Epic similes are found in which work of John Milton ?

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1. A critic examining John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a critic ?

   A. Reader Response
   B. Feminist
   C. Mimetic
   D. Formalist

2. What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?

   A. L’Allegro
   B. Lycidas
   C. Paradise Lost
   D. The Divine Comedy

3. Where was John Milton born? Where was John Milton born ?

   A. London
   B. Bristol
   C. Wales
   D. Yorkshire

4. Complete the following statement. John Milton explains in the first 26 lines of “Paradise Lost” that that goal of his epic poem will be ?

   A. to justify the ways of God to humankind.
   B. to justify the ways of humankind to God.
   C. to justify the ways of Heaven to Hell.
   D. to justify the ways of Hell to Heaven.

5. Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound’s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?

   A. The Mahabharata
   B. Paradise Lost
   C. The Odyssey
   D. The Aeneid

6. Which famous work of John Milton’s was based on the fall of man ?

   A. Paradise Regained
   B. Paradise Lost
   C. Samson Agonistes
   D. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

7. What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
   D. T.S. Eliot

8. Denied the right to apply for divorce and facing intense humiliation, John Milton wrote what work ?

   A. “Christian Doctrines”
   B. “On Regicide”
   C. “The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce”
   D. “Paradise Lost”

9. In , a good example of Milton’s sharp rhetorical prose, Milton denounces restrictive censorship, arguing for freedom of the press ?

   A. “Paradise Lost”
   B. “Samson Agonistes”
   C. “Areopagitica”
   D. “Paradise Regained”

10. Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?

    A. lycidas
    B. Paradise Lost
    C. II penseroso
    D. none of the above