A. Simile
B. Conceit
C. Metaphor
D. Couplet
Related Mcqs:
- “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.” Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night ?
A. Duke Orsino
B. Malvolio
C. Sir Andrew Aguecheek
D. Sir Toby Belch - Who wrote this famous line: ’Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate’ ?
A. TS Eliot
B. Lord Tennyson
C. Charlotte Bronte
D. Shakespeare - In “Ode to the West Wind,” why does Shelley ask the wind to “make me thy lyre” ?
A. To help drive his ideas across the universe
B. To help him reach the afterlife
C. To help him hear nature’s music
D. To help him start a new revolutionary war - The motto “art for art’s sake” means that artists began to do which of the following ?
A. Produce works of art that were meaningless
B. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
C. Avoid all forms of prose
D. Make art profitable above all else - The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
A. Sexuality
B. Criticism of the queen
C. Murder
D. Witchcraft - 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. - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time”. Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare ?
A. Jonson
B. Bacon
C. Wordsworth
D. none of above - “Milton, thou should’st be living at this hour. England hath need of thee.” Indeed. But who was it, summoning his ghost ?
A. Horatio Herbert Kitchener
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. John Keats - Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..” ?
A. Chastelard
B. A Song of Italy
C. Atalanta in Calydon
D. Songs before Sunrise - In the play, “Richard III,” who speaks of “the winter of our discontent” (I.i.1) ?
A. Richmond
B. Queen Elizabeth
C. Richard III
D. The princes
