What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?

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1. 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

2. Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ?

   A. Hunnish epic
   B. Gothic fiction
   C. epistolary novel
   D. meta-novel

3. What Gothic literary convention did NOT originate with Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto” ?

   A. The ancestral castle
   B. Psychological terror
   C. The supernatural
   D. Physical violence

4. A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?

   A. Marxist criticism
   B. Reader-response criticism
   C. Psychoanalytic criticism
   D. New Criticism

5. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?

   A. The leading characteristic of the age
   B. Monarchs or political events
   C. The primary author of the age
   D. The language of the age

6. “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?

   A. Samson Occcum
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. Mayflower Compact

7. The name “Ars Poetica” (Art of Poetry) was given to Horace’s Epistle to the Pisos by____________?

   A. Horace
   B. Quintillion
   C. Cicero
   D. Virgil

8. According to critics, how does Dante’s underworld differ from Virgil’s hell ?

   A. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Dante’s underworld focuses on punishment for sins.
   B. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Dante’s underworld is concerned with destiny and future.
   C. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Dante’s underworld is not expected to last forever.
   D. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Dante’s underworld does not include examples of justice.

9. In The Inferno, what quality does Virgil represent ?

   A. Reason
   B. Compassion
   C. Temperance
   D. Fortitude

10. In Shakespeare’s literary output, the period 1604-1608 is the period of__________________?

    A. Comedy plays
    B. Historical plays
    C. Great Tragedies
    D. None of above