Who wrote the following statement: “When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant” ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Write an Analytical Essay about Short Fiction”. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the writing an essay about short fiction ?

   A. Begin your paper with an introduction that identifies the purpose of the paper and the text you are addressing.
   B. Compose topic sentences (four or five, perhaps) that support, explore, demonstrate, or illustrate your thesis.
   C. Select specific passages in the text of the story that help you to develop each topic sentence.
   D. Build your paper to a climax; save your most engaging or important topic sentence for discussion last.

2. The word ‘bank’ in ‘on the banks on the river’ and ‘banks are financial institutions’ is called a____________?

   A. Allophones
   B. Homophones
   C. Homographs
   D. Homonyms

3. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?

   A. Fanny Burney
   B. Mary Wollstonecraft
   C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
   D. Jane Austen

4. Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?

   A. French
   B. Norwegian
   C. Spanish
   D. Danish

5. Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?

   A. French
   B. Norwegian
   C. Spanish
   D. Hungarian

6. Yes, when the stars glisten’d, All night long on the prong of a moss-scallop’d stake, Down almost amid the slapping waves, Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears. What is a prong ?

   A. An edgy platform
   B. Other side
   C. A pointed, projected part of something
   D. An adumbration

7. ____________is the process by which new words are coined by combining the segments of two different words ?

   A. Portmanteau
   B. Onomatopoeia
   C. Clipping
   D. Metanalysis

8. ______________________is a processes of word formation wherein new words are coined by combining the segments of two different existing words?

   A. Compounding
   B. Portmanteau
   C. Derivation
   D. Backformation.

9. Both the Gothic and sentimental fiction emphasize which of the following ?

   A. Reason over emotions
   B. The necessity for an aristocracy
   C. The power of feelings
   D. A sense of adventure

10. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new “mythical method” in place of the old “narrative method” and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about “making the modern world possible for art” ?

    A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
    B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
    C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
    D. James Joyce’s Ulysses