Which of the following writers was among the founders of the Imagist movement ?

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Which of the following statements best characterizes American World War II poems ?

A. They tend to use traditional rhyme schemes and rhythms, and they avoid free verse. B. They tend to use metaphors and avoid direct descriptive statements. C. They tend to use classical imagery while rejecting romantic tropes. D. They tend to be narrative and confront the reader with stark wartime realities....

Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written_______________?

A. around 1900. B. in the early stages of World War I. C. in the late stages of World War I. D. in the 1920s....

What is the principal subject of Marianne Moore’s poem “An Octopus” ?

A. Death B. Mt. Rainier C. The ocean D. An octopus...

Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Dragon and the Undying” includes the following lines: “Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilder’d seas.” Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect ?

A. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare...

According to Professor Hammer, which of the following characteristics did Langston Hughes share with modernist poets like William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, and Robert Frost ?

A. Hughes was very conscious that he was an American poet, and this profoundly influenced his writing. B. Hughes wrote about the legacy of the American Civil War and its long-term cultural consequences. C. Hughes introduced new subject-matter and new language into poetry. D. Both A and C...