Who said this? “There’s nothing funnier than unhappiness.”

A. James Joyce
B. Franz Kafka
C. William Butler Yeats
D. Samuel Beckett

D. Samuel Beckett

Who defines tragedy as “an imitation of an action that is serious, complete in itself, and of a certain magnitude. . . in the form of action, not narrative, through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions”?

A. Socrates
B. Aristotle
C. Sophocles
D. Plato

B. Aristotle

Who defined Surrealism as “pure psychic automatism by means of which we propose to express either verbally, or in writing, or some other fashion, what goes on in the mind. Dictation by the mind unhampered by conscious control and having no aesthetic or moral goals.”?

A. André Breton
B. Max Ernst
C. Paul Éluard
D. Louis Aragon

A. André Breton

Whose response to the death of Cordelia in King Lear was— “I was so shocked by Cordelia’s death that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor”?

A. Samuel Johnson
B. John Milton
C. Alexander Pope
D. James Boswell

A. Samuel Johnson

Who declares, “When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to proclaim a certain latitude. . . which he would not have felt entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a novel.”?

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Henry James
C. John Updike
D. None of these

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Who referred to mid-Tudor poetry as the “Drab Age.”?

A. James H. Smith
B. William Faulkner
C. Tom Clancy
D. C. S. Lewis

D. C. S. Lewis

Who said this, “Modernism is concerned with the validity of one’s feelings and the practice of converting external images and events into inwardness, personal energy.”?

A. R. P. Blackmur
B. Christine Roulston
C. William Butler Yeats
D. Denis Donoghue

D. Denis Donoghue

Who said this “A threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”?

A. Jawaharlal Nehru
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Martin Luther King Jr.
D. None of these

C. Martin Luther King Jr.

Who said this “Miles to go before I sleep”?

A. Elinor Frost
B. Walt Whitman
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Robert Frost

D. Robert Frost

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