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Category: English Literature Mcqs
What is affective fallacy ?
A. A term first used by literary theorists William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
B. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader
C. An important term in the field of New Historicism
D. All of the above answers are correct.
When there was a momentary calm in that tempestuous sea of sound, the leader gave the sign, the procession resumed its march. On they went, like fiends that throng in mockery around some dead potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man’s heart. This is______________?
A. Historical fiction
B. A fairy tale
C. An autobiography
D. A detective story
One of Marlowe’s most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?
A. Anthony and Cleopatra
B. Hero and Leander
C. Troilus and Cressida
D. Apollo and Hyacinth
What event occurs in the final lines of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” ?
A. Adam and Eve hold hands and walk across an arid plain.
B. Adam and Eve promise to be fruitful and multiply.
C. Adam and Eve curse their God.
D. Adam and Eve curse Satan.
Jane Austen’s other writings are______________?
A. Sense and Sensibility
B. Emma
C. Persuasion
D. All of these
Which Welsh poet wrote “Under Milk Wood ? “
A. Anthony Hopkins
B. Richard Burton
C. Tom Jones
D. Dylan Thomas
What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?
A. the last sentence and first sentence are circular
B. the novel has a traditional plot; nothing is particularly unique about it
C. the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end
D. the novel is clearly written from the future to the past
Well, then; I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments. The individual who purloined it is known; this beyond a doubt; he was seen to take it. It is known, also, that it still remains in his possession. What is the meaning of the verb to purloin ?
A. To borrow
B. To steal
C. To ruin
D. To return
What is the “double-bind” that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton’s essay ?
A. Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families
B. Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture
C. Having little formal education with little access to publishers
D. Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living
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