A. all things, both great and small,will perish
B. man is mortal,art immortal
C. imagination is stronger than fact
D. history repeats
Related Mcqs:
- Complete the following sentence. Keats’s idea of “negative capability” refers to the idea that______________?
A. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.
B. the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.
C. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.
D. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge. - The statue of ‘Ozymandias’ is______________?
A. on a mountain
B. beside a river
C. in a desert
D. in a valley - Complete the following sentence. Shelley’s “Ozymandias” can be linked to his “Defence of Poetry” through its_______________?
A. rejection of traditional form.
B. portrayal of the power of art to speak truth.
C. rejection of art’s political role.
D. attempt to link poetry with music. - Who wrote: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. William Woodsworth
D. Emily Dickinson - In which work do you read: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?
A. The Man of Feeling
B. In Memoriam
C. Song to Aella
D. Ozymandias - What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics ?
A. Language is inseparable from its historical context.
B. There are five phases of linguistic development.
C. Language can be analyzed as a formal system of elements.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics ?
A. Language is inseparable from its historical context.
B. There are five phases of linguistic development.
C. Language can be analyzed as a formal system of elements.
D. Linguistics is too complicated to be distilled to a formula. - Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea behind Anthony DiMatteo’s essay, “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’” ?
A. Hamlet is a tragedy focusing on the plight of the early-modern self.
B. Hamlet is a tragedy that reflects Shakespeare’s own political circumstances.
C. Hamlet is a tragedy that focuses on the Elizabethan era’s loss of faith in humanity’s ability to govern itself without violence.
D. Hamlet is a tragedy that reflects upon enlightened and progressive political systems that developed during Shakespeare’s time. - Which theorist is most closely associated with the idea of art as imitation ?
A. Jacques Lacan
B. Edward Said
C. Stephen Greenblatt
D. Plato - While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
A. a history of everyday life
B. an instructional manual for manners
C. a book of devotion
D. a book of model letters
