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

A. They describe the author’s experiences as a young child.
B. They use metaphors with subtle political connotations.
C. They ascribe colors and sounds to scents, relying on a device known as synesthesia.
D. They describe a scene in the countryside, which symbolizes the state of the author’s soul.

Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” begins with the following lines: “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/ Only the monstrous anger of the guns./ Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?

A. These lines suggest that it was difficult to define patriotism during the great war, but soldiers who died in battle provided the best example of patriotism.
B. These lines suggest that the great war lasted much longer than it should have.
C. These lines equate humans with animals, and they anthropomorphize weapons to show a world where there is no place for human values.
D. These lines represent a modern funeral dirge that mimics the rhythm of ancient greek funeral dirges.

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

A. Embraces the rhythms and diction of common MAN’s speech.
B. Was written at the very beginning of the 20th century.
C. Attempts to create a modernist high culture.
D. Does not employ rhyme.

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

A. Members of both movements were fascinated by speed and dynamism, but unlike the futurists, vorticists did not celebrate technology and industrialization.
B. Futurism was a politically-inclined movement, whereas vorticism was free of all political entanglements.
C. Futurism lasted for several decades, whereas vorticism was short-lived.
D. Vorticists celebrated technology and industrialization, whereas futurists explored impending cultural challenges regarding technology and industrialization.

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

A. Both poems praise britain’s military power and its imperial ambitions.
B. Both poems describe britain’s civilizing mission in the world.
C. Both poems seek to respond to the harsh political and military realities of their day.
D. Both poems romanticize war and glorify the life of the soldier.

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 ?

A. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare
D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare

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 ?

A. Modernism is the art produced during the modern period.
B. Modernism is the historical period which followed the modern period.
C. Modernism is the philosophy of modern art.
D. Both a and c

According to Professor Hammer, which of the following is the central question explored by T.S. Eliot in “The Waste Land” ?

A. Is authentic poetry possible in the aftermath of the carnage of world war i?
B. Given the diversity of the world’s poetic traditions, can there be a universal language of poetic symbolism?
C. How can a shared world be created out of the fundamentally different and private experiences of individual people?
D. Given that each person experiences trauma differently, is it possible for all to understand the modern world as a shared “waste land”?

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

A. Assonance and word repetition
B. Simile
C. Metaphor and allusion
D. Circumlocution

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

A. William carlos williams
B. John greenleaf whittier
C. George herbert
D. Robert browning