A. the expurgation of indelicate language
B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary
C. the insertion of bawdy songs
D. the misspelling of simple words like \the\and \and\
Related Mcqs:
- In his reading of Shakespeare’s “Fair Youth Sonnets,” who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been ?
A. Marlowe
B. Swift
C. Oxford
D. Bacon - According to Anthony DiMatteo’s “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’”, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?
A. Shakespeare presents political rulers as flawless, perfect human beings.
B. Shakespeare presents political rulers as often meeting ruinous and violent endings.
C. Shakespeare only presents fictional political rulers and does not explore any political realities.
D. Shakespeare considers all political rulers to be corrupt. - The words denoting the colour ‘red’ and the past__tense of the verb ‘read’ ; ‘right’ and’ ‘write’; and ‘site’ and sight’ are examples for________________?
A. Allophones
B. Homophones
C. Homographs
D. Homonyms - The present__tense form of the verb ‘read’ and its past__tense which is pronounced as ‘red’ is an example of _____________?
A. Allophones
B. Homophones
C. Homographs
D. Homonyms - Well, then; I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments. The individual who purloined it is known; this beyond a doubt; he was seen to take it. It is known, also, that it still remains in his possession. What is the meaning of the verb to purloin ?
A. To borrow
B. To steal
C. To ruin
D. To return - In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, what does Hamlet mean when he states that, “there is more in heaven and earth … than are dreamt of in your philosophy” ?
A. There is such a thing as an afterlife.
B. Dreams always tell the truth.
C. There are some aspects of existence that cannot be explained through reason.
D. Heaven exists on earth. - In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, what does William Hazlitt mean when he states the following: “We do not like to see our author’s plays acted, and least of all, ’Hamlet’. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage” ?
A. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the play’s use of language.
B. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.
C. The role of Hamlet cannot be properly played by any actor.
D. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed. - What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ?
A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively. - What did Thomas Carlyle mean by \Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe\ ?
A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively. - Shakespeare sometimes used the trochee, which in meter refers to which of the following? In Shakespeare’s plays, a troche is___________________?
A. The same as an iamb with an unstressed and stressed syllable in a foot
B. The opposite of an iamb with a stressed and then unstressed syllable in a foot
C. Only one syllable for the length of a foot
D. None of the above
