Unit 1: Practice

Task 1: Decide if the following statements are TRUE or FALSE. (by word-of-
1. Literature refers to human exploitations written in words that are well-chosen and arranged. F mouth)
2. A great book is born of the brain and heart of its author; he has put himself into its pages; they
partake of his life, and are instinct with his individuality. T
3. People are strongly impelled to confide to others what they think and feel; hence the literature
which deals with the great drama of human life and action. T
4. Literature does not only keep experiences but also exposes relevant experiences to audiences
around the world. T
5. A piece of literature differs from a specialized document on astronomy, political economy,
philosophy, or even history, in part because it appeals not to a particular class of readers only. T
6. Literature is composed of those books which, by reason of their subject-matter and their mode
of treating it, are of general human interest. F nghệ thuật vì nghệ thuật
7. Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it,
what they have thought and felt about those aspects which have the most immediate and
enduring interest for all of us. T
8. People are intensely interested in men and women, their lives, motives, passions,
relationships; hence the literature which directly expresses the thoughts and feelings of the
writer. T

Task 2: Choose the correct answers.

1. It is a quality of literature which appeals to our sense of beauty.
A. Style B. artistry C. universalitytính
phổ quát
D. intellectual value giá trị trí tuệ
2. During what part of "The Little Mermaid" does Ariel have to choose whether to kill the prince or
not?
A. Climax B. Rising action C. Falling action D. Introduction
3. The events that take place in a story make up the story's
A. genre B. plot C. setting D. climax
4. Which of the following is not a type of conflict?
A. person vs. person B. person vs. society C. person vs. identity D. person vs. nature
5. Because Chi Pheo changes his thoughts and actions during the course of narrative, he's said
to be a _______ character.
A. one-dimensional B. symbolic C. static D. dynamic
6. What are conventions in literature?
A. The events that lead to the climax of a novel.
B. The conflicts between the protagonist and the antagonist.
C. The traditions and rules that lead to a reader's expectations.
D. The difficulties a writer encounters in creating characters.
7. Which point of view is told from one character’s viewpoint?
A. omniscient B. first person C. neutral view D. second narrator
8. An author's purpose in using rhetoric is to _______.
A. create a certain effect for the reader. B. present facts as they really are.
C. provide hints as to what's going to happen. D. separate realism from idealism.
9. Dramatic irony means that _______.
A. the cosmos, state, family, and individual follow the same pattern.
B. the audience knows something the character or characters don't.
C. things are going to end very badly for someone.
D. everything works out in the end.
10. The mood (or the feeling you get when reading a piece of writing) can also be called the
________.
A. tone B. rhythm C. structure D. voice
11. The person telling the story is called the _______.
A. narrator B. protagonist C. villain D. character
12. The words characters think or say out loud alone are called _______.
A. monologue B. dialogue C. conflict D. point of view
13. Point of view is revealed as the _______.
A. narrator tells everything that happens B. main character experiences the events
C. writer communicates in his/her own voice D. one character sees things from his/her
perspective
14. What are the elements of a story?
A. mood, theme, beginning, middle, end
B. author, reader, book, paper, ink
C. plot, setting, characters, conflict, theme, point of view
D. mood, characters, conflict, setting, plot
15. The _________ in a story is made of both time and place.
A. conflict B. setting C. characterization D. moral
16. The main character in a novel or play who keeps the action moving forward is the_________.
A. main man B. heroine C. antagonist D. protagonist
17. A story’s plot outline follows which pattern?
A. setting, theme, tone, irony
B. beginning, middle, resolution
C. beginning, problem, character introduction, conclusion
D. introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
18. Some tales have a “twist” in the plot. This discrepancy between what a reader expects to
happen and what really does happen is ___________.
A. inversion B. satire C. irony D. suspense
19. The evil, bad guy in a story is the __________.
A. hero B. antagonist C. protagonist D. character
20. The overall meaning of the story or piece of writing is the _______.
A. mood B. theme C. genre D. plot
21. What are some types of conflict characters encounter?
A. happy, sad, old-fashioned, modern
B. person vs. person, person/society, person/nature, and person vs. supernatural
C. monster, goblin, warrior, sorcerer, troll
D. gambling, drinking, fighting, lying, stealing
22. The most significant conflict in "Chu nguoi tu tu" is between _______.
A. Huan Cao and the prison warden B. Huan Cao and the feudal society
C. traditional values and the modern values D. real life and fantasy
23. The wicked witch and the big bad wolf are examples of _______.
A. dynamic characters B. archetypes. C. protagonists. D. anecdotes.
24. In "When the light is out," Mrs. Dau is a _______ in the story.
A. symbol of fun B. stock character C. protagonist D. genre
25. An author may intentionally use objects, colors, images, names, and events as _______ in a
story.
A. themes B. moods C. symbols D. important events
26. What are the literary device based on Similarity or Likeness?
A. simile B. metaphor C. personification D. apostrophe
27. What are the literary device based on Association or Substitution?
A. simile B. metaphor C. synechdoche D. paradox
28. Which figurative device is used in the poetic line "I wandered lonely as a cloud"?
A. a metaphor B. a simile C. a couplet D. alliteration
29. Which one of the following sentences is an example of a metaphor?
A. I am a rock. B. She eats like a bird.
C. I'm as hungry as a wolf. D. The breeze blew the branches back and forth.
30. The figure of speech in which animals, objects, or ideas are given the characteristics of a
person is called __________.
A. metaphor B. personification C. synecdoche D. symbolism
31. Extreme exaggeration is a figure of speech called __________.
A. plagiarism B. poetry C. symbolism D. hyperbole
32. Foreshadowing means __________.
A. showing the readers the dark side of a character's personality.
B. describing what happens at night, for example in a dark basement.
C. hinting at things that will occur later.
D. putting secondary characters in the foreground of the story.
33. "Foam brightens like the dogwood now" is an example of __________.
A. a simile B. a metaphor C. alliteration D. consonance
34. Hopkins's use of "seared," "bleared," and "smeared" is an example of __________.
A. metaphor B. synecdoche C. simile D. alliteration rhyming: gieo vần
35. A person trying to survive a terrible storm is an example of __________.
A. flashback B. biography C. man vs. nature D. stereotype
36. Which one of the following items is an example of a symbol in "The Xa Nu Forest" by
Nguyen Trung Thanh?
A. xa nu tree B. Mai’s death C. Dit D. the village

Task 3: Identify the italicized literary device in each situation.

HAMLET
1. Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. (Hamlet talks to the ghost) metaphor
2. Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
And will not let belief take hold of him. personification
hồn ma
3. That if again this apparition come, He may approve our eyes and speak to it. synedoche
4. Claudius-“Laertes, was your father dear to you? Or are you, like the painting of a sorrow, a
face without a heart?” simile
5. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, metaphor
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles … hyperbole
6. But that the dread of something after death, rhyming
 The undiscover’d country from whose bourn

WUTHERING HEIGHTS
7. Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict
would have parted us, you, of you own will, did it. symbolism/metonymy
8. .. he gnashed at me, and foamed like a mad dog, and gathered her to him with greedy
simile
jealousy.
9. Are you possessed with a devil," he pursued, savagely, "to talk in that manner to me when
you are dying? Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and
eating deeper eternally after you have left me?
personification
ARABY
10. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another
with brown imperturbable faces. personification
11. I wanna be your left hand man. metonymy

MR. KNOW-ALL
12. Tell them you’ve got a pal who’s got all the liquor in the world. hyperbole
13. Mr Kelada was born under giàu có
a bluer sky than is generally seen in England. hyperbole
14. …the best hated man in the ship oxymoron
15. If I had a pretty little wife I shouldn’t let her spend a year in New York while I stayed at
Kobe symbolism

RIP VAN WINKLE

16. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple...when the rest of
the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits,
which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. simile

FLIGHT flee (v)

17. The brush grabbed at his legs in the dark until one knee of his jeans was ripped. personification
bụi cây

OTHER STORIES
18. The “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin tells the tale of a wife who learned her husband was
dead. She felt a sense of freedom, thinking about her new life out from under his thumb.
Suddenly, the husband returns (he never was dead) and she dies of shock. situational irony
19. “Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate; if the
cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several
hours.” (Unauthorized Autobiography by Lemony Snicket) verbal irony
20. Rain on your wedding day
A free ride when you’ve already paid dramatic irony
Good advice that you just didn’t take (A song of Alannis Morisette)