English Literature MCQs

A. The use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
B. Sound as a means to express meaning
C. Perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
D. All of the above

A. New criticism
B. Critical inquiry
C. Scientific bibliology
D. Higher criticism

A. The emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed
B. A new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays
C. A popular thirst for the “classics,” driving contemporary writers to the margins
D. A, b and c

A. Catherine of aragon
B. Jane seymour
C. Catherine howard
D. Anne boleyn

A. Property
B. Wealth
C. Lineage
D. Love

A. Tudor
B. Windsor
C. York
D. Lancaster

A. A picture is worth a thousand words.
B. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
C. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
D. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.

A. Mary wollstonecraft shelley’s frankenstein
B. William worsworth’s lyrical ballads
C. John keats’s “to autumn”
D. All but c

A. Nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. Bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. Admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. Bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

A. Contemporary literary criticism
B. Art and literature
C. Theology
D. Social changes in the victorian age