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Category: English Literature Mcqs
Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot ?
A. Julian of Norwich
B. Margery Kempe
C. William Langland
D. Sir Thomas Malory
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.
The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are__________________?
A. Friendship and benevolence
B. Bitterness and revenge
C. Hatred and jealousy
D. None of these
“It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet no more than a long gown maketh an advocate”. Whose view is this ?
A. Shakespeare’s
B. Marlowe’s
C. Spenser’s
D. Sidney’s
In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who is chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen’s play ?
A. Peter Quince
B. Francis Flute
C. Nick Bottom
D. Tom Snout
Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?
A. H.D.
B. Hart Crane
C. William Carlos Williams
D. T.S. Eliot
Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
A. verdant mead
B. checkered shade
C. simian rivalry
D. shining sword
Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..” ?
A. Chastelard
B. A Song of Italy
C. Atalanta in Calydon
D. Songs before Sunrise
In the pronunciation of the word ‘ink’ the alveolar /n/ becoming a velar sound is an instance of ____________?
A. Progressive
B. Regressive
C. Reciprocal
D. None of the above
Which literary device is most important structurally in The Book of the City of Ladies ?
A. assonance
B. allegory
C. litotes
D. simile
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