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.”
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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. - What approach is described by the paragraph? This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader ?
A. Historical/Biographical Approach
B. Reader Response Approach
C. Formalism
D. Mimetic Approach - The most important tenet of the Black Arts Movements is________________?
A. African American art should exclude women.
B. African American images should inspire African Americans.
C. African American art should subvert the art of Europeans and White Americans.
D. African American literature should replicate educated White language. - 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” - Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?
A. “Two Gentlemen of Verona”
B. “The Winter’s Tale”
C. “The Tempest”
D. “Faustus” - 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 - Ezra Pound’s “Canto I” opens with the following lines: “And then went down to the ship,/Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and(…).” Which of the following statements best characterizes these lines and the poem as a whole ?
A. These lines set an impersonal tone which dominates the entire poem.
B. These lines establish a rhythmical pattern, which is followed strictly throughout the poem.
C. These lines are the only impersonal lines in the poem, the rest of which is primarily focused on the complexity of human emotions.
D. These lines establish a personal tone, focusing on a lyrical perspective similar to late-Victorian era poetry. - The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” ends with the following lines: “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?
A. Brooke’s inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize
the distance between the ideals ofWestern civilization and its realities.
B. These lines suggest the author’s anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.
C. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.
D. All of the above
