Which word comes from a Greek expression meaning ‘goat-song’?

Related Mcqs:

1. Yeats’s “Song of Wandering Aengus” ends with the lines: “And pluck till time and times are done/The silver apples of the moon/The golden apples of the sun.” Which of the following is NOT a symbolic meaning of the apples ?

   A. They symbolize the return to a lost paradise.
   B. They point to alchemical elements, which in turn symbolize the body and the soul.
   C. They symbolize the coming apocalypse.
   D. They symbolize a fulfilled longing.

2. The substitution of the aspirated /k/ for the un__aspirated /k/ in the word ‘sky’ does not alter the meaning of the worD. It is an instance of ______________ ?

   A. Complementary distribution
   B. Contrastive distribution
   C. Non__complementary distribution
   D. None of the above

3. ______________involves a different analysis of the structure of the word by attaching a consonant at the end of a word or a vowel at the beginning of the next word ?

   A. Portmanteau
   B. Onomatopoeia
   C. Clipping
   D. Met analysis

4. “Under the green wood tree” is a song in____________________?

   A. Love’s labour’s lost
   B. As you like it
   C. A mid Summer night’s dream
   D. Much ado about nothing

5. The line “fools are my theme, let satire be my song” demonstrates a sentiment that would likely appear in a poem by_________________?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   C. William Blake
   D. Lord Byron

6. Who wrote “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ?

   A. Cumings
   B. Robert Lee Frost
   C. T.S. Eliot
   D. Edgar lee masters

7. What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems to the working classes A Song: \Men of England\and England in 1819 ?

   A. the organization of a working class men’s choral group in Southern England
   B. the Battle of Waterloo
   C. the Peterloo Massacre
   D. the storming of the Bastille

8. The Song of the Lotus is a poem by____________?

   A. Coleridge
   B. Eliot
   C. Tennyson
   D. Keats

9. In analyzing T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following ?

   A. “A meditation on contradictions”
   B. “Overheard inner speech”
   C. “Implicit dialogue with the future”
   D. “Objective correlative”

10. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down – but with a shudder even more thrilling than before – upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?

    A. A bird
    B. A small mountain lake
    C. A wide river
    D. A high cliff