Unit quiz: Arguing about poems: comparison, adverse cases, replies and your own sustained case

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Question 1

A student compares Shelley’s and Smith’s ‘Ozymandias’ sonnets and writes that both poems show pride punished by time, which proves that Romantic poets shared a single view of empire. A tutor asks for the ground of comparison. What is missing?A named respect in which the poems differ, since shared themes predict nothing and cannot be tested by evidence from either poemA third poem by a different author, since comparison requires at least three texts to establish a general claim

Question 2

A seminar attacks Peacock’s essay by observing that poetry is still being written and read two centuries later. Which assessment of that rejoinder is most accurate?It refutes the whole essay, since a prediction that fails destroys the argument that contained itIt refutes one part of Peacock’s case, his prediction about reception, while leaving his premise about the measurement of value and his criterion of usefulness untouched

Question 3

A reader says Shelley’s essay answers Peacock because it is more eloquent and ends with the memorable sentence about unacknowledged legislators. Which correction is most useful?Eloquence is not the measure: the substantive answer lies in the argument that reason presupposes the imagination’s act of valuing, while the closing sentence is a peroration that moves rather than provesThe essay does not answer Peacock at all, since Shelley never mentions him by name and never quotes his essay

Question 4

An essay states that Wordsworth and Coleridge disagreed because Coleridge preferred Milton’s diction to rustic speech, and therefore Coleridge thought Wordsworth’s poems bad. Which criticism is best supported by the texts?The first statement is false because Coleridge never mentions Milton in the chapterThe second inference overreaches: Coleridge restates and grants much of Wordsworth’s practice, and his chapter opposes a theory of diction rather than condemning the poems

Question 5

A student’s capstone thesis reads: ‘Both poems use vivid imagery to explore how human beings confront mortality, and each does so in its own way.’ A reviewer returns it. What is the reviewer’s strongest ground?The thesis cannot be false, names no respect in which the poems differ, and offers no evidence that would count against it, so it describes rather than arguesThe thesis is too long and uses the word ‘vivid’, which is a subjective term inappropriate to academic writing

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