english literature MCQs – Page 368

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

7341. Complete the following sentence. In Popes The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?
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A. set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.

B. demonstrate the importance of the topic.

C. reveal the learnedness of the characters.

D. elicit the sympathy of elite readers

7342. The Enlightenment in European history refers to which of the following ?
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A. The power given to absolute monarchs by God

B. A period in the 18th century that celebrated industry

C. The revelation of religious truths through meditation

D. A period in which reason was celebrated as enabling human knowledge and possibly human perfection

7343. Complete the following sentence. Keatss idea of negative capability refers to the idea that______________?
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A. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.

B. the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.

C. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.

D. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.

7344. Which poet did Arthur Henry Hallum associate with the picturesque ?
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A. Alfred Tennyson

B. Alexander Pope

C. Percy Shelley

D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

7345. In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes which of the following social institutions ?
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A. The government

B. Organized religion

C. All of these answers

D. Marriage

7346. With which of these writers is the spontaneous overflow of emotion associated ?
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A. Ann Radcliffe

B. John Keats

C. Alfred Lord Tennyson

D. William Wordsworth

7347. In The Way of the World, Congreve satirizes which of the following ?
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A. The aristocracy

B. The institution of marriage

C. Ideas about chastity

D. All of these answers

7348. Radcliffes version of the Gothic differs most from Walpoles in its use of which of the following ?
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A. Its use of mysterious events to spur readers interests and emotional responses

B. Its medieval settings

C. The explained supernatural

D. The sublime

7349. Which of the following is NOT a central theme of Wordsworths poetry ?
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A. The common man

B. The movement of time

C. The promises of technology

D. The outcast figure

7350. Which of the following ideas does NOT come from Edmund Burkes Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime ?
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A. The effect of the sublime on the physical body

B. The distinction between the sublime and beauty

C. The important role surprise plays in creating pleasure

D. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting

7351. With which text is the term mock-epic most closely associated ?
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A. Benns Oroonoko

B. Wordsworths We Are Seven

C. Popes Rape of the Lock

D. Swifts A Modest Proposal

7352. How does this quotation from Behns Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poets pleasure. ?
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A. It focuses on adventures.

B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

C. It focuses on a royal hero.

D. It connects to poetry.

7353. Which of the following characteristics is NOT closely associated with a comedy of manners ?
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A. Sexual promiscuity

B. Hidden identities

C. Witty banter

D. Epic heroes

7354. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?
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A. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world

B. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination

C. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world

D. The poet as special interpreter of the world

7355. Why were coffee-houses important in the Restoration ?
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A. They enabled discussion about important literary texts.

B. They created a space for the exchange of pamphlets.

C. They offered people a private place in which they could plan political revolts.

D. Both A and B

7356. In which of the following ways does Radcliffes The Mysteries of Udolpho combine the features of the Gothic and the sentimental ?
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A. It has a didactic moral focus.

B. It emphasizes emotion over reason.

C. All of these answers

D. There is a focus on a central love story.

7357. Complete the following sentence. John Drydens Mac Flecknoe reflects a commitment to neoclassical aesthetics through_______________?
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A. its scientific ethos and setting in London.

B. its refusal to mention Shadwell directly.

C. its commitment to an elevated taste, its use of classical imagery, and its evocation of classic forms.

D. its references to Shakespeare.

7358. Which of the following best characterizes the ways that Radcliffes The Mysteries of Udolpho links the Gothic novel with the sentimental form ?
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A. Its focus on having readers vicariously experience the dangers that a heroine faces

B. Its use of a medieval setting to reflect on rational progress

C. Its use of the sublime

D. Its ambivalent treatment of its leading villain

7359. What was the white mans burden that Kipling speaks of in his poem of the same title ?
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A. The Eurocentric idea that the colonizer has a social responsibility to civilize other nations

B. The pressure of conforming to preexisting social conventions

C. The burden of white colonizers who are forced to learn to live in new lands

D. The concept that all white men do not share the same imperial duties

7360. With which literary form or movement is the Restoration most closely associated ?
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A. Medievalism

B. Romanticism

C. Comedies of manners

D. Familiar essays

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