Literary Movements-1

Inscape and Instress are the two terms coined by the English poet____

• Robert Graves

• G.M Hopkins

• Robert Bridges

• Walter Peter

Angry Young Man writers are the writers from 1950s who wrote plays and novels which showed resentment against the values of the British middle class. Identify their works.

• Look Back in Anger

• Room at the Top

• Hurry on Down

• Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner

• All of them

"Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes

Whom envy hath immured within your walls."

Identify the rhetorical figure being used in the above lines:

• apostrophe

• anaphora

• aposiopesis

• apology

Answer explanation

A rhetorical figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person or inanimate object.

Ex: "oh! wild west wind thou breath of autumn's being"

James Joyce in his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man uses special moments of sudden insight known as_______

• epinicion

• epigraph

• epilogue

• epiphany

A kind of poetry that does not conform to any regular meter, any regular length of lines and no regular rhyme is called____

• Blank Verse

• Ottava Rima

• Terza Rima

• Free Verse

_________ is a poem or song retracting some earlier statement by the poet

• palindrome

• panegyric

• pantomime

• palinode

Answer explanation

a notable example in English is Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women

Match the Avant garde movements with their corresponding leaders.

• Tristran Tzara

• Dadaism

• Andre Breton

• Cubism

• Claude Monet

• Surrealism

• Pablo Picasso/ Georges Braque

• Symbolism

• Stephen Mallarme/ Paul Verlaine

• Impressionism

What role did the Irish Dramatic Movement, particularly with the foundation of the Abbey Theatre, play in the cultural nationalism of Ireland?

A. by promoting English dramatic techniques exclusively

B. by reinforcing Irish identity through drama, that depicted Irish myths, folklore, contemporary life

C. By undermining Irish independence in favor of British rule

D. by deterring the development of new Irish playwrights and themes

• A, C only

• C only

• B only

• B and D only

Identify the following literary movements: poetry distinguished by its farfetched images and conceit is _________

• symbolic

• modernist

• metaphysical

• romantic

Choose from the following options the correct combination of playwrights who contributed to the movement called "Kitchen Sink Drama"?

• John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Arden

• John Osborne, John Arden, Harold Pinter, Arnold Wesker

• John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, John Arden, Antonin Artaud

• John Osborne, Shelagh Delany, John Arden, Harold Pinter

Answer explanation

John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance is often cited as an example of the "Angry Young Men" movement, particularly due to its exploration of themes of social injustice and rebellion.