A. His career ended when he was jailed for criminal “gross indecency.”
B. He believed that art should be something more than the reproduction and appreciation of the natural world.
C. Wilde was the author of such poems as “Bénédiction,” “L’Albatros,” and “élévation.”
D. He was notorious for his use of paradox.
Related Mcqs:
- Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is an example of which of the following literary trends ?
A. Aestheticism
B. Naturalism
C. Decadence
D. Both A and C - Who served as an Irish senator for two terms? A___________ Wilde?
A. Shaw
B. Ibsen
C. Yeats
D. none of these - Which of the following statements concerning “Vorticism” is false ?
A. The term “Vorticism” was coined in 1914 by the avant-gardist Ezra Pound.
B. Practitioners of Vorticism often saw themselves just as much as educators as artists as they taught the public a new, more graphic language.
C. The periodical and manifesto named BLAST attempted to expound Vorticism’s principal tenets.
D. The practice of Vorticism in artistic circles grew after World War I. - Which of the following statements about a sonnet is false ?
A. A sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines.
B. A Shakespearean sonnet consists of the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-ef,g-g.
C. A sonnet is only written in Italian.
D. The last two lines of a sonnet are a rhyming couplet. - Which of the following statements about Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”) is false ?
A. Sonnet 43 is similar to most other sonnets in its focus on love.
B. Sonnet 43 is part of a sonnet sequence “Sonnets from the Portuguese.”
C. Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines, like other sonnets.
D. Sonnet 43 is a romantic poem in the same way Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” is a romantic poem. - Which of the following statements regarding the success and importance of the oral tradition of literature is true ?
A. Monks memorized many passages of scripture, preserving scriptures.
B. Scops recited poems to noble audiences, preserving the stories and poetic tradition.
C. Thegns were nobles who liked literature, and their patronage made poets popular.
D. Anchoresses recited poems to occupy their time alone in their cells. - Which of the following descriptions of the “Avant-Garde Movement” is false ?
A. The avant-garde, a military term meaning “advanced guard,” was founded in France in the mid-19th century.
B. The term avant-garde itself means “advanced guard,” and the military role of the advanced guard and the role of the avantgarde art movement are much of the same.
C. The realist painter Gustave Courbet never considered himself a member of the avant-garde.
D. Both A and B - Who is described? “For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow” ?
A. Lot
B. Belial
C. Satan
D. Moses - In which establishment Coleridge enlisted himself in December 1793 by using the false name “Silas Tomkyn Comberbache” ?
A. The Poets society
B. British Royal Navy
C. Solicitors office
D. Royal Dragoons - What is false consciousness ?
A. A term for the false neuroses expressed in dreams
B. A feminist term for the state that occurs when texts written by women are not considered in the study of literature
C. Another term for the unconscious
D. An ideology that involves dominating the consciousness of exploited classes
