A. Transcendentalism, Symbolism, and Dark Romanticism.
B. The Harlem Renaissance, The Lost Generation, and Confessional Poetry.
C. There were no movements during the modernist time period.
D. Symbolism, Naturalism, and Postmodernism.
Related Mcqs:
- What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries ?
A. Joyce’s “The Dead”
B. Hemingway’s “My Old Man”
C. Woolf’s “A Haunted House”
D. Borges’ “The Library of Babel” - Of the following, who was NOT a well known modernist author ?
A. James Joyce
B. Voltaire
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Y.B. Yeats - Which of the following is NOT a modernist art movement ?
A. Surrealism
B. Dadaism
C. Symbolism
D. Realism - Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells - Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells - Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?
A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
D. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental. - Which of the following was NOT a prominent theme of American and English modernist poetry ?
A. The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets
B. The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion
C. The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable
D. The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture - Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet ?
A. William Carlos Williams
B. John Greenleaf Whittier
C. George Herbert
D. Robert Browning - Which of the following traditions was particularlyimportant in Hart Crane’s modernist poetry ?
A. French Classicism
B. British Romanticism
C. American Romanticism
D. German Romanticism - Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?
A. employs free verse.
B. has an undertow of nihilism.
C. is chauvinistic about British “exceptionalism.”
D. was composed between WW I and WW II.
