Category: English Literature Mcqs
Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne’s conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?
A. Air and Angels
B. Satire 3
C. The Apparition
D. The Indifferent
The intellectual movement that believed that the observation of nature elevates the nature of humans, that deep truths can be grasped through intuition, and that God, Nature and humanity are united in a shared universe is______________?
A. Transcendentalism
B. Communism
C. Totalitarianism
D. Feudalism
Who said “theatre is not a hospital” ?
A. F.L. Lucas
B. J K Atkins
C. Derrida
D. Hillis Miller
Which one of the following writers is not woman ?
A. Emily Bronte
B. Jane Austen
C. Robert Browning
D. None of these
According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by “legitimate” drama ?
A. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.
B. All of the actors were male.
C. All of the actors were British.
D. The play was spoken.
Adonis is modeled on________________?
A. Bion’s lament for Adonis
B. Lycidas
C. In Memoriam
D. None of these
______________________is a processes of word formation by which new words are formed by attaching prefixes or suffixes to the base form?
A. Compounding
B. Portmanteau
C. Derivation
D. Backformation
What is affective fallacy ?
A. A term first used by literary theorists William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
B. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader
C. An important term in the field of New Historicism
D. All of the above answers are correct.
When there was a momentary calm in that tempestuous sea of sound, the leader gave the sign, the procession resumed its march. On they went, like fiends that throng in mockery around some dead potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man’s heart. This is______________?
A. Historical fiction
B. A fairy tale
C. An autobiography
D. A detective story
One of Marlowe’s most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?
A. Anthony and Cleopatra
B. Hero and Leander
C. Troilus and Cressida
D. Apollo and Hyacinth
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