English Literature Quiz 20
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What is TULIP ?
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To which category that two works of William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece belong to ?
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In the Middle Ages, what was the status of a married woman in relation to her husband ?
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Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliot?s concept of the ?objective correlative? ?
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What century does the play, ?Henry V,? take place in ?
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In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature ?
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Whom does Mr.Haley choose from among Shelby?s slaves ?
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Which long Romantic poem opens with the line ?oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze? ?
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Which best describes Bloom?s attitude towards nationalism ?
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Which of the following poetic lines is an example of a couplet ?
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When was William Wordsworth appointed poet laureate ?
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The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ____________?
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The study of the way that sequences of words are ordered into phrases, clauses, and sentences is called____________?
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This is the name of the report by Cotton Mather about the trial accusing Martha Carrier of witchcraft_______________?
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The term semiology was introduced by_____________?
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Which of the following patterns of intonation, is used in W.H. questions asked in a warm and friendly way indicating extra politeness ?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughes?s poem ?The Negro Speaks of Rivers? ?
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The ?Merchant of Venice? Written by Shakespeare is________________?
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Sin was born out of Satan?s_________________?
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Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?
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Which of the following offers the best definition of ?criture f?minine ?
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Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin?s philosophy of language ?
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Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after_____________?
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Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton ?
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There are ______ consonant sounds in English IPA.
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Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________?
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Which of the following is the earliest comedy of Shakespeare ?
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Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of_________formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court ?
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Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
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Arthur, the good King of Britain?held a rich and royal court ?
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At the end of Hare?s adventure with the headless bodies how does he turned them into ?fast-fish.? ?
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In which work do you read: ?Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. ? ?
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In ?Rime of the Ancient Mariner,? what kind of animal does the Mariner kill ?
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The foundation story of what poem is the Genesis account of the Creation of the world and of Adam and Eve, culminating in the drama of their temptation and fall ?
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Percy Shelley can be understood as a poet with _________________?
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Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner ?
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Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous ?
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Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ?
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Which of the following controversial ideas surround the life and work of William Shakespeare ?
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Which of the following statements about a sonnet is false ?
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Milton in ?Samson Agonistes? uses a Chorus, which he borrows from what previous genre ?
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Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice is a__________________?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a novel of manners ?
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?The Medal? by John Dryden is a/an________________?
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The cloud-spirits peeped from their silvery islands, as the congregated mirth went roaring up the sky! The Man in the Moon heard the far bellow. ?Oho,? quoth he, ?the old earth is frolicsome to-night!? This is_______________?
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How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ?
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Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory ?
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Under Article 13 of the Constitution of 1962 ____________ can be impeached?
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In 1960 ?The Colossus? was the first book of poems published by which poetess ?
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