels dissatisfied with his present life because he is idle and he has become just a name.
Ulysses wants to go on an adventure, but there may be in him a death wish (a wish for "dark broad sea" and "Happy Isle").
The last three lines "One equal temper of heroic hearts,/ Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" represent Ulysses' strong determination and energies to go on his adventure.
"Autumn" and "Grecian Urn" by John Keats: which are NOT the techniques used by both of them?
Personification
Apostrophe and direct address
Change from personification to inanimate objects to describe the subject.
The poet enters and confirms a realm of abundance and permanence only to return to his human world.