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Modern Poetry And Poetics Quiz 1 (32 MCQs)

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1. What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pound's "In a Station at the Metro" ?
2. Which of the following traditions was an important influence on Louis Zukofsky's poetry?
3. According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevens's understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions?
4. Which one of the following was not a "little magazine" that primarily published and championed modernist poetry in the first half of the 20th century?
5. Which of the following best describes the types of imagery used in Louis Zukofsky's poem, "A: Seventh Movement: There Are Different Techniques" ?
6. Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems?
7. Which of the following statements best characterizes the form of Claude McKay's poem "The Harlem Dancer" ?
8. Which of the following natural forces "speaks" in the culminating passage of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" ?
9. Which of the following writers was among the founders of the Imagist movement?
10. Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings?
11. Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet?
12. Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War?
13. Which of the following literary devices is most prominent in Gertrude Stein's poem "New" ?
14. Which of the following was an important influence on Charles Reznikoff's shift away from romantic rhetoric?
15. Which of the following literary devices are present in Langston Hughes's poem "Ku Klux" ?
16. What is the central theme of Keith Douglas's "How to Kill" ?
17. Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach" is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it:
18. Which of the following descriptions does NOT pertain to the Imagists?
19. Which of the following figures is the author of the 1909 "Futurist Manifesto" ?
20. According to the literary critic, Paul Fussell, which of the following was a central trope of English poetry written during the Great War?
21. Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud's poem "Eternity" undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent?
22. Which of the following poets did NOT write about his experiences in World War II?
23. Which of the following traditions was particularly important in Hart Crane's modernist poetry?
24. Which of the following political themes was explored by American Objectivist poets?
25. Which of the following events increased the appeal of communism among American intellectuals both black and white in the years between 1918 and 1939?
26. Many critics see similarities between the tenets of Futurism and which of the following political philosophies?
27. Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written:
28. Which of the following poets wrote about World War II?
29. Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a late-Victorian poet?
30. "How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another."
31. Which of the following writers authored the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est? "
32. Ezra Pound's "Cantos" may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound's poem alludes to which of the following epic poems?
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