English Literature Quiz 55
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As per Constitution of 1962, ___________ were held National Languages?
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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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The Yo__He__Ho Theory of the origin of language was advanced by ____________?
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Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?
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What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?
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What is ?the gender fallacy? ?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?
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Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?
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What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?
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George Bernard Shaw is_________________?
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Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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?Post-Modernism? is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ?
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Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?
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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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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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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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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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The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of an epistolary novel ?
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Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?
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What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?
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Which of the following best represents Dante?s criticism of the medieval Church ?
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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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Themes in modern literature are_____________?
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What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?
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What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ?
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Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?
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Is Dryden?s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum ?
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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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Which of the following best defines the work of a deconstructionist critic ?
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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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Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?
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Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?
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What the term Renaissance refers ?
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Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
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Seven Ages of Man appears in ? As you like it?. Which character?s speech it is ?
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Which is/are typical of the supernatural in medieval romance ?
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Which problem(s) shaped Joyce?s early home life?
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What is the function of the Linati schema ?
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How many stressed are generally marked_____________?
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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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The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?
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Which of the following best defines Middle English ?
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Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?
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Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?
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