English Literature Quiz 13
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Which best describes the work of a mystic ?
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In which capter of Biographia Lieraria, Coleridge make a distinction between fancy and imagination ?
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Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
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?Samson Agonistes? differs from its source material, the Biblical book of ?Judges,? in what way(s) ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Thoreau ?
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Who refers to poetry as ?an imitation of nature? ?
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In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success_______________?
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Which topic(s) is/are explored in The Lais of Marie de France ?
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How did French become the dominant language of England ?
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Shelley expresses all of the following ideas in A Defence of Poetry, EXCEPT______________?
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Who is the writer of The Caroline Period ?
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In which year Mary Shelley visited the famous Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before her visit an alchemist was engaged in experiments ?
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The /d/ in ?middle? is an instance of __________________?
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Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare ?
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The line ?fools are my theme, let satire be my song? demonstrates a sentiment that would likely appear in a poem by_________________?
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Who wrote: ?I would prefer not to.? ?
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What is the name for a shift in tone or meaning of a sonnet______________?
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Adam, Satan, and Eve herself are all dazzled by Eve?s______________?
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Which is true of medieval women ?
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How would you describe the phrase ?oralformulaic,? as you learned it in this course ?
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With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated ?
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Syllables in which the consonant functions as nucleus are called________?
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Which of the following best describes the types of imagery used in Louis Zukofsky?s poem, ?A: Seventh Movement: There Are Different Techniques? ?
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Wilfred Owen?s war poem ?Dulce et Decorum est? ends with which of the following Latin phrases ?
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Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy ?
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What is the title of the poem that begins thus ? ?What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? ?
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With which other poet did Samuel Taylor Coleridge founded the Romantic movement in English Literature ?
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Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes Georgia Douglass Johnson?s poem ?Black Woman? ?
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This mode of discourse relates a story________________?
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The phrase ?Pathetic fallacy? is coined by _________________?
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Browning?s famous poem ?Rabbi Ben Ezra? is included in ?
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What did Thomas Carlyle mean by ?Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe? ?
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What is defamiliarization ?
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Complete the following sentence. Neoclassicism most paralleled Enlightenment thought in its_______________?
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The shepherd in ?The Passionate Shepherd to His Love? is_________________?
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Who wrote ?Biographia Literaria? ?
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Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
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Which among the following are bilabial plosive sounds in English?
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Firdausi was the poet of________________?
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Who introduced in linguistics the concept of Competence and Performance ?
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Beecher Stowe wrote ?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? to illustrate the evils of_________________?
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In the play, ?Henry V,? the Chorus serves to do which of the following ?
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Othello was sent to fight with______________?
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A stipulation in contract of sale with reference to goods which are the subject there of may be_______________?
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Which poet emphasized on rustic language in Poetry ?
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The name ?Ars Poetica? (Art of Poetry) was given to Horace?s Epistle to the Pisos by____________?
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What is common amongst Cardinal Newman, John Keble, Henry Newman and Stanley ?
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Which of the following may be an antagonist to the protagonist of a novel ?
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?I have no other but a woman?s reason I think him so, because I think him so? Which of Shakespeare?s play contain above lines ?
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