Alberta Diploma Exams · English Language Arts 30-1

Literary Analysis

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  1. Which poetic form is a poem of mourning for someone who has died?
  2. Which literary movement emphasised emotion, nature and the individual?
  3. Who wrote the poem 'In Flanders Fields'?
  4. What is a euphemism?
  5. Who is the creator of the creature in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
  6. Which term describes a work that ridicules human faults to encourage change?
  7. What is an unreliable narrator?
  8. What is a paradox?
  9. In Hamlet, which famous soliloquy begins 'To be, or not to be'?
  10. In Hamlet, which action does Hamlet take to test whether the ghost's story is true?
  11. What is a soliloquy?
  12. What is a tragic flaw (hamartia)?
  13. Which narrative technique is used when Gatsby's story is told by Nick rather than by Gatsby himself?
  14. In Macbeth, what drives Macbeth to murder King Duncan?
  15. In 'To Kill a Mockingbird', what does the mockingbird symbolise?
  16. In 'The Great Gatsby', what does the green light at the end of Daisy's dock symbolise?
  17. Which technique is used when a writer repeats a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences?
  18. What is the rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet's first quatrain?
  19. In 'Lord of the Flies', what does the conch shell symbolise?
  20. In Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale', what is the role of Handmaids in Gilead?
  21. What is enjambment in poetry?
  22. What is the effect of a first-person narrator in 'Life of Pi'?
  23. Which figure of speech is 'Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country'?
  24. In Orwell's '1984', what does the slogan 'War is peace' illustrate?
  25. What is iambic pentameter?

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