📚English Literature MCQs
English Literature MCQs
496 MCQs421
According to Longinus, there are ________principle sources of sublime.
📚English LiteratureBy: Shah Jahan
AThree
BFive
CSix
DNone
422
Longinus asserts that nothing contributes more to loftiness of tone in writing than _________?
📚English LiteratureBy: Shah Jahan
AGrandeur Thought
BGenuine Emotion
CImpassioned Utterance
DSplendour Style
423
The Canterbury Tales is written by ___________?
📚English LiteratureBy: Ali Hassan
AJohn Gower
BJulian of Norwich
CGeoffrey Chaucer
DWilliam Langland
424
According to Longinus, the queen of figures is ___________?
📚English LiteratureBy: Shah Jahan
ASimile
BHyperbole
CApostrophe
DMetaphor E. None
425
Harriet Jacob’s slave narrative Incidents in the Life differs from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in what way ?
AStowe’s novel is sentimental.
BStowe describes the treatment of slaves.
CStowe describes the escape of slaves.
DUncle Tom’s Cabin was used by abolitionists.
426
Which characteristic of the slave narrative did Frederick Douglass include in the first chapter of his Narrative ?
ANarration of a deserved punishment.
BDepictions of a beautiful rural environment.
CDescriptions of the kinds of food and clothing slaves were given.
DThe author’s father is often a white man.
427
Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except______________?
ATo impress the horrors of slavery on listeners
BTo ease their pain
CTo pray for deliverance
DTo show that they were content in their work
428
In the poem “When Malindy Sings,” Paul Laurence Dunbar uses irony and caricature to “signify” on white assumptions about African Americans. What does Henry Louis Gate’s term “signify” mean ?
AGiving words double meaning that appear differently to white and black readers.
BFixing words with very specific meanings.
CMaking sure that what is written makes sense.
DLying to mislead the reader.
429
According to Larry Neal, the primary goal of the Black Arts Movement is_______________?
ATo speak to the spiritual and cultural needs of African Americans.
BTo raise awareness of violence in African American youth.
CTo support the Back to Africa Movement.
DTo raise money for Sickle Cell Anemia research.
430
Native Son was written by___________________?
AJean Toomer.
BRichard Wright.
CRalph Ellison.
DJames Baldwin.