Victorian and Modern Literature

Robert Browning's dramatic monologue aimed at expressing...

• social and political problems

• material security

• intellectual and moral strength

• spiritual problems

A dramatic monologue is...

• a monologue performed by one character on stage

• a poetic form in which the character reflects on life

• a poem in which the characters always reveal themselves completely

The most recurrent themes in Browning's works are ...

• Love, religion and time

• poverty and social inequality

• alienation and nostalgia

• morality and the family

Which statement is NOT true about the Aesthetic Movement in Literature?

• It was a cult of deep emotions

• Practical and moral considerations were over visual qualities

• Art was an expression of the spirit

• The only reality is that of impressions and sensations

What poem belongs to the Aesthetic Movement?

• Love in a Life

• After

• A Leave-Taking

Choose TWO characteristics of the Victorian poetry

• Science and Technology

• Interest in the middle ages

• Individualism

• Multiple perspectives

Imagism was a movement in the Modern Literature which...

• aimed at careless thinking like the Romantics

• presented accurate, precise and definite descriptions

• used decorative words and simple language

• presented a fixed structure with regular length and rhythm.

Which feature does NOT belong to the Modern Literature?

• Writers wrote for the masses and about the masses

• Multiple characters were created to emphasize the subjectivity of each character

• Writers were fascinated with how the individuals adapted to the changing world

• Writers mixed images from the past with modern language and themes

Franz Kafka was a modern writer who depicted absurdity in human life

• True

• False

What TWO writers were part of the Aesthetic Movement?

• Oscar Wilde

• Robert Browning

• Algernon Charles Swinburne

• Philip Bourke Marston