Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A. John Donne is the leader of the Metaphysical School that celebrates mysticismin content and fantasticality in form.
B. The main style of John Milton’s Paradise Lost is grand and majestic.
C. John Bunyan is the first writer to apply blank verse to non-dramatic works.
D. The Pilgrim’s Progress is allegorical and supposed to epitomize English society.
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Which of the following is CORRECT?
As a stout puritan, Bunyan has made a conscientious study of the Bible and firmly believed in salvation through spiritual struggle, a belief reflected in his allegorical work The Pilgrim’s Progress.
B. The language of Milton is marked by a plainness and conciseness that bears evidence of an inherited style from Bacon.
C. Donne portrays a corrupted city in his masterpiece Utopia that foreshadows a massive extermination on the eve of a second coming.
D. Puritan literature is very similar to Elizabethan literature in that they are both marked by a tone of hope and the spirit of youth.
“All nature is but art, unknown to thee/ All chance, direction which thou canst not see/ All discord, harmony not understood/ All partial evil, universal good/ And, spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite/ One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.” is an excerpt taken from _____ by ______. It means that ______.
A. The Rape of the Lock; Alexander Pope; the uncertainty of human beings’ place in the universe.
B. An Essay on Criticism; Alexander Pope; the great power of the human mind to perceive the elusive in the universe.
C. An Essay on Man; Alexander Pope; the limitation of human perception and man’s humble place in the universe.
D. The Dunciad; Alexander Pope; the futility of cultivating perception due to an unknowable universe.
The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of______.
A. Philosophy.
B. Reason.
Creativity.
D. Classicism.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by_____ is taken as a model of sentimentalist poetry, esp. the Graveyard School.
Alexander Pope.
B. Henry Fielding.
C. Thomas Gray.
D. Robert Browning.