Which of the following is NOT a common attribute of Byronic heroes ?

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1. Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?

   A. always fighting for good against evil. B. fortunate in always coming out victorious. C. nearly superhuman in his powers but tortured by a psychological weight. D. devoted to religion above all things...

2. Which contemporary fictional character can be understood as a Byronic hero ?

   A. Superman B. Dr. House C. Luke Skywalker D. Yoda...

3. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of ?

   A. six lectures B. five lectures C. four lectures D. seven lectures...

4. Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes ?

   A. Ben Jonson B. John Ruskin C. Thomas Carlyle D. William Hazlitt...

5. ‘On Heroes and Hero…worship is written by________________?

   A. Huxley B. Carlyle C. Ruskin D. Mill...

6. Which of the following is not a cultural myth we attribute to those earliest Massachusetts colonial settlements at Plymouth and Massachusetts ?

   A. Democracy B. Brother love/charity C. US Exceptionalism D. None of the above...

7. The study of relationships between two or more languages and the investigation whether the common languages have a common ancestor is called___________?

   A. Psycho linguistics B. Sociolinguistics C. Comparative linguistics D. None of these Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo...

8. In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney attribute to poetry ?

   A. a magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader B. a divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from God to the reader C. a moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to emulate virtuous models D. a defensive power whereby poetry and its figurative expressions allow the poet to avoid censorship...

9. The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?

   A. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems C. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in...

10. According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevens’s understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions ?

    A. Imagism B. Classicism C. British Romanticism D. Vorticism...