A. Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe”
B. Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”
C. Pope’s “The Dunciad”
D. Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”
Related Mcqs:
- With which text is the term mock-epic most closely associated ?
A. Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven”
B. Pope’s Rape of the Lock
C. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
D. Benn’s Oroonoko - What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?
A. L’Allegro
B. Lycidas
C. Paradise Lost
D. The Divine Comedy - Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound’s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?
A. The Mahabharata
B. Paradise Lost
C. The Odyssey
D. The Aeneid - Who is called the ‘Mock heroic poet’ ?
A. Edmund Walter
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Alexander Pope
D. Dr. Samuel Johnson - Who wrote: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. William Woodsworth
D. Emily Dickinson - In which work do you read: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?
A. The Man of Feeling
B. In Memoriam
C. Song to Aella
D. Ozymandias - When there was a momentary calm in that tempestuous sea of sound, the leader gave the sign, the procession resumed its march. On they went, like fiends that throng in mockery around some dead potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man’s heart. This is______________?
A. Historical fiction
B. A fairy tale
C. An autobiography
D. A detective story - Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?
A. The Bahagavad Gita
B. The Odyssey
C. The Illiad
D. The Aeneid - the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?
A. Iliad
B. Odyssey
C. Beowulf
D. Canterbury Tales - One of Marlowe’s earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem ’Pharsalia’, written by which Roman poet ?
A. Ovid
B. Lucan
C. Virgil
D. Horace
