English Literature Quiz 53
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According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reconstructing black people into the ?New Negro? has been a matter of_______________?
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Which of the following Romantic poets would have been most likely to write a poem celebrating the innocence of childhood ?
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Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
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In what country did the Renaissance begin ?
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Why does Henry David Thoreau write his book ?Walden? ?
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Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
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According to the part of the tongue that is raised, vowels can be classified into__________?
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Who is the second attending gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula and_______________?
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A poem of fourteen lines is called________________?
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when did william Faulkner get nobel prize for literature ?
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The structure of tragedy according to Aristotle is________________?
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Who was the last person the monster kills in the novel Frankenstein ?
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According to Dante, who resides in his ante-purgatory ?
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With which theorist is the term implied reader associated ?
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Referring to poets as ?unacknowledged legislators of the world? suggests that_____________?
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Which of the following monarchs was ?restored? to the British throne during the Restoration ?
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A poem that deals in an idealized way with Shepherds and rustic life is known as____________?
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The use of whale-roadfor sea and lifehouse for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?
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In , a good example of Milton?s sharp rhetorical prose, Milton denounces restrictive censorship, arguing for freedom of the press ?
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Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology ?
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Who wrote: ?There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.? ?
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About Cotton Mather _______________?
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In which state is Legree?s plantation located ?
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Whom does St. Clare give to Ophelia to educate ?
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Which among the following is an exception to the property of arbitrariness of language ?
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John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? is a story largely about what topic ?
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The line ?To be or not to be? comes from which play ?
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Who wrote ?Beauty is truth, truth beauty? ?
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In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel?s mother?s name is ?
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Which character says he ?fear[s] those big words that make us so unhappy? ?
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What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet?s father, causing his death ?
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In ?The Wife of Bath?s Tale,? what is the significance of ?barley bread? ?
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The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the____________?
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In his preface to ?Lyrical Ballads?, Wordsworth calls for poetry to be written in what kind of language?
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The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from ?
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Of what does Goodman Brown become guilty after his midnight meeting in the woods ?
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How did the Norman Conquest affect the international political situation in England ?
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Over which river does Eliza make her miraculous crossing ?
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The Romantic period is generally thought to have occurred between ________________?
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The main thematic focus of ?Ode on a Grecian Urn? is ____________________?
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John Milton?s ?Comus? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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In what way does Gothic-style architecture complement the themes of the Gothic novel ?
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How does Joyce parallel Leopold and Stephen ?
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The ?or in actor is_________________?
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In which school did John Keats study ?
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How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet ?
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Which among the following is not an aim of linguistics_______________?
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Who inherits ownership of Tom when St. Clare dies ?
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Section ___________ of the Sale of Goods Act deals with rights of unpaid seller ?
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All of the following are ways in which ?The Mysteries of Udolpho? reflects the values of England the 1790s EXCEPT_____________?
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