English Literature Quiz 3
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Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ?love and loss? ?
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______________refers to an individual?s equal and native command of two or more languages?
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In his first lecture onWilliam Butler Yeats, Professor Hammer says that the young Yeats identified with King Goll. What does he mean by this ?
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Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
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What did Robert Frost?s father do ?
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What are ?books of hours ??
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Compared to Aquinas, the writers of Florentine humanism considered which of the following only unsystematically ?
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In A Portrait of the Artist, how is the artist represented ?
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What is hagiography ?
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A postmodern play would most likely not make use of which of the following theatrical traditions ?
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Jane Austen wrote during this period________________?
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Which ofWashington Irving?s characters falls asleep for twenty years ?
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The most important tenet of the Black Arts Movements is________________?
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Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Chomsky?s competence and Performance ?
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Which of the following describes the precolonial era?s literature styles ?
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A collection of similar Idiolect make up ______________?
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Which of the following works is considered to be the first Gothic novel ?
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What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homer?s lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?
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What is blank verse ?
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Who Is known as the Father of English Poetry_______________?
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How does Eliza cross the Ohio river ____________?
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What is contrapasso ?
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Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others?
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Which of the following is not an example of Arthurian legend ?
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Where was William Shakespeare was born and brought up ?
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Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ?
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Where does the sonnet form originate from ?
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______________________is a processes of word formation wherein two or more existing words are simply combined ?
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Which definition below best defines Transcendentalism ?
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In the play, ?Henry V,? who is the Queen of France ?
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Who write the story ?Story Teller? ?
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A critic examining John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a critic ?
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Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school ?
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When Michael tells Adam what will become of mankind after the Fall, he is actually narrating stories taken directly from______________?
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________________is known as the ?friendly innkeeper of the town? ?
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The general tone and attitude of Byron?s ?Don Juan? would be best described as ______________?
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What is the significance of ?the Other? in Gothic novels ?
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Where does Tom first meet Eva ?
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Which of the following is a theme of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick?s book Epistemology of the Closet ?
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According to Dante, when is it most appropriate to use Latin ?
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Which of the following descriptions accurately describes Joseph Conrad?s ?Heart of Darkness? ?
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In which century was Shakespeare born ?
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Who introduced the Italian sonnet to the British Isles during the reign of King Henry VIII ?
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In his essay ?The Business of Theory,? William Deresiewicz argues which of the following about Terry Eagleton?s book After Theory ?
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According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on ?Tradition and the Individual Talent,? which of the following is true of ?tradition ??
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Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town in the novelfirst_____________?
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The form ?dog? is a __________morphemE?
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According to Dr. Dino Felluga?s module on Freud, Sigmund Freud?s work on transference and trauma argues which of the following points ?
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Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
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