A. the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail
B. a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness
C. the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society
D. A and C
Victorian Age
Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the …..: Man to command and woman to ____________?
A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
D. hearth; needle; heart; obey
What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi barbarous age.
D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.
What is the name for a shift in tone or meaning of a sonnet______________?
A. Octave
B. Volta
C. Iambic Pentameter
D. Petrarchan
Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?
A. It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.
B. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.
C. It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn’t make serious statements about society.
D. all but C
Spenser’s Epithalamion is____________?
A. a narrative poem
B. a sonnet
C. an elegy
D. a wedding hymn
The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe was known as_______________?
A. The Great Order of Life
B. The Great Chain of Being
C. The Great System of Shakespeare
D. The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker
Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________?
A. Unintelligent
B. Rude
C. Stingy
D. Fanatic
Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley ?
A. Methodist
B. Imagism
C. Oxford Movement
D. Pre-Raphaelite
Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
A. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
C. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
