A. “Into my head there will come / a beach of cotton, a dock where from.”
B. “To kiss the sky / to be the sun / is to live forever.”
C. “I heard a car crash / just as I died.”
D. “Death comes for all of us / even you.”
Related Mcqs:
- 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 lines provides an example of a poetic apostrophe ?
A. “She is a woman of beauty and wonder.”
B. “Death, that which feels nothing.”
C. “Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour: / England hath need of thee.”
D. “I wandered lonely as a cloud.” - Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?
A. Two characters in an epic who are romantically involved
B. Two lines of rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter
C. The concluding lines of any poem
D. Two characters who act as foils in a comedy of manners - There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by – This is a couplet from the Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet ?
A. Metaphor
B. Synecdoche
C. Euphemism
D. Irony - What do you mean by Heroic Couplet ?
A. a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter
B. a two line stanza
C. a poem of lamentation
D. a song for mourning - 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. - Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Dragon and the Undying” includes the following lines: “Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilder’d seas.” Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect ?
A. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare
D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare - 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
