Which of the following is NOT a common attribute of Byronic heroes ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?

   A. always fighting for good against evil.
   B. fortunate in always coming out victorious.
   C. nearly superhuman in his powers but tortured by a psychological weight.
   D. devoted to religion above all things

2. Which contemporary fictional character can be understood as a Byronic hero ?

   A. Superman
   B. Dr. House
   C. Luke Skywalker
   D. Yoda

3. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of ?

   A. six lectures
   B. five lectures
   C. four lectures
   D. seven lectures

4. Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes ?

   A. Ben Jonson
   B. John Ruskin
   C. Thomas Carlyle
   D. William Hazlitt

5. ‘On Heroes and Hero…worship is written by________________?

   A. Huxley
   B. Carlyle
   C. Ruskin
   D. Mill

6. Which of the following is not a cultural myth we attribute to those earliest Massachusetts colonial settlements at Plymouth and Massachusetts ?

   A. Democracy
   B. Brother love/charity
   C. US Exceptionalism
   D. None of the above

7. The study of relationships between two or more languages and the investigation whether the common languages have a common ancestor is called___________?

   A. Psycho linguistics
   B. Sociolinguistics
   C. Comparative linguistics
   D. None of these

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

8. In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney attribute to poetry ?

   A. a magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader
   B. a divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from God to the reader
   C. a moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to emulate virtuous models
   D. a defensive power whereby poetry and its figurative expressions allow the poet to avoid censorship

9. The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?

   A. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems
   B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems
   C. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works
   D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron’s poems

10. According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevens’s understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions ?

    A. Imagism
    B. Classicism
    C. British Romanticism
    D. Vorticism