English Literature Quiz 59
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Which of the following is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane?s poem ?Voyages? is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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University Wits were those who ?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
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Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?
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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any person?s pursuit of their personal interests ?
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Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time?. Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare ?
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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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Who was villain in Othello ?
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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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In ?Samson Agonistes,? the character who tells others of Samson?s death is_____________?
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W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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Which British philosopher believed that monarchs repressed citizens and that revolution is proper when a government does not protect its people ?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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Hardy is a__________________?
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Which of the following does Professor Hammer identify as one of the most important goals of Imagist poetry ?
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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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The poem ?In Flanders Fields? was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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