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The use of whale-roadfor sea and lifehouse for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?
A. symbolism
B. simile
C. metonymy
D. kenning
While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
A. a history of everyday life
B. an instructional manual for manners
C. a book of devotion
D. a book of model letters
Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
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
The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties ?
A. the Republicans and the Royalists
B. the Royalists and the Whigs
C. the Tories and the Whigs
D. the Royalists and the Tories
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 contemporary discussions on women’s rights did Tennyson’s The Princess address ?
A. the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
B. the debate on women’s suffrage
C. the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first women’s college in London
D. the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power
Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town in the novelfirst_____________?
A. Cranford
B. Hard Times
C. Ruth
D. Vanity Fair
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