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Category: Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries
The development of the novel is associated with all of the following EXCEPT__________________?
A. scientific emphasis on detailed observation.
B. the political focus on individuals and their rights.
C. philosophical theories of sympathy and human emotions.
D. the continuing importance of mythological stories.
Which of the following characteristics is NOT closely associated with a comedy of manners ?
A. Witty banter
B. Epic heroes
C. Sexual promiscuity
D. Hidden identities
Which of the following best defines satire ?
A. Literature that relies on devices like irony, sarcasm, and humor
B. A work of literature that attempts to improve society
C. A text that exposes serious flaws under the veil of comedy
D. All of these answers
Which of the following is a requirement of a dramatic monologue ?
A. It has a speaker as well as an implied reader.
B. It includes elements of parody.
C. There is a “spontaneous overflow of emotion.”
D. It is written in common, ordinary language.
In which of the following ways does Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho combine the features of the Gothic and the sentimental ?
A. It emphasizes emotion over reason.
B. It has a didactic moral focus.
C. There is a focus on a central love story.
D. All of these answers
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of literacy in the 19thcentury ?
A. More magazines on the market
B. The rise in serialized fiction
C. Lower prices for magazines
D. The passage of the Reform Bills
Complete the following sentence. Robert Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover” is_______________?
A. a sonnet expressing his devotion to his wife.
B. a dramatic monologue spoken by a murderer.
C. a dramatic monologue spoken by Browning.
D. an epic describing a great romance.
With which text is the term mock-epic most closely associated ?
A. Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven”
B. Pope’s Rape of the Lock
C. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
D. Benn’s Oroonoko
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?
A. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination
B. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world
C. The poet as special interpreter of the world
D. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world
John Dryden’s poem “Annus Mirabilis” emphasizes the solution to which of the following important Restoration problems or events ?
A. England’s power to overcome the recent plague and the great fire of London
B. The monarch’s ability to squelch continuing Puritan resistance
C. The church’s potential to unify the populace after the English revolution
D. Parliament’s ability to restrain the power of the King
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