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Mock Midterm Assessment G1

British Literatures: The Expanding Canon.

Mock Midterm Assessment G1
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1. First Reflections on Interpretation and Reading.  *

The
reader
The belief that
tries to
you can set
find
aside The
common
preconceptions, brin
ground,
that you can the
to find
The completely abo
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engagement factor out your Preliminary wo
way of of
in own conceptions be
merging interpretation
interpretation subjectivity, in t
a
order to enter enga
present
into the wi
with a
mindset of
past, a
some other
here
time or place.
with a
there

Prejudices

Horizon

Hermeneutic
Act

Hermeneutics

Horizon
merger

Historicism

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2. Select the Literary Devices in Beowulf *

Hemi-Stiche

Flashbacks

Stiche

Caesura

Motif

3. The author of Midnight's Children is: *

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

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4. On Reading: *

The The
meaning of significance
a text is of a text is
what the The the
or
author distance meaning
or The significance
intended it between for us, the
reading imaginative is the
to mean, the way in
is powers of application
which we reader which we
construal the reader. of that
can and the can
construal.
establish text. translate it
with a into our
reliable own terms
paraphrase. historically.

Innovation:
Innovation:

Reading Act
Reading Act
(Iser):
(Iser):
Meaning
Meaning
(Hirsch):
(Hirsch):

Defamiliarization
Defamiliarization

Meaning
Meaning

The aesthetics
The
of aesthetics
reception
of reception

Gap
Gap

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Interpretation
Interpretation

Significance
Significance
(Hirsch):
(Hirsch):

5. What is mimesis: *

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6. What is the statement of Literature: *

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7. Metonimy is relevant mainly to *

Elegir

8. Metaphor is relevant mainly to: *

Elegir

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9. Explain the connection between the image, the expression: "My wheels", and *
syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships. 

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10. How would you connect Beowulf and the society of the time. *

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11. How would you explain reality and literature? *

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12. Who was Albion? *

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13. Who were the Pixies? *

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14. Who was Puck? *

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15. The Anglo-Saxons were: *

Picts, Saxons and Jutes

Angles, Saxons and Jutes

Britons, Picts and Frisians

16. What's the meaning of "wyrd systers" *

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17. A ballad is  short narrative poem which is written to be sung and has a simple *
but dramatic theme.

Elegir

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18. What is the importance of the Norman Invasion? *

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19. What is an English sonnet? *

An English sonnet consists of three quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme of abab
cdcd efef gg.

20. What is a blank verse? *

It is a verse without a rhyme and a definite meter, usually of iambic pentameter.

21. What is double register in Shakespeare's drama? *

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22. Select one Shakespeare's sonnet and relate it to your horizon. *

The sonnet selected is 'Sonnet 18'. Seeing it in our horizon, we can see the beauty that
Shakespeare refers to: there is a lot of climate changes in Bogotá, so everytime there is rain
or gray we are in a bad mood, but as soon as the sun appears everything seems more
enjoyable and colorful. Shakespare compares happiness to a summer day with an endless
sunshine, so for us it is the same when there are sunny days in the city.

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23. Complete the chart: *

You can do it by hand or complete in a word document. 

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24. What are the elements of Shakespearean tragedy? *

A tragic hero, the dichotomy of good and evil, a tragic waste, hero’s tragic flaw (Hamartia),
issues of fate or fortune, greed, foul revenge, supernatural elements, internal and external
pressures, and the paradox of life.

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25. Offer an interpretation for the Poem "London" *

It is a critic of the London society in a certain time, where the govermetn had a lot of power
and no interest at all to help the people of the community.

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26. The  poem "London" in point number 25, refers to the time of Industrial *
Revolution in England. Read it again and read about the concept of the cyborg by
Donna Haraway. How do you connect the poem and the voice of Donna Haraway?

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