English Literature MCQs

Page No. 279

Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: “Who think too little, and who talk too __________” ?


aoften

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blong

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cmuch

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dfast

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View Answer much

What Pope poem begins, “In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal’s veins ?”


aThe Rape of the Lock

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bSolitude: An Ode

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cThe Dunciad

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dEloisa to Abelard

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View Answer Eloisa to Abelard

Who composed The Preludes ?


aS T Coleridge

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bWilliam Wordsworth

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cWilliam Shakespeare

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dWilliam Blake

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View Answer William Wordsworth

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 ?


aFanny Burney

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bMary Wollstonecraft

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cAnna Letitia Barbauld

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dJane Austen

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View Answer Jane Austen

Who wrote: “There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” ?


aHenry David Thoreau

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bBenjamin Franklin

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cRobert Browning

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dHenrik Ibsen

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View Answer Henrik Ibsen

Who wrote: “I would prefer not to.” ?


aEdgar Allan Poe

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bHerman Melville

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cThomas Gray

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dHenry David Thoreau

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View Answer Herman Melville

How would “Natural Supernaturalism” be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?


aa form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits

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ba spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being

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ca process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes

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dthe experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium

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Who exemplified the role of the \peasant poet\ ?


aJohn Clare

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bJohn Keats

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cRobert Burns

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dA and C only

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View Answer A and C only

Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?


athe lyric poem written in the first person

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bthe sonnet

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cdoggerel rhyme

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dthe political tract

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Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the______________?


atroubadour

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bskald

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cchorister

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dbard

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View Answer bard

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