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Modern English Poetry

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Point out the group of poets, which does not belong to the 20 century.

a)

Imagism

b)

Dadaism

c)

Pre-Raphaelites

d)

Cubism

2.

T S Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in

a)

1930

b)

1944

c)

1956

d)

1948

3.

Who coined the term inscape?

a)

John Ruskin

b)

John Keats

c)

G M Hopkins

d)

William Wordsworth

4.

Avant-Garde is a prominent feature of

a)

Formalism

b)

Modernism

c)

Feminism

d)

Imagism

5.

The term "dissociation of sensibility" was a phrase introduced by T S Eliot in the essay

a)

Tradition and Individual Talent

b)

The Metaphysical Poets

c)

Hamlet and His Problems

d)

None of the above

6.

Who coined the term "Objective Correlative"

a)

Washington Allston

b)

Eliseo Vivas

c)

T S Eliot

d)

J C Ransom

7.

A poem should not mean but be. This argument can be attributed to

a)

Formalism

b)

Marxism

c)

Psychoanalytic Criticism

d)

New Historicism

8.

Who "measured out his life in coffee spoons"?

a)

T S Eliot

b)

Leopold Bloom

c)

Alfred Prufrock

d)

Henry Higgins

9.

"Wants" is a poem written by

a)

Ezra Pound

b)

Philip Larkin

c)

W B Yeats

d)

T S Eliot

10.

The symbol Yeats used most frequently was

a)

stair

b)

swan

c)

ribbon

d)

gyre