A. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.
B. by emphasizing the character’s fright.
C. by emphasizing sexual morality.
D. through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the character’s feelings.
Related Mcqs:
- Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?
A. Their imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.
B. Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.
C. Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.
D. Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings. - While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
A. a history of everyday life
B. an instructional manual for manners
C. a book of devotion
D. a book of model letters - While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
A. a history of everyday life
B. an instructional manual for manners
C. a book of devotion
D. a book of model letters - The main plot of Richardson’s Pamela reflects the main characteristics of the sentimental novel through its emphasis on which of the following ?
A. Pamela’s attempt to seduce her employer
B. Pamela’s parents’ attempt to marry her to a wealthy landowner
C. Pamela’s struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work
D. Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer - _____________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 - Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Dragon and the Undying” includes the following lines: “Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilder’d seas.” Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect ?
A. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare
D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?
A. Historical/Biographical Approach
B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
C. Formalism
D. Psychological Approach - In Dr. R. Allen Shoaf’s article, “’Hamlet’: Like Mother, Like Son”, Shoaf argues which of the following points about the relationship between Hamlet and his mother ?
A. Hamlet is placed in a position that can be conceptualized as feminine.
B. Hamlet despises his mother and suspects she has killed his father.
C. Hamlet is entirely masculinized throughout the play, and thus, is ultimately unlike his mother in terms of his position in the play.
D. Hamlet has a personality disorder. - In Pamela, how does the epistolary style enhance the sentimental aspects of the novel ?
A. It provides access to the heroine’s innermost reactions.
B. It does not cloud the novel with authorial intrusion that confuses the emotions.
C. It provides a sense of immediacy because the letters are written in the thick of the action.
D. All of these answers