A. Horace
B. Quintillion
C. Cicero
D. Virgil
Related Mcqs:
- Who is the author of Ars Poetica ?
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Horace
D. Longinus - The probable date of composition of Ars Poetica is_______________?
A. 100 BC
B. 12 to 8 BC
C. 15 AD
D. 20 AD - What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
A. Augustan
B. Metaphysical
C. Romantic
D. Neo-Romantic - What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
A. Augustan
B. Metaphysical
C. Romantic
D. Neo-Romantic - The motto “art for art’s sake” means that artists began to do which of the following ?
A. Produce works of art that were meaningless
B. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
C. Avoid all forms of prose
D. Make art profitable above all else - The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
A. Sexuality
B. Criticism of the queen
C. Murder
D. Witchcraft - According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?
A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans. - Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie is a defence of poetry against the charges brought against it by____________?
A. Henry Howard
B. Roger Ascham
C. John Skelton
D. Stephen Gosson - “Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility.” Who has defined poetry in these words ?
A. Shelley
B. Wordsworth
C. Coleridge
D. Matthew Arnold - Which of the following best characterizes the contrast between Gertrude Stein’s poetry and Imagist poetry ?
A. Stein experimented only with the sound qualities of language, whereas the Imagists focused on visual imagery.
B. Stein experimented with language that skirted the edges of sense, whereas the Imagists sought precision and clarity of expression.
C. Stein sought to combine classical poetic form with contemporary content, whereas the Imagists used traditional poetic subject matter but experimented with form.
D. Stein sought precision and clarity in her poems, whereas the Imagists sought experimental forms that enhanced visual imagery.
