All MCQs for Competitive Exams

131

Which literary devices are frequently employed in postmodern literature?

A

Black humor; metafiction.

B

Metaphors; verbal irony.

C

Symbolism; Imagery.

D

Hyperbole; Personification.

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132

Which of the following poets did not write about his experiences in World War II?

A

Keith Douglas

B

Randall Jarrell

C

Karl Shapiro

D

Wilfred Owen

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133

Although Aldous Huxley began his career as a poet, for which literary form is he primarily recognized?

A

Dramatist

B

Novelist

C

Politician

D

Architect

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134

Jorge Luis Borges was born in the same year as which other prominent modern author?

A

T.S. Eliot

B

Vladimir Nabokov

C

Joseph Conrad

D

James Joyce

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135

Which of the following terms best characterizes John Berryman's 'The Ball Poem'?

A

Fragmental poem

B

Delusional poem

C

Metaphorical poem

D

Confessional poem

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136

Who is the author of the well-known philosophical book, 'The Conquest of Happiness'?

A

B Russell

B

None Of These

C

R ‏Kippling

D

F ‍Bacon

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137

Which intellectual or spiritual tradition significantly influenced the poetic work of Louis Zukofsky?

A

American Romanticism

B

Kabalistic Judaism

C

British Neo-Classicism

D

Taoism

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138

In his introductory lecture on Modern Poetry, what connection does Professor Langdon Hammer draw between the urban environment and the development of poetic modernism?

A

Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.

B

All of these answers

C

Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of one’s own imagination.

D

Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as a construct which they could manipulate.

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139

How does the focus of Georgian poetry differ from that of English World War I poetry?

A

Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.

B

World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.

C

Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry primarily addressed women's rights.

D

Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry focused mainly on urbanization and industrialization.

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140

Which of the following authors is not traditionally classified as an Irish writer?

A

E.M. Forster

B

James Joyce

C

William Butler Yeats

D

Seamus Heaney

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