A. Niccolo Machiavelli
B. Francesco Petrarcha
C. Aristotle
D. Plato
Related Mcqs:
- 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. - An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?
A. alchemy and magic
B. the literature of Greece and Rome
C. chivalry of the Middle Ages
D. the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas - 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 - 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 - Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?
A. Goethe’s Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality
B. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence
C. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods
D. A and C only - Which of the following figures is the author of the 1909 “Futurist Manifesto” ?
A. Umberto Boccioni
B. Filippo Marinetti
C. Vladimir Mayakovsky
D. Aleksander Wat - With which theorist is the term implied reader associated ?
A. Wolfgang Iser
B. William Wimsatt
C. Cleanth Brooks
D. Harold Bloom
