Modern Poetry And Poetics Mcqs
Q.1: Which of the following statements accurately characterizes Marianne Moores poem A Grave ?b
A. It juxtaposes human consciousness against the sea.2
B. It uses alliteration and iambic pentameter.+
C. It has a subtle formal structure, even though it does not use rhyme.D
D. Both A and C
Q.2: Which of the following writers was among the founders of the Imagist movement ?O
A. Salvador Dali
B. Horace Greeley
C. Ezra Pound
D. Rupert Brooke
Q.3: Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between World War II poetry and Futurist poetry ?u
A. The Futurists apotheosized technology, whereas World War II poets often focused on technologys destructive powers.u
B. The Futurists praised speed, whereas World War II poets often evoked images of nature to describe the human condition.v
C. The Futurists privileged the part over the whole, whereas World War II poets did not deal with the problem of modernity and alienation.
D. The Futurists focused on advancements in technology and industry, whereas World War II poets ignored advancements in technology, especially in modern warfare.
Q.4: Professor Hammer argues that which of the following statements is true of Ezra Pounds strong emphasis on poetic technique ?~
A. It serves to effectively depersonalize Pounds poems.7
B. It serves the greater aim of conveying both intensity and immediacy in Pounds poetry.X
C. It is a paradoxical mixture of personal and impersonal elements.@
D. It is a means of creating a dialogue between modernity and tradition.E
Q.5: Which of the following best describes theidea of the symbol among French Symbolist poets ?Z
A. A symbol is an image that conveys powerful emotional states.<
B. A symbol is an emblem of the actual world endowed with supernatural meanings.M
C. A symbol is a metaphor that allows the poet to capture complex social realities.P
D. A symbol is a description of past realities.,
Q.6: How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another. ?L
A. Fear of the failure of a segregated educational system6
B. Fear of the AIDs crisis
C. Fear of global nuclear war
D. Fear of the economic Great Depression%
Q.7: Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliots concept of the objective correlative ?e
A. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poems formal structure and its meaning.j
B. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poems formal structure and its rhetorical aim.q
C. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poems theme and its objective historical context.t
D. The objective correlative refers to a set of objects, situations, or events which necessarily produce a particular emotion.{
Q.8: Which of the following writers authored the poem Dulce et Decorum Est?L
A. Wilfred Owen
B. Siegfried Sassoon
C. Rupert Brooke
D. Rudyard Kipling
Q.9: What is the central theme of Keith Douglass How to Kill ?B
A. Combat detaches a man from humanity.$
B. All is fair in love and war.
C. It is honorable and just to defend your country in a war.9
D. There is a right and a wrong way to throw a hand grenade.9
Q.10: Which of the following natural forces speaks in the culminating passage of T.S. Eliots The Waste Land ?v
A. An avalanche
B. Rapids
C. The west wind
D. Thunder

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