A. The Epic
B. The Comic
C. The Occult
D. The Tragic
Related Mcqs:
- According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”
A. In English literature, we cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition;” at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.”
B. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.
C. All of the above
D. A and B only - Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” ?
A. the lyric poem written in the first person
B. the sonnet
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the political tract - Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?
A. the lyric poem written in the first person
B. the sonnet
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the political tract - According to Dr. Michael Webster in his essay, “Poetic Modes in the late 19th and early 20th Century,” which of the following is NOT a poetic mode of this time period ?
A. Genteel
B. Symbolist
C. Impressionist
D. Decadent - Which of the following statements regarding the success and importance of the oral tradition of literature is true ?
A. Monks memorized many passages of scripture, preserving scriptures.
B. Scops recited poems to noble audiences, preserving the stories and poetic tradition.
C. Thegns were nobles who liked literature, and their patronage made poets popular.
D. Anchoresses recited poems to occupy their time alone in their cells. - In T.S. Eliot’s essay called “Tradition and Individual Talent,” he argues that the progress of an artist consists of which of the following ?
A. “Continual expansion of the personality and its diverse elements”
B. “Continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality”
C. “Continual transformation of the personality”
D. “Continual identification with the past” - All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
A. Toasting is oral
B. Toasting is a male event
C. Toasting glorifies women
D. Toasting provides cultural identification - Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form ?
A. Jintishi
B. Villanelle
C. Ode
D. Tanka - 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 - 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
