English Literature Quiz 23
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What is a kunstleroman ?
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?learn by going where I have to go?. The poet learns of______________?
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Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?
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Which is the first extant poem of John Keats, which is written in the year 1814 when when was 19 years of age ?
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Who wrote the poems, ?On death? and ?Women, Wine, and Snuff ??
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Which ruler?s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
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Who introduced the art of printing into England ?
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Which of the following is a true statement about Romanticism ?
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Which poet would be most likely to write about his time in revolutionary France ?
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Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work?s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?
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About Christopher Columbus_______________?
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Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse ?
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The intellectual movement that believed that the observation of nature elevates the nature of humans, that deep truths can be grasped through intuition, and that God, Nature and humanity are united in a shared universe is______________?
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Which poet did Arthur Henry Hallum associate with ?the picturesque? ?
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Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub ?
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Who of the following is a playwright ?
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?Don Juan? and ?Childe Harold?s Pilgrimage? are broken into sections called______________?
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What story tells how Squanto taught the settler to grow corn, procure commodities and fish ?
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In which place of England Christopher Marlow born ?
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From 1st January 2007, how many digits contains in ISBN (International Standard Book Number)?
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Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth?s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as ?the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings? ?
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The Professor was the first novel by________________?
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Which of the following elements DOES NOT characterize epic poetry ?
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In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature ?
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Satan?s name before he fell from heaven was ?
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John Milton was fluent in which of the following languages ?
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Who originated the term ?objective correlative,? which is often used in formalist criticism ?
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Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom ?
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The Chartist Movement sought ?
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A total of how many sonnets constitute the entirety of ?Astrophil and Stella? ?
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What type of writing did Walter Pater define as the special and opportune art of the modern world ?
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Who wrote ?The Colossus? in 1960?
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Which angel tells Adam about the future in Books XI and XII ?
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A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?
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For many scholars, what distinguishes terror from horror in the Gothic novel ?
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In which the following works Plato discusses his Theory of Poetry ?
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What is the authorship controversy as it relates to Heloise and Abelard ?
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What angel often speaks to Adam in Paradise ?
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What mock epic begins: ?What dire offence from am?rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things? ?
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In ?The Book of Martyrs,? John Foxe provides a record of all known Christian martyrs throughout history, focusing on the persecution of people practicing which religion ?
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Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
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A syllabic division is marked with______________?
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Section 12, of the Sale of Goods Act deals with __________________?
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Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law ?
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Which of the following characteristics are not essential to knightly chivalry as described by Chretien de Troyes ?
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What author defines the function of poetry with reference to the Horatian dictum of ?to teach and delight? ?
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According to Dr. Taormina, Victorian novelists generally________________?
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What does Eve do when she first becomes conscious ?
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Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet ?
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Which character spoke following lines? ?What?s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot, Nor arm nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man, O be some other name! What?s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet,? ?
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