Metaphysicals Crit

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A2 English Lit (Crit) Quiz on Metaphysicals Crit, created by erat_5 on 25/05/2014.
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Question 1

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'Sexual possession of the female is characteristically equated with territorial acquisition'
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  • DAVIS
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DRAPER
  • GORTON

Question 2

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'His masculinity of expression'
Answer
  • DAVIS
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DRAPER
  • GORTON

Question 3

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'sexualised vision Donne puts forward in his poetry'
Answer
  • DAVIS
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DRAPER
  • GORTON

Question 4

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'Coterie poems were written as performances'
Answer
  • DAVIS
  • VAN EMDEN
  • PEBWORTH
  • GORTON

Question 5

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'Donne's contradictoriness... bespeaks a penchant for bravura, virtuosic performance'
Answer
  • DAVIS
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DRAPER
  • PEBWORTH

Question 6

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'Intensely lived reality of voice'
Answer
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DAVIS
  • PEBWORTH
  • DRAPER

Question 7

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'The spontaneity and linguistic surprise that characterises his best wrought lyrics'
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  • PEBWORTH
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DRAPER
  • LEWIS

Question 8

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'able to synthesize the essence of drama into his work'
Answer
  • LEWIS
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • CAREY

Question 9

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'as readers we are cast into the role of the audience'
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  • LEWIS
  • PEBWORTH
  • LARSON
  • DAVIS

Question 10

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THCM 'conveys a mood of majestic endurance that innovatively explicates the 'Carpe-Diem' motif
Answer
  • LARSON
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • DAVIS

Question 11

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TSR 'the argument is provocative, given the sun's normal role as a King of the heavenly bodies... and even blasphemous'
Answer
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • DAVIS
  • PEBWORTH
  • VAN EMDEN

Question 12

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TSR 'It is because she moves him to this dramatic urgency that we know her influence... her value is his veneration'
Answer
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • PEBWORTH
  • GORTON
  • DRAPER

Question 13

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TSR 'The poem's strange power is to cancel, or transcend, or to mock the obvious'
Answer
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • LEWIS
  • DAVIS
  • DRAPER

Question 14

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'a question gender criticism raises is how far the love poetry of Donne is written for women at all, or whether its written for other male members of his coterie'
Answer
  • WILLMOTT
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • GORTON
  • DRAPER

Question 15

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'Donne treats argument not as an instrument for discovering truth but as a flexible poetic accessory'
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  • CAREY
  • GORTON
  • DRAPER
  • VAN EMDEN

Question 16

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'We are almost always aware of where Donne's speakers are'
Answer
  • GORTON
  • DRAPER
  • PEBWORTH
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

Question 17

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'The lovers confidence is a kind of courage'
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  • GORTON
  • DRAPER
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • VAN EMDEN

Question 18

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'Donne's poetry plays on the uncertainties of the time'
Answer
  • GORTON
  • DRAPER
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • VAN EMDEN

Question 19

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'We feel the conflict between space and time as a premonition of failure or decline'
Answer
  • GORTON
  • CAREY
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • DRAPER

Question 20

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TSR 'Our pleasure in the imaginative power of the lover is undercut by our knowledge of the sun's unstoppable passage'
Answer
  • GORTON
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • PEBWORTH
  • DRAPER

Question 21

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'Colloquial immediacy and freedom from metrical regularity'
Answer
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • DRAPER
  • CAREY
  • DAVIS

Question 22

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'Donne satirises worldlings and makes fun of the besotted lover'
Answer
  • DRAPER
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • GORTON
  • VAN EMDEN

Question 23

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'The poem as a vehicle of persuasion'
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  • DRAPER
  • GORTON
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • PEBWORTH

Question 24

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TSR 'The opening is a deliberate downgrading of the aubade, or dawn-poem, inversion of hierachal associations of the sun with virtue, kingship and authority'
Answer
  • DRAPER
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DAVIS

Question 25

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'intellectual rigour which characterises Donne's poetry'
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  • DRAPER
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • VAN EMDEN
  • LARSON

Question 26

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'His commitment to reason is fundamental... his poetry employs a linguistic mode dedicated to the arts of argumentative persuasion'
Answer
  • DRAPER
  • DAVIS
  • PEBWORTH
  • GORTON

Question 27

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TSR 'a poem of conversation and wild, joyful hyperbole'
Answer
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • PEBWORTH
  • DAVIS

Question 28

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TSR 'The poet's ecstatic happiness is expressed in wild exaggeration to the point of self-mockery'
Answer
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DRAPER
  • DAVIS
  • WILLMOTT

Question 29

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NUSLD 'gives sense of total loss both intellectual definition & emotional intensity'
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  • VAN EMDEN
  • DRAPER
  • GORTON
  • CAREY

Question 30

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NUSLD 'The poem begins quietly w/ heavy stresses, slow movement & repetition which produce a sense of deep melancholy'
Answer
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • PEBWORTH
  • GORTON

Question 31

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THCM 'The range of emotions & evocative power makes the poem one of the greatest expressions of basic opposition of human life; love versus death'
Answer
  • CAREY
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DAVIS
  • PEBWORTH

Question 32

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'Donne's famous roughness & irregularities of rhythm are a part of his profession of masculinity of language'
Answer
  • DRAPER
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DAVIS
  • LEWIS

Question 33

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NUSLD 'A fine, tender expression of love in the form of a meditation for nocturn'
Answer
  • WILLMOTT
  • COLES
  • DAVIS
  • PINSENT

Question 34

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NUSLD 'The speaker is lying on the bed, so drained of life, he seems to be the 'epitaph' for the general interment of the world'
Answer
  • COLES
  • RUMEN
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • DRAPER

Question 35

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TF 'a witty attempt of a lover to convince his lady to be in his body as well as spirit'
Answer
  • PINSENT
  • COLES
  • DAVIS
  • DRAPER

Question 36

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TF 'The speaker is involved in a dramatic dialogue with his mistress, where she is given the opportunity to answer back, though her replies are inaudible to us'
Answer
  • PINSENT
  • RUMEN
  • VAN EMDEN
  • WILLMOTT

Question 37

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TF 'The stanza is linked to the movement of the action between persona and the implied participant'
Answer
  • PINSENT
  • COLES
  • WILLMOTT
  • DRAPER

Question 38

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BMH '14 verbs, dominated by command... introduce us to a sphere of powerful emotional activity'
Answer
  • DAVIS
  • RUMEN

Question 39

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'climactic sexuality of the sestet'
Answer
  • COLES
  • DAVIS
  • RUMEN
  • PINSENT

Question 40

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BMH 'he relishes the idea of being manned'
Answer
  • DAVIS
  • COLES
  • GORTON
  • DRAPER

Question 41

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THCM 'Time is bearing down, and with it the entire weight & fury of the patriarchal tradition'
Answer
  • WILLMOTT
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DRAPER
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

Question 42

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THCM 'Time is bearing down, and with it the entire weight & fury of the patriarchal tradition'
Answer
  • WILLMOTT
  • VAN EMDEN
  • DRAPER
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

Question 43

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THCM 'Marvell takes the conventional plea to new heights of imaginative wit'
Answer
  • COLES
  • RUMEN
  • DAVIS
  • PINSENT

Question 44

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THCM 'The lightly teasing tone, the easy fluidity of the argument'
Answer
  • RUMEN
  • DRAPER
  • PINSENT
  • WILLMOTT

Question 45

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THCM; 'He reflects the earnest dream of every lover; timelessness'
Answer
  • RUMEN
  • DRAPER
  • PINSENT
  • WILLMOTT

Question 46

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THCM 'Marvell's poem, in its listing of the parts of the mistress' body to be praised is dismemberment comparable to a doctor's dissection'
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  • WILLMOTT
  • PINSENT
  • DYSON/LOVELOCK
  • COLES

Question 47

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THCM 'In a world where riches were for male possession, it seems reasonable to assume the female reader may have had a cynical view of imagery which equates the woman with wealth'
Answer
  • WILLMOTT
  • COLES
  • DRAPER
  • PINSENT
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