English Literature Mcqs — Test 35
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Question 1
Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas most fundamentally emphasizes which theme from Johnson’s other works or other 18thcentury works ?
Question 2
Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?
Question 3
Robinson Crusoe’s isolation on a deserted island allows Defoe to explore his development in which of the following ways ?
Question 4
How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?
Question 5
Complete the following sentence. In the opening lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover,” the words “daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon” ?
Question 6
In Pamela, how does the epistolary style enhance the sentimental aspects of the novel ?
Question 7
Complete the following sentence. In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?
Question 8
The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?
Question 9
Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?
Question 10
Complete the following sentence. The politics of Radcliffe’s medieval settings______________?