Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?

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1. In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called ?

   A. Productivity
   B. Langue
   C. Paradigmatic
   D. Parole

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

2. Which of the following statements best characterizes American World War II poems ?

   A. They tend to use traditional rhyme schemes and rhythms, and they avoid free verse.
   B. They tend to use metaphors and avoid direct descriptive statements.
   C. They tend to use classical imagery while rejecting romantic tropes.
   D. They tend to be narrative and confront the reader with stark wartime realities.

3. What served as the inspiration for P.B Shelley’s poems to the working classes ?

   A Song: “Men of England” and England in 1819?
   A. the organization of a working class men’s choral group in Southern England
   B. the Battle of Waterloo
   C. the Peterloo Massacre
   D. the storming of the Bastille

4. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?

   A. Ben Jonson
   B. Alexander Pope
   C. Robert Herrick
   D. John Dryden

5. Who has defined ’poetry’ as a fundamental creative act using languages ?

   A. H. W. Longfellow
   B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
   C. Dylan Thomas
   D. William Wordsworth

6. In which essay did Arnold say that for good literature to flourish two powers are necessary – creative and the critical ?

   A. The Function of Criticism
   B. The Study of Poetry
   C. Preface to Eighteen Fifty Three poems
   D. Essay on Wordsworth

7. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous luster of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect its arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. The character described in this passage ?

   A. Commits suicide
   B. Devours a heart
   C. Meets the devil
   D. Buries someone alive

8. The intellectual movement that believed that the observation of nature elevates the nature of humans, that deep truths can be grasped through intuition, and that God, Nature and humanity are united in a shared universe is______________?

   A. Transcendentalism
   B. Communism
   C. Totalitarianism
   D. Feudalism

9. For I have learned/To look on nature, not as in the hour/Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes/The sad, still music of humanity” ?

   A. The poet’s changing relationship to nature as fount of meaning and significance
   B. The falsity of human art as opposed to the immediate truth of nature
   C. The failure of the poet when a youth to imagine his future
   D. The utter rejection of youthful folly in favor of mature rationality

10. Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written_______________?

    A. around 1900.
    B. in the early stages of World War I.
    C. in the late stages of World War I.
    D. in the 1920s.