Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The distinction between comedy and tragedy which characterized classical drama was first forgotten during what period in England ?

   A. Medieval
   B. Romantic
   C. Victorian
   D. Elizabethan

2. “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?

   A. Samson Occcum
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. Mayflower Compact

3. Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem ?

   A. characters, main idea, and theme
   B. purpose and audience
   C. theme, purpose, form, and mood.
   D. rhyme and reason

4. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?

   A. supernatural phenomenon
   B. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
   C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
   D. all of the above

5. This checkmark diagram represents the plot structure for what genre of early American writing ?

   A. Slave narrative
   B. Indian autobiography
   C. Sermon
   D. Trancendentalism

6. Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?

   A. Plato’s The Republic
   B. T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
   C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
   D. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage…..

7. Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?

   A. Plato’s The Republic
   B. T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
   C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
   D. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”

8. Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?

   A. William Shakespeare
   B. Thomas Kyd
   C. John Dryden
   D. John Donne

9. Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine India’s post-colonial situation ?

   A. Ravinder Reddy
   B. Rummana Hussain
   C. Dadabhai Naoroji
   D. A and B only

10. To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of “romance”emerged, initially apply ?

    A. a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
    B. a story about love and adventure
    C. a Roman official
    D. a work written in the French vernacular