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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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5981. Professor Hammer argues that which of the following statements is true of Ezra Pounds strong emphasis on poetic technique ?
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A. It serves to effectively depersonalize Pounds poems.

B. It serves the greater aim of conveying both intensity and immediacy in Pounds poetry.

C. It is a paradoxical mixture of personal and impersonal elements.

D. It is a means of creating a dialogue between modernity and tradition.

5982. What is the central theme of Keith Douglass How to Kill ?
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A. It is honorable and just to defend your country in a war.

B. There is a right and a wrong way to throw a hand grenade.

C. Combat detaches a man from humanity.

D. All is fair in love and war.

5983. Which of the following best describes theidea of the symbol among French Symbolist poets ?
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A. A symbol is an image that conveys powerful emotional states.

B. A symbol is a description of past realities.

C. A symbol is a metaphor that allows the poet to capture complex social realities.

D. A symbol is an emblem of the actual world endowed with supernatural meanings.

5984. Complete the following sentence. Professor Hammer argues that Ezra Pounds interest in fascism and his anti-Semitic views were likely an outcome of his______________?
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A. endorsement of Marxism.

B. interest in ancient Rome.

C. interest in Fouriers utopian socialist thought.

D. anti-capitalism.

5985. In his essay The Symbolism of Poetry, William Butler Yeats argues that which of the following is the purpose of rhythm ?
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A. To amplify and clarify the indistinct emotions created by metaphorical symbols

B. To counteract the forces of dispersal inherent in metaphorical language

C. To prolong the moment of contemplation

D. To make poetry new

5986. Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ?
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A. The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages.

B. WorldWar I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images.

C. The Imagists valued brevity, which could be achieved with precise visual images, whereasWorldWar I poets preferred declamatory statements in their poems.

D. There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry.

5987. Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughess poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers ?
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A. It is a meditation on the communal and historical aspects of individual identity.

B. It is a meditation on the alienation of the modern person from nature.

C. It is a meditation on the poets personal experience of assimilation.

D. It is a meditation on the cultural isolation of African Americans in New England.

5988. Violet Cristoforo was honored for collecting what kind of poetry in her anthology May Sky ?
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A. Love sonnets from the Nazi death camps

B. Jewish dissident poetry from the gulags in Siberia

C. Haiku poetry from the Japanese internment camps in the US

D. American G.I. poetry from German prisoner of war camps

5989. Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between World War II poetry and Futurist poetry ?
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A. The Futurists praised speed, whereas World War II poets often evoked images of nature to describe the human condition.

B. The Futurists privileged the part over the whole, whereas World War II poets did not deal with the problem of modernity and alienation.

C. The Futurists focused on advancements in technology and industry, whereas World War II poets ignored advancements in technology, especially in modern warfare.

D. The Futurists apotheosized technology, whereas World War II poets often focused on technologys destructive powers.

5990. Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?
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A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.

B. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental.

C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.

D. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.

5991. Why was World War II a defining event in the history of the 20th century ?
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A. It was followed by the Cold War, which affected international politics throughout the world.

B. It brought unprecedented destruction and loss of life, thereby putting into question the entirecultural and political legacy of Western civilization.

C. All of these answers

D. It was followed by Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and by the entrenchment of the Soviet totalitarian system of rule.

5992. Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliots concept of the objective correlative ?
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A. The objective correlative refers to a set of objects, situations, or events which necessarily produce a particular emotion.

B. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poems theme and its objective historical context.

C. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poems formal structure and its meaning.

D. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poems formal structure and its rhetorical aim.

5993. Which of the following natural forces speaks in the culminating passage of T.S. Eliots The Waste Land ?
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A. Rapids

B. The west wind

C. An avalanche

D. Thunder

5994. Which of the following statements accurately characterizes Marianne Moores poem A Grave ?
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A. It juxtaposes human consciousness against the sea.

B. It uses alliteration and iambic pentameter.

C. It has a subtle formal structure, even though it does not use rhyme.

D. Both A and C

5995. Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written_______________?
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A. around 1900.

B. in the 1920s.

C. in the late stages of World War I.

D. in the early stages of World War I.

5996. Which of the following statements best characterizes the role played by Gertrude Stein in American modernism ?
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A. Stein was primarily a muse for modernist poets.

B. Stein was a proponent of low modernism.

C. Stein was a crucially important figure in the Paris migr community.

D. Stein was an opponent of vanguard trends.

5997. Which of the following best describes the reasons why World War I had a profound impact on modern poetry ?
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A. The devastation wrought by World War I was so enormous that it put Europes cultural and political norms and values into question.

B. The mechanized killing, which took place on a massive scale during World War I, made it necessary to reflect about the effects of technological progress.

C. World War I was the first global conflict where the distinction between combatants and civilians was erased, and this had a devastating effect on the European psyche.

D. Both A and B

5998. Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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A. The Italian Futurists were fascinated by the age of electric and chemical power, and they praised the beauty of automobiles.

B. All of these answers

C. The Italian Futurists lived within a quickly changing social world, and they praised speed.

D. Marinetti and other Italian Futurists supported Mussolinis fascism.

5999. Ezra Pounds poem In a Station of the Metro reads: The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough. Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem ?
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A. It evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene.

B. It plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds.

C. It seeks to amplify the distance between society and nature.

D. It seeks to diminish the distance between society and nature.

6000. What does Gertrude Steins term the Lost Generation designate ?
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A. It refers to a group of talented American migr writers who lived in Europe after World War I.

B. It refers to the young generation whose coming of age was interrupted by World War I.

C. It refers to English poets who sought refuge in New York City after World War I ended.

D. Both A and B

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