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Restoration and 18th Century

Horace’s doctrine “ut pictura poesis” was interpreted to mean______________?

Horace’s doctrine “ut pictura poesis” was interpreted to mean______________?

A. A picture is worth a thousand words.
B. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
C. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
D. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?

Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?

A. Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. William Wordsworth
C. George Gordon, Lord Byron
D. all of the above

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called ?

Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called ?

A. The Way of the World
B. The Foundational Ladder
C. The Order of Angels
D. The Great Chain of Being

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

What mock epic begins: “What dire offence from am’rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things” ?

What mock epic begins: “What dire offence from am’rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things” ?

A. Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe”
B. Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”
C. Pope’s “The Dunciad”
D. Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century