A. “A Lover’s Complaint”
B. “Venus and Adonis”
C. “The Phoenix and Turtle”
D. “The Rape of Lucrece”
Related Mcqs:
- For his poems, Shakespeare is thought to have drawn upon all of the following for influence and ideas EXCEPT ?
A. Greek mythology
B. European history
C. Early scientific studies
D. The works of earlier poets - Which of the following poems was authored by Shakespeare ?
A. “Tintern Abbey”
B. “A Lover’s Complaint”
C. “El Cid”
D. “The Wasteland” - According to skeptics of Shakespeare’s authorship, all of the following are considered to be the “true” authors of some of Shakespeare’s plays EXCEPT________________?
A. Thomas More.
B. Francis Bacon.
C. Earl of Oxford.
D. John Shakespeare. - Shakespeare sometimes used the trochee, which in meter refers to which of the following? In Shakespeare’s plays, a troche is___________________?
A. The same as an iamb with an unstressed and stressed syllable in a foot
B. The opposite of an iamb with a stressed and then unstressed syllable in a foot
C. Only one syllable for the length of a foot
D. None of the above - In his reading of Shakespeare’s “Fair Youth Sonnets,” who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been ?
A. Marlowe
B. Swift
C. Oxford
D. Bacon - According to Anthony DiMatteo’s “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’”, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?
A. Shakespeare presents political rulers as flawless, perfect human beings.
B. Shakespeare presents political rulers as often meeting ruinous and violent endings.
C. Shakespeare only presents fictional political rulers and does not explore any political realities.
D. Shakespeare considers all political rulers to be corrupt. - The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?
A. The Taming of the Shrew
B. As you Like it
C. Two Gentlemen of Verona
D. Titus Andronicus - Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?
A. Work Without Hope
B. Frost at Midnight
C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
D. Youth and Age - Which of the following statements about the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?
A. The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping England’s economy.
B. The poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.
C. The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.
D. The poems reject innocence in favor of experience. - 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.
