English Literature Quiz 15
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Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law ?
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Morpheme alternants are called________?
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W.E.B. Du Bois argued that a liberal arts college education was needed for______________?
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Which literary device is most important structurally in The Book of the City of Ladies ?
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The key-note of Browning?s philosophy of life is ________________?
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Vanity Fair is a novel by_______________?
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Section 2, sub-section _____________, of the Sale of Goods Act, 1930 defines ?Goods? ?
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Duncan Wu discusses the presentation of ?spots of time? in the poetry of______________?
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Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________?
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The treatise ?On Liberty? was written by_____________?
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?Ode to Autumn? was written by__________________?
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Which of the following offers the best definition of a fable ?
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The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in____________?
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Epic similes are found in which work of John Milton ?
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Philip Sidney was born on 30th November ?
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Shakespeare?s father died in _______________?
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?Lycidas? is written by_____________?
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In the play, ?Twelfth Night,? who is Sebastian ?
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Who wrote ?The Winter?s Tale ??
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Which of the following is not a theme in Chretien de Troyes Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion ?
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Arna Bontemps?s ?A Summer Tragedy? attacks the institution of________________?
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Slave owners resisted abolition for what reason ?
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To Whom does Franklin say he is addressing his autobiography part 1 ?
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According to Samuel Johnson, ?No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
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What was common amongst D.G Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne ?
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?Lucy Gray? is a poem written by_______________?
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The Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay were non-separating Puritans, which meant ?
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Through his magic, Faustus is visited first by which of the devil?s angels ?
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What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels ?
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What the term Elegy refers ?
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Which famous work of John Milton?s was based on the fall of man ?
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The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samuel Sewall ?
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In Ulysses, to what does Bloom often compare life ?
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Wild?s drama Woman of No Importance appared in __________?
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Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
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What do most critics say that Issy represents to her brothers and father ?
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Which of the following is in correct sequel ?
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What author wrote the poem ?Whoso list to hunt? ?
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Throughout the poem, Satan transforms himself into many creatures. Which creature does Satan not turn into ?
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Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the form of a frame story that starts one character wring letters to his sister. Who is that character ?
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Who is the narrator of ?Don Juan? ?
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Salman Rushdie?s ?Midnight?s Children? is a novel characterized by which of the following descriptions ?
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Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in declarative sentences uttered as questions ?
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In her essay ?Wordsworth Balladry: Real Men Wanted,? Elizabeth Fey argues that the Romantics were interested in the medieval focus upon _______________?
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There is no positive relationship between a speech and sounD. This property of language is referred to as____________ ?
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Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press ?
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Why is it significant that Dracula is from Transylvania ?
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What is generally considered to be Theodor W. Adorno?s primary concern as a theorist ?
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