What the term Elegy refers ?

Related Mcqs:

1. ‘Elegy’ is______________________?

   A. Historical poem
   B. figurative story
   C. song of lamentation
   D. short story

2. The pastoral elegy often begins with which of the following poetic conventions ?

   A. Invocation of a muse
   B. A cry of lament
   C. Prayer to the Sun
   D. A and B

3. The elegy began as an ancient metrical form ?

   A. French
   B. Greek
   C. Roman
   D. German

4. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of _______________?

   A. Milton
   B. Coleridge
   C. Keats
   D. Johnson

5. Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?

   A. The House of Fame
   B. The Book of the Duchess
   C. Troilus and Criseyde
   D. The Legend of Good Women

6. Which of the following represents a stage of development in the poetic form of the elegy ?

   A. Lamentation, in which the speaker demonstrates grief
   B. Praise and admiration for the dead
   C. Consolation and solace
   D. All of these

7. Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________?

   A. Arthur Hallam
   B. Milton
   C. Edward King
   D. Hugh Clough

8. Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?

   A. lycidas
   B. Paradise Lost
   C. II penseroso
   D. none of the above

9. What the term Renaissance refers ?

   A. revival or rebirth
   B. representation
   C. presentation
   D. rebel

10. A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time

    A. Synchrony
    B. Diachrony
    C. Paradigmatic
    D. N. O. T

    Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo