Who is largely considered to be the father of epic poetry ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?

   A. L’Allegro
   B. Lycidas
   C. Paradise Lost
   D. The Divine Comedy

2. Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound’s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?

   A. The Mahabharata
   B. Paradise Lost
   C. The Odyssey
   D. The Aeneid

3. Choose the best answer. Which of the following statements is true concerning epic poetry ?

   A. Epic poetry is of a moral nature and tends to the promotion of virtue.
   B. “Canterbury Tales” is an example of epic poetry.
   C. All of the above answers are true.
   D. None of These

4. Edmund Spenser was directly influenced by which writer’s epic poetry ?

   A. Milton
   B. Wordsworth
   C. Aristo
   D. Both A and B

5. Which of the following texts is an example of epic poetry ?

   A. “Paradise Lost”
   B. “The Odyssey”
   C. “The Iliad”
   D. All of the above

6. Which of the following elements DOES NOT characterize epic poetry ?

   A. An Epic Council
   B. An “Arming of the Hero” Scene
   C. A “Tragic Recognition” Speech
   D. An Invocation to the Muse

7. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Samuel Johnson
   D. William Wordsworth

8. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Samuel Johnson
   D. William Wordsworth

9. Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?

   A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
   B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
   C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
   D. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental.

10. Professor Hammer argues that in a certain sense Wallace Stevens’s poetry is always meta-poetry. What does this mean ?

    A. Stevens’s poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.
    B. Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules.
    C. Stevens’s poetry always addresses several different audiences.
    D. Stevens’s poetry highlights an objective voice.