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What is the central theme of Keith Douglas’s “How to Kill” ?


aCombat detaches a man from humanity.


bAll is fair in love and war.


cIt is honorable and just to defend your country in a war.


dThere is a right and a wrong way to throw a hand grenade.



Which of the following natural forces “speaks” in the culminating passage of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” ?


aAn avalanche


bRapids


cThe west wind


dThunder


View Answer Thunder

Which of the following statements best characterizes American World War II poems ?


aThey tend to use traditional rhyme schemes and rhythms, and they avoid free verse.


b They tend to use metaphors and avoid direct descriptive statements.


cThey tend to use classical imagery while rejecting romantic tropes.


dThey tend to be narrative and confront the reader with stark wartime realities.



Ezra Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro” reads: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.” Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem ?


aIt seeks to diminish the distance between society and nature.


bIt seeks to amplify the distance between society and nature.


cIt plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds.


dIt evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene.



Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings ?


a Ivy League educated


bActive pacifist during both world wars


cPopularized the use of free verse


dA private and self-effacing person



Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound’s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?


aThe Mahabharata


bParadise Lost


cThe Odyssey


dThe Aeneid


View Answer The Odyssey

Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ?


aThere were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry.


bThe Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages.


cThe Imagists valued brevity, which could be achieved with precise visual images, whereasWorldWar I poets preferred declamatory statements in their poems.


dWorldWar I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images.



Yeats’s “Song of Wandering Aengus” ends with the lines: “And pluck till time and times are done/The silver apples of the moon/The golden apples of the sun.” Which of the following is NOT a symbolic meaning of the apples ?


aThey symbolize the return to a lost paradise.


bThey point to alchemical elements, which in turn symbolize the body and the soul.


cThey symbolize the coming apocalypse.


dThey symbolize a fulfilled longing.



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


aThe form of a villanelle


bThe use of synesthesia


cThe use of simile


dThe use of metaphor


View Answer The use of metaphor

Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?


a French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.


bFrench Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.


cFrench Symbolist poetry is shocking.


dFrench Symbolist poetry is formally experimental.



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