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Which of the following statements best describes the “Great Chain of Being” ?


a It regarded human beings as social creatures who could create meaningful lives only in association with other social beings.


bIts major premise was that every existing thing in the universe had its “place” in a divinely planned hierarchical order which was pictured as a chain, vertically extended.


cIt could only be achieved through faith in God’s grace.


dBoth A and B



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


aneoclassical emphasis on traditional form and romantic subjectivism.


bromantic rejection of science and neoclassical use of mythology.


cromantic emphasis on personal feelings combined with a neoclassical focus on social context.


dromantic critique of industrialization and neoclassical use of satire.



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


aa sonnet expressing his devotion to his wife.


ba dramatic monologue spoken by a murderer.


ca dramatic monologue spoken by Browning.


d an epic describing a great romance.



In which of the following ways did Hopkins revolutionize poetry ?


aHe created a radically new form.


b He used unusual, arcane words.


cHe made obscure allusions.


dAll of these answers


View Answer All of these answers

“O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!” These lines characterize Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?


athrough the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.


bby emphasizing the character’s fright.


cby emphasizing sexual morality.


d through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the character’s feelings



Complete the following sentence. According to Edmund Burke, the French Revolution was________________?


athe ultimate expression of humankind’s ability to control its own destiny.


ba misguided attempt to overthrow human nature by rejecting tradition.


ca necessary change that was beginning to go astray.


dan event that had little consequence to England



Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?


aTwo characters in an epic who are romantically involved


b Two lines of rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter


c The concluding lines of any poem


dTwo characters who act as foils in a comedy of manners



Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?


aA refusal to emphasize the innate goodness of humanity


bAn emphasis on the power of sympathy to allow individuals to feel others’ pain and joy


cA sense of awe in the power of the natural world


dA parody of the interest in emotion that developed out of the Enlightenment interest in reason



Which of the following terms is NOT closely associated with the Gothic novel ?


aHorror


bThe sublime


cSuspense


dPicaresque


View Answer Picaresque

Which of the following statements about the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?


a The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping England’s economy.


bThe poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.


cThe poems reject experience in favor of innocence.


dThe poems reject innocence in favor of experience.



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