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Practise multiple-choice questions from english literature for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

english literature Mcqs

1. introduction to literary theory 2. miscellaneous literature 3. famous playwright poet and others 4. introduction to literary studies 5. cultural and literary in modernity 6. ages era period 7. cultural and literary english renaissance 8. modern poetry and poetics 9. medieval literature and culture 10. african american literature 11. the gothic novel 12. american literature 13. language and linguistics 14. english romantic poetry 15. literary theory and criticism 16. cultural and literary 18th 19th centuries

5961. Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War ?
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A. All of these answers

B. Siegfried Sassoon

C. Isaac Rosenberg

D. Wilfred Owen

5962. Which of the following was an important influence on Charles Reznikoffs shift away from romantic rhetoric ?
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A. His study of ancient history

B. His study of law

C. His study of medicine

D. His study of Sanskrit

5963. Professor Hammer argues that Marianne Moores poem England suggests which of the following ?
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A. Moores particular kind of combative American cultural nationalism

B. Moores harsh critique of the carnage of World War I

C. Moores emotional and aesthetic attachment to England

D. Moores interest in Englands civilizing mission in the world

5964. Which of the following literary devices is most prominent in Gertrude Steins poem New ?
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A. Metaphor and allusion

B. Circumlocution

C. Assonance and word repetition

D. Simile

5965. Which of the following statements accurately compares Rupert Brookes The Soldier and Siegfried Sassoons The Rear Guard ?
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A. Both poems praise Britains military power and its imperial ambitions.

B. Both poems describe Britains civilizing mission in the world.

C. Both poems seek to respond to the harsh political and military realities of their day.

D. Both poems romanticize war and glorify the life of the soldier.

5966. What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frosts poem Out, Out and John Greenleaf Whittiers poem Telling the Bees ?
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A. They both address the theme of death.

B. Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure.

C. They are both set in rural New England.

D. All of these answers

5967. The first stanza of Countee Cullens A Brown Girl Dead reads: With two white roses on her breasts,/White candles at head and feet,/Dark Madonna of the grave she rests;/Lord Death has found her sweet. Which of the following statements accurately characterizes these lines ?
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A. These lines evoke Christian imagery to emphasize the dignity of the girl who died.

B. These lines evoke Christian imagery to suggest that death erases racial divisions.

C. These lines present the problem of racial prejudice in an ironic mode.

D. Both A and B

5968. Which of the following does Professor Hammer identify as one of the most important goals of Imagist poetry ?
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A. The privileging of individual detail over the larger pattern

B. The privileging of image over sound

C. The privileging of rhythm over meaning

D. The privileging of colors over textures

5969. Wilfred Owens Anthem for Doomed Youth begins with the following lines: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/ Only the monstrous anger of the guns./ Only the stuttering rifles rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons. Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?
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A. These lines equate humans with animals, and they anthropomorphize weapons to show a world where there is no place for human values.

B. These lines suggest that the Great War lasted much longer than it should have.

C. These lines suggest that it was difficult to define patriotism during the Great War, but soldiers who died in battle provided the best example of patriotism.

D. These lines represent a modern funeral dirge that mimics the rhythm of ancient Greek funeral dirges.

5970. Which of the following descriptions does NOT pertain to the Imagists ?
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A. Reliance on the language of common speech

B. Creative reliance on conventional poetic forms

C. Striving for concentrated expression and imagery

D. Total freedom in choosing the subject

5971. What is the principal subject of Marianne Moores poem An Octopus ?
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A. The ocean

B. Mt. Rainier

C. An octopus

D. Death

5972. Which of the following statements best characterizes Georgia Douglass Johnsons poem Black Woman ?
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A. This poem is a conversation between a black woman and a child who is not yet born.

B. This poem describes the relationship between a black woman and her child.

C. The poem is a conversation between a black woman and her ancestors.

D. This poem focuses primarily on the different experiences of black and white women.

5973. Yeatss Song of Wandering Aengus ends with the lines: And pluck till time and times are done/The silver apples of the moon/The golden apples of the sun. Which of the following is NOT a symbolic meaning of the apples ?
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A. They symbolize the coming apocalypse.

B. They symbolize a fulfilled longing.

C. They symbolize the return to a lost paradise.

D. They point to alchemical elements, which in turn symbolize the body and the soul.

5974. Which of the following best describes the types of imagery used in Louis Zukofskys poem, A: Seventh Movement: There Are Different Techniques ?
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A. Kabalistic imagery

B. Everyday imagery

C. Nationalist imagery

D. Historic and contemporary imagery

5975. Which of the following literary devices are present in Langston Hughess poem Ku Klux ?
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A. Allegory

B. Irony

C. Alliteration

D. Oxymoron

5976. Which of the following statements best characterizes the central questions faced by poetry after the Holocaust ?
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A. Is there a relationship between poetry and rationality after the Holocaust?

B. Is there a meaningful relationship between World War I poetry and World War II poetry?

C. Is it possible for Romantic themes in poetry to be meaningful after the Holocaust?

D. The horror of the Holocaust was inexpressible; how can poetry speak of what is inexpressible?

5977. Which of the following writers authored the poem Dulce et Decorum Est?
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A. Rudyard Kipling

B. Siegfried Sassoon

C. Rupert Brooke

D. Wilfred Owen

5978. Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between Futurism and Vorticism ?
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A. Members of both movements were fascinated by speed and dynamism, but unlike the Futurists, Vorticists did not celebrate technology and industrialization.

B. Futurism was a politically-inclined movement, whereas Vorticism was free of all political entanglements.

C. Futurism lasted for several decades, whereas Vorticism was short-lived.

D. Vorticists celebrated technology and industrialization, whereas Futurists explored impending cultural challenges regarding technology and industrialization.

5979. Professor Hammer argues that in Hart Cranes poem Legend, Crane introduces himself to his readers. The poem opens with the lines: As silent as a mirror is believed/ Realities plunge in silence by /I am not ready for repentance; according to Professor Hammer, Cranes refusal to repent is an assertion of which of the following ?
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A. His political views

B. His will to imaginative freedom

C. His will to sexual freedom

D. Both B and C

5980. In analyzing T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following ?
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A. A meditation on contradictions

B. Implicit dialogue with the future

C. Overheard inner speech

D. Objective correlative

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