English Literature Quiz 55
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Who wrote: ?In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree???
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Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it ?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of an epistolary novel ?
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The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?
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Which problem(s) shaped Joyce?s early home life?
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Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
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The Yo__He__Ho Theory of the origin of language was advanced by ____________?
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Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?
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Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?
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Which is/are typical of the supernatural in medieval romance ?
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?Post-Modernism? is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ?
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What is the function of the Linati schema ?
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How does this quotation from Behn?s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: ?I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet?s pleasure.? ?
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Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?
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Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
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In drama, a ?soliloquy? refers to which of the following ?
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What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?
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What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?
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Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?
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Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?
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What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ?
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Seven Ages of Man appears in ? As you like it?. Which character?s speech it is ?
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How many stressed are generally marked_____________?
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George Bernard Shaw is_________________?
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Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?
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Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?
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Which of the following best represents Dante?s criticism of the medieval Church ?
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What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?
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Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum ?
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As per Constitution of 1962, ___________ were held National Languages?
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What the term Renaissance refers ?
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What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?
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According to Langston Hughes?s essay ?The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain? (his answer to George Schuyler?s essay ?Negro Art Hokum?), what is the ?mountain? that stands in the way of ?any true Negro art in America? ?
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Chaucer and Langland were contemporaries, but there were several differences between their writing styles. Which of the following best describes these differences ?
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Samuel Richardson?s Pamela and Daniel Defoe?s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?
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Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?
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As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses a scene that mortifies him and brings him face to face for the first time with the horrors of slavery. What is it ?
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Which of the following best defines Middle English ?
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Is Dryden?s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of ?
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The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?
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Which of the following best defines the work of a deconstructionist critic ?
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Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?
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?To be or not to be that is the question?, is famous line of which of Shakespeare?s plays ?
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What is ?the gender fallacy? ?
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Themes in modern literature are_____________?
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Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?
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Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?
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