PREGUNTAS DE POESÍA INGLESA s. XIX Y XX.
Autor: Rubén Paz Simeón.
5 Questions
about “Romanticism”.
1)
“Romanticism”:
a) Hasn’t been used
in many contexts, but means different things to different people.
b)
Has been used in
varying contexts and has come to mean different things to different people.
c) Hasn’t been used
in many contexts, and always has meant the same.
d) Has been used in
varying contexts, but always has meant the same.
2) The “Romanticism”
is a movement in art and literature:
a) In the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries in revolt against the Neo-classicism of the previous
centuries.
b) In the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, before the Neo-classicism of the later centuries.
c)
In the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries in revolt against the Neo-classicism of the previous
centuries.
d) The three are
false.
3) Any list of
particular characteristics of the literature of “Romanticism” includes:
a) restraint, order, logic,
technical precision and balance.
b)
Subjectivity and
an emphasis on individualism.
c) Elegance for
diction, an emphasis of form over content and clarity.
d) Subjectivity,
objectivity and elegance.
4) The phrase
“imagination is superior to reason and devotion to beauty” belongs to the
movement:
a) Neo – classicism.
b)
Romanticism.
c) Classicism.
d) Another different
movement.
5) The “Romanticism”
has been influenced by ideologies and events:
a) Napoleon wars and
Industrial Revolution.
b)
The French
Revolution and Industrial Revolution.
c) The 2º World War
and Communism.
d) The war of the 30
years and the Industrial Revolution.
5 Questions
about “Metre”.
6) When words within
a single line are rhymed, it is called:
a) External rhyme.
b)
Internal rhyme.
c) Masculine rhyme.
d) Feminine rhyme.
7) A tail rhyme is:
a)
A rhyme in the
final syllable of a verse.
b) A rhyme in the
final syllable of a word.
c) A rhyme in the
final syllable of a poem.
d) The three are
false.
8) A feminine rhyme,
is a rhyme that:
a) Matches one
syllable at the end of the respective line.
b) No matches any
syllable.
c)
Matches two or
more syllables at the end of the respective lines.
d) The three are
false.
9) “Consonance”:
a) Matching vowels.
Is the repetition of vowel sounds within a short passage of verse or prose.
b)
Matching
consonants. Is the repetition of consonant sounds in a short sequence of words.
c) Matching vowels
and consonants. Is the repetition of vowel and consonant sounds in a short
sequence of verse or prose.
d) The three are
false.
10) In what consists the
“Amphibrac”?
a) Consists in a
short syllable between two long syllables.
b) Consists in two
short syllables between two long syllables.
c)
Consists in a
long syllable between two short syllables.
d) Consists in two
long syllables between two short syllables.
5 Questions
about “Rhetorical Figures”.
11) What is the
“alliteration”?
a) Summarisation of
previous arguments in a forceful manner.
b)
Repetition of
consonants in nearby words.
c) The repetition of
a word at the end of a clause at the beginning of another.
d) The three are
false.
12) What
is the “ellipsis”?
a)
Is the substitution of forms that
are grammatically different, but have the same meaning.
b)
Omission of conjunctions between
related clauses.
c) Omission of words.
d) The three are
false.
13) What is the
“polyptoton”?
a)
Repetition of
words derived from the same root.
b) Repetition of
conjunctions.
c) Omission of
conjunctions.
d) Omission of
words.
14) What is the
“asyndeton”?
a) Omission of words
between related clauses.
b)
Omission of
conjunctions between related clauses.
c) Inversion of the
usual word order.
d) The three are
false.
15) What is the
“hendriatis”?
a)
Use of three
nouns to express one idea.
b) Use of two nouns
to express an idea, when the normal structure would be a noun and a modifier.
c) Changing the
order of words so that they are associated with words normally associated with
others.
d)
The three are false.
5 Questions
about “William Blake”.
16) William Blake:
a) Attended to
school and studied at University.
b)
Never attended to
school, being educated at home by his mother.
c) Never attended to
school and none educate him. .
d) The three are
false.
17) Blake’s artistic
work is also strongly influenced by:
a) Communism.
b) French
Revolution.
c)
Medieval
illuminated books.
d) Augustan poetry.
18) For William Blake
the Bible:
a) Was not
important, and never influenced him.
b) At first was an
early and profound influence on Blake, but it won’t be important on his life.
c)
Was an early and
profound influence on Blake, and would remain a source of inspiration
throughout his life.
d) The three are
false.
19) Blake beheld more
visions:
a) At home with his
family.
b) In the forest in
contact with nature.
c)
In the Abbey,
while he heard “the chant of choral”.
d) The three are
false.
20) The archetype of
the Creator:
a) Sometimes appears
in his works.
b) Never appears in
his works.
c) Is used by other
romantic authors but not by Blake.
d)
Is a familiar
image in his work.
5 Questions about “Lord
Byron and William Wordsworth”.
21) Lord
Byron’s best –known works are:
a)
Prose.
b)
Classical poems.
c)
Lyrical poems.
d) Narrative poems.
22) The
first poems that Byron wrote are:
a)
“Pieces on Various Occasions”
b)
“To Mary”
c) “Fugitive Pieces”
d)
“Hours of Idleness”
23) Lord
Byron:
a)
Never started a political career.
b) Took seat in the “House of Lords”.
c)
Had a political career, but he never
took seat in the “House of Lords”.
d)
The three are false.
24) Lord
Byron:
a) Spoke in defence of Roman Catholics rights.
b)
Attacked the Roman Catholic rights.
c)
Didn’t mind the Roman Catholic rights.
d)
The three are false.
25) “Lyrical Ballads”
was written by the romantic authors William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge. This book rejected the:
a) Medieval poetry.
b)
Augustan poetry.
c) French
Revolution.
d) Folk traditions.