ENG 225 WEEK 2 TEST PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Catharsis. Answer: The audience's purging of the feelings of
sorrow and pity at the end of a tragedy.
◉ Charachterization. Answer: The way a writer represents and
reveals a character.
◉ closed form. Answer: Poetry that has restricted structure,
including meter, rhyme scheme, and number of lines.
◉ Common knowledge. Answer: information that almost everyone
knows
◉ conflict. Answer: An event in a work of literature that complicates
the story; usually resolved by the end of the text.
◉ Connotation. Answer: The implied meanings and associations of a
word.
◉ Context. Answer: The surroundings, such as connotation and
author, of a work of fiction that determines its meaning.
, ◉ Critical Theory. Answer: The perspectives through which readers
analyze literature.
◉ Critical thinking. Answer: The process of thinking about and
analyzing a work of literature.
◉ Cultural studies. Answer: Theories that study the role of society in
literature
◉ Dactylic. Answer: One foot of poetry with one stressed syllable
followed by two unstressed syllables
◉ Dangling modifier. Answer: A phrase that is unclear as to whether
it modifies the subject or the object of the sentence
◉ Database. Answer: An organized collection of information
◉ Deconstruction. Answer: A theory that studies and questions the
existence of and imbalance in binary opposites.
◉ Denotation. Answer: The dictionary meaning of a word.
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Catharsis. Answer: The audience's purging of the feelings of
sorrow and pity at the end of a tragedy.
◉ Charachterization. Answer: The way a writer represents and
reveals a character.
◉ closed form. Answer: Poetry that has restricted structure,
including meter, rhyme scheme, and number of lines.
◉ Common knowledge. Answer: information that almost everyone
knows
◉ conflict. Answer: An event in a work of literature that complicates
the story; usually resolved by the end of the text.
◉ Connotation. Answer: The implied meanings and associations of a
word.
◉ Context. Answer: The surroundings, such as connotation and
author, of a work of fiction that determines its meaning.
, ◉ Critical Theory. Answer: The perspectives through which readers
analyze literature.
◉ Critical thinking. Answer: The process of thinking about and
analyzing a work of literature.
◉ Cultural studies. Answer: Theories that study the role of society in
literature
◉ Dactylic. Answer: One foot of poetry with one stressed syllable
followed by two unstressed syllables
◉ Dangling modifier. Answer: A phrase that is unclear as to whether
it modifies the subject or the object of the sentence
◉ Database. Answer: An organized collection of information
◉ Deconstruction. Answer: A theory that studies and questions the
existence of and imbalance in binary opposites.
◉ Denotation. Answer: The dictionary meaning of a word.
