A. It took place at nightfall.
B. It was a moody and spooky story.
C. It contained clues to events yet to happen.
D. It had descriptions of shadows in the woods.
Related Mcqs:
- One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ____________?
A. Chomsky’s “Syntactic Structures”
B. Chomsky’s “Aspects of the theory of Syntax”
C. Leonard Bloomfield’s “Language”
D. Both “a’ & “b” - Which of the following famous literary lines is contained in William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” ?
A. “Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys”
B. “And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands”
C. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”
D. “Mother died today” - Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” ?
A. the lyric poem written in the first person
B. the sonnet
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the political tract - Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?
A. the lyric poem written in the first person
B. the sonnet
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the political tract - In this technological world the child should build up_____________?
A. a vision for himself
B. inner strength
C. his own life
D. a will not to depend on others - Monadnock on his forehead hoar Doth seal the sacred trust, Your mountains build their monument, Though ye destroy their dust. What is the meaning of the word “hoar” ?
A. Scarred
B. Grey or white with age
C. Ancient or venerable
D. Wrinkled with age - He had heard this destruction of the original possessors of the soil described, as we find it in the history of the times, where, we are told, “the number destroyed was about four hundred;” and “it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and the horrible scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God.” This work is___________?
A. A hortatory sermon
B. A historial novel
C. Gothic fiction
D. A narrative frame - What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
A. Elephant and Castle
B. Grub Street
C. Covent Garden
D. Cheapside - Who is famous for representing London in his novels ?
A. Thackeray
B. Hardy
C. Dickens
D. W. Scott
