A. An Epic Council
B. An “Arming of the Hero” Scene
C. A “Tragic Recognition” Speech
D. An Invocation to the Muse
Related Mcqs:
- Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound’s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?
A. The Mahabharata
B. Paradise Lost
C. The Odyssey
D. The Aeneid - What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?
A. L’Allegro
B. Lycidas
C. Paradise Lost
D. The Divine Comedy - Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
B. sound as a means to express meaning
C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
D. all of the above - Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
B. sound as a means to express meaning
C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
D. all of the above - Choose the best answer. Which of the following statements is true concerning epic poetry ?
A. Epic poetry is of a moral nature and tends to the promotion of virtue.
B. “Canterbury Tales” is an example of epic poetry.
C. All of the above answers are true.
D. None of These - Which of the following texts is an example of epic poetry ?
A. “Paradise Lost”
B. “The Odyssey”
C. “The Iliad”
D. All of the above - Edmund Spenser was directly influenced by which writer’s epic poetry ?
A. Milton
B. Wordsworth
C. Aristo
D. Both A and B - Who is largely considered to be the father of epic poetry ?
A. Homer
B. Dante
C. Virgil
D. Milton - Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?
A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
D. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental. - Professor Hammer argues that in a certain sense Wallace Stevens’s poetry is always meta-poetry. What does this mean ?
A. Stevens’s poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.
B. Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules.
C. Stevens’s poetry always addresses several different audiences.
D. Stevens’s poetry highlights an objective voice.
