Transcendentalism is a movement of

American Romanticism/ American Renaissance

One of the key features of the dramatic monologue is

a single speaker in a moment of crisis

reached its high point in English Romanticism

used to rhyme but does not anymore

"The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James

is a psychological realist novel

What is a common paradox in sonnets?

complaining about writer's block in writing

one of the first successful women in the literary business

The genre of the ode can be subdivided into

pindaric, irregular, Horation ode

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

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