English Literature Quiz 25
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Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form ?
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Who coined the phrase ?Egotistical Sublime? ?
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What literary purpose does Emily?s stay with the nuns at the convent NOT serve ?
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?Do we now live in an enlightened age? The answer is, ?no,? but we do live in an age of enlightenment.? ?
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Who wrote: ?Reader, I married him.? ?
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In which of the following words, is the sound /k/ aspirated ?
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Which of the following statements demonstrates the use of pathos ?
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?Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey? explores ________________?
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The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a tragic hero ?
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In the medieval Church, devotional acts _______________?
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What does Gertrude Stein?s term ?the Lost Generation? designate ?
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Who is the writer of the poem ?Nun Priest?s Tale? ?
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Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers ?
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What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
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Blank verse refers to which of the following ?
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Who is termed as ?The Morning Star of Renaissance? ?
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In which way(s) is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man a Modernist novel ?
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What do you mean by Phonetics ?
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Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?
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What was the profession of Thomas Hammond under whom John Keats joined for apprenticeship ?
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John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? is written in a(n) style ?
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Which of the following was the most copied book of the Middle Ages ?
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?On Translating Homer? is written by________________?
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Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on ?The Literature of the British Empire? ?
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What is the stated subject of Paradise Lost ?
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Who will fall through his own ?fault? ?
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Which was not among the newgenres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?
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Black English is the creation of the____________________?
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What Gothic literary convention did NOT originate with Horace Walpole?s ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ?
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There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by ? This is a couplet from the Bailiff?s Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet ?
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Unlike the gods and goddesses of classical epics, John Milton?s God in ?Paradise Lost? is and____________?
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?It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.? How does this opening sentence of Gilman?s ?The Yellow Wallpaper? NOT immediately suggest the Gothic ?
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In Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild,? The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
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W.B.Yeats used the phrase ?the artifice of eternity? in his poem ?
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?Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will?, is a statement by______________?
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What is Strawberry Hill ?
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What nationality was Shakespeare ?
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What poets before Milton were famous for writing epics ?
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The term Beat Generation comes from______________?
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Which of the following is NOT a central theme of Wordsworth?s poetry ?
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Which was the oldest period in English literature ?
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What is Gothic about the narrative structure of ?Frankenstein? ?
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The trickster figure is usually_______________?
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Based on your readings for the course, which of the following best states how critics often interpret the dead hand in ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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As per section 2 sub-section 8, of the Sales of Goods Act, insolvent means a person_________________?
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Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ?
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In his essay ?The Business of Theory,? William Deresiewicz argues which of the following about Terry Eagleton?s book After Theory ?
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Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?
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