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1781English LiteratureMedium

Which is not a poetry form?

Atale

Bballad

Csonnet

Depic

Correct answer

A. tale

Explanation

The correct answer is tale.

1782English LiteratureMedium

In The Dubliners, which negative characteristic(s) does Joyce associate with Dublin as a place?

Acommonness

Bbackwardness

Cboredom

DAll of the Above

Correct answer

D. All of the Above

Explanation

The correct answer is All of the Above.

1783English LiteratureMedium

What do structuralist and formalist critics have in common?

ABoth sets of critics focus on evaluating literature in a scientific manner.

BAll of the above answers are correct.

CBoth sets of critics look for an objective way to view texts.

DBoth sets of critics reject the importance of historical context in studying literature.

Correct answer

B. All of the above answers are correct.

Explanation

The correct answer is All of the above answers are correct..

1784English LiteratureMedium

Which poet would most likely express an adherence to atheism in his writing?

AJohn Keats

BWilliam Blake

CWilliam Wordsworth

DPercy Shelley

Correct answer

D. Percy Shelley

Explanation

The correct answer is Percy Shelley.

1785English LiteratureMedium

Othello was a ________?

AGeneral of England

BPrince of Denmark

CGeneral of Denmark

DPrince of England

Correct answer

A. General of England

Explanation

The correct answer is General of England.

1786English LiteratureMedium

“Tales from Shakespeare” is written by________?

ALamb

BMary Anne Evans

CShakespeare

DLawrence

Correct answer

A. Lamb

Explanation

The correct answer is Lamb.

1787English LiteratureMedium

According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevens’s understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions?

AClassicism

BBritish Romanticism

CVorticism

DImagism

Correct answer

B. British Romanticism

Explanation

The correct answer is British Romanticism.

1788English LiteratureMedium

Who is the writer of ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’?

AGeorge Bernard Shaw

BWilliam Shakespeare

CChristopher Marlowe

DLord Tennyson

Correct answer

D. Lord Tennyson

Explanation

The correct answer is Lord Tennyson.

1789English LiteratureMedium

What is affective fallacy?

AAn important term in the field of New Historicism

BAll of the above.

CA term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader B. A term that describes the confusion between a poem and its result

Correct answer

B. All of the above.

Explanation

The correct answer is All of the above..

1790English LiteratureMedium

What writing describes the death of two settlers at the hands of 300 bowmen?

ARobin Hood, Prince of Thieves

BGeneral History of Virginia

CWalum Olum

DBeowulf

Correct answer

B. General History of Virginia

Explanation

The correct answer is General History of Virginia.

What do structuralist and formalist critics have in common?

ABoth sets of critics focus on evaluating literature in a scientific manner.

BAll of the above answers are correct.

CBoth sets of critics look for an objective way to view texts.

DBoth sets of critics reject the importance of historical context in studying literature.

Correct answer

B. All of the above answers are correct.

Explanation

The correct answer is All of the above answers are correct..

What is affective fallacy?

AAn important term in the field of New Historicism

BAll of the above.

Correct answer

B. All of the above.

Explanation

The correct answer is All of the above..