English Literature Quiz 30
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With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?
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In Jean Toomer?s ?Her Lips Are Copper Wires,? a kiss is compared to_______________?
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What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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Who is the narrator in Melville?s Moby Dick ?
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In A Portrait of the Artist, what is the importance of music ?
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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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Bret Harte?s ?The Outcasts of Poker Flat? took place in_______________?
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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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Roughly speaking, how long was the English Civil War ?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who is the mother of Prince Edward ?
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What is dialogism ?
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____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman ?
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What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?
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In ?Leda and the Swan?, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan ?
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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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In which year the play of Christopher Marlow The Jew of Malta first performed ?
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?In Memoriam? is _______________?
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Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
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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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Who is the writer of ?The Ring of the Book? ?
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Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
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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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Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
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Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school ?
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Which of the following descriptions best defines the literary theory known as formalism ?
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How did the fall of Roman imperialism affect Britain ?
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According to the myth, why must all things have an end ?
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Who was King Henry VIII?s first wife ?
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What type of myth is the tale ?The Jealous Uncle? ?
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?Love and Friendship? is written by___________________?
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The concept of ?prose? refers to which of the following ?
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Plato has a positive view of art, in so far as_______________?
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What were ?conduct books? ?
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Pre-colonial theme ?
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Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ?Cockney School of Poetry? ?
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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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With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlain?s Man was renamed ?
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Sir Thomas More held which of the following positions in the English court ?
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Which of the following terms is traditionally associated with the male Gothic ?
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The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________?
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Who called Chaucer the father of English literature?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?
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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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Catharsis refers to the term_______________?
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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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In what year was the First Folio published ?
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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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Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
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How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?
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Who was the originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature ?
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