A tortured, dark-spirited, wry, and intellectual protagonist would most likely be found in a poem by______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which Romantic poet would be most likely to feature a main character or narrator in a poem who is heroic, tortured, cynical, highly emotional, and intelligent ?

   A. John Keats
   B. William Blake
   C. Lord Byron
   D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2. A number of the British Romantic poets argue what character to be the protagonist (or “hero”) of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” ?

   A. Eve
   B. Adam
   C. God
   D. Satan

3. Who is the main protagonist of Paradise Lost ?

   A. Satan
   B. Adam
   C. Eve
   D. God

4. Which of the following may be an antagonist to the protagonist of a novel ?

   A. Another character
   B. The protagonist
   C. Society
   D. All of these

5. According to many British Romantic poets, who is the protagonist of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” ?

   A. Satan
   B. Adam
   C. Eve
   D. Christ

6. What is NOT Gothic about the room to which the female protagonist of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is confined ?

   A. It has bars on the window.
   B. It is removed from the main area of the house.
   C. It is locked.
   D. It is sunny.

7. Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?

   A. a French revolutionary
   B. a Greek or Roman mythological figure
   C. a monster fabricated in a laboratory
   D. All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.

8. ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ is a poem written by______________?

   A. Robert Frost
   B. Emily Dickinson
   C. Mark Twain
   D. Walt Whitman

9. H.D.’s poem “Oread” reads: “WHIRL up, sea-/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green over us-/Cover us with your pools of fir.” To which of the following categories does this poem belong ?

   A. Objectivist poetry
   B. Futurist poetry
   C. Imagist poetry
   D. Vorticist poetry

10. 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