According to Dr. Michael Webster in his essay, “Poetic Modes in the late 19th and early 20th Century,” which of the following is NOT a poetic mode of this time period ?

Related Mcqs:

1. According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, “The Strivings of the Negro People,” what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?

   A. Feeling like an outcast in your own house
   B. Becoming a stuttering sycophant just to survive
   C. Wrapping yourself in the armor of anger and resentment
   D. All of the above

2. ____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman ?

   A. Queen Cristina
   B. Top Girls
   C. Camille
   D. The Homecoimg

3. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” ?

   A. the lyric poem written in the first person
   B. the sonnet
   C. doggerel rhyme
   D. the political tract

4. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?

   A. the lyric poem written in the first person
   B. the sonnet
   C. doggerel rhyme
   D. the political tract

5. The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who ?

   A. FR Leavis
   B. Harold Bloom
   C. William Empson
   D. Mariella Frostrup

6. According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?

   A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
   B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
   C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
   D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans.

7. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work ?

   A. Charles Dickens
   B. W. M. Thackeray
   C. Graham Greene
   D. D. H. Lawrence

8. During the early 20th century, a black person’s purpose in passing might have been_________________?

   A. To obtain justice for black people.
   B. To get better accommodations on the train, better seats in the theatre.
   C. To escape from slavery.
   D. None of the above.

9. Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ?

   A. Christina Rossetti
   B. Gerard Manley Hopkins
   C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
   D. Ted Hughes

10. What quality does the Gothic novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries share with the majority of English novels of the same time period ?

    A. Realism
    B. An epistolary format
    C. A focus on the individual
    D. An English setting