English Literature Quiz 45
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This work was written before the other three choices ?
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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 poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?
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Jane Austen?s other writings are______________?
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Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of literacy in the 19thcentury ?
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Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance ?
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Famous romantic poets were_____________?
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Who ?headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of Heav?n? ?
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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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Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states ?
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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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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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Literary Theory and Criticism________________?
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How many books were originally planned to form the work The Faerie Queene ?
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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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Who wrote the book ?Ivan Hoe? ?
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?Hamlet and Oedipus? was written by_______________?
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After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem ?Hero and Leander? ?
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According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child_________________?
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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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Which of the following writers remained a firm believer in the Royal Supremacy ?
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Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald?s novel The Great Gatsby (1925) ?
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A writer can establish ethos in a piece of writing by doing which of the following ?
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Definition of unpaid seller is provided in Section _________ of The Sale of Goods Act, 1930?
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Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare______________?
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Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________?s work?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who is Richard?s elder brother ?
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In ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? who is Nick Bottom ?
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As per-section 2(1), a person who buys or agrees to buy goods is called ________________?
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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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Why do you think the uncle was named the ?Unnatural Uncle? ?
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Which of the following is a 19th century woman novelist?
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What is the study of poetry?s meter and form called ?
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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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Which of the following statements does NOT reflect the general characteristics of T.S. Eliot?s ?The Wasteland? ?
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/h/ in the word ?he? is a __________ sound?
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Which of the following is NOT a common attribute of Byronic heroes ?
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How did the development of nation-states in the late Middle Ages affect women ?
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Plato equated poetry with painting, and Aristotle equated it with_______________?
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Martin Luther King, Jr.?s ?Letter from Birmingham Jail,? King advocates_______________?
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The genre Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild? is______________?
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Who served as Protector under England?s first written constitution ?
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Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text ?
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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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Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Nathaniel Hawthorne ?
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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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Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?
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What is the relationship between the practices of New Historicism and New Criticism ?
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Which is/are a theme(s) of ?The Acts of Thecla ??
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