Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Browning is famous for his______________?

   A. Sensory images
   B. Dramatic Monologues
   C. Narrative ballads
   D. Blank Verse

2. Browning’s famous poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ is included in ?

   A. Dramatis Personae
   B. Dramatic Idyls
   C. Asolando
   D. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country

3. The key-note of Browning’s philosophy of life is ________________?

   A. agnosticism
   B. optimism
   C. pessimism
   D. skepticism

4. Complete the following sentence. Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Browning’s dramatic monologues can best be seen as combining neoclassicism with romanticism through their ?

   A. neoclassical emphasis on traditional form and romantic subjectivism.
   B. romantic rejection of science and neoclassical use of mythology.
   C. romantic emphasis on personal feelings combined with a neoclassical focus on social context.
   D. romantic critique of industrialization and neoclassical use of satire.

5. Complete the following sentence. Robert Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover” is_______________?

   A. a sonnet expressing his devotion to his wife.
   B. a dramatic monologue spoken by a murderer.
   C. a dramatic monologue spoken by Browning.
   D. an epic describing a great romance.

6. Which of the following statements about Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”) is false ?

   A. Sonnet 43 is similar to most other sonnets in its focus on love.
   B. Sonnet 43 is part of a sonnet sequence “Sonnets from the Portuguese.”
   C. Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines, like other sonnets.
   D. Sonnet 43 is a romantic poem in the same way Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” is a romantic poem.

7. Which of the following features of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” make it classifiable as a Victorian poem ?

   A. It has a regular rhyme scheme (aa/bb/cc/dd…), which is sustained throughout the poem.
   B. It is primarily a narrative poem.
   C. It is concerned with conventional 19thcentury relations between a man and a woman.
   D. All of these answers

8. Adam Bede is a______________?

   A. Play
   B. Novel
   C. Poem
   D. none of these

9. Exiles’ is a______________?

   A. Short Story
   B. Novel
   C. Play
   D. Poem

10. The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” ends with the following lines: “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?

    A. Brooke’s inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize
    the distance between the ideals ofWestern civilization and its realities.
    B. These lines suggest the author’s anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.
    C. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.
    D. All of the above