English Literature Quiz 51
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In an attempt to defeat God and his angels, what do the rebel angels make ?
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What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
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Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land ?
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Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare?s Hamlet ?
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Which contemporary discussions on women?s rights did Tennyson?s The Princess address ?
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Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a_______________?
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How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?
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The Gothic novel was intended to have which of the following effects on the reader ?
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Which book was about the temptation of Christ ?
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Wordsworth?s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it published ?
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?The better part of valour is discretion? occurs in Shakespeare?s ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between Futurism and Vorticism ?
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Which text(s) are referenced in Joyce?s Ulysses ?
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Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ?
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What is affective fallacy ?
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Twelfth Night opens with the speech of ?
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Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens____________?
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Booker T. Washington?s message in Up from Slavery is_______________?
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The character of Delia in Zora Neale Hurston?s ?Sweat? was influenced by______________?
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As per section 2, sub section 7 every kind of moveable property other than actionable claim and money is called __________________?
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Which of the following offers the best definition of the literary term motif ?
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Who remarked, ?Spenser write no language.? ?
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Adonis is modeled on________________?
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How may W.B. Yeats? poem, ?The Second Coming,? be interpreted ?
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In The Dubliners, which best describes the order of the story arc ?
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Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
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What is the original meaning of the term Hamartia ?
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In the early books of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost,? Satan conspires with which of the following characters ?
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What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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?Of Man?s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe,With loss of Eden.? This is an extract from ?
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What was/were the reaction(s) to Ulysses when it was first published ?
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In The Dubliners, what do most critics say is the function of paralysis ?
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Shelley?s ?Ode to Psyche? is narrated by __________________?
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_______________is the discipline where the methodological perspectives of both linguistics and sociology converges ?
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Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson ?Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.? ?
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With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated ?
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In the context of Medieval literature, what does the term ?mystical marriage? mean ?
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The ?fearful trip? is a recall of________________?
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?Book 1? of ?Paradise Lost? presents Satan with his angels fallen into Hell. When recovered, Satan awakens all his legions and speaks to them. The first he addresses is described as ?one next to himself in power, and next in crime, long after known in Palestine?. What?s the name of this fallen angel?
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Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
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Inspired by Satan?s victory over man, Sin and Death construct ?
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What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?
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What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?
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A critic argues that in John Milton?s ?Samson Agonistes,? the shearing of Samson?s locks is symbolic of his castration at the hands of Delilah. What kind of critical approach is this critic using ?
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In Shakespeare ?Character is not Destiny? but ?character and Destiny?. Whose comment is this ?
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What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius ?
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Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
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T. Hardy is_______________?
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Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with ?
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Which statement best summarizes the parallel between Frankenstein and Prometheus ?
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