A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page
B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery
C. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery
D. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility
20th Century
Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
A. Eminent Victorians
B. Jungle Books
C. The Way of All Flesh
D. both A and C
Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
A. the Irish National Theatre
B. the Globe Theatre
C. the Abbey Theatre
D. both A and C
What characteristics of seventeenth century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
A. its intellectual complexity
B. its union of thought and passion
C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
D. A and B
Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
A. automatic writing
B. confused daze
C. total recall
D. stream of consciousness
Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
A. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity
B. wireless communication across the Atlantic
C. the creation of the internet
D. the invention of the airplane
Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?
A. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
B. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
C. the death of the musical
D. all but C
Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Sir James Frazer
C. Immanuel Kant
D. all but C
Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells
In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.
A. popular; reverenced
B. brash; confident
C. radical; inventive
D. anxious; haunting
