A. A psychoanalytic term that explains terror
B. The supernatural
C. “Unheimlich”
D. A sense of uncomfortable strangeness
Related Mcqs:
- In which way does Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” include elements of the uncanny ?
A. It reflects a woman’s everyday life.
B. An everyday object causes her terror.
C. An apparently normal person is revealed as a man.
D. It features a body transformation. - How does the uncanny function in “Frankenstein” ?
A. The normal activity of vivisection is represented as horrible.
B. Seemingly normal characters are actually terrifying.
C. The dramatic landscape provides an alternative to the usual world.
D. The monster’s grotesque body is actually made of human parts. - To whom is the concept of the uncanny attributed ?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Edmund Lewis
C. Edmund Burke
D. Mary Shelley - The Freudian concept of “the uncanny” refers to_________________?
A. a feeling of being disconnected from the world.
B. a sense of something being familiar and foreign at once.
C. terror at the thought of death.
D. a realization of one’s empowered position in the world. - All of the following define the Gothic EXCEPT________________?
A. The unknown
B. Transgression
C. Reason
D. The grotesque - According to skeptics of Shakespeare’s authorship, all of the following are considered to be the “true” authors of some of Shakespeare’s plays EXCEPT________________?
A. Thomas More.
B. Francis Bacon.
C. Earl of Oxford.
D. John Shakespeare. - Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is a transitional text in all of the following ways EXCEPT________________?
A. like a romance, it focuses on an aristocratic character considered superior to average individuals.
B. like a novel, it tells its story with an emphasis on realistic detail and the everyday passage of time.
C. like an epic, it involves gods and goddesses.
D. like a novel, it makes claims to historical realism. - John Locke is known for advocating all of the following ideas EXCEPT________________?
A. social contract theory of government.
B. blank slate or tabula rasa.
C. divine authority of kings.
D. natural political rights. - Tennyson’s “Ulysses” can be characterized in all of the following ways, EXCEPT________________?
A. it thematizes the importance of choosing action over complacency.
B. it reflects a Victorian attitude of continuing to fight against loss of hope or faith.
C. it uses Greek mythology to comment on contemporary questions.
D. it emphasizes the internal life of the mind over social action. - The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?
A. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems
B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems
C. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works
D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron’s poems
