English Literature Quiz 42
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William Blake?s ?Little Black Boy? advocates for __________________?
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Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?
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All of the following define the Gothic EXCEPT________________?
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Which contemporary discussions on women?s rights did Tennyson?s The Princess address ?
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Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
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The novel ?The Jungle Book? is written by_______________?
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____________________are also called prosodic features?
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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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How does the character Dracula unsettle the Victorian patriarchy ?
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Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry ?
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Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in West Africa ?
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John Keats died from________________?
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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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What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
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What is Christopher Ricks?s attitude toward literary theory ?
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About Johnathan Edwards____________?
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What proceeded Jacobean era ?
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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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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 is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
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In Shakespeare?s play, Henry V is king of what country ?
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In The Dubliners, how does Joyce use epiphanies ?
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Tennyson wrote____________?
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Which devil is the main architect of Pandemonium ?
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In Caedmon?s Hymn, the poet borrows the language of which literary form ?
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What is a lai ?
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What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell?sHoratian Ode ?
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The theme of Tennyson?s Poem ?The Princess? is ?
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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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Vanity Fair is a novel by ?
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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 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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In Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 18?, the poet does which of the following ?
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What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure?s Course in General Linguistics ?
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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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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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Constitution of 1962, provided ___________ form of government ?
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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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The Frankfurt School of literary theory was most greatly influenced by which of the following schools of thought ?
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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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What do most critics find notable about the virtues that Pizan highlights in her work ?
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Jack London?s ?To Build a Fire? contained foreshadowing, which means_____________?
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