A. “Was it for this-”
B. “Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”
C. “And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.”
D. “April is the cruellest month”
Related Mcqs:
- In analyzing T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following ?
A. “A meditation on contradictions”
B. “Overheard inner speech”
C. “Implicit dialogue with the future”
D. “Objective correlative” - Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” begins with the following lines: “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/ Only the monstrous anger of the guns./ Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?
A. These lines suggest that it was difficult to define patriotism during the Great War, but soldiers who died in battle provided the best example of patriotism.
B. These lines suggest that the Great War lasted much longer than it should have.
C. These lines equate humans with animals, and they anthropomorphize weapons to show a world where there is no place for human values.
D. These lines represent a modern funeral dirge that mimics the rhythm of ancient Greek funeral dirges. - Which of the following natural forces “speaks” in the culminating passage of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” ?
A. An avalanche
B. Rapids
C. The west wind
D. Thunder - Which of the following statements best characterizes the contrast between T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and the futurist aesthetic project ?
A. “The Waste Land” is primarily concerned with nature, whereas the futurists are most interested in industrial and urban landscapes.
B. “The Waste Land” confronts the fragmentation of modernity by exploring a variety of modes and voices, whereas the futurists do not focus on the fragmentation of modern experience, praising speed and industrial progress instead.
C. “The Waste Land” is an ironic exploration of Romantic themes, whereas the futurists incorporate ironic evocations of the classical tradition in their poetry.
D. “The Waste Land” focuses on the personal connection between poet and speaker, whereas the futurists focus on an impersonal connection between humans and industry. - According to Professor Hammer, which of the following is the central question explored by T.S. Eliot in “The Waste Land” ?
A. Is authentic poetry possible in the aftermath of the carnage of World War I?
B. Given the diversity of the world’s poetic traditions, can there be a universal language of poetic symbolism?
C. How can a shared world be created out of the fundamentally different and private experiences of individual people?
D. Given that each person experiences trauma differently, is it possible for all to understand the modern world as a shared “waste land”? - The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?
A. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems
B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems
C. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works
D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron’s poems - Complete the following sentence. In the opening lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover,” the words “daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon” ?
A. are an example of antithesis to suggest the falcon’s contradictory nature.
B. use alliterative language to draw attention to the falcon’s importance as a symbol of Christ.
C. refer to the speaker’s heart.
D. indicate the speaker’s lack of faith. - Ezra Pound’s “Canto I” opens with the following lines: “And then went down to the ship,/Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and(…).” Which of the following statements best characterizes these lines and the poem as a whole ?
A. These lines set an impersonal tone which dominates the entire poem.
B. These lines establish a rhythmical pattern, which is followed strictly throughout the poem.
C. These lines are the only impersonal lines in the poem, the rest of which is primarily focused on the complexity of human emotions.
D. These lines establish a personal tone, focusing on a lyrical perspective similar to late-Victorian era poetry. - 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 ?
A. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare
D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare - Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” opens with the following lines: “If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brooke’s poem as a whole ?
A. These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers’ deaths on the battlefield.
B. These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britain’s imperial power.
C. These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.
D. These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.
