A. Reason
B. Individualism
C. Political thinking, philosophical, and social movement
D. Deism, skepticism
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following is NOT considered a write for the Transcendentalism Movement ?
A. Emerson
B. Hawthrone
C. Thoreau
D. Stewart - Which statement below best defines the genre of Indian autobiography ?
A. Genre that details life exerpeinces of white americans in early america and critiques american society to native americans.
B. Genre that details life experiences of native Americas in early America and critiques American society to native Americans.
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above - Which of the following best defines the Enlightenment movement ?
A. Age of reason
B. Political thinking
C. Celebration of individual
D. Philosophical movment - A good definition of American Realism is________________?
A. An examination of life as it actually is.
B. A romantic portrayal of life.
C. An examination of the countryside versus the city.
D. A sad and depressing view of reality. - What author defines the function of poetry with reference to the Horatian dictum of “to teach and delight” ?
A. Sir Thomas More
B. Sir Walter Raleigh
C. John Lyly
D. Sir Philip Sidney - Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?
A. Two characters in an epic who are romantically involved
B. Two lines of rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter
C. The concluding lines of any poem
D. Two characters who act as foils in a comedy of manners - Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?
A. A refusal to emphasize the innate goodness of humanity
B. An emphasis on the power of sympathy to allow individuals to feel others’ pain and joy
C. A sense of awe in the power of the natural world
D. A parody of the interest in emotion that developed out of the Enlightenment interest in reason - Which of the following best defines satire ?
A. Literature that relies on devices like irony, sarcasm, and humor
B. A work of literature that attempts to improve society
C. A text that exposes serious flaws under the veil of comedy
D. All of these answers - Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
A. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
C. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis. - In his essay “The Roots of Modernism,” Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe defines the modern period in the history of art as the time from roughly 1860 to 1970. How does he say modernism is typically defined ?
A. Modernism is the art produced during the modern period.
B. Modernism is the historical period which followed the modern period.
C. Modernism is the philosophy of modern art.
D. Both A and C
