On the Sublime is written in_________________?

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1. On the Sublime was written in_____________?

   A. 1st Century BC
   B. 1st Century AD
   C. 2nd Century AD
   D. 3rd Century AD

2. On the Sublime is considered ______________?

   A. A classical approach
   B. Romantic approach
   C. Neo-classical approach
   D. None of these

3. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’ ?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. P.B Shelley
   C. S. T. Coleridge
   D. John Keats

4. 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

5. Which of the following ideas does NOT come from Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime ?

   A. The effect of the sublime on the physical body
   B. The distinction between the sublime and beauty
   C. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting
   D. The important role surprise plays in creating pleasure

6. In “The Gothic Sublime” how does Mishra characterize the Gothic novel ?

   A. As a version of the Romantic novel
   B. As a set of literary devices developed in the 18th century but applicable to present day
   C. As the antithesis of postmodernism
   D. As the resolution of madness

7. In “The Gothic Sublime” how does Mishra characterize the labyrinth motif ?

   A. As a plot structure that diminishes the Gothic novel’s intensity
   B. As the reader’s inward turn to examine his or her own tangled consciousness
   C. As a means for characters to directly confront unconscious problems
   D. As a place for the distressed heroine to hide

8. Why is the concept of the sublime important in Gothic literature ?

   A. It leads the reader to overlook the beauty of nature.
   B. It reminds readers of their civic duties.
   C. It causes an experience of elestasis, or transport.
   D. It creates a sense of contentment.

9. According to Longinus, there are ________principle sources of sublime.

   A. Three
   B. Five
   C. Six
   D. None

   Submitted by: Shah Jahan

10. This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?

    A. C.S. Lewis
    B. T.S. Eliot
    C. G.K. Chesterton
    D. Matthew Arnold