A. Umberto Boccioni
B. Filippo Marinetti
C. Vladimir Mayakovsky
D. Aleksander Wat
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following is NOT a tenet of F.T. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” ?
A. “We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.”
B. “The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, daring, and revolt.”
C. “We want to sing the man who holds the steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of its orbit.”
D. “We want never to glorify war, the scourge of the planet.” - Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between World War II poetry and Futurist poetry ?
A. The Futurists apotheosized technology, whereas World War II poets often focused on technology’s destructive powers.
B. The Futurists praised speed, whereas World War II poets often evoked images of nature to describe the human condition.
C. The Futurists privileged the part over the whole, whereas World War II poets did not deal with the problem of modernity and alienation.
D. The Futurists focused on advancements in technology and industry, whereas World War II poets ignored advancements in technology, especially in modern warfare. - Which of the following statements best characterizes the contrast between T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and the futurist aesthetic project ?
A. “The Waste Land” is primarily concerned with nature, whereas the futurists are most interested in industrial and urban landscapes.
B. “The Waste Land” confronts the fragmentation of modernity by exploring a variety of modes and voices, whereas the futurists do not focus on the fragmentation of modern experience, praising speed and industrial progress instead.
C. “The Waste Land” is an ironic exploration of Romantic themes, whereas the futurists incorporate ironic evocations of the classical tradition in their poetry.
D. “The Waste Land” focuses on the personal connection between poet and speaker, whereas the futurists focus on an impersonal connection between humans and industry. - According to Tristan Tzara’s “Manifesto on Dadaism,” which of the following does NOT define Dadaism ?
A. “Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family”
B. “A protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action”
C. “Absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity”
D. “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” - Langston Hughes was among the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of his experiences before he published his first book ?
A. He was a native New Yorker who did not travel much but who was keenly aware of New York’s complexity and diversity.
B. He moved to New York from Alabama and the stark contrast between these places deeply influenced his writing.
C. He was born in Missouri and traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world before he moved to New York City.
D. He spent most of his life in Washington, DC, moving to Harlem only after he gained literary fame. - Which of the following historical figures influenced Dante ?
A. Cicero
B. Thomas Aquinas
C. Brunetto Latini
D. All of the above - Which of the following figures of speech are present in Finnegans Wake ?
A. allusions
B. jokes
C. portmanteaus
D. All of the Above - Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?
A. Cleanth Brooks
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Karl Marx
D. Toni Morrison - Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?
A. Cleanth Brooks
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Karl Marx
D. Sigmund Freud - Which of the following figures was an important political theorist of the Renaissance ?
A. Niccolo Machiavelli
B. Francesco Petrarcha
C. Aristotle
D. Plato
