English 4B Unit 8

1. During the Victorian Age, it was said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire." This saying most likely referred to

2. Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of the Species caused many in Victorian society to return to the idea that truth would be found by exploring personal experience.

3. During the Victorian era, the number of working class citizens in Great Britain increased.

1. Read this line from Tennyson's poem "Ulysses." To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield Which mood word best describes this line?

Select the best way to write the underlined verb(s) in the sentence. 2. The news anchor inform us that storms occur everywhere.

1. True or false: In a dramatic monologue, the speaker describes deep feelings about an experience, and then the person he or she is addressing responds in the same way.

2. Why is the speaker in a dramatic monologue generally considered to be unreliable?

3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "Sonnet 43" is characterized as a sonnet because it

Choose the form of the verb in parentheses that agrees with the underlined subject(s). 4. Either Sid or his sisters (is, are) working in the garage.

For questions 5-7, choose the verb that agrees with the subject of the sentence. 5. Few of the cracked hockey masks ______ the players much protection.

6. Which ______ the original states in the Union?

7. Neither storms nor other bad weather _______ by a move to another state.

1. Sprung rhythm involves using _______.

2. Which of the following would Hopkins say is not true of the things mentioned in "Pied Beauty"?

3. Both "Pied Beauty" and "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" suggest a sense of ________.

Choose the meaning of the bolded words in questions 4-8. 4. The jeweler (burnished) the locked before placing it in the display case.

5. She opened the (casement) to let in some fresh air.

6. The man was considered to have a calm and even (temper).

7. What immortal hand or eye/Could frame thy fearful (symmetry)?

8. the beatings of my heart—How oft in spirit have I turned to thee/O (sylvan) Wye!

Choose the correct word to complete the sentence. 9. The Taj Mahal, not the Hanging Gardens, ______ built by Shah Jahan.

10. In 1901, the seats in the car _____ placed back to back

11. The dishes on the counter _____ carefully stacked.

12. The maximum number of passengers _____ posted in the front of the bus.

13. More than one-half of Sal's profits _____ spent on camera equipment.

14. Tina, not her roommates, _____ studying in the library.

15. The oleander, like many other common shrubs, _____ poisonous leaves.

1. Read these lines from "The Darkling Thrush," by Thomas Hardy. An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small In blast-beruffled plume These lines demonstrate Hardy's use of which poetic device?

2. The line "When frost was spectre-gray" from "The Darkling Thrush" is an example of imagery because it appeals to the sense of

For questions 3-5, choose the verb that agrees with the bolded subject of the sentence. 3. The (dictionary) is one book that _______ in most libraries.

4. I gave directions to the (tourist) who ______ lost.

5. The Statue of Liberty is one of the (gifts) that _____ given to us by the French.