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1

Federico Garcia Lorca is well-known among the art community for creating what kind(s) of artistic works?

Poetry and drama

Children's literature

Realistic landscape paintings

Abstract expressionist paintings

Ceramic vases

Explanation

Lorca is a well-known Spanish poet and dramatist; among his works are Odes and Suites, which are each collections of poetry, and El Publico (The Public), a play.

2

Which of the following writers is NOT a modernist poet?

William Wordsworth

T. S. Eliot

Ezra Pound

Wallace Stevens

E. E. Cummings

Explanation

Modernism was a movement that spread through many different forms of art in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Modernism rejected what the artists saw as outdated modes. In poetry, the movement was summed up by Ezra Pound's advice to "Make it new!" and Wallace Stevens' use of blank verse, along with T. S. Eliot's writing lengthy epics of mundane life, and E.E. Cummings' reshaping the physical look of poetry. Many modernists were intentionally rejecting the romantic poets like William Wordsworth.

3

Passage adapted from "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson (1890)

Because I could not stop for Death—

He kindly stopped for me—

The Carriage held but just Ourselves—

And Immortality.

We slowly drove—He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility—

What is the rhyme scheme for the above poem?

ABAB CDCD

ABCD ABCD

ABBA CDDC

AABB CCDD

AAAB CCCD

Explanation

A rhyme scheme identified by letter describes each rhyme with the same letter. Thus, since the poem's first and third lines rhyme, the first stanza should be marked as ABAB. Because the second stanza has a new rhyming word, the second stanza should be marked CDCD.

4

Which of the following writers is NOT a modernist poet?

William Wordsworth

T. S. Eliot

Ezra Pound

Wallace Stevens

E. E. Cummings

Explanation

Modernism was a movement that spread through many different forms of art in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Modernism rejected what the artists saw as outdated modes. In poetry, the movement was summed up by Ezra Pound's advice to "Make it new!" and Wallace Stevens' use of blank verse, along with T. S. Eliot's writing lengthy epics of mundane life, and E.E. Cummings' reshaping the physical look of poetry. Many modernists were intentionally rejecting the romantic poets like William Wordsworth.

5

Federico Garcia Lorca is well-known among the art community for creating what kind(s) of artistic works?

Poetry and drama

Children's literature

Realistic landscape paintings

Abstract expressionist paintings

Ceramic vases

Explanation

Lorca is a well-known Spanish poet and dramatist; among his works are Odes and Suites, which are each collections of poetry, and El Publico (The Public), a play.

6

Federico Garcia Lorca is well-known among the art community for creating what kind(s) of artistic works?

Poetry and drama

Children's literature

Realistic landscape paintings

Abstract expressionist paintings

Ceramic vases

Explanation

Lorca is a well-known Spanish poet and dramatist; among his works are Odes and Suites, which are each collections of poetry, and El Publico (The Public), a play.

7

Passage adapted from "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson (1890)

Because I could not stop for Death—

He kindly stopped for me—

The Carriage held but just Ourselves—

And Immortality.

We slowly drove—He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility—

What is the rhyme scheme for the above poem?

ABAB CDCD

ABCD ABCD

ABBA CDDC

AABB CCDD

AAAB CCCD

Explanation

A rhyme scheme identified by letter describes each rhyme with the same letter. Thus, since the poem's first and third lines rhyme, the first stanza should be marked as ABAB. Because the second stanza has a new rhyming word, the second stanza should be marked CDCD.

8

Which of the following writers is NOT a modernist poet?

William Wordsworth

T. S. Eliot

Ezra Pound

Wallace Stevens

E. E. Cummings

Explanation

Modernism was a movement that spread through many different forms of art in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Modernism rejected what the artists saw as outdated modes. In poetry, the movement was summed up by Ezra Pound's advice to "Make it new!" and Wallace Stevens' use of blank verse, along with T. S. Eliot's writing lengthy epics of mundane life, and E.E. Cummings' reshaping the physical look of poetry. Many modernists were intentionally rejecting the romantic poets like William Wordsworth.

9

Passage adapted from "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson (1890)

Because I could not stop for Death—

He kindly stopped for me—

The Carriage held but just Ourselves—

And Immortality.

We slowly drove—He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility—

What is the rhyme scheme for the above poem?

ABAB CDCD

ABCD ABCD

ABBA CDDC

AABB CCDD

AAAB CCCD

Explanation

A rhyme scheme identified by letter describes each rhyme with the same letter. Thus, since the poem's first and third lines rhyme, the first stanza should be marked as ABAB. Because the second stanza has a new rhyming word, the second stanza should be marked CDCD.

10

What poem begins with a sailor killing an albatross, which curses him throughout the poem?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

"Kubla Kahn"

"The Prelude"

Don Juan

"Ozymandias"

Explanation

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner tells the near-mythical story of a sailor on a cursed ship in the arctic that encounters Death and misfortune after the sailor kills an albatross. The crew blame their luck on the mariner's killing of the albatross, and force him to wear it throughout the voyage.

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