Modern Poetry And Poetics MCQs

Option A: “Emotional power achieved through suggestive visual images”

Option B: “Exploration of philosophical paradoxes through visual images”

Option C: “Clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images”

Option D: “Inclusion of natural objects as symbols”

Correct Answer: “Clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images” ✔

Option A: Marxism

Option B: Fascism

Option C: Democracy

Option D: Libertarianism

Correct Answer: Fascism ✔

Option A: It has a regular rhyme scheme (aa/bb/cc/dd…), which is sustained throughout the poem.

Option B: It is primarily a narrative poem.

Option C: It is concerned with conventional 19thcentury relations between a man and a woman.

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: All of these answers ✔

Option A: employs free verse.

Option B: has an undertow of nihilism.

Option C: is chauvinistic about British “exceptionalism.”

Option D: was composed between WW I and WW II.

Correct Answer: has an undertow of nihilism. ✔

Option A: Stein was a crucially important figure in the Paris émigré community.

Option B: Stein was primarily a muse for modernist poets.

Option C: Stein was a proponent of low modernism.

Option D: Stein was an opponent of vanguard trends.

Correct Answer: Stein was a crucially important figure in the Paris émigré community. ✔

Option A: French Classicism

Option B: British Romanticism

Option C: American Romanticism

Option D: German Romanticism

Correct Answer: American Romanticism ✔

Option A: The poem contrasts the image of a child in its mother’s womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime.

Option B: The poem praises those technological achievements which protect human life in wartime.

Option C: The poem uses images of the apocalypse to criticize the cruelty of war.

Option D: The poem presents the war as a natural part of the perennial cycles of human history.

Correct Answer: The poem contrasts the image of a child in its mother’s womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime. ✔

Option A: Hughes was very conscious that he

Option B: Hughes wrote about the legacy of the American Civil War and its long-term cultural consequences.

Option C: Hughes introduced new subject-matter and new language into poetry.

Option D: Both A and C

Correct Answer: Both A and C ✔

Option A: Germany was defeated and blamed for causing the war.

Option B: In the course of World War I, the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia.

Option C: Successful parliamentary democracies were established throughout the continent and remained stable until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

Option D: By the end of the 1920s, almost every state that had participated in World War I faced an economic depression and political upheavals.

Correct Answer: Successful parliamentary democracies were established throughout the continent and remained stable until the outbreak of World War II in 1939. ✔

Option A: American Romanticism

Option B: British Neo-Classicism

Option C: Kabalistic Judaism

Option D: Taoism

Correct Answer: Kabalistic Judaism ✔

Option A: These lines evoke Christian imagery to emphasize the dignity of the girl who died.

Option B: These lines evoke Christian imagery to suggest that death erases racial divisions.

Option C: These lines present the problem of racial prejudice in an ironic mode.

Option D: Both A and B

Correct Answer: Both A and B ✔

Option A: The ideal of courtly love

Option B: Elements of the Christian narrative of salvation

Option C: The alchemical concept of the philosopher’s stone

Option D: The Renaissance concept of humanism

Correct Answer: Elements of the Christian narrative of salvation ✔

Option A: Patriotic imagery

Option B: Irony

Option C: Nihilism

Option D: Apocalyptic imagery

Correct Answer: Irony ✔

Option A: Stein experimented only with the sound qualities of language, whereas the Imagists focused on visual imagery.

Option B: Stein experimented with language that skirted the edges of sense, whereas the Imagists sought precision and clarity of expression.

Option C: Stein sought to combine classical poetic form with contemporary content, whereas the Imagists used traditional poetic subject matter but experimented with form.

Option D: Stein sought precision and clarity in her poems, whereas the Imagists sought experimental forms that enhanced visual imagery.

Correct Answer: Stein experimented with language that skirted the edges of sense, whereas the Imagists sought precision and clarity of expression. ✔

Option A: 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.

Option B: These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britain’s imperial power.

Option C: These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.

Option D: These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.

Correct Answer: 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. ✔

Option A: Imagism

Option B: Classicism

Option C: British Romanticism

Option D: Vorticism

Correct Answer: British Romanticism ✔

Option A: endorsement of Marxism.

Option B: interest in ancient Rome.

Option C: anti-capitalism.

Option D: interest in Fourier’s utopian socialist thought.

Correct Answer: anti-capitalism. ✔

Option A: Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families

Option B: Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture

Option C: Having little formal education with little access to publishers

Option D: Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living

Correct Answer: Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture ✔

Option A: Yes, Lowell’s detailed description of nature draws attention away from human realities.

Option B: Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowell’s poem seeks to express universal rather than individual experience.

Option C: No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind.

Option D: No, even though Lowell strives for impersonal expression by borrowing poetic devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish this

Correct Answer: No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind. ✔

Option A: Historic and contemporary imagery

Option B: Kabalistic imagery

Option C: Nationalist imagery

Option D: Everyday imagery

Correct Answer: Historic and contemporary imagery ✔

Option A: Irony

Option B: Allegory

Option C: Oxymoron

Option D: Alliteration

Correct Answer: Irony ✔

Option A: Brooke’s inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize

Option B: These lines suggest the author’s anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.

Option C: In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: The devastation wrought by World War I was so enormous that it put Europe’s cultural and political norms and values into question.

Option B: The mechanized killing, which took place on a massive scale during World War I, made it necessary to reflect about the effects of technological progress.

Option C: World War I was the first global conflict where the distinction between combatants and civilians was erased, and this had a devastating effect on the European psyche.

Option D: Both A and B

Correct Answer: Both A and B ✔

Option A: Feeling like an outcast in your own house

Option B: Becoming a stuttering sycophant just to survive

Option C: Wrapping yourself in the armor of anger and resentment

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Love sonnets from the Nazi death camps

Option B: American G.I. poetry from German prisoner of war camps

Option C: Jewish dissident poetry from the gulags in Siberia

Option D: Haiku poetry from the Japanese internment camps in the US

Correct Answer: Haiku poetry from the Japanese internment camps in the US ✔

Option A: He was a native New Yorker who did not travel much but who was keenly aware of New York’s complexity and diversity.

Option B: He moved to New York from Alabama and the stark contrast between these places deeply influenced his writing.

Option C: He was born in Missouri and traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world before he moved to New York City.

Option D: He spent most of his life in Washington, DC, moving to Harlem only after he gained literary fame.

Correct Answer: He was born in Missouri and traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world before he moved to New York City. ✔

Option A: Is it possible for Romantic themes in poetry to be meaningful after the Holocaust?

Option B: The horror of the Holocaust was inexpressible; how can poetry speak of what is inexpressible?

Option C: Is there a relationship between poetry and rationality after the Holocaust?

Option D: Is there a meaningful relationship between World War I poetry and World War II poetry?

Correct Answer: The horror of the Holocaust was inexpressible; how can poetry speak of what is inexpressible? ✔

Option A: To “amplify and clarify the indistinct emotions created by metaphorical symbols”

Option B: To “prolong the moment of contemplation”

Option C: To “counteract the forces of dispersal inherent in metaphorical language”

Option D: To “make poetry new”

Correct Answer: To “prolong the moment of contemplation” ✔

Option A: These lines suggest that it was difficult to define patriotism during the Great War, but soldiers who died in battle provided the best example of patriotism.

Option B: These lines suggest that the Great War lasted much longer than it should have.

Option C: These lines equate humans with animals, and they anthropomorphize weapons to show a world where there is no place for human values.

Option D: These lines represent a modern funeral dirge that mimics the rhythm of ancient Greek funeral dirges.

Correct Answer: These lines equate humans with animals, and they anthropomorphize weapons to show a world where there is no place for human values. ✔

Option A: They describe the author’s experiences as a young child.

Option B: They use metaphors with subtle political connotations.

Option C: They ascribe colors and sounds to scents, relying on a device known as synesthesia.

Option D: They describe a scene in the countryside, which symbolizes the state of the author’s soul.

Correct Answer: They ascribe colors and sounds to scents, relying on a device known as synesthesia. ✔

Option A: The Great Depression

Option B: Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939

Option C: The Russian Civil War

Option D: World War I

Correct Answer: The Great Depression ✔

Option A: Yeats’s poetry was autobiographical, but he understood his life through the prism of myths and symbols; symbolism was therefore present in both Yeats’s life and in his poetry.

Option B: Yeats believed that each person was an instance of a general cultural type or symbol.

Option C: The young Yeats wished to emphasize his identity as an English poet and draw attention away from his Irish heritage.

Option D: Both A and B

Correct Answer: Both A and B ✔

Option A: Members of both movements were fascinated by speed and dynamism, but unlike the Futurists, Vorticists did not celebrate technology and industrialization.

Option B: Futurism was a politically-inclined movement, whereas Vorticism was free of all political entanglements.

Option C: Futurism lasted for several decades, whereas Vorticism was short-lived.

Option D: Vorticists celebrated technology and industrialization, whereas Futurists explored impending cultural challenges regarding technology and industrialization.

Correct Answer: Members of both movements were fascinated by speed and dynamism, but unlike the Futurists, Vorticists did not celebrate technology and industrialization. ✔

Option A: embraces the rhythms and diction of common man’s speech.

Option B: was written at the very beginning of the 20th century.

Option C: attempts to create a modernist high culture.

Option D: does not employ rhyme.

Correct Answer: attempts to create a modernist high culture. ✔

Option A: Modernism is the art produced during the modern period.

Option B: Modernism is the historical period which followed the modern period.

Option C: Modernism is the philosophy of modern art.

Option D: Both A and C

Correct Answer: Both A and C ✔

Option A: Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

Option B: Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

Option C: Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare

Option D: Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare

Correct Answer: Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature ✔

Option A: Both poems praise Britain’s military power and its imperial ambitions.

Option B: Both poems describe Britain’s civilizing mission in the world.

Option C: Both poems seek to respond to the harsh political and military realities of their day.

Option D: Both poems romanticize war and glorify the life of the soldier.

Correct Answer: Both poems seek to respond to the harsh political and military realities of their day. ✔

Option A: William Carlos Williams

Option B: John Greenleaf Whittier

Option C: George Herbert

Option D: Robert Browning

Correct Answer: William Carlos Williams ✔

Option A: Assonance and word repetition

Option B: Simile

Option C: Metaphor and allusion

Option D: Circumlocution

Correct Answer: Assonance and word repetition ✔

Option A: Is authentic poetry possible in the aftermath of the carnage of World War I?

Option B: Given the diversity of the world’s poetic traditions, can there be a universal language of poetic symbolism?

Option C: How can a shared world be created out of the fundamentally different and private experiences of individual people?

Option D: Given that each person experiences trauma differently, is it possible for all to understand the modern world as a shared “waste land”?

Correct Answer: How can a shared world be created out of the fundamentally different and private experiences of individual people? ✔

Option A: It is a meditation on the alienation of the modern person from nature.

Option B: It is a meditation on the cultural isolation of African Americans in New England.

Option C: It is a meditation on the communal and historical aspects of individual identity.

Option D: It is a meditation on the poet’s personal experience of assimilation.

Correct Answer: It is a meditation on the communal and historical aspects of individual identity. ✔

Option A: Hughes uses a universal speaker for an exploration of a profound racial divide between blacks and whites.

Option B: The poem is an analytical exploration of racial differences in the United States.

Option C: Similar to Hart Crane and Whitman, Hughes uses a personal and universal “I” to address issues of history, race, and identity.

Option D: The poem is an indictment of racial prejudice in Harlem.

Correct Answer: Similar to Hart Crane and Whitman, Hughes uses a personal and universal “I” to address issues of history, race, and identity. ✔

Option A: John Milton

Option B: Alfred Tennyson

Option C: Allen Ginsberg

Option D: Amy Lowell

Correct Answer: Alfred Tennyson ✔

Option A: Slavery

Option B: American attitudes toward Jews and Israel

Option C: Capitalism and social inequalities

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: All of these answers ✔

Option A: Wilfred Owen

Option B: Keith Douglas

Option C: Randall Jarrell

Option D: Karl Shapiro

Correct Answer: Wilfred Owen ✔

Option A: His study of ancient history

Option B: His study of law

Option C: His study of medicine

Option D: His study of Sanskrit

Correct Answer: His study of law ✔

Option A: His political views

Option B: His will to imaginative freedom

Option C: His will to sexual freedom

Option D: Both B and C

Correct Answer: Both B and C ✔

Option A: Death

Option B: Mt. Rainier

Option C: The ocean

Option D: An octopus

Correct Answer: Mt. Rainier ✔

Option A: These lines set an impersonal tone which dominates the entire poem.

Option B: These lines establish a rhythmical pattern, which is followed strictly throughout the poem.

Option C: These lines are the only impersonal lines in the poem, the rest of which is primarily focused on the complexity of human emotions.

Option D: These lines establish a personal tone, focusing on a lyrical perspective similar to late-Victorian era poetry.

Correct Answer: These lines set an impersonal tone which dominates the entire poem. ✔

Option A: They both address the theme of death.

Option B: Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure.

Option C: They are both set in rural New England.

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: All of these answers ✔

Option A: The privileging of image over sound

Option B: The privileging of rhythm over meaning

Option C: The privileging of individual detail over the larger pattern

Option D: The privileging of colors over textures

Correct Answer: The privileging of individual detail over the larger pattern ✔

Option A: Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.

Option B: Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.

Option C: Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with women’s rights.

Option D: World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.

Correct Answer: World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity. ✔

Option A: Rupert Brooke

Option B: Rudyard Kipling

Option C: Karl Shapiro

Option D: Hart Crane

Correct Answer: Karl Shapiro ✔

Option A: Total freedom in choosing the subject

Option B: Striving for concentrated expression and imagery

Option C: Reliance on the language of common speech

Option D: Creative reliance on conventional poetic forms

Correct Answer: Creative reliance on conventional poetic forms ✔

Option A: This poem focuses primarily on the different experiences of black and white women.

Option B: This poem describes the relationship between a black woman and her child.

Option C: This poem is a conversation between a black woman and a child who is not yet born.

Option D: The poem is a conversation between a black woman and her ancestors.

Correct Answer: This poem is a conversation between a black woman and a child who is not yet born. ✔

Option A: Objectivist poetry

Option B: Futurist poetry

Option C: Imagist poetry

Option D: Vorticist poetry

Correct Answer: Imagist poetry ✔

Option A: The Italian Futurists were fascinated by the age of electric and chemical power, and they praised the beauty of automobiles.

Option B: The Italian Futurists lived within a quickly changing social world, and they praised speed.

Option C: Marinetti and other Italian Futurists supported Mussolini’s fascism.

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: All of these answers ✔

Option A: Artifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the American cultural context

Option B: The broken dreams of the American émigré community in Paris

Option C: Old poetry

Option D: The failed attempt of modern poetry

Correct Answer: Old poetry ✔

Option A: It established an authoritative and unquestionable canon of African American poetry.

Option B: It inspired Harlem Renaissance writers to establish a tradition of African American poetry.

Option C: It presented African American writers to a previously indifferent white audience.

Option D: It provided literary criticism on African American poetry.

Correct Answer: It inspired Harlem Renaissance writers to establish a tradition of African American poetry. ✔

Option A: Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

Option B: Ezra Pound’s “Cantos”

Option C: T.S. Eliot’s “A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Option D: T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land

Correct Answer: T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land ✔

Option A: Umberto Boccioni

Option B: Filippo Marinetti

Option C: Vladimir Mayakovsky

Option D: Aleksander Wat

Correct Answer: Filippo Marinetti ✔

Option A: Curiosity about the past

Option B: Deference to the past

Option C: Violation of the past

Option D: Paradoxically both B and C

Correct Answer: Paradoxically both B and C ✔

Option A: “Continual expansion of the personality and its diverse elements”

Option B: “Continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality”

Option C: “Continual transformation of the personality”

Option D: “Continual identification with the past”

Correct Answer: “Continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality” ✔

Option A: It brought unprecedented destruction and loss of life, thereby putting into question the entirecultural and political legacy of Western civilization.

Option B: It was followed by Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and by the entrenchment of the Soviet totalitarian system of rule.

Option C: It was followed by the Cold War, which affected international politics throughout the world.

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: All of these answers ✔

Option A: Milton’s “Paradise Lost”

Option B: Dante’s “Divine Comedy”

Option C: Goethe’s “Faust”

Option D: Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus”

Correct Answer: Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus” ✔

Option A: “A meditation on contradictions”

Option B: “Overheard inner speech”

Option C: “Implicit dialogue with the future”

Option D: “Objective correlative”

Correct Answer: “Overheard inner speech” ✔

Option A: “The Waste Land” is primarily concerned with nature, whereas the futurists are most interested in industrial and urban landscapes.

Option B: “The Waste Land” confronts the fragmentation of modernity by exploring a variety of modes and voices, whereas the futurists do not focus on the fragmentation of modern experience, praising speed and industrial progress instead.

Option C: “The Waste Land” is an ironic exploration of Romantic themes, whereas the futurists incorporate ironic evocations of the classical tradition in their poetry.

Option D: “The Waste Land” focuses on the personal connection between poet and speaker, whereas the futurists focus on an impersonal connection between humans and industry.

Correct Answer: “The Waste Land” confronts the fragmentation of modernity by exploring a variety of modes and voices, whereas the futurists do not focus on the fragmentation of modern experience, praising speed and industrial progress instead. ✔

Option A: Moore’s emotional and aesthetic attachment to England

Option B: Moore’s harsh critique of the carnage of World War I

Option C: Moore’s particular kind of combative American cultural nationalism

Option D: Moore’s interest in England’s civilizing mission in the world

Correct Answer: Moore’s particular kind of combative American cultural nationalism ✔

Option A: It refers to a group of talented American émigré writers who lived in Europe after World War I.

Option B: It refers to the young generation whose coming of age was interrupted by World War I.

Option C: It refers to English poets who sought refuge in New York City after World War I ended.

Option D: Both A and B

Correct Answer: Both A and B ✔

Option A: The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets

Option B: The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion

Option C: The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable

Option D: The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture

Correct Answer: The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture ✔

Option A: The diction is much more polysyllabic than monosyllabic.

Option B: The use of alternating end rhymes and word repetitions enhance the music of the poem and along with its occasional dissonance give it an improvisational jazz-like quality.

Option C: It is written in Standard American English for middle-class readers.

Option D: This poem is structured like a villanelle.

Correct Answer: The use of alternating end rhymes and word repetitions enhance the music of the poem and along with its occasional dissonance give it an improvisational jazz-like quality. ✔

Option A: H.D.

Option B: Hart Crane

Option C: William Carlos Williams

Option D: T.S. Eliot

Correct Answer: Hart Crane ✔

Option A: around 1900.

Option B: in the early stages of World War I.

Option C: in the late stages of World War I.

Option D: in the 1920s.

Correct Answer: in the late stages of World War I. ✔

Option A: The image of a sentinel

Option B: The image of the sun reflected on the sea

Option C: The image of a quest for knowledge

Option D: The image of satiny embers

Correct Answer: The image of the sun reflected on the sea ✔

Option A: Stevens’s poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.

Option B: Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules.

Option C: Stevens’s poetry always addresses several different audiences.

Option D: Stevens’s poetry highlights an objective voice.

Correct Answer: Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules. ✔

Option A: Siegfried Sassoon

Option B: Isaac Rosenberg

Option C: Wilfred Owen

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: All of these answers ✔

Option A: Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.

Option B: Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as a construct which they could manipulate.

Option C: Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of one’s own imagination.

Option D: All of these answers

Correct Answer: Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as a construct which they could manipulate. ✔

Option A: It is primarily a narrative poem.

Option B: It uses iambic pentameter to achieve tonal fluidity.

Option C: It undermines the idea of a single lyrical voice by using diverse cultural symbols and numerous phrases in various languages.

Option D: Its intensity derives from the combination of modern subject matter and alexandrine couplets.

Correct Answer: It undermines the idea of a single lyrical voice by using diverse cultural symbols and numerous phrases in various languages. ✔

Option A: It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

Option B: It is the racial segregation in the South.

Option C: It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.

Option D: It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans.

Correct Answer: It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans. ✔

Option A: It is an English sonnet.

Option B: It is an Italian sonnet.

Option C: It is a Spenserian sonnet.

Option D: It is a free verse poem.

Correct Answer: It is an English sonnet. ✔

Option A: French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.

Option B: French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.

Option C: French Symbolist poetry is shocking.

Option D: French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental.

Correct Answer: French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity. ✔

Option A: The form of a villanelle

Option B: The use of synesthesia

Option C: The use of simile

Option D: The use of metaphor

Correct Answer: The use of metaphor ✔

Option A: They symbolize the return to a lost paradise.

Option B: They point to alchemical elements, which in turn symbolize the body and the soul.

Option C: They symbolize the coming apocalypse.

Option D: They symbolize a fulfilled longing.

Correct Answer: They symbolize the coming apocalypse. ✔

Option A: There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry.

Option B: The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages.

Option C: The Imagists valued brevity, which could be achieved with precise visual images, whereasWorldWar I poets preferred declamatory statements in their poems.

Option D: WorldWar I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images.

Correct Answer: The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages. ✔

Option A: The Mahabharata

Option B: Paradise Lost

Option C: The Odyssey

Option D: The Aeneid

Correct Answer: The Odyssey ✔

Option A: Ivy League educated

Option B: Active pacifist during both world wars

Option C: Popularized the use of free verse

Option D: A private and self-effacing person

Correct Answer: A private and self-effacing person ✔

Option A: It seeks to diminish the distance between society and nature.

Option B: It seeks to amplify the distance between society and nature.

Option C: It plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds.

Option D: It evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene.

Correct Answer: It plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds. ✔

Option A: They tend to use traditional rhyme schemes and rhythms, and they avoid free verse.

Option B: They tend to use metaphors and avoid direct descriptive statements.

Option C: They tend to use classical imagery while rejecting romantic tropes.

Option D: They tend to be narrative and confront the reader with stark wartime realities.

Correct Answer: They tend to be narrative and confront the reader with stark wartime realities. ✔

Option A: An avalanche

Option B: Rapids

Option C: The west wind

Option D: Thunder

Correct Answer: Thunder ✔

Option A: Combat detaches a man from humanity.

Option B: All is fair in love and war.

Option C: It is honorable and just to defend your country in a war.

Option D: There is a right and a wrong way to throw a hand grenade.

Correct Answer: Combat detaches a man from humanity. ✔

Option A: Wilfred Owen

Option B: Siegfried Sassoon

Option C: Rupert Brooke

Option D: Rudyard Kipling

Correct Answer: Wilfred Owen ✔

Option A: The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s formal structure and its meaning.

Option B: The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s formal structure and its rhetorical aim.

Option C: The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s theme and its objective historical context.

Option D: The objective correlative refers to a set of objects, situations, or events which necessarily produce a particular emotion.

Correct Answer: The objective correlative refers to a set of objects, situations, or events which necessarily produce a particular emotion. ✔

Option A: Fear of the failure of a segregated educational system

Option B: Fear of the AIDs crisis

Option C: Fear of global nuclear war

Option D: Fear of the economic Great Depression

Correct Answer: Fear of global nuclear war ✔

Option A: A symbol is an image that conveys powerful emotional states.

Option B: A symbol is an emblem of the actual world endowed with supernatural meanings.

Option C: A symbol is a metaphor that allows the poet to capture complex social realities.

Option D: A symbol is a description of past realities.

Correct Answer: A symbol is an emblem of the actual world endowed with supernatural meanings. ✔

Option A: It serves to effectively depersonalize Pound’s poems.

Option B: It serves the greater aim of conveying both intensity and immediacy in Pound’s poetry.

Option C: It is a paradoxical mixture of personal and impersonal elements.

Option D: It is a means of creating a dialogue between modernity and tradition.

Correct Answer: It serves the greater aim of conveying both intensity and immediacy in Pound’s poetry. ✔

Option A: The Futurists apotheosized technology, whereas World War II poets often focused on technology’s destructive powers.

Option B: The Futurists praised speed, whereas World War II poets often evoked images of nature to describe the human condition.

Option C: The Futurists privileged the part over the whole, whereas World War II poets did not deal with the problem of modernity and alienation.

Option D: The Futurists focused on advancements in technology and industry, whereas World War II poets ignored advancements in technology, especially in modern warfare.

Correct Answer: The Futurists apotheosized technology, whereas World War II poets often focused on technology’s destructive powers. ✔

Option A: Salvador Dali

Option B: Horace Greeley

Option C: Ezra Pound

Option D: Rupert Brooke

Correct Answer: Ezra Pound ✔

Option A: It juxtaposes human consciousness against the sea.

Option B: It uses alliteration and iambic pentameter.

Option C: It has a subtle formal structure, even though it does not use rhyme.

Option D: Both A and C

Correct Answer: Both A and C ✔