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    NAME

    Shashvat Singham
    ROLL No 200922

    Quiz II ENG123A Introduction to Literature


    Marks 15 Monday, 4 October Time: 6:00-6:45 P.M

    Your responses need to be uploaded by 6:55 P.M latest. If you keep your
    window inactive for more than 5 minutes, your responses may not be
    recorded. Under no circumstances, late submissions shall be allowed.

    I. Answer the following in about 50-60 words each: 3x2= 6 Marks

    (A). What does the speaker of “Kubla Khan” talk about in saying,
    “I would build that dome in air?”

    (B). In “Dover Beach” what does the allusion to Sophocles signify?

    ©. In Marquez’s story, why do the townspeople find the girl turned into a spider much more
    appealing than the captive angel?

    II. Answer the following briefly, preferably in phrases or a sentence each: 9x1=9 Marks

    1. A sunny pleasure-dome, with caves of ice!


    Name the figure of speech that Coleridge uses in this line.

    2. A savage place! As holy and enchanted


    As e’er beneath a waning moon . . .
    Identify the figure of speech that makes the comparisons compelling.

    3. Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,


    Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
    Name the figure of speech used to characterize autumn in these lines.

    4. Autumn is said to be conspiring with a celestial body to bring plenitude to the landscape.
    Specify the celestial body.

    5. According to Marquez’s narrator, what is the only supernatural virtue of the captive angel?
    6. Marquez’s narrative in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” blends supernatural
    elements with realistic details. What is this technique popularly known as?

    7. Who is being addressed by Arnold’s speaker in “Dover Beach” when he pleads “Ah, love,
    let us be true/ To one another?!”

    8. What is Elisenda’s reaction to the flight of the angel in Marquez’s story?

    9. For summer has o’er-brimmed their clammy cells.


    Which figure of speech makes this line resonant?

    WRITE YOUR RESPONSES HERE


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    II
    9. alliteration
    3. Personification
    2. Simile
    4. Sun
    5. The townspeople sarcastically believe that the angel's “only supernatural virtue
    seemed to be patience,” the angel's patience actually makes him the most virtuous
    character in the story.
    6. Magic realism
    1.Allegory
    I
    2. Sophocles was a Greek tragic dramatist. His popular tragedies are Oedipus
    Rex, Antigone, Ajax etc. Sophocles, in his famous tragedy, "Antigone" refers
    that he heard the "turbid ebb and flow/ of human misery" in Aegean Sea, a
    part of Mediterranean Sea.
    The poet of the present poem, Arnold also hears the same sound of sea
    waves. The sound of the sea waves generated in him a melancholy thought -
    No human beings are free from misery, worldly anguishes, and sufferings.
    The poet uses the name of Sophocles to emphasize his view of "eternal note
    of sadness" because of the loss of religious faith.
    1. The dome can be seen as symbolizing the act of creating a poem itself. After seeing
    the beautiful dome and being awed by it, the speaker yearns and strives to create
    something as memorable, lasting, and striking as the "dome in air" to make the reader
    marvel.
    2. The girl was "a frightful tarantula the size of a ram and with the head of a sad maiden".
    She was a pathetic and horrific sight, but even more so than her appearance, her
    sincere manner in recounting "the details of her misfortune" brought the villagers to
    regard her with amazement and awe. The townspeople prefer the “human truth” and
    the “fearful lesson.” This indicates that they want a straight-forward message and
    would rather be ruled by fear than to interpret ideas. The old man isn't actively
    pretending to be an angel, but due to his wings, he is certainly believed to be one by
    many. The spider woman, on the other hand, is a fraud, a charlatan, a confidence
    trickster. Over time, the old man proves unable to perform the kind of wondrous miracles
    people expect from an angel.

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