A. demonstrate the importance of the topic.
B. set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.
C. reveal the learnedness of the characters.
D. elicit the sympathy of elite readers
Related Mcqs:
- In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes which of the following social institutions ?
A. The government
B. Marriage
C. Organized religion
D. All of these answers - Complete the following sentence. The Romantic movement is least closely related to______________?
A. folklore.
B. nationalism.
C. parody.
D. exoticism - The Rape of the Lock is a_______________?
A. Parody
B. Elegy
C. Romance
D. Sonnet - Name the English poet of 18th century whose works included Rape of the Lock, Dunciad and Essay on Man?
A. Nelson Mandela
B. Winston Churchill
C. Alexander Pope
D. None of theseSubmitted by: M AQIB ZAI
- Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth conceives of himself as a “chosen son” primarily because_____________?
A. his brothers died in their youth.
B. he was endowed with a great poetic talent.
C. he was given special educational opportunities.
D. he feels especially connected to nature due to his experience as a youth. - 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. - Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?
A. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
B. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
C. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
D. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language. - Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?
A. “Two Gentlemen of Verona”
B. “The Winter’s Tale”
C. “The Tempest”
D. “Faustus” - Complete the following sentence. The politics of Radcliffe’s medieval settings______________?
A. indicates her longing for the older aristocracy.
B. suggests her commitment to the Catholic Church.
C. is at odds with her explicit socialist politics.
D. implies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience. - Complete the following sentence. Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith and Rousseau_____________?
A. traveled to America.
B. believed in God.
C. emphasized the importance of human emotions as guiding behavior.
D. rejected Newton’s view of the universe.
