What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?

   A. wit
   B. sprezzatura
   C. naturalism
   D. gusto

2. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as______________?

   A. metaphor
   B. simile
   C. personification
   D. none of the above

3. A critic examining John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a critic ?

   A. Reader Response
   B. Feminist
   C. Mimetic
   D. Formalist

4. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down – but with a shudder even more thrilling than before – upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?

   A. A bird
   B. A small mountain lake
   C. A wide river
   D. A high cliff

5. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?

   A. Maria Edgeworth
   B. Sir Walter Scott
   C. Thomas De Quincey
   D. Jane Austen

6. Unlike the gods and goddesses of classical epics, John Milton’s God in “Paradise Lost” is and____________?

   A. visible, inaccessible
   B. inaccessible, omnipresent
   C. nonexistent, invisible
   D. invisible, omnipresent

7. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as_____________?

   A. metaphor
   B. simile
   C. personification
   D. none of the above

8. Complete the following sentence. Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith and Rousseau_____________?

   A. traveled to America.
   B. believed in God.
   C. emphasized the importance of human emotions as guiding behavior.
   D. rejected Newton’s view of the universe.

9. The American Renaissance overlapped the time period, in which American writers were trying to____________?

   A. Postmodern; end slavery.
   B. Colonial; end patriotism for England.
   C. Modernism; end individualism.
   D. Romanticism; define themselves and their writing style as independent from England.

10. Writers in the Romantic time period were concerned with____________?

    A. Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self.
    B. Scientific exploration.
    C. Love and romance.
    D. The philosophy of how to run a new country.