This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Poetry > Modern Poetry And Poetics – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modern Poetry And Poetics Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pound's "In a Station at the Metro" ? A) The form of a villanelle. B) The use of synesthesia. C) The use of simile. D) The use of metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The use of metaphor. 2. Which of the following traditions was an important influence on Louis Zukofsky's poetry? A) American Romanticism. B) British Neo-Classicism. C) Kabalistic Judaism. D) Taoism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kabalistic Judaism. 3. According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevens's understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions? A) Imagism. B) Classicism. C) British Romanticism. D) Vorticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) British Romanticism. 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? A) The Partisan Review. B) The Owl. C) Poetry. D) Blast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Partisan Review. 5. Which of the following best describes the types of imagery used in Louis Zukofsky's poem, "A: Seventh Movement: There Are Different Techniques" ? A) Historic and contemporary imagery. B) Kabalistic imagery. C) Nationalist imagery. D) Everyday imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Historic and contemporary imagery. 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? A) H.D. B) Hart Crane. C) William Carlos Williams. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hart Crane. 7. Which of the following statements best characterizes the form of Claude McKay's poem "The Harlem Dancer" ? A) It is an English sonnet. B) It is an Italian sonnet. C) It is a Spenserian sonnet. D) It is a free verse poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is an English sonnet. 8. Which of the following natural forces "speaks" in the culminating passage of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" ? A) An avalanche. B) Rapids. C) The west wind. D) Thunder. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thunder. 9. Which of the following writers was among the founders of the Imagist movement? A) Salvador Dali. B) Horace Greeley. C) Ezra Pound. D) Rupert Brooke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ezra Pound. 10. Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings? A) Ivy League educated. B) Active pacifist during both world wars. C) Popularized the use of free verse. D) A private and self-effacing person. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A private and self-effacing person. 11. Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet? A) William Carlos Williams. B) John Greenleaf Whittier. C) George Herbert. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Carlos Williams. 12. Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War? A) Siegfried Sassoon. B) Isaac Rosenberg. C) Wilfred Owen. D) All of these answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these answers. 13. Which of the following literary devices is most prominent in Gertrude Stein's poem "New" ? A) Assonance and word repetition. B) Simile. C) Metaphor and allusion. D) Circumlocution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance and word repetition. 14. Which of the following was an important influence on Charles Reznikoff's shift away from romantic rhetoric? A) His study of ancient history. B) His study of law. C) His study of medicine. D) His study of Sanskrit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His study of law. 15. Which of the following literary devices are present in Langston Hughes's poem "Ku Klux" ? A) Irony. B) Allegory. C) Oxymoron. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 16. What is the central theme of Keith Douglas's "How to Kill" ? A) Combat detaches a man from humanity. B) All is fair in love and war. C) It is honorable and just to defend your country in a war. D) There is a right and a wrong way to throw a hand grenade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Combat detaches a man from humanity. 17. Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach" is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it: A) Employs free verse. B) Has an undertow of nihilism. C) Is chauvinistic about British "exceptionalism.". D) Was composed between WW I and WW II. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Has an undertow of nihilism. 18. Which of the following descriptions does NOT pertain to the Imagists? A) Total freedom in choosing the subject. B) Striving for concentrated expression and imagery. C) Reliance on the language of common speech. D) Creative reliance on conventional poetic forms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Creative reliance on conventional poetic forms. 19. Which of the following figures is the author of the 1909 "Futurist Manifesto" ? A) Umberto Boccioni. B) Filippo Marinetti. C) Vladimir Mayakovsky. D) Aleksander Wat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Filippo Marinetti. 20. According to the literary critic, Paul Fussell, which of the following was a central trope of English poetry written during the Great War? A) Patriotic imagery. B) Irony. C) Nihilism. D) Apocalyptic imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. Next →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesModern Poetry And Poetics Quiz 2 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books