English Literature Quiz 42
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Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry ?
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____________________are also called prosodic features?
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What is a lai ?
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In Caedmon?s Hymn, the poet borrows the language of which literary form ?
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The theme of Tennyson?s Poem ?The Princess? is ?
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How does the character Dracula unsettle the Victorian patriarchy ?
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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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What do most critics find notable about the virtues that Pizan highlights in her work ?
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In Shakespeare?s play, Henry V is king of what country ?
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Vanity Fair is a novel by ?
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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 Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington?s Up from Slavery, Washington?s primary goal is to______________?
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Which of the following sentiments would be LEAST likely in a poem by Lord Byron ?
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When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern ?
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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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Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare?s Hamlet ?
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John Keats died from________________?
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The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
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Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?
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Wordsworth?s theory of poetry appears in_____________?
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Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in West Africa ?
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One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
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Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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In The Dubliners, how does Joyce use epiphanies ?
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Jack London?s ?To Build a Fire? contained foreshadowing, which means_____________?
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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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The novel ?The Jungle Book? is written by_______________?
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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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In Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 18?, the poet does which of the following ?
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Poet Alexander Pope?s famous work_________________?
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What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
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Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
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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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William Blake?s ?Little Black Boy? advocates for __________________?
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All of the following define the Gothic EXCEPT________________?
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What is Christopher Ricks?s attitude toward literary theory ?
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Which devil is the main architect of Pandemonium ?
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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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Constitution of 1962, provided ___________ form of government ?
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What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell?sHoratian Ode ?
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About Johnathan Edwards____________?
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The term Implicature might refer to_________?
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Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term ?Orientalism? ?
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Which contemporary discussions on women?s rights did Tennyson?s The Princess address ?
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Tennyson wrote____________?
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What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure?s Course in General Linguistics ?
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In The Purgatorio, what is the function of the residents? punishments ?
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Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ?
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What proceeded Jacobean era ?
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