Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?

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1. Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?

   A. Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
   B. Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.
   C. Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.
   D. Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed

2. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?

   A. Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.
   B. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.
   C. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with women’s rights.
   D. World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.

3. Which of the following statements is not an accurate reflection of education during the English Renaissance ?

   A. It was aimed primarily at sons of the nobility and gentry.
   B. Its curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning.
   C. It was conducted by tutors in wealthy families or in grammar schools.
   D. It was ordered according to the medieval trivium and quadrivium

4. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?

   A. Sir Thomas Malory
   B. Geoffrey Chaucer
   C. Caedmon
   D. John Gower

5. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?

   A. Bede
   B. Sir Thomas Malory
   C. Geoffrey Chaucer
   D. Caedmon

6. 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.

7. Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ?

   A. There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry.
   B. The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages.
   C. The Imagists valued brevity, which could be achieved with precise visual images, whereasWorldWar I poets preferred declamatory statements in their poems.
   D. WorldWar I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images.

8. “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?

   A. Samson Occcum
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. Mayflower Compact

9. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?

   A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
   B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures
   C. ironic understatement
   D. stress on every third diphthong

10. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?

    A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
    B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures
    C. ironic understatement
    D. stress on every third diphthong