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