A. Perfection
B. Birth
C. Evil
D. Death
Related Mcqs:
- One archetype in literature is the scapegoat. Which of these literary characters serves that purpose ?
A. Billy Budd
B. Hamlet
C. Captain Ahab
D. Ophelia - The final line of “We Are Seven” is: “And said, ‘Nay’ we are seven.” This line suggests that________________?
A. The little girl refuses to cast the dead out of her life.
B. The little girl is insane or delusional
C. The little girl’s siblings have not died
D. The little girl herself is dead - Writers in the Romantic time period were concerned with____________?
A. Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self.
B. Scientific exploration.
C. Love and romance.
D. The philosophy of how to run a new country. - Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism. - Seven Ages of Man appears in “ As you like it”. Which character’s speech it is ?
A. Amiens
B. Orlando
C. Oliver
D. Jaques - “Left the house of the subscriber, bounden servant, Hezekiah Mudge—had on when he went away, grey coat, leather breeches, master’s third best hat. One pound currency reward to whoever shall lodge him in any jail in the province.” Hezekiah Mudge is a “bounden servant,” meaning that he is bound by contract to be a servant (essentially a willing slave) for seven years in repayment for____________?
A. Freedom
B. Escape from enslavement
C. Transportation to the colonies
D. Dropping charges for murder - Who wrote the poem ’The Seven Ages’ ?
A. John Milton
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William Shakespeare
D. Edward Gibbon - With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?
A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
B. Jacques Derrida
C. Jacques Lacan
D. Michel Foucault - Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase “to make the stones stonier” ?
A. Humanism
B. Formalism
C. Structuralism
D. Marxism - With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ?
A. Elaine Showalter
B. Julia Kristeva
C. Lucy Irigaray
D. Louise M. Rosenblatt
