Paper 402 (Twentieth Century Poetry)

1. 1. Which of  the following is not a characteristic of  Modern Poetry :

• Realism

   

• Medievalism

• Pessimism

• Symbolism

2. 2. “The Second Coming” consists of:

• Two stanzas

• Three stanzas

• Four stanzas

• Five stanzas

3. 3. The term gyre in The Second Coming represents:

• The glorious past

• The uncertain future

• Yeats’s theory of evolution

• The Falconer

4. 4. The expression Veils of the Morning is an example of:

• Anaphora

• Metaphor

• Transferred Epithet

• a.    Irony

5. 5. “Bee-loud glade”  is an example of:

• Tactile image

• Auditory image

• Gustatory image

• None of these

6. 6. The epigraph of Gerontian is borrowed from :    

• Measure for Measure

• The Merchant of Venice

• Twelfth Night

• The Comedy of Errors

7. 7. In Futility, what does the poet refer to when he says "Move him into the sun-"

• The dead body of a soldier

• The dead body of an enemy

• The body of a captain

• None of these

8. 8. Where else did the sun wake the soldier?

• In France

• In Paris

• In battle ground

• At home

9. 9. Break of the day in the Trenches by Wilfred Owen is a poem of ______ lines and _____ stanzas.

• 28 lines 3 stanzas

• 18 lines 2 stanzas

• 26 lines 1 stanza

• 21 lines 3 stanzas

10. 10. Complete the lines : "And move in _______ as now these clouds do..."

• Sky

• Memory

• Sea

• Land