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Modern Poetry and Poetics
Question 66 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
In analyzing T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following?
"A meditation on contradictions" | |
Overheard inner speech | |
"Implicit dialogue with the future" | |
"Objective correlative" |
Question 67 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevens's understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions?
Imagism | |
Classicism | |
British Romanticism | |
Vorticism |
Question 68 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Ezra Pound's "Canto XIV" opens with the line "Io venni in luogo d'ogni luce muto" [I came to a place devoid of light]. This creates a connection between the Canto and which of the following works?
Milton's "Paradise Lost" | |
Dante's "Divine Comedy" | |
Goethe's "Faust" | |
Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" |
Question 69 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier" opens with the following lines: "If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England." Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brooke's poem as a whole?
These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers' deaths on the battlefield. | |
These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britain's imperial power. | |
These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war. | |
These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem. |
Question 70 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Why was World War II a defining event in the history of the 20th century?
It brought unprecedented destruction and loss of life, thereby putting into question the entire cultural and political legacy of Western civilization. | |
It was followed by Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and by the entrenchment of the Soviet totalitarian system of rule. | |
It was followed by the Cold War, which affected international politics throughout the world. | |
All of these answers |
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