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Which of the following literary devices is most prominent in Gertrude Stein’s poem “New” ?


a Assonance and word repetition

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bSimile

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cMetaphor and allusion

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dCircumlocution

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View Answer Assonance and word repetition

Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet ?


aWilliam Carlos Williams

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bJohn Greenleaf Whittier

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cGeorge Herbert

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dRobert Browning

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View Answer William Carlos Williams

Which of the following statements accurately compares Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” and Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Rear Guard” ?


aBoth poems praise Britain’s military power and its imperial ambitions.

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bBoth poems describe Britain’s civilizing mission in the world.

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cBoth poems seek to respond to the harsh political and military realities of their day.

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dBoth poems romanticize war and glorify the life of the soldier.

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View Answer Both poems seek to respond to the harsh political and military realities of their day.

Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Dragon and the Undying” includes the following lines: “Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilder’d seas.” Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect ?


aMetaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

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bSimile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

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cMetonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare

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dOnomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare

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View Answer Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

In his essay “The Roots of Modernism,” Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe defines the modern period in the history of art as the time from roughly 1860 to 1970. How does he say modernism is typically defined ?


aModernism is the art produced during the modern period.

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bModernism is the historical period which followed the modern period.

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cModernism is the philosophy of modern art.

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dBoth A and C

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View Answer Both A and C

Complete the following sentence. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” is a good example of High Modernism, because it_____________?


aembraces the rhythms and diction of common man’s speech.

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bwas written at the very beginning of the 20th century.

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cattempts to create a modernist high culture.

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ddoes not employ rhyme.

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View Answer attempts to create a modernist high culture.

Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between Futurism and Vorticism ?


aMembers of both movements were fascinated by speed and dynamism, but unlike the Futurists, Vorticists did not celebrate technology and industrialization.

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bFuturism was a politically-inclined movement, whereas Vorticism was free of all political entanglements.

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cFuturism lasted for several decades, whereas Vorticism was short-lived.

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dVorticists celebrated technology and industrialization, whereas Futurists explored impending cultural challenges regarding technology and industrialization.

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View Answer Members of both movements were fascinated by speed and dynamism, but unlike the Futurists, Vorticists did not celebrate technology and industrialization.

In his first lecture onWilliam Butler Yeats, Professor Hammer says that the young Yeats identified with King Goll. What does he mean by this ?


aYeats’s poetry was autobiographical, but he understood his life through the prism of myths and symbols; symbolism was therefore present in both Yeats’s life and in his poetry.

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bYeats believed that each person was an instance of a general cultural type or symbol

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cThe young Yeats wished to emphasize his identity as an English poet and draw attention away from his Irish heritage.

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dBoth A and B

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View Answer Both A and B

Which of the following events increased the appeal of communism among American intellectuals both black and white in the years between 1918 and 1939 ?


aThe Great Depression

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bHitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939

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cThe Russian Civil War

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dWorld War I

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View Answer The Great Depression

Which of the following statements best characterizes the last two stanzas of Charles Baudelaire’s symbolist poem “Correspondences” ?


aThey describe the author’s experiences as a young child.

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bThey use metaphors with subtle political connotations.

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cThey ascribe colors and sounds to scents, relying on a device known as synesthesia.

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dThey describe a scene in the countryside, which symbolizes the state of the author’s soul.

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View Answer They ascribe colors and sounds to scents, relying on a device known as synesthesia.

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