A. One who is lover of beauty.
B. One who never stops.
C. A lover of mankind.
D. A person who hates mankind
Submitted by: ATIF RAUF
Related Mcqs:
- In “Samson Agonistes,” the Chorus describes the approaching Dalila as beautifully and lavishly dressed to better seduce Samson. This is interesting because ?
A. the Chorus has just stated it hates this kind of lavish, external beauty.
B. Samson hates this kind of lavish, external beauty.
C. Dalila usually dresses in a more understated Puritan manner.
D. Samson is blind. - Which of the following statements best describes Catherine Moreland in “Northanger Abbey” ?
A. She is mature and realistic.
B. She is immature and has difficulty recognizing the difference between fact and fiction.
C. She is a matchmaker trying to set up romances between her friends, all the while unable to find true love herself.
D. B and C - Which of the following statements best describes the “Great Chain of Being” ?
A. It regarded human beings as social creatures who could create meaningful lives only in association with other social beings.
B. Its major premise was that every existing thing in the universe had its “place” in a divinely planned hierarchical order which was pictured as a chain, vertically extended.
C. It could only be achieved through faith in God’s grace.
D. Both A and B - Which of the following statements best describes the “Bloomsbury Group” ?
A. The “Bloomsbury Group” consists of a group of English writers, thinkers, and artists who met in the Bloomsbury district of London.
B. The group consisted of survivors of World War II.
C. The Bloomsbury group included E.M. Forster, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf.
D. A and C only - Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?
A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures
C. ironic understatement
D. stress on every third diphthong - Which of the following describes the chief system by which writers received financial rewards for their literary production ?
A. charity
B. patronage
C. censorship
D. subscription - Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
A. studied melancholy and aestheticism
B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
C. raucous celebration mixed with self congratulatory sophistication
D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent - What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels ?
A. the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail
B. a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness
C. the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society
D. A and C - Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” begins with the following lines: “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/ Only the monstrous anger of the guns./ Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?
A. These lines suggest that it was difficult to define patriotism during the Great War, but soldiers who died in battle provided the best example of patriotism.
B. These lines suggest that the Great War lasted much longer than it should have.
C. These lines equate humans with animals, and they anthropomorphize weapons to show a world where there is no place for human values.
D. These lines represent a modern funeral dirge that mimics the rhythm of ancient Greek funeral dirges. - Which of the following best describes the types of imagery used in Louis Zukofsky’s poem, “A: Seventh Movement: There Are Different Techniques” ?
A. Historic and contemporary imagery
B. Kabalistic imagery
C. Nationalist imagery
D. Everyday imagery
