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 ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous luster of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect its arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. The character described in this passage ?

   A. Commits suicide
   B. Devours a heart
   C. Meets the devil
   D. Buries someone alive

2. I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition— for why should I not so term it?—served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis. This work exemplifies ?

   A. Unity of effect
   B. Ratiocinactive effect
   C. Cataleptic effect
   D. Didactic effect

3. My present business,” continued he, speaking with lofty confidence, “is merely to inquire my way to the dwelling of my [relative].” … There was a sudden and general movement in the room, which Robin interpreted as expressing the eagerness of each individual to become his guide. This passage exemplifies____________?

   A. Jamming
   B. Ambiguity
   C. Snaring
   D. Foregrounding

4. Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is an example of which of the following literary trends ?

   A. Aestheticism
   B. Naturalism
   C. Decadence
   D. Both A and C

5. ’Picture of Dorian Gray ’ was written by__________________?

   A. Oscar Wild
   B. Hardy
   C. George Eliot
   D. None of these

6. ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by_______________?

   A. Wordsworth
   B. Keats
   C. None of these
   D. All of these

7. _____________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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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.