The genre of the ode can be subdivided into

pindaric, irregular, Horation ode

Transcendentalism is a movement of

American Romanticism/ American Renaissance

one of the first successful women in the literary business

used to rhyme but does not anymore

What is a common paradox in sonnets?

complaining about writer's block in writing

reached its high point in English Romanticism

"The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James

is a psychological realist novel

One of the key features of the dramatic monologue is

a single speaker in a moment of crisis

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1
The external communication of a poem consists of
all of these
Real Author & Poetic Persona
Real Reader & Explicit/Implicit Addressee
Real Author & Real Reader
2
"The apparition of these faces in the crowd Petals on a wet, black bough." (E. Pound) is
an eye rhyme
an assonace
a homophone
a consonance
3
Sidney's "master plan" ("Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know...")
is a climax
is a symbol
is a failure
is a chain of causal events
4
The genre of the ode can be subdivided into
pindaric, irregular, Horation ode
regular, irregular, Homerian ode
pindaric, regular, Keatsian ode
usual, unusual, Jonsonian ode
5
Transcendentalism is a movement of
Victorianism
American Romanticism/ American Renaissance
Early National Period/Early Republic
Realistic Period
6
Sermons are a favourite genre of
the Restoration
the Early National Period
the Colonial Period
the Long Eighteenth Century
7
The typical rhyme pattern of the ballad is
abba cddc
abca bcdb
abcb defe
abab cdcd
8
Aphra Behn was
an author of the Commonwealth period
one of the first successful women in the literary business
the first American author
the first slave who wrote a novel
9
"Astrophil and Stella 1" is predominantly written in
trochaic pentametre
iambic pentametre
iambic hexameter
spondees
10
A historical rhyme
used to rhyme but does not anymore
is a very old and common rhyme
uses "historical" words such as "knight", "wench", "thou"
has been in use since the Renaissance
11
The folk ballad has its origin in
the Middle Ages
the Renaissance
cities
Victorianism
12
The sonnet is
an epic poem
only rarely used by female writers
always 15 lines long
a Renaissance favorite
13
What is a common paradox in sonnets?
complaining about the pain of writing without obtaining pity
complaining about mortality while hoping to die
complaining about women while looking for love
complaining about writer's block in writing
14
The Lyrical Ballad
reached its high point in English Restoration
reached its high point in English Romanticism
reached its high point in English Renaissance
reached its high point in American Realism
15
Emotions, dreams, memory are major themes of
the biographical approach
female writers
the dystopia
Romantic poets
16
The musical quality of a poem is based on
rhetorical devices
rhythm, meter and sound
verse and stanzas
syntactic overstructuring
17
The Italian sonnet
is written in iambic hexametre
consists of an octave, a quatrain and a couplet
was a song, performed by the poet
is associated with Petrarch
18
4 x da-da-DUM
trochaic trimetre
iambic tetrametre
dactylic tetrametre
anapestic tetrametre
19
"The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James
is a regional realist novel
was written to promote American Romanticism
is a psychological realist novel
is a modernist novel
20
Edmund Spenser's favorite rhetorical device in "Amoretti LXXV" is
anaphora
alliteration
allusion
antithesis
21
The nursery rhyme is a form of
epic poetry
didactic poetry
dramatic poetry
lyric poetry
22
The most common metrical system in English is the
accentual-syllabic metre
syllabic metre
free verse
accentual metre
23
The main topic of many sonnets is
hate and death
love and hate
love and writing
hate and immortality
24
Bram Stoker wrote Dracula,
a Romantic gothic novel
an Edwardian gothic novel
an American gothic novel
a Victorian gothic novel
25
One of the key features of the dramatic monologue is
a single speaker in a moment of crisis
a high degree of objectivity
rhyme scheme, modelled on Shakespearan monologues
the lack of an implied reader

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