A. Shakespeare
B. Chaucer
C. Spenser
D. Bacon
Related Mcqs:
- One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the …..: Man to command and woman to ____________?
A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
D. hearth; needle; heart; obey - Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the …..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________?
A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
D. hearth; needle; heart; obey - “An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man” illustrates what genre of early American writing ?
A. Sermon
B. Autobiography
C. Spiritual diary
D. Biography - He was famed for great skill in horsemanship; he was foremost at all races and cockfights; and, with the ascendancy which bodily strength acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes. He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic, but had more mischief and good humor than ill will in his composition. Who is this ?
A. Cotton Mather
B. Diedrich Knickerbocker
C. Brom Bones
D. Geoffrey Crayon - Professor Hammer argues that in Hart Crane’s poem “Legend,” Crane introduces himself to his readers. The poem opens with the lines: “As silent as a mirror is believed/ Realities plunge in silence by …/I am not ready for repentance;” according to Professor Hammer, Crane’s refusal to repent is an assertion of which of the following ?
A. His political views
B. His will to imaginative freedom
C. His will to sexual freedom
D. Both B and C - Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?
A. The leading characteristic of the age
B. Monarchs or political events
C. The primary author of the age
D. The language of the age - All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s__________________?
A. Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s
B. Shakespeare’s Tempest
C. Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing.
D. None of these - “not of an age, but for all time”-was told about Shakespeare by whom ?
A. Marlowe
B. Ben Johnson
C. King Henry
D. John Milton - In Book Six of “Paradise Lost,” Adam is told of what major event ?
A. The fall of the Son
B. The fall of the Rebel Angels
C. The fall of God
D. The death of Michael
