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Category: English Literature Mcqs
’Book 1’ of ’Paradise Lost’ presents Satan with his angels fallen into Hell. When recovered, Satan awakens all his legions and speaks to them. The first he addresses is described as ’one next to himself in power, and next in crime, long after known in Palestine’. What’s the name of this fallen angel?
A. Mammon
B. Moloch
C. Beelzebub
D. Ashtaroth
Who exemplified the role of the peasant poet ?
A. John Clare
B. John Keats
C. Robert Burns
D. A and C only
Paul O’Brien argues that Shelley did not lose his passion for the French Revolution, but that _____________did?
A. Lord Byron and John Clare
B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. John Keats and William Blake
D. Lord Byron and William Blake
One of the central themes of Wordsworth’s “Peter Bell” is _________________?
A. How nature can render someone good
B. How nature can corrupt someone
C. Eternal youth
D. A dark voyage into madness
In Ulysses, Joyce retells which ancient story ?
A. Homer’s The Iliad
B. Homer’s The Odyssey
C. Virgil’s The Aeneid
D. Sophocles’s Antigone
The theme of Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America” is_______________?
A. Slaves are capable of becoming good Christians.
B. Slaves should rebel against the Christian religion.
C. Slaves are the children of Cain.
D. Christians should free their slaves.
The poem ends on a_____________?
A. happy and meaningful note
B. courageous and hopeful note
C. tragic and painful note
D. philosophical note
Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem ?
A. Onomatopeia
B. Metonymy
C. Alliteration
D. Hyperbole
__________is a method of word formation whereby on or more syllables are removed from longer words ?
A. Portmanteau
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Clipping
D. Metanalysis
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