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

Related Mcqs:

1. A critic examining John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a critic ?

   A. Reader Response
   B. Feminist
   C. Mimetic
   D. Formalist

2. According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”

   A. In English literature, we cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition;” at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.”
   B. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.
   C. All of the above
   D. A and B only

3. 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

4. Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?

   A. lycidas
   B. Paradise Lost
   C. II penseroso
   D. none of the above

5. What is blank verse ?

   A. iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets
   B. the verse form of the Shakespearean sonnet
   C. free verse, without rhyme or regular meter
   D. unrhymed iambic pentameter

6. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry ?

   A. Sir Thomas Wyatt
   B. William Shakespeare
   C. Earl of Surrey
   D. Milton

7. Blank verse refers to which of the following ?

   A. Prose
   B. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
   C. Rhyming verse
   D. Rhyming couplets

8. What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?

   A. having no rhyming end
   B. having no rhythmic flow
   C. having no significance
   D. having no blanks in the verse

9. Who was the first to use blank verse ?

   A. Thomas Wyatt
   B. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
   C. Sir Thomas more
   D. None of the above

   Submitted by: Lubna shahzadi

10. Epic similes are found in which work of John Milton ?

    A. Paradise Lost
    B. Sonnets
    C. Lycidas
    D. Areopagitica