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3391English LiteratureMedium

What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station at the Metro”?

AThe use of simile

BThe use of synesthesia

CThe use of metaphor

DThe form of a villanelle

Correct answer

C. The use of metaphor

Explanation

The correct answer is The use of metaphor.

3392English LiteratureMedium

“And then hopped sidewise to the Wall”. Here the poet personifies the bird as a________?

AGentleman

BHierarchical views of man

CProtector

DPredator

Correct answer

A. Gentleman

Explanation

The correct answer is Gentleman.

3393English LiteratureMedium

In “Paradise regained” who regained the paradise?

AJesus

BOnly Adam

CSatan

DAdam and Eve

Correct answer

D. Adam and Eve

Explanation

The correct answer is Adam and Eve.

3394English LiteratureMedium

Which of the following artists was NOT influenced by Surrealism?

APaul Gauguin

BMarcel Duchamp

CSalvador Dalí

DGiorgio de Chirico

Correct answer

A. Paul Gauguin

Explanation

The correct answer is Paul Gauguin.

3395English LiteratureMedium

What quality does the Gothic novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries share with the majority of English novels of the same time period?

AAn epistolary format

BA focus on the individual

CAn English setting

DRealism

Correct answer

B. A focus on the individual

Explanation

The correct answer is A focus on the individual.

3396English LiteratureMedium

Who is the representative figure of the “Jazz Age”?

ASaul Bellow

BWallace Stevens

CF. Scott Fitzgerald

DSherwood Anderson

Correct answer

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Explanation

The correct answer is F. Scott Fitzgerald.

3397English LiteratureMedium

What British Romantic artist famously depicted John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” in a series of etchings and prints?

AWilliam Wordsworth

BWilliam Blake

CJohn Keats

DPercy Bysshe Shelley

Correct answer

B. William Blake

Explanation

The correct answer is William Blake.

3398English LiteratureMedium

Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which country?

ABrazil

BBritain

CMexico

DArgentina

Correct answer

D. Argentina

Explanation

The correct answer is Argentina.

3399English LiteratureMedium

With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated?

ATheodor W. Adorno

BCarl Jung

CWilliam James

DSigmund Freud

Correct answer

A. Theodor W. Adorno

Explanation

The correct answer is Theodor W. Adorno.

3400English LiteratureMedium

Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?

AThe Stones of Venice

BModem Painters

CThe Two Paths

DThe Seven Lamps of Architecture

Correct answer

B. Modem Painters

Explanation

The correct answer is Modem Painters.

3391English LiteratureMedium

What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station at the Metro”?

AThe use of simile

BThe use of synesthesia

CThe use of metaphor

DThe form of a villanelle

Correct answer

C. The use of metaphor

Explanation

The correct answer is The use of metaphor.

3392English LiteratureMedium

“And then hopped sidewise to the Wall”. Here the poet personifies the bird as a________?

AGentleman

BHierarchical views of man

CProtector

DPredator

Correct answer

A. Gentleman

Explanation

The correct answer is Gentleman.

3393English LiteratureMedium

In “Paradise regained” who regained the paradise?

AJesus

BOnly Adam

CSatan

DAdam and Eve

Correct answer

D. Adam and Eve

Explanation

The correct answer is Adam and Eve.

3394English LiteratureMedium

Which of the following artists was NOT influenced by Surrealism?

APaul Gauguin

BMarcel Duchamp

CSalvador Dalí

DGiorgio de Chirico

Correct answer

A. Paul Gauguin

Explanation

The correct answer is Paul Gauguin.

3395English LiteratureMedium

What quality does the Gothic novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries share with the majority of English novels of the same time period?

AAn epistolary format

BA focus on the individual

CAn English setting

DRealism

Correct answer

B. A focus on the individual

Explanation

The correct answer is A focus on the individual.

3396English LiteratureMedium

Who is the representative figure of the “Jazz Age”?

ASaul Bellow

BWallace Stevens

CF. Scott Fitzgerald

DSherwood Anderson

Correct answer

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Explanation

The correct answer is F. Scott Fitzgerald.

3397English LiteratureMedium

What British Romantic artist famously depicted John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” in a series of etchings and prints?

AWilliam Wordsworth

BWilliam Blake

CJohn Keats

DPercy Bysshe Shelley

Correct answer

B. William Blake

Explanation

The correct answer is William Blake.

3398English LiteratureMedium

Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which country?

ABrazil

BBritain

CMexico

DArgentina

Correct answer

D. Argentina

Explanation

The correct answer is Argentina.

3399English LiteratureMedium

With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated?

ATheodor W. Adorno

BCarl Jung

CWilliam James

DSigmund Freud

Correct answer

A. Theodor W. Adorno

Explanation

The correct answer is Theodor W. Adorno.

3400English LiteratureMedium

Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?

AThe Stones of Venice

BModem Painters

CThe Two Paths

DThe Seven Lamps of Architecture

Correct answer

B. Modem Painters

Explanation

The correct answer is Modem Painters.