University Entrance Exams in English Literature (MA)

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Created on December 06, 2020 By FD

Real Exam 10070

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“The only other sound’s the sweep / Of easy wind and downy flake.”
[Robert Frost]
Which of the following statements about these lines is not true?

No consonance is used in these lines.

No instance of assonance is used in the first line.

If you repeat the lines often enough they have the same drowsy effect of falling snow.

The same rhymes at the end make it seem as if the snow won’t ever stop falling.

Oops!
Alliteration is the repetition of the initial sounds in a sequence of nearby
words. In these lines from Frost’s “Stopping by Wood”, alliteration can be
seen in the words ‘sound - sweep’. Consonance is the repetition of a
sequence of consonants, but with a change in the intervening stressed
vowel; that we do not find it in this specific line. And assonance is the
repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds – especially in stressed
syllables – in a sequence of nearby words. Here instances of alliteration are
seen both in first and second lines: “only –other” and “easy – sweep”.
In the second stanza of the poem, the unbroken curve of rhythm adds to
the sense of moving imperceptibly into a spell-world, as we dimly note the
linking of the rhymes with the first stanza. The pattern is catching on to the
reader, pulling him into its drowsy current – similar to that of snow.

Excellent!
Alliteration is the repetition of the initial sounds in a sequence of nearby
words. In these lines from Frost’s “Stopping by Wood”, alliteration can be
seen in the words ‘sound - sweep’. Consonance is the repetition of a
sequence of consonants, but with a change in the intervening stressed
vowel; that we do not find it in this specific line. And assonance is the
repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds – especially in stressed
syllables – in a sequence of nearby words. Here instances of alliteration are
seen both in first and second lines: “only –other” and “easy – sweep”.
In the second stanza of the poem, the unbroken curve of rhythm adds to
the sense of moving imperceptibly into a spell-world, as we dimly note the
linking of the rhymes with the first stanza. The pattern is catching on to the
reader, pulling him into its drowsy current – similar to that of snow.

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The three unities (of action, place and time) in drama were most observed by

Shakespeare.

Modern Dramatists.

sixteenth and seventeenth century Italian and French dramatists.

modern French playwrights advocating expressionism and symbolism.

Ooops!
The critics of 16th and 17th centuries added to Aristotle’s recommendation
of unity of action, two other unities: the unity of place and time to
constitute the rules of drama known as three unities.

Well done!
The critics of 16th and 17th centuries added to Aristotle’s recommendation
of unity of action, two other unities: the unity of place and time to
constitute the rules of drama known as three unities.

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The third Stanza of Keats’s famous poem “Ode to Autumn” deals with

a gleaner.

fruitfulness.

personification.

sound images.

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