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Category: English Literature Mcqs
In what way is Jane Toomer’s Cane an example of Modernism ?
A. Its fractured, collage effect.
B. Its insistence on plot.
C. Its focus on landscape.
D. Its focus on modern city life.
Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
A. Thomas Carlyle
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Charles Dickens
D. all of the above.
Who is addressed as “you” in the poem ?
A. a romantic achiever
B. a frustrated romantic idealist
C. an under achiever
D. an accomplished royal
Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what illegal activity did a large number of citizens pursue ?
A. Begging
B. Money lending
C. Fortune-telling
D. Wine bottling
Pride in one’s accomplishments was important to the Anglo-Saxon thegn. If so, why does Hrothgar say in Beowulf: do not give way to pride ?
A. Hrothgar believes it is important to stay focused on revenge.
B. Pride is one of the deadly sins.
C. Pride causes one to appear immodest.
D. Extreme pride can cause one to be overly secure and make mistakes.
This mode of discourse is used to explain. (Example: repair manuals) ?
A. Connotation
B. Constitution
C. Convocation
D. Exposition
The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?
A. Elizabethan era
B. English Reformation
C. England
D. Tudor period
This mode of discourse relates a story________________?
A. Fiction
B. Narration
C. Exposition
D. Persuasion
The term “Civil Disobedience” was coined by which author ?
A. William Gates
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Booker T. Washington
D. Alain Locke
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