Top 80+ Solved Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940 MCQ Questions Answer
Q. What event inspired Hopkins to return to writing poetry in 1875?
a. famine
b. earthquake
c. shipwreck
d. war
Q. Hopkins coined which of these terms to describe the individual uniqueness of each creation?
a. inscape
b. instress
c. signifier
d. sprung rhythm
Q. Which language that Hopkins learned at St Beuno's seminary greatly influenced his poetry?
a. welsh
b. gaelic
c. erse
d. cornish
Q. “Kingdom of day lights dauphin dapple dawn drawn falcon” Identify the figure of speech used.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. assonance
d. alliteration
Q. Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poems in 1918?
a. robert bridges
b. stephen spender
c. richard dixon
d. coventry patmore
Q. Identify the term that is not used by Hopkins to describe the Windhover?
a. minion,
b. dauphin
c. falcon
d. beast
Q. The title of Yeats' 'The Second Coming' is a reference to what event?
a. the return of jesus christ
b. world war i
c. world war ii
d. the modernism era
Q. Name the ninth century Byzantine Emperor referred to in the poem 'Sailing to Byzantium
a. theodore
b. tiresias
c. theophilus
d. trescothick
Q. In what sense does Yeats use the term 'Spiritus Mundi'?
a. collective meaning of broken images
b. collective unconscious that all human beings share
c. collective myths that society believe
d. collective memory of trauma