Spenser’s masterpiece ( ) is a great poem of its time.
Which of the following does not belong to the characteristics of Spencer's poetry?( )
In 1598 a fierce Irish rebellion forced()to abandon Kilcolman Castle.
Questions and Answers: Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.
Edmund Spenser is one of the poets of English Renaissance. What are the qualities of his poetry?
As a rule, an allegory is a story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning, and an implied meaning. List two works as examples of allegory. What is the implied meaning an allegory is usually concerned with?
Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene: “But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,/The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,/For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,/And dead as living ever him adored.” Who is the “dying Lord” discussed in the above lines?()
Which of the following is not included in Bunyan's works?()
The predominant metaphor in ()--life as a journey-- is simple and familiar.
Bunyan's style was modeled after that of the().
By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious()of his time.
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for( ).
Christian, Faithful and Pliable are the literary figures in().
Like most working men at the time,()had a deep hatred for the corrupted, hypocritical rich who accumulated their wealth"by hook and by crook."
John Bunyan's Pilgrim’s Progress is often regarded as a typical example of ( ).
Poetry is defined by()as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.
The major Romantic poets like Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as()
“Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by().
( )defines the poet as a “man speaking to men”, and poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility.
Which of following is the Gothic novel?()