2nd Period, May 10

1.

1 point

What is the tone of "On the Difference Between Wit and Humor", by Charles S. Brooks?

Ironic

Sarcastic

Humorous

Informative

Hostile

2.

1 point

What is the significance of the author placing a couplet at line(s) 25-26?

\To express the authors feelings of the difference between wit and humor

Informative information to prove the author’s message to the reader

To provide a pause in the essay for dramatic effect

To provide a rhyme to make the essay more appealing to the reader

To provide a humorous remark to emphasize the overall tone of the essay

3.

1 point

What is the author’s purpose of choosing line(s) 1-2 as the introduction to the essay?

To allow the reader to relate to the author

To convince the reader that the authors opinion is correct

The occasion the author witnessed for inspiration to write the essay

To allow the reader to perceive insight to the authors perspective on the essay topic.

To show the author has no opinion on the topic

4.

1 point

What is the purpose of the second stanza (line(s) 3-8)) in the essay?

To show the authors opinion on both humor and wit

To show the author favors wit over humor

To show that humor and wit are the same thing

To show clear distinction between what humor and wit is

To show the authors opinion of why humor is wrong

5.

1 point

What is the significance of the fourth stanza (line(s) 13-23)) in the essay?

To show that humor and wit are in fact entirely different

To show that wit is far more entertaining than humor

To show that humor and wit are best when they both are used together

To show that the author is an expert in both humor and wit

To prove the author favors humor over wit

6.

1 point

Why does Hazlitt refer to past leaders, kings, and artists in the second paragraph?

To analyze their greatest achievement.

To give examples that shows that he doesn’t care for living during those times.

To analyze all of the reasons why he should have been born in those times, rather than his time.

To compare them with the artist of his time.

To demonstrate his fascination with history.

7.

1 point

What does the word “revolt” most likely mean in this sentence?

“Why should we revolt at the idea that we must on day go out of it?”

To fight against.

To avoid from

To enrage toward.

Feel horror towards.

To run away.

8.

1 point

What is the tone the author is using in this sentence, second paragraph?

“We had lain perdus all this while, snug, out of harm’s way; and had slept out our thousands of centuries without wanting to wake up; at peace and free from care, in a long nonage, in a sleep deeper and calmer than that of infancy, wrapped in the softest and finest dust”

Peaceful

Stoic

Informative

Indifferent

Calm

9.

1 point

Compared to the tone in the sentence before, what is the tone in this sentence?

“And the worst that we dread is, after a short, fretful, feverish being, after vain hopes and idle fears, to sink to final repose again, and forget the troubled dream of life!”

Sarcastic

Audacious

Stupefying

Amazed

Cynical

10.

1 point

What does the author mean in the last sentence of the fifth paragraph?

“We do not grieve and lament that we did not happen to be in time to see the grand mask and pageant of human life going on in all that period; though we are mortified at being obliged to quit our stand before the rest of the procession passes.”

People could care less of what happened before they were born yet are afraid of dying before everyone else.

None of these answers are correct

People should care about what happened before you were born, so when you die you’ll be happy.

People fear dying before everyone else, thus feeling the need to stand out.

People need to be in at least one pageant before they die.

11.

1 point

In the context of this sentence, “It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin.”, what does the word “commensurate” mean?

Proportionate

Measured

Closely related

Corresponding

Balanced

12.

1 point

What is the tone of this Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech?

Determined

Thoughtful

Preachy

Moralistic

Adversarial

13.

1 point

What is the underlying purpose of William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech?

If you are afraid to write about universal truths, then you won’t be a successful writer

To tell authors that if they remain afraid to dig deeper into their writing, then they will never develop into better writers.

If you don’t address problems in your writing, then your writing won’t amount to much.

To say that if your writing only scrapes the surface of what you want to talk about, no one will want to read your piece because it lacks a deeper meaning.

In order for your writing to have substance, you have to write about “love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice”.

14.

1 point

What prompted Faulkner to write what he did?

He remembered the things that made his writing successful, and wanted to share those things with people who aspire to write like him.

He wanted to pass on the ideas that made him a good writer, to those who also wanted to become good writers.

He used to be afraid to dig deeper into his topics while writing, preventing him from writing stories of sustenance.

Faulkner knew other authors’ who’s stories lacked sustenance, and who didn’t get far with their work, and he wanted to tell them to stop letting fear get in the way.

Faulkner wrote a book that didn’t go much in depth, and he wanted to tell others about why you shouldn’t write like that author.

15.

1 point

“I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.”

What literary term is the highlighted section using?

Personification

Alliteration

Oxymoron

Onomatopoeia

Pardox

16.

1 point

Overall, what seems to be the tone for "Essay and Essayists"?

Angry, directed towards failing essay writers

Informative – what key essays have

Sarcastic towards essay writers

Exited that essays are being written every day

Sad that essay analyzing is dull and melancholic

17.

1 point

Lines 1 through 6 in "Essays and Essayists" have an idea that shows

Good essays last forever

How people’s opinions are not important to William E. Henry

That men write more than women

Comparisons between good essays and bad ones

Through the numerous essays written, few have been made immortal

18.

1 point

In line 14 quotations are used for “rare and radiant” to-

Exaggerate a misleading essay

Explain the tone of Montaigne’s essays

Cite a fellow author and to mock them

Describe accomplished essay writers

Describe well written essays

19.

1 point

“Your true essayist is in a literary sense the friend of everybody” most nearly means-

William E. Henley implies having important friends will get you published

Writing should be born with charismatic, charming features

All good writers support world peace

A good essayist is nice to everybody

Writers should learn charismatic, charming features

20.

1 point

William E. Henley uses the author Montaigne to-

Have a comparison of a bad author

Mock his work an disregard his opinions

Give a standard of literary greatness

Back up his facts on a good essayist

Show who a good author is