English Literature Quiz 19
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Which Welsh poet wrote ?Under Milk Wood ? ?
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Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi ?
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Which of the following British monarchs was executed during the English Civil War ?
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All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
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Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?
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The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was_______________?
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What did Henry James describe as ?loose baggy monsters? ?
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The pervading metaphor in the story is___________________?
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Why is the Battle of Hastings relevant to the development of Middle English ?
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Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
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Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
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According to Anthony DiMatteo?s ?Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ?Reason of State? in ?Hamlet??, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?
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According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
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Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the last two stanzas of Charles Baudelaire?s symbolist poem ?Correspondences? ?
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Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
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Who is the author of ?A Brief History of Time? ?
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Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud?s poem ?Eternity? undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?
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What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?
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On liberty was written by_______________?
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In what form did Dylan Thomas?s ?Under Milk Wood? first become known ?
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Who wrote about the idyllic ?Isle of Innisfree? ?
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What poet was famous for his ?Eclogues? ?
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Which of the following statements is a proper example of what Aristotle termed a syllogism ?
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The character of Little Neil is a creation of______________?
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In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in the sphere of the sun ?
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?The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.? The above lines have been taken from ?
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How did Henry II, the first of England?s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
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With which Irish figure(s) is HCE often identified ?
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A person who has the ability to use only one language is called__________?
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There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.
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Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
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The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism ? and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides. There are two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven. What is ?antinomianism? ?
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What writing describes the death of two settlers at the hands of 300 bowmen ?
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Bear is supposed to be brave, so how does Hare trick him into being afraid ?
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Which of the following is not a major category of the romance genre ?
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Oedipus Complex is________________?
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Greville was biographer of ?
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What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes?s defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?
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Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?
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From which institution did Christopher Marlow receive Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584 ?
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In what way is Jane Toomer?s Cane an example of Modernism ?
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Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
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The University Wits were_______________?
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In which work do you read: ?That?s my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive.? ?
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In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?
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John Milton?s ?Lycidas? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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What is the central theme of Keith Douglas?s ?How to Kill? ?
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What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
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When was John Milton born ?
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