English Literature Quiz 55
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Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?
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How many stressed are generally marked_____________?
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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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Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it ?
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Which problem(s) shaped Joyce?s early home life?
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Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?
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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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Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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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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What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?
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What is ?the gender fallacy? ?
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Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?
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Is Dryden?s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of ?
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Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?
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Seven Ages of Man appears in ? As you like it?. Which character?s speech it is ?
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George Bernard Shaw is_________________?
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Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
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What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?
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Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?
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Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?
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Which of the following best defines the work of a deconstructionist critic ?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?
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Which is/are typical of the supernatural in medieval romance ?
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What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?
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The Yo__He__Ho Theory of the origin of language was advanced by ____________?
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In drama, a ?soliloquy? refers to which of the following ?
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Who wrote: ?In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree???
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum ?
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Which of the following best represents Dante?s criticism of the medieval Church ?
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?Post-Modernism? is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ?
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Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?
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What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?
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Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
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Which of the following best defines Middle English ?
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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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?To be or not to be that is the question?, is famous line of which of Shakespeare?s plays ?
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Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?
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Themes in modern literature are_____________?
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What is the function of the Linati schema ?
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The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?
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The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?
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What the term Renaissance refers ?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of an epistolary novel ?
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Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?
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Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?
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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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Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?
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As per Constitution of 1962, ___________ were held National Languages?
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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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What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ?
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