A. 1st person
B. 2nd person
C. 3rd person
D. 4th person
✅ The correct answer is option A.
American Literature MCQs
How did Dickinson intend for the light to be viewed in “There is a certain slant of Light”?
A. oppressive
B. welcoming
C. enchanting
D. cold
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Ginsberg had an ambition to become which of the following in “America”?
A. sailor.
B. president.
C. rabbi.
D. cartoonist.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The poem “I, Too” references which dark portion of America’s past?
A. the civil war
B. slavery
C. the civil rights movement
D. prohibition
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The lines “When it comes, the Landscape listens – Shadows – hold their breath” in “There is a certain slant of Light” is an example of?
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. pathetic fallacy
D. anaphora
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Which industrial tycoon does Ginsberg cite in America?
A. larry miles
B. henry ford
C. warren buffett
D. cornelius vanderbilt
✅ The correct answer is option B.
What is the original name of ‘Buffalo Bill’?
A. william scout
B. william cody
C. william bill
D. william west
✅ The correct answer is option B.
That ‘Heavenly Hurt’ in “There is a certain slant of Light” that leaves no scar works with the speaker’s sense of
A. time
B. suffering
C. mortality
D. spirituality
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Huck assumes all of the following identities except:
A. tom sawyer
B. george peters
C. thomas smith
D. sarah williams
✅ The correct answer is option C.
What does Emerson say has made men weak and afraid of truth in “Self Reliance?”?
A. politics
B. indifference
C. fear
D. pretence
✅ The correct answer is option D.