English Literature Quiz 14
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Victor Frankenstein?s project to create life in Mary Shelley?s novel can be linked to romanticism through which of the following ?
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What country does the play, ?All?s Well that Ends Well,? take place in ?
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Romanticism is mainly connected with______________?
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What characteristics of seventeenth century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
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Which statement below best defines the genre of Indian autobiography ?
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In ?Dracula? what is the significance of the typewriter ?
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In what way do the houses in ?The Yellow Wallpaper? and ?Jane Eyre? differ from each other as Gothic literary structures ?
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The ? s in ?she sings well? is ____________?
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Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist ?
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______________involves a different analysis of the structure of the word by attaching a consonant at the end of a word or a vowel at the beginning of the next word ?
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How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett?s Waiting for Godot ?
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In the late seventeenth century, a ?battle of the books? erupted between which two groups ?
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Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?
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T.S. Eliot?s ?TheWaste Land? begins with which of the following well-known opening lines ?
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Shelley?s poem ?Mont Blanc? can be best said to depict an encounter with _____________?
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Who applied the term ?Romantic? to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
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Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt ?
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In 1599 which famous actor and his brother Cuthbert set a new playhouse on the Bank side, called the Globe ?
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Who made a difference between ?poetry? and ?poem? ?
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How do the Shelby?s treat their slaves ?
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Which of the following is a central theme of Christina Rossetti?s poem ?Goblin Market? ?
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With which text is the theme of ?Christ as mother? most closely associated ?
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The theory which is based on the assumption that language originated as a result of human instinct to imitate sounds _______________?
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Modern age is an age of______________?
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The use of a etcetera in the final line is_____________?
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In which of the following ways did Hopkins revolutionize poetry ?
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Why do critics consider the dream form ideal for Finnegans Wake ?
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What author speaks of the exemplary story as a fundamental narrative unit in which it is important to follow chronological order ?
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Shelley?s ?Hymn to Intellectual Beauty? suggests that _________________?
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With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ?
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During the Revolutionary time period, what great document was written ?
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Why did Marcus Garvey spearhead the ?Back to Africa Movement? ?
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By which physical affliction was Joyce affected ?
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What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women surplusor redundant ?
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Who wrote ?Crime and Punishment? ?
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Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
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When was the first edition of the poem Paradise Lost published ?
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Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?
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Of which poet was it said ?Even if he?s not a great poet, he?s certainly a great something? ?
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what sparked the Renaissance ?
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Which one of the following rhyme scheme is the rhyme scheme Spenserian stanza ?
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Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?
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According to Margot Norris, what is the ontological problem of Finnegans Wake ?
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In ?Frankenstein? how does Shelley represent science ?
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Blank verse refers to which of the following ?
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William Morel in Sons and Lovers is drawn after ________________?
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With which theorist is the concept imaginative geography associated ?
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Which of the following statements best describes ?Magical Realism? ?
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Chomsky developed Transformational-Generative Grammar in________?
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From which of Shakespeare?s plays is this famous line: ?Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night?. ?
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