‘Picture must not be too picturesque’. Emerson here means pictures must_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which poet did Arthur Henry Hallum associate with “the picturesque” ?

   A. Alexander Pope B. Percy Shelley C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. Alfred Tennyson...

2. For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick’s paintings is described as follows: “A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth.” What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?

   A. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion. B. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion. C. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel. D. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion....

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a mentor for a number of early American writers, including_______________?

   A. Hawthrone B. Stewart C. Thoreau D. A and B...

4. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emerson ?

   A. Father of Free verse B. Father of american poetry C. Pro Slavery D. Father of American Liteature...

5. Why do we call Ralph Waldo Emerson the “Father of American Literature” ?

   A. First native american to publish life writing B. Mentor to other writers C. Literary Maverick D. None of the above...

6. “Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.” In this work the author argues in favour of____________?

   A. Communism B. Revolution C. An independent nation of independent individuals D. Abolition...

7. 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...

8. The /k/ sound in ‘act’and ‘picture’ is a____________?

   A. Bilabial plosion B. Alveolar plosion C. Nasal plosion D. Incomplete plosion....

9. 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...

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

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