Contest English Literature IV (3 March)

Which of the following elements is NOT representative of Yeats' second poetic stage?

• Bare style

• Intellectual symbols

• The symbol of the gyre

• Present-day history

What term defines best the style of Yeats' early poetry?

• High modernism

• Automatic writing

• Aestheticism

• Naturalism

Which of the following elements is NOT present in Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"?

• A proliferation of fish

• A refrain at the end of each stanza

• The cremation of the decaying body

• "THAT is no country for old men"

What specific social class did Yeats hate?

• The Anglo-Irish heritage

• Peasants

• Priests

• The middle class

In Yeats' "Easter 1916", what does the symbol of the stone refer to?

• The fluidity of Ireland

• The narrow-mindedness of the leaders of the Rising

• The immortality of the Anglo-Irish heritage

• Yeats' love for his muse, Maud Gonne

What was the name of the theatre owned by the Irish National Theatre Society ever since 1904?

• Madison Square Garden

• The Abbey Theatre

• The Swan

• The Globe

What type of characters does Synge depict in his plays?

• Clownish drunkards

• Comic villains

• Urban beggars

• Closed communities untouched by modernity and materialism

Where are Synge's plays usually set?

• In modern Dublin

• In exotic places such as the Maldives or Byzantium

• On the Aran Islands

• In Alcorcón