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 ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following statements accurately compares Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” and Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Rear Guard” ?

   A. Both poems praise Britain’s military power and its imperial ambitions.
   B. Both poems describe Britain’s civilizing mission in the world.
   C. Both poems seek to respond to the harsh political and military realities of their day.
   D. Both poems romanticize war and glorify the life of the soldier.

2. Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “To Victory” is concerned primarily with which of the following themes ?

   A. His safe return home
   B. The defeat of the Germans
   C. His death and escape from suffering.
   D. His ability to finally kill an enemy soldier

3. “O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!” These lines characterize Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?

   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.

4. Which of the following literary devices is most prominent in Gertrude Stein’s poem “New” ?

   A. Assonance and word repetition
   B. Simile
   C. Metaphor and allusion
   D. Circumlocution

5. Which of the following literary devices are present in Langston Hughes’s poem “Ku Klux” ?

   A. Irony
   B. Allegory
   C. Oxymoron
   D. Alliteration

6. Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry ?

   A. Light verse
   B. Romantic
   C. Political satire
   D. War poems

7. the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?

   A. Iliad
   B. Odyssey
   C. Beowulf
   D. Canterbury Tales

8. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

9. Postmodern writing often uses and as literary devices ?

   A. Black humor; metafiction.
   B. Metaphors; verbal irony.
   C. Hyperbole; Personification.
   D. Symbolism; Imagery.

10. The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” ends with the following lines: “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?

    A. Brooke’s inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize
    the distance between the ideals ofWestern civilization and its realities.
    B. These lines suggest the author’s anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.
    C. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.
    D. All of the above