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Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?
A. Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.
B. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.
C. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with women’s rights.
D. World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.
In the play, “Macbeth,” according to the witches, who will inherit the Scottish throne ?
A. The children of Macbeth
B. The children of Banquo
C. The children of Macduff
D. The children of the witches
With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlain’s Man was renamed ?
A. King Lear
B. Gentleman
C. King’s Man
D. None of above
Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?
A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
Inspired by Satan’s victory over man, Sin and Death construct ?
A. a bridge from hell to heaven
B. a temple to welcome Satan back
C. a bridge from hell to earth
D. a funnel from Eden to the gates of hell
Which of the following terms is traditionally associated with the male Gothic ?
A. Body transformation
B. Horror
C. Terror
D. The uncanny
Sylvia Plath married which English poet ?
A. Masefield
B. Causley
C. Hughes
D. Larkin
According to most critics, Vita Nuova is an example of which of the following genres ?
A. Autobiography
B. Framed narrative
C. Lyric poetry
D. All of the above
What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?
A. Historical/Biographical Approach
B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
C. Formalism
D. Psychological Approach
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