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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who defined the Chorus as the ideal spectator?

August Wilhelm Schlegel

Jihann Wolfgang von Goethe

Denis Diderot

Voltaire

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Fictitious editor

Extreme space-time compression

An alternate world

Gender bending

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