English Literature Quiz 20
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Which long Romantic poem opens with the line ?oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze? ?
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Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ?
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Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliot?s concept of the ?objective correlative? ?
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When was William Wordsworth appointed poet laureate ?
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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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Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?
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Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner ?
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Milton in ?Samson Agonistes? uses a Chorus, which he borrows from what previous genre ?
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In which work do you read: ?Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. ? ?
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Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice is a__________________?
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How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ?
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Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
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Under Article 13 of the Constitution of 1962 ____________ can be impeached?
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Arthur, the good King of Britain?held a rich and royal court ?
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Which of the following offers the best definition of ?criture f?minine ?
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Which of the following poetic lines is an example of a couplet ?
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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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Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton ?
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In ?Rime of the Ancient Mariner,? what kind of animal does the Mariner kill ?
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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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Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory ?
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Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________?
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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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What is TULIP ?
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There are ______ consonant sounds in English IPA.
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Which of the following statements about a sonnet is false ?
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In 1960 ?The Colossus? was the first book of poems published by which poetess ?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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Which of the following is the earliest comedy of Shakespeare ?
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The term semiology was introduced by_____________?
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Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous ?
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Percy Shelley can be understood as a poet with _________________?
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The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ____________?
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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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Whom does Mr.Haley choose from among Shelby?s slaves ?
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Which of the following controversial ideas surround the life and work of William 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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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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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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What century does the play, ?Henry V,? take place in ?
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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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At the end of Hare?s adventure with the headless bodies how does he turned them into ?fast-fish.? ?
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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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Sin was born out of Satan?s_________________?
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The ?Merchant of Venice? Written by Shakespeare is________________?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughes?s poem ?The Negro Speaks of Rivers? ?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a novel of manners ?
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Which best describes Bloom?s attitude towards nationalism ?
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