A. The uncanny
B. The fallen world
C. The “Other”
D. The sublime
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following authors would be most likely to use the supernatural in his poems ?
A. William Wordsworth
B. John Keats
C. Percy Shelley
D. William Blake? - This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?
A. C.S. Lewis
B. T.S. Eliot
C. G.K. Chesterton
D. Matthew Arnold - Which is/are typical of the supernatural in medieval romance ?
A. enchantment
B. spells
C. fairy trickery
D. All of the Above - Keats’ widespread appeal is to the Reader’s interest in the supernatural ?
A. True
B. False
C. both A and B
D. none of these - Which of the following terms is NOT closely associated with the Gothic novel ?
A. Horror
B. The sublime
C. Suspense
D. Picaresque - Complete the following sentence. The Romantic movement is least closely related to______________?
A. folklore.
B. nationalism.
C. parody.
D. exoticism - With which literary form is Ancrene Wisse most closely related ?
A. estate satire
B. medieval lays
C. conduct books
D. medieval allegory - Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
A. verdant mead
B. checkered shade
C. simian rivalry
D. shining sword - Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
A. verdant mead
B. checkered shade
C. simian rivalry
D. shining sword - Why do most scholars assume that Radcliffe favored “explained supernaturalism” ?
A. Her sense of morality and decorum
B. Her defiance of contemporary culture
C. Her lack of imagination
D. Her full embrace of the Gothic vision of Walpole, Beckford, and Lewis
