English Literature Quiz 54
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Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?
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Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?
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What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as _______________-?
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Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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What is the name of Wordsworth?s long poem ?
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The Jacobean era ended with a severe economic depression in 1620-1626, complicated by a serious outbreak of ____________in London in 1625 ?
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Who wrote the poem ?Solitary Reaper? ?
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The classification of vowels into half__close vowels and half__open vowels is based on ________________?
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Fill in the blank. Christopher Marlowe?s influence on William Shakespeare was in all probability _______________?
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?Renaissance? means___________________?
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Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet?s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
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The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
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In ?In Memorium?, Tennyson mourns the death of ________________?
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According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child _______________?
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Who introduced the character of the ?tragic mulatto? ?
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What is the meaning of ?Renaissance? ?
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Which of the following is NOT a modernist art movement ?
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How do Shem the Penman and Shaun the Post differ ?
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Stopping on a snowy Evening_____________?
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In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning ?
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In The Inferno, what quality does Virgil represent ?
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John Dryden?s poem ?Annus Mirabilis? emphasizes the solution to which of the following important Restoration problems or events ?
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In ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? who says ?Lord, what fools these mortals be!? (III.ii.15) ?
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According to Pizan, what is the most important element in a woman?s quest for equality ?
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What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pound?s ?In a Station at the Metro? ?
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Shelley?s Adonais is an elegy on the death of _______________?
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According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art ?
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?Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.?- Who told it ?
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Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
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What is Augustine St. Clare?s selfish wife?s name ?
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Themes in colonial time period ?
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Who uttered these words ?Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all? ?
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Who is the author of Utopia ?
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The last decade of the nineteenth century saw the development of a number of literary and cultural movements which amounted to a rejection of the principles of Victorianism because of which social transformations ?
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The statements below are steps on ?How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay?. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?
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Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature ?
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In which book of the Republic did Plato ban poets from his ideal world ?
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Who considers poetry ?a mother of lies? ?
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Which of the following is not one of the 4 part of Puritan Sermon ?
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Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage ?
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In the play, ?Macbeth,? how does Macbeth kill Duncan ?
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Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets ?
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How does Sam secretly alert Eliza to Mr.Haley?s presence outside the inn ?
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How many times does Satan work to tempt Jesus in the Gospels ?
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Which of the following is considered the first great work in world literature ___________?
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Siegfried Sassoon?s poem ?To Victory? is concerned primarily with which of the following themes ?
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Whom did the corn clan member pray to for help ?
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Who were the troubadours ?
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Which statement below best paraphrases what John Winthrop meant when he declared that the MBC would be as a ?city upon a hill? ?
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For inspiration in writing the poem, Milton says he depends on________________?
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