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
Related Mcqs:
- Jonathan Swift’s suggestion in “A Modest Proposal” that the Irish eat their children exemplifies the characteristics of a satire in all of the following ways EXCEPT_______________?
A. its mocking tone.
B. its absurd response to a real issue.
C. its sentimental plea to its audience.
D. its attempt to shock readers into acting. - Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?
A. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
B. “Piers Plowman”
C. “The Canterbury Tales”
D. “The Book of Margery Kempe” - The line “fools are my theme, let satire be my song” demonstrates a sentiment that would likely appear in a poem by_________________?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. William Blake
D. Lord Byron - Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire “Absalom and Achitophel” ?
A. The Duke of Monmouth
B. Charles II
C. The Earl of Shaftesbury
D. Cromwell - 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 descriptions best defines the literary theory known as formalism ?
A. An approach that emphasizes literary devices in a text
B. An approach that emphasizes the historical context of a text
C. An approach that emphasizes the biographical intent of a text
D. An approach that emphasizes racial issues in a text - Which of the following statements best defines the poetic form of the villanelle ?
A. A poem that has no rhyme scheme
B. A poem that eulogizes the dead
C. A poem that carries a pattern on two rhymes and offers an alternating refrain
D. A poem that celebrates the life of a cruel person - Which of the following best defines caesura ?
A. A pause or break in a line of poetry
B. Giving inanimate objects human qualities
C. A metaphorical compound
D. The image used to share qualities in a metaphor or simile - Which of the following best defines Middle English ?
A. An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons
B. A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence
C. A unique form of English spoken in Germany
D. A form brought to England by the Scandinavians
