Applying human qualities to non-human things ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus’ character at the beginning of the play ?

   A. kind
   B. stupid
   C. sensitive
   D. arrogant

2. Which qualities do the fixed stars in paradise represent ?

   A. Faith, hope, and love
   B. Faith, wisdom, and love
   C. Love, compassion, and pride
   D. Justice, temperance, and faith

3. Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written_______________?

   A. around 1900.
   B. in the early stages of World War I.
   C. in the late stages of World War I.
   D. in the 1920s.

4. Which of the following statements best characterizes the formal qualities of Langston Hughes’s poem “Life is Fine” ?

   A. The diction is much more polysyllabic than monosyllabic.
   B. The use of alternating end rhymes and word repetitions enhance the music of the poem and along with its occasional dissonance give it an improvisational jazz-like quality.
   C. It is written in Standard American English for middle-class readers.
   D. This poem is structured like a villanelle.

5. The Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay were non-separating Puritans, which meant ?

   A. They did not want to disassociate from the Church of England
   B. Separate from church of England
   C. Start their own beliefs
   D. Create seperation

6. What type of non-rhymed poetry did Christopher Marlowe pioneer ?

   A. Blank verse
   B. The sonnet
   C. Trochaic Heptameter
   D. Free-flow verse

7. The term used for non-linguistic aspects of speaking is: ___________?

   A. Metalanguage
   B. Paralanguage
   C. Protalanguage
   D. None of These

   Submitted by: Syed Ali Hyder Shah

8. There was greater emphasis placed on human potentiality for growth and excellence through Europe by which year ?

   A. 1400
   B. 1500
   C. 1600
   D. 1650

9. Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?

   A. the India Mutiny in 1857
   B. the Boer War in the south of Africa
   C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865
   D. all of the above

10. ‘Of Human Bondage’ is written by_____________?

    A. Somerset Maugham
    B. James Joyce
    C. W.B. Yeats
    D. Philip Sydney