A. African mythology.
B. African American folktale.
C. Greek mythology.
D. Contemporary female artists.
Related Mcqs:
- It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down – but with a shudder even more thrilling than before – upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?
A. A bird
B. A small mountain lake
C. A wide river
D. A high cliff - In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?
A. Female symbols
B. Phallic symbols
C. Male symbols
D. Evidence of an Oedipus complex - What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
A. wit
B. sprezzatura
C. naturalism
D. gusto - What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
A. wit
B. sprezzatura
C. naturalism
D. gusto - Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ?
A. There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry.
B. The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages.
C. The Imagists valued brevity, which could be achieved with precise visual images, whereasWorldWar I poets preferred declamatory statements in their poems.
D. WorldWar I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images. - Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?
A. The image of a sentinel
B. The image of the sun reflected on the sea
C. The image of a quest for knowledge
D. The image of satiny embers - 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. - “Gradually light returns to the street” means_______________?
A. life resumes to normal routine
B. it is day break
C. streets are bright
D. life is unpredictable - Semi__vowels are also known as ________________?
A. Approximants
B. Laterals
C. Sibilants
D. Trills - The /k/ in ‘kill’ and ‘skill’ are ________________?
A. Allophones
B. Allomorphs
C. Morpheme variants
D. Minimal pairs
