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