Category: English Literature Mcqs

Professor Hammer argues that Marianne Moore’s poem “England” suggests which of the following ?

Hamad Modern Poetry and Poetics 21/11/2024

A. Moore’s emotional and aesthetic attachment to England
B. Moore’s harsh critique of the carnage of World War I
C. Moore’s particular kind of combative American cultural nationalism
D. Moore’s interest in England’s civilizing mission in the world

What is the authorship controversy as it relates to Heloise and Abelard ?

Hamad Medieval Literature and Culture 21/11/2024

A. the critical debate about the verification of events in the letters
B. the idea that Abelard wrote all of the letters
C. the issue of whether there is a “female voice” in the letters
D. All of the Above

The following sound influencing the preceding one is an instance of __________ assimilation?

Hamad Language and Linguistics 21/11/2024

A. Progressive
B. Regressive
C. Reciprocal
D. None of the above

Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?

Hamad Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries 20/11/2024

A. its focus on his lost love.
B. its rejection of scientific progress.
C. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
D. its development of elements from national folklore.

What is “Mimesis” ?

Hamad Cultural and Literary in Modernity 19/11/2024

A. It is a philosophical term which means “imitation” or “mimicry.”
B. It is a philosophical and critical term meaning “otherness.”
C. It is a critical term, which describes the act of expression and the presentation of self-identity, theorized by academics, such as Erich Auerbach.
D. A and C only