A. its mocking tone.
B. its absurd response to a real issue.
C. its sentimental plea to its audience.
D. its attempt to shock readers into acting.
Related Mcqs:
- Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
A. theoretical science
B. metaphysics
C. abstract logical deductions
D. A, B, and C - Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
A. theoretical science
B. metaphysics
C. abstract logical deductions
D. A, B, and C - Which of the following best defines satire ?
A. Literature that relies on devices like irony, sarcasm, and humor
B. A work of literature that attempts to improve society
C. A text that exposes serious flaws under the veil of comedy
D. All of these answers - Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?
A. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
B. “Piers Plowman”
C. “The Canterbury Tales”
D. “The Book of Margery Kempe” - All of the following are ways Dracula represents the “monstrous Other” EXCEPT_______________?
A. Dracula as foreign invader
B. Dracula as sexual predator
C. Dracula as usurper of the British class system
D. Dracula as transgressor of God’s order - The line “fools are my theme, let satire be my song” demonstrates a sentiment that would likely appear in a poem by_________________?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. William Blake
D. Lord Byron - Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire “Absalom and Achitophel” ?
A. The Duke of Monmouth
B. Charles II
C. The Earl of Shaftesbury
D. Cromwell - Which of the following statements is true of the Anglo-Irish War ?
A. The Anglo-Irish war began with the resistance of the Irish Republican Army.
B. The Anglo-Irish war never involved a guerrilla campaign.
C. In the course of the Anglo-Irish War, only a few hundred members of the Irish Republican Army were actively resisting British rule.
D. All of the above - Which of the following authors is NOT an important Irish writer ?
A. Seamus Heaney
B. James Joyce
C. William Butler Yeats
D. E.M. Forster - Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
A. the Irish National Theatre
B. the Globe Theatre
C. the Abbey Theatre
D. both A and C
