Drill in English No. 14

What do the novels of Bronte, Eliot, Gaskell and Dickens reveal about fiction in the Victorian period of English Literature?

What do the last two lines from Freneau’s “The Wild Honeysuckle” reveal about life? From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came;If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of flower.

Who is alluded to as the Captain in the following lines from Walter Whitman’s poem?

O captain! My Captain!

Our fearful trip is done,

The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won.

How does Shelley regard the west wind in Ode to the West Wind

Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth,

and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)

With living hues and odours plain and hill:

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;

Destroyer and Preserver; hear, oh, hear!

How does the speaker picture God in the following sermon? The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider; or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrathtowards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. [Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, 1741]

Paradise Lost, John Milton’s epic poem in blank verse, tells the biblical tale of 

What does the speaker like about Chicago as shown in the following lines?

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;

Recall Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis”. Who did the writer allude to in the line “the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot”? These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

What does that the speaker lament over in the following lines from Romeo and Juliet?"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet".

What do the following lines below from Shakespeare’s “As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII”reveal about life? "All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts"

What truth about humans do the following lines from “A Noiseless Patient Spider” reveal?

And you, O my Soul, where you stand,

Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,

Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,--seeking the spheres, to connect them;

Till the bridge you will need, be form'd--till the ductile anchor hold;

Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.

Which of the following is not an example of Gothic literature?

An ERRATIC behavior suggests one that is ________________.

The statue was erected in ___________ to war heroes.

The Magsaysay Memorial features a _________ statue of the well-loved President.