english literature MCQs – Page 369

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

7361. Which of the following is a requirement of a dramatic monologue ?
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A. It has a speaker as well as an implied reader.

B. There is a spontaneous overflow of emotion.

C. It includes elements of parody.

D. It is written in common, ordinary language.

7362. Which of the following statements best describes the behavior of the upper-class characters in Congreves The Way of the World ?
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A. They are almost universally selfabsorbed and willing to do anything to get what they want.

B. They tend to value love above money and honor.

C. They are somewhat jaded, but all are finally good at heart.

D. They provide a moral example for the lower classes.

7363. What do Wordsworths Tintern Abbey and Coleridges Dejection Ode have in common ?
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A. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages

B. An identical rhyme structure

C. The sense of hope that death will come soon

D. A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life

7364. Which of the following statements best characterizes Romanticisms relationship to the Enlightenment ?
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A. ightenments hope in progressive political change.

B. Unlike the Enlightenment, Romanticism deemed the natural world unimportant

C. Romanticism continued the Enlightenments focus on a universal order best apprehended through reason.

D. Romanticism largely abandoned the

E. Romanticism challenged the Enlightenments emphasis on objectivity as the basis of truth.

7365. Which of the following statements about the poems in Blakes Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?
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A. The poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.

B. The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping Englands economy.

C. The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.

D. The poems reject innocence in favor of experience.

7366. Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?
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A. Two lines of rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter

B. Two characters in an epic who are romantically involved

C. The concluding lines of any poem

D. Two characters who act as foils in a comedy of manners

7367. The development of the novel is associated with all of the following EXCEPT__________________?
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A. the political focus on individuals and their rights.

B. scientific emphasis on detailed observation.

C. philosophical theories of sympathy and human emotions.

D. the continuing importance of mythological stories.

7368. Complete the following sentence. Neoclassicism most paralleled Enlightenment thought in its_______________?
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A. emphasis on order, logic, and universal truths.

B. emphasis on the corrupt nature of the aristocracy.

C. rejection of traditional models.

D. rejection of Renaissance optimism.

7369. Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?
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A. nearly superhuman in his powers but tortured by a psychological weight.

B. devoted to religion above all things

C. always fighting for good against evil.

D. fortunate in always coming out victorious.

7370. Which of the following social issues does Dickens confront in Great Expectations ?
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A. Penal reform

B. Educational reform

C. The role of the monarchy

D. Both A and B

7371. Which of the following works is considered to be the first Gothic novel ?
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A. Radcliffes The Mysteries of Udolpho

B. Walpoles The Castle of Otranto

C. Richardsons Pamela

D. Congreves The Way of the World

7372. Which of the following does NOT accurately characterize Jane Eyres relationship to other literary works ?
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A. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre can be read as a bildungsroman.

B. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre addresses the power of wealth and class.

C. Like Dover Beach, Jane Eyre mourns the diminishing power of Christian faith.

D. Through Rochester, Jane Eyre develops a Byronic hero.

7373. In Ode to the West Wind, why does Shelley ask the wind to make me thy lyre ?
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A. To help him start a new revolutionary war

B. To help him reach the afterlife

C. To help drive his ideas across the universe

D. To help him hear natures music

7374. Which of the following terms is NOT closely associated with the Gothic novel ?
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A. Horror

B. The sublime

C. Picaresque

D. Suspense

7375. How did ideas about the spread of the British Empire start to shift in the Victorian Period ?
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A. People found ways to justify expansion by claiming national superiority.

B. Competition between European rivals forced the British to find new trading partners.

C. All of these answers

D. Colonizers were no longer necessarily interested in reforming indigenous populations.

7376. Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth conceives of himself as a chosen son primarily because_____________?
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A. he was given special educational opportunities.

B. he feels especially connected to nature due to his experience as a youth.

C. he was endowed with a great poetic talent.

D. his brothers died in their youth.

7377. In Lintons The Girl of the Period, what course of behavior does the author recommend for women ?
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A. Women should be given the right to vote immediately.

B. Women should make sure to receive an education in order to secure their own futures.

C. Women should wear more makeup in order to attract husbands.

D. Women should take pains to remain generous, modest, and capable.

7378. Samuel Johnsons Rasselas most fundamentally emphasizes which theme from Johnsons other works or other 18thcentury works ?
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A. The need for self-sufficiency as detailed in novels like Robinson Crusoe

B. The ultimate impossibility of achieving happiness, as espoused in his poem The Vanity of Human Wishes

C. The need for linguistic correctness as exemplified in his Dictionary

D. The promise of universal knowledge as epitomized by the Encyclopdie

7379. Complete the following sentence. Wordsworths advocacy of poets drawing on the language really used by men in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?
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A. a rejection of nature in favor of society.

B. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.

C. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.

D. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.

7380. Which writer is most closely associated with the serialized novel ?
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A. Ann Radcliffe

B. Matthew Lewis

C. Charles Dickens

D. William Congreve

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