Musical Symbolism in Literature
Description: This quiz is designed to assess your understanding of the use of musical symbolism in literature. Musical symbolism is a literary device that uses musical elements, such as instruments, melodies, and rhythms, to create a deeper meaning or emotional impact in a literary work. | |
Number of Questions: 15 | |
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Tags: musical symbolism literature music and literature |
In the novel "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the character of Tom Buchanan to symbolize what musical instrument?
In the poem "Ode to a Nightingale", John Keats uses the nightingale's song to symbolize what?
In the play "Romeo and Juliet", William Shakespeare uses the lute to symbolize what?
In the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", Harper Lee uses the mockingbird to symbolize what?
In the poem "The Raven", Edgar Allan Poe uses the raven to symbolize what?
In the novel "The Lord of the Rings", J.R.R. Tolkien uses the music of the elves to symbolize what?
In the poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", Dylan Thomas uses the image of a dying man playing a trumpet to symbolize what?
In the novel "The Catcher in the Rye", J.D. Salinger uses the song "If a body catch a body coming through the rye" to symbolize what?
In the poem "The Waste Land", T.S. Eliot uses the image of a broken violin to symbolize what?
In the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Gabriel García Márquez uses the image of a yellow butterfly to symbolize what?
In the poem "Ode to Joy", Friedrich Schiller uses the image of a chorus of angels singing to symbolize what?
In the novel "The Sound and the Fury", William Faulkner uses the sound of a train whistle to symbolize what?
In the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", T.S. Eliot uses the image of a pair of hands that "come together" to symbolize what?
In the novel "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the song "Daisy Bell" to symbolize what?
In the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", Robert Frost uses the image of a horse shaking its harness bells to symbolize what?