English Literature Quiz 42
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What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell?sHoratian Ode ?
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The Frankfurt School of literary theory was most greatly influenced by which of the following schools of thought ?
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In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues; while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim. What is the meaning of the word audacity ?
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According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, ?The Strivings of the Negro People,? what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?
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Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare?s Hamlet ?
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According to John Milton?s view of the structure of the universe, the ?Created Universe? is surrounded by what ?
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Poet Alexander Pope?s famous work_________________?
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William Blake?s ?Little Black Boy? advocates for __________________?
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Tennyson wrote____________?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 18?, the poet does which of the following ?
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Vanity Fair is a novel by ?
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What is a lai ?
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Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry ?
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What is Christopher Ricks?s attitude toward literary theory ?
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In which University Victor Frankenstein develops the technique to reanimate the dead tissues which ultimately leads to the creation of the monster ?
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Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ?
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What do most critics find notable about the virtues that Pizan highlights in her work ?
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In The Dubliners, how does Joyce use epiphanies ?
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____________________are also called prosodic features?
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What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
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Which of the following sentiments would be LEAST likely in a poem by Lord Byron ?
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In The Purgatorio, what is the function of the residents? punishments ?
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Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term ?Orientalism? ?
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Jack London?s ?To Build a Fire? contained foreshadowing, which means_____________?
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When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern ?
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The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
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In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington?s Up from Slavery, Washington?s primary goal is to______________?
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In Caedmon?s Hymn, the poet borrows the language of which literary form ?
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Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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Which contemporary discussions on women?s rights did Tennyson?s The Princess address ?
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In Shakespeare?s play, Henry V is king of what country ?
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Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?
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Constitution of 1962, provided ___________ form of government ?
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What proceeded Jacobean era ?
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The term Implicature might refer to_________?
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Which devil is the main architect of Pandemonium ?
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The characteristic of Naturalism that is most present in the first chapter of Ralph Ellison?s Invisible Man is_____________?
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Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
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All of the following define the Gothic EXCEPT________________?
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Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism ?
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Which of the following characters from ?The Canterbury Tales? might represent the rising middle class of the 14th century ?
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Wordsworth?s theory of poetry appears in_____________?
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What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure?s Course in General Linguistics ?
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About Johnathan Edwards____________?
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One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
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Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in West Africa ?
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The novel ?The Jungle Book? is written by_______________?
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How does the character Dracula unsettle the Victorian patriarchy ?
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The theme of Tennyson?s Poem ?The Princess? is ?
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John Keats died from________________?
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