A. heroic couplet
B. quatrain
C. Spenserian stanza
D. terza rima
7. “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.”
The above lines are taken from
.
A. Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism
B. Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”
C. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”
D. Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
8. 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.
A. persecution
B. improvement
C. prosperity
D. disillusionment
9. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form
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the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people.
A. romantic
B. realistic
C. prophetic
D. idealistic
10. As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life
—
socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.
A. Moll Flanders
B. Gulliver’s Travels
C. Pilgrim’s Progress
D. The School for Scandal
