English Literature Quiz 45
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/h/ in the word ?he? is a __________ sound?
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Why do you think the uncle was named the ?Unnatural Uncle? ?
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How did the development of nation-states in the late Middle Ages affect women ?
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Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare______________?
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Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of literacy in the 19thcentury ?
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A writer can establish ethos in a piece of writing by doing which of the following ?
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Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text ?
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Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?
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When there was a momentary calm in that tempestuous sea of sound, the leader gave the sign, the procession resumed its march. On they went, like fiends that throng in mockery around some dead potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man?s heart. This is______________?
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Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance ?
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Who ?headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of Heav?n? ?
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What is the study of poetry?s meter and form called ?
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As a result of the outbreak of World War I and anti-German sentiment which important British public figure had to adopt the family name of Windsor ?
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Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea behind Anthony DiMatteo?s essay, ?Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ?Reason of State? in ?Hamlet?? ?
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The genre Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild? is______________?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who is Richard?s elder brother ?
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In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called ?
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Choose the BEST answer to fill in the blank. John Milton is best described as a strong who emphasized the freedom of the individual ?
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Which of the following is a 19th century woman novelist?
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Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________?s work?
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This work was written before the other three choices ?
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Which of the following is NOT a common attribute of Byronic heroes ?
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Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism ?
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?Hamlet and Oedipus? was written by_______________?
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According to Dr. Frances Pritchett?s version of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi?s ?The Historical Novel and the Historical Narrative?, what is the difference between a historical narrative and a historical novel ?
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Monadnock on his forehead hoar Doth seal the sacred trust, Your mountains build their monument, Though ye destroy their dust. What is the meaning of the word ?hoar? ?
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Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald?s novel The Great Gatsby (1925) ?
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Which of the following statements does NOT reflect the general characteristics of T.S. Eliot?s ?The Wasteland? ?
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Which is/are a theme(s) of ?The Acts of Thecla ??
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Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states ?
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According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child_________________?
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Literary Theory and Criticism________________?
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In ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? who is Nick Bottom ?
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Plato equated poetry with painting, and Aristotle equated it with_______________?
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As per-section 2(1), a person who buys or agrees to buy goods is called ________________?
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After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem ?Hero and Leander? ?
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Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?
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What author speaks of the exemplary story as a fundamental narrative unit in which it is important to follow chronological order ?
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What is the relationship between the practices of New Historicism and New Criticism ?
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How many books were originally planned to form the work The Faerie Queene ?
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Which of the following writers remained a firm believer in the Royal Supremacy ?
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Jane Austen?s other writings are______________?
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Definition of unpaid seller is provided in Section _________ of The Sale of Goods Act, 1930?
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Who wrote the book ?Ivan Hoe? ?
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? Some born great, some achieve greatness And some have greatness thrust upon them?. Above lines are taken from which of following plays ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Nathaniel Hawthorne ?
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Who served as Protector under England?s first written constitution ?
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Famous romantic poets were_____________?
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Martin Luther King, Jr.?s ?Letter from Birmingham Jail,? King advocates_______________?
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Who defined language as ?a purely human and noninstinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols? ?
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