English Literature Quiz 8
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Which of the following are tragedies of Shakespeare ?
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Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?
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Marxist theory focuses on examining which of the following aspects of literary texts ?
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The title of the poem ?The Second Coming? is taken from ?
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?The Day Duke Raised? by Quincy Troupe is a jazz poem because______________?
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What is affective piety ?
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Which of the following is not an apparition shown to Macbeth by the Witches ?
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Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy ?
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Thackeray?s ?Esmond? is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of ____________?
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Fill in the blanks from Tennyson?s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the ?..: Man to command and woman to ____________?
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Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot ?
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How do theorists suggest that the Gothic novel resembles queer and camp ?
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Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
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In The Paradiso, who leads Dante on his tour of heaven ?
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The theory which Is based upon the assumption that language has been formed from the words uttered by groups of persons engaged in joint burdensome labour ?
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What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowe?s father ?
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?But God?s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.? In which poem do these lines appear ?
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Which of the following themes IS NOT important to John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? ?
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Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ?
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Find the Odd man out ?
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Why did Bradford and the Pilgrims create Plymouth Colony ?
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/m/ is a ______________consonant?
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A picaresque novel dramatizes the life of what kind of person ?
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Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers ?
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What does George Harris? master demand of him that prompts him to plan his escape ?
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In the Middle Ages, how did society treat prostitution ?
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Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by ?
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How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett?s Waiting for Godot ?
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For Joyce, what are epiphanies ?
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What lesson does Hare?s adventure involving a tall man with a cane attempt to teach the Winnebago people ?
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Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?
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Which of the following does NOT accurately describe Robinson Crusoe?s and Oroonoko?s relationship to central features of the early English novel ?
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The consonants /j/ and /w/ are called__________?
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The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________?
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Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist ?
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Abslom, Absalom is a novel written by______________?
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Complete the following statement. John Milton explains in the first 26 lines of ?Paradise Lost? that that goal of his epic poem will be ?
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Which of the following statements about the plot of Shakespeare?s ?Hamlet? is not true ?
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Who is the writer of ?Vision of Sin? ?
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a description that appeals to one of the five senses____________?
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Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?
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Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work ?
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The change TV brought into the society can be summed up as_________________?
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Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing ?
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In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term ?willing suspension of disbelief? in 1817 ?
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What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in ?Appeal in Four Articles? ?
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Who succeeded Lyly ?
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Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?
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The pastoral elegy often begins with which of the following poetic conventions ?
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On which Biblical theme that Paradise lost is based ?
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