Which of the following authors would be most likely to use the supernatural in his poems ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following terms is most closely related to the phrase “the explained supernatural” ?

   A. The uncanny
   B. The fallen world
   C. The “Other”
   D. The sublime

2. This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?

   A. C.S. Lewis
   B. T.S. Eliot
   C. G.K. Chesterton
   D. Matthew Arnold

3. Which is/are typical of the supernatural in medieval romance ?

   A. enchantment
   B. spells
   C. fairy trickery
   D. All of the Above

4. Keats’ widespread appeal is to the Reader’s interest in the supernatural ?

   A. True
   B. False
   C. both A and B
   D. none of these

5. For his poems, Shakespeare is thought to have drawn upon all of the following for influence and ideas EXCEPT ?

   A. Greek mythology
   B. European history
   C. Early scientific studies
   D. The works of earlier poets

6. Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?

   A. H.D.
   B. Hart Crane
   C. William Carlos Williams
   D. T.S. Eliot

7. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?

   A. Long, wide petticoats
   B. A trench-coat
   C. Loose, wide breeches
   D. Underpants

8. Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature ?

   A. William Blake
   B. William Shakespeare
   C. William Morris
   D. William Wordsworth

9. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?

   A. Ben Jonson
   B. Alexander Pope
   C. Robert Herrick
   D. John Dryden

10. Which of the following authors is considered a major theorist of deconstruction ?

    A. Raymond Williams
    B. Jacques Derrida
    C. Fredric Jameson
    D. Both A and B