English Literature Quiz 20

What is an Anglo-Saxon poet?

• rondeau

• sestet

• utopia

• scop

What is a comparison of unlike things using like or as?

• simile

• terza rima

• sestet

• soliloquy

What is an Italian stanza form made popular by Dante?

• simile

• terza rima

• sestet

• soliloquy

What is an attempt to portray the workings of the unconscious mind as manifested in dreams?

• surrealism

• theism

• satire

• tragedy

What is a play that ends unhappily?

• surrealism

• theism

• satire

• tragedy

What literary period began with the death of Sir Walter Scott and ended with the death of Queen Victoria?

What is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter?

What is the writer's attitude toward his subject and in turn the response

which the writer intends for his readers?

What are words with the same or similar meaning?

What is the central idea which gives a work meaning?