A. Fearless daring or aggressive boldness
B. Auditory city
C. Authority
D. Insanity or dementia
Related Mcqs:
- But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. This victim is killed because of_____________?
A. A letter
B. His clouded eye
C. His pact with the devil
D. His loud heart beat - 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 - What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
A. its intellectual complexity
B. its union of thought and passion
C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
D. A and B - What characteristics of seventeenth century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
A. its intellectual complexity
B. its union of thought and passion
C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
D. A and B - The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the fullgrown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied. What does tremulous mean ?
A. Trembling and timid
B. Stiff
C. Afraid
D. Contemplating and deciding - 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 - In his poem Kipling said ’If you can meet with triumph and _____________’?
A. Glory
B. Ruin
C. Disaster
D. victory - The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, that all this was very well, but still he thought the story a little extravagant – there were one or two points on which he had his doubts. “Faith, sir,” replied the story-teller, “as to that matter, I don’t believe one half of it myself.” This passage exemplifies_____________?
A. Narrative frame
B. Hortatory sermon
C. Snaring
D. Jamming - “It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.” How does this opening sentence of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” NOT immediately suggest the Gothic ?
A. The reference to ancestral halls
B. The uncommon nature of the event
C. The first-person narrator
D. The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate - _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess
