A. It focuses on a royal hero.
B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
C. It focuses on adventures.
D. It connects to poetry.
Related Mcqs:
- Although Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he meant the novel to be a reworking of an American genre, the slave narrative. In what way is the novel, despite its philosophical underpinnings, an exemplar of the slave narrative ?
A. Its character’s movement from slavery to freedom.
B. Its emphasis on Christian ideals.
C. The novel’s sensationalist scenes of violence.
D. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice. - Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary novels written about slavery. Toni Morrison’s Beloved is about the ghost of a baby the character Sethe murdered to keep her from being recaptured by their master. The opening chapter of the novel represents the neo-slave narrative by its________________?
A. Discussion of race relations in the North and South.
B. Condemnation of the plantation myth.
C. Examination of the psychological damage of slavery.
D. Insistence on desegregation. - In her text, “History of the Novel”, How does Dr. Agatha Taormina define the novel ?
A. A narrative that emphasizes character development
B. A narrative with a unified, plausible plot structure
C. A narrative that conveys the illusion of reality
D. All of these - Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’ ?
A. Johnson
B. Cromwell
C. Shakespeare
D. Luther - ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by______________?
A. Ruskin
B. Carlyle
C. Mill
D. None of these - Harriet Jacob’s slave narrative Incidents in the Life differs from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in what way ?
A. Stowe’s novel is sentimental.
B. Stowe describes the treatment of slaves.
C. Stowe describes the escape of slaves.
D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was used by abolitionists. - Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
A. Fanny Burney
B. Mary Wollstonecraft
C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
D. Jane Austen - 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 - 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 - I know that many say that they are willing, perhaps the majority of the people, that we should enjoy our rights and privileges as they do. If so, I would ask why are not we protected in our persons and property throughout the Union? Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders, a most unrighteous, unbecoming and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be–while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights? I would ask you if you would like to be disfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin is white, and for no other crime? I’ll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to be such a barrier in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! Awful injustice! ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess
