English Literature Quiz 19
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Which of the following statements is a proper example of what Aristotle termed a syllogism ?
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According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
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There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.
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John Milton?s ?Lycidas? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
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On liberty was written by_______________?
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Who is the author of ?A Brief History of Time? ?
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What poet was famous for his ?Eclogues? ?
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Why is the Battle of Hastings relevant to the development of Middle English ?
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Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
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Bear is supposed to be brave, so how does Hare trick him into being afraid ?
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Which Welsh poet wrote ?Under Milk Wood ? ?
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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 is the central theme of Keith Douglas?s ?How to Kill? ?
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In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?
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Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse ?
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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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How did Henry II, the first of England?s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
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In what way is Jane Toomer?s Cane an example of Modernism ?
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What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
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Which of the following is not a major category of the romance genre ?
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With which Irish figure(s) is HCE often identified ?
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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 did Henry James describe as ?loose baggy monsters? ?
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Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
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The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was_______________?
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All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
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The pervading metaphor in the story is___________________?
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When was John Milton born ?
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The University Wits were_______________?
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The character of Little Neil is a creation of______________?
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Which of the following British monarchs was executed during the English Civil War ?
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What writing describes the death of two settlers at the hands of 300 bowmen ?
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In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in the sphere of the sun ?
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In what form did Dylan Thomas?s ?Under Milk Wood? first become known ?
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From which institution did Christopher Marlow receive Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584 ?
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Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?
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Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
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Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi ?
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What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?
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Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
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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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Who wrote about the idyllic ?Isle of Innisfree? ?
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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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Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?
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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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Which of the following statements best characterizes the last two stanzas of Charles Baudelaire?s symbolist poem ?Correspondences? ?
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Oedipus Complex is________________?
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Greville was biographer of ?
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A person who has the ability to use only one language is called__________?
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