A. A poetic movement which hoped to offer clear expression of ideas and feelings through the use of specific visual images
B. An attempt to use the “exact word” instead of flowery, excessive descriptive language in poetry
C. A and B only
D. B and C only
Related Mcqs:
- According to Tristan Tzara’s “Manifesto on Dadaism,” which of the following does NOT define Dadaism ?
A. “Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family”
B. “A protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action”
C. “Absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity”
D. “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” - According to Max Simon Nordau in his work “Degeneration,” which of the following best describes the term “Fin de Siècle” ?
A. “The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever”
B. A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user
C. “A confession and a complaint”
D. All of the above - Fill in the blank. The novel “Things Fall Apart” explores ____________ society and its encounter with European colonialism?
A. Ibo
B. Russian
C. Irish
D. Indian - Which of the following best describes the novel “The God of Small Things?”
A. It is a lyrical novel that explores cultural identity and decline of an Indian family.
B. It is a Romantic novel that explores the decline of a Russian family.
C. It is a stream-of-consciousness narrative that explores cultural identity in nineteenth-century Ireland.
D. It is a lyrical novel that explores the decline of a Caribbean family. - Between 1890 and 1919, which of the following was a preoccupation of Western European literature ?
A. Sexual mores
B. The importance of the irrational
C. Bourgeois sensibility
D. All of the above - Important contemporary reviews of Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” tend to focus on which of the following aspects of the novel ?
A. The profound and often troubling relationships among characters
B. The novel’s experimental structure
C. The novel’s radically unique narrative voice
D. All of the above - Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work ?
A. Andre Breton’s “Surrealist Manifesto”
B. James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
C. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
D. T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” - Who wrote the collection of poems entitled “The Wind Among the Reeds ?”
A. W.B. Yeats
B. Jorge Luis Borges
C. Mario Vargas Llosa
D. Charles Baudelaire - Which of the following authors is NOT considered to be a practitioner of “Magical Realism” ?
A. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
B. Isabel Allende
C. James Joyce
D. Allejo Carpentier - Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine India’s post-colonial situation ?
A. Ravinder Reddy
B. Rummana Hussain
C. Dadabhai Naoroji
D. A and B only
