Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

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1. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Samuel Johnson
   D. William Wordsworth

2. Which poet emphasized on rustic language in Poetry ?

   A. John Keats
   B. William Wordsworth
   C. William Blake
   D. Thomas Gray

3. Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?

   A. shepherd and shepherdesses who fall in love and engage in singing contests
   B. heroic stories in epic form
   C. a celebration of the humility, contentment, and simplicity of living in the country
   D. A and C only

4. A poem that deals in an idealized way with Shepherds and rustic life is known as____________?

   A. A Protestant Poem
   B. A Petrarchan Sonnet
   C. An extended metaphor
   D. A pastoral poem

5. He was famed for great skill in horsemanship; he was foremost at all races and cockfights; and, with the ascendancy which bodily strength acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes. He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic, but had more mischief and good humor than ill will in his composition. Who is this ?

   A. Cotton Mather
   B. Diedrich Knickerbocker
   C. Brom Bones
   D. Geoffrey Crayon

6. What was the general subject of theWelsh poet Katherine Philips’s work ?

   A. celebrations of the transience of all life and beauty
   B. celebrations of lesbian sexuality in terms that did not imply a male readership
   C. celebrations of religious ecstasy and divine inspiration
   D. celebrations of female friendship in Platonic terms normally reserved for male Friendships

7. In “Of Poetry in General,”William Hazlitt contends that good poetry comes from ____________?

   A. The intellect
   B. The author’s personal pain
   C. Strong feeling
   D. Rewriting Homer

8. Bret Harte’s “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” took place in_______________?

   A. The Rocky Mountains.
   B. The Appalachian Mountains.
   C. The Sierra Nevada Mountains.
   D. The Sierra Madre Mountains.

9. Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem using the language of common, ordinary people ?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. Lord Byron
   C. Percy Shelley
   D. John Keats

10. The pastoral elegy often begins with which of the following poetic conventions ?

    A. Invocation of a muse
    B. A cry of lament
    C. Prayer to the Sun
    D. A and B