1.What feelings are associated with the symbol of the American flag?
Select one:
a. Pride
b. Disillusionment
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above
2.Why do authors use symbols?
Select one:
a. To discuss controversial topics
b. To make their writing more engaging
c. To help express the theme of the piece
d. All of the above
3.Symbols are __________________ used to reflect _________________.
Select one:
a. abstract ideas; concrete ideas
b. concrete items; abstract ideas
c. intangible items; tangible ideas
d. None of the above
4.In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character Tom Buchanan goes to visit his mistress in the Valley of Ashes. The Valley of Ashes is an example of which literary technique?
Select one:
a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. Allusion
d. Symbol
5.In the following excerpt from Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" the wall serves as a symbol for _________________.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
Select one:
a. neighbors
b. love
c. good and evil
d. boundaries in life