Literary Terms New

Which of the following figures of speech is found in the line

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”?

• alliteration

• consonance

• simile

• transferred epithet

Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi. It is the precursor to Dadaism, Surrealism and the Theatre of the Absurd. Which of the following is true about this play?

• It was completed by Samuel Beckett

• It is a parody of Macbeth

• The theatre where it was performed was burnt down

• It was banned in France until 1936

Which of the following is NOT true about the Pindaric Ode?

• It has a triadic structure

• It is intensely emotive

• The form was brought into European vernacular by the 16th century French poet Pierre de Ronsard

• The first practitioner of the Pindaric Ode in English was Thomas Gray

Who defined the Chorus as the ideal spectator?

• August Wilhelm Schlegel

• Jihann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Denis Diderot

• Voltaire

Which of the following is NOT a function of the chronicle play?

• Maintaining public welfare through the didactic function

• Promoting a nationalistic consciousness

• To propagate history

• To rewrite history from the margins

Which of the following is true?

• A satire is often framed by the conflict between the author and an adversary

• A satire does not involve the presence of the subject

• Satire can be comic or tragic

• Satire will not involve imitation

Which of the following devices is used in Nabokov's Lolita?

• Fictitious editor

• Extreme space-time compression

• An alternate world

• Gender bending

Which of the following is determined by the metre in poetry?

• Rhythm

• Tone

• Style

• Formality

Which of the following is NOT a feature of Jacobean drama?

• Irregularity

• Improbability

• Lack of artistry

• Strict classical form

About which literary club did Swift write to Stella, "We take in none but men of wit and interest"?

• Kit-Kat

• Scriblerus

• Bluestockings

• Johnson's Club