INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DEL PROFESORADO Nº 2

"DR. JOAQUÍN V. GONZÁLEZ"

SECCIÓN: INGLÉS. ASIGNATURA: LITERATURA EN LENGUA INGLESA I.
PROFESORA: Paola Azcoiti FECHA: October 29th, 2020. ESTUDIANTE: Selene Troncoso

MID-TERM EXAM

1. Re-read the poem “Five Ways to Kill a Man” by Edwin Brock. Can you identify one figure of speech?(0.25 p)
Personification: If the wind allows.

2. Re-read the poem “Five Ways to Kill a Man” by Edwin Brock. What is the rhyme scheme? (0.25 p)
There is no rhyme scheme.

3. Who is the speaker in “One Flesh” by Elizabeth Jennings? (0.25 p)

The speaker is a child.

4. Re-read Terry Eagleton’s “Introduction: What Is Literature?” Explain the connection between Ideology and Literature.
(1 p)

5. Re-read Jonathan Culler’s “What Is Literature and Does It Matter?” What is paradoxical about Literature? (1p)

6. How does Joe betray Milton in Isaac Asimov’s “True Love”? Why does Joe do that? (1 p)
Joe betrays Milton by setting him up to be arrested. Joes does it because he is jealous of Milton and wants to find his true
love.

7. Why is “40-Love” an example of concrete poetry?(0.25 p)

8. Identify a figure of speech in Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”?(0.25 p)

Rhetorical question/ simile: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

9. What is the point of view or narrative perspective in Isaac Asimov’s “True Love”?(0.25 p)
First person narrative.

10. What is ironic in “Love Letter” by Carole E. Gregory?(1 p)

This a love letter by love for her people and her country. What is ironical is that the letter is not the love for Samson and
that is the explanation for the things she has done.

11. Which types of poetry can you mention? Give an example of those we have studied in class. (1 p)
The elegy, the ode and Sonnets. Example: Sonnet 116 “Let me not marriage of true minds” by William Shakespeare.

12. Re-read the extracts of Beowulf analyzed in class. Why can we say that Beowulf is generous, selfless and courageous?
(1 p)

13. Which typical features of the ballad can you identify in “Lord Randall”?(0.5 p)
This ballad provides incremental repetition.

14. Re-read Chaucer’s Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Complete the following chart:(1 p)

Character Eyes Hair Complexion Body type Clothing Other

Curly Moderate Short gown Could make
Squire Length with wide and song and
strong long sleeves poems
Brown Green coat Bore a hunting
Yeoman and hood. horn
Bright
peacock-
feathered
arrows.
Fair Veil, graceful Kind and
Nun Glassy-grey cloak, coral graceful. Soft,
trinket, set of red mouth.
 beads

15- Re-read Chaucer’s Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Identify similarities and differences between the Knight and the
Squire. (1 p)
The knight and the Squire are similar in terms of agility, strength, bravery, and courtesy. However, the Squire does not
have his father’s experience; he is not quite as perfect as his father. As he wears fine clothes and is vain about his
appearance.