English Literature Quiz 30
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In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?
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In what year was the First Folio published ?
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In A Portrait of the Artist, what is the importance of music ?
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Bret Harte?s ?The Outcasts of Poker Flat? took place in_______________?
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?Love and Friendship? is written by___________________?
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Ezra Pound?s ?Cantos? may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound?s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?
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In ?Leda and the Swan?, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan ?
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Catharsis refers to the term_______________?
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How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?
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____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman ?
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The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________?
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Sir Thomas More held which of the following positions in the English court ?
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Plato has a positive view of art, in so far as_______________?
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With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?
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What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip?s composition ?
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What type of myth is the tale ?The Jealous Uncle? ?
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Which of the following descriptions best defines the literary theory known as formalism ?
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Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
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Having emerg?d from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World, and having gone so far thro? Life with a considerable Share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made use of, which, with the Blessing of God, so well succeeded, my Posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own Situations, and therefore fit to be imitated ?
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Elizabethans were notoriously superstitious. They feared witches, believed in magical animals, and sought good luck charms. What ?science? did they utilize in trying to predict and control the future ?
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?He will give the gloom of gloom, and the sunshine of sunshine?. The pronoun ?He? refers to_______________?
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What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?
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Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts ?
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?In Memoriam? is _______________?
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Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school ?
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What is dialogism ?
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Who called Chaucer the father of English literature?
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In Jean Toomer?s ?Her Lips Are Copper Wires,? a kiss is compared to_______________?
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The concept of ?prose? refers to which of the following ?
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What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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Who was King Henry VIII?s first wife ?
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Who is the narrator in Melville?s Moby Dick ?
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Who was the originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature ?
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In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.
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Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
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Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speaker?s linguistic capabilities, was developed by_________?
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How did the fall of Roman imperialism affect Britain ?
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Which of the following terms is traditionally associated with the male Gothic ?
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In which year the play of Christopher Marlow The Jew of Malta first performed ?
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With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlain?s Man was renamed ?
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Who is the writer of ?The Ring of the Book? ?
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Roughly speaking, how long was the English Civil War ?
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Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ?Cockney School of Poetry? ?
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Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
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Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
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Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new mythical methodin place of the old narrative methodand demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about making the modern world possible for art ?
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What were ?conduct books? ?
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Pre-colonial theme ?
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According to the myth, why must all things have an end ?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who is the mother of Prince Edward ?
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