English Literature Quiz 16
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Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?
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King Henry VIII adopted what religion ?
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What approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the author?s life and times ?
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According to scholars, what is the function of the rose that Dante sees in paradise ?
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?The Age of Chaucer? ranges from_______________?
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What are some of the hallmarks or conventions of the poetic form of the ode ?
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What was Shakespeare?s first play ?
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In which style did John Milton write the poem Paradise Lost ?
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Identify the speaker of these lines: ?sweet Jesus, Jesus love? ?
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Jonathan Swift?s suggestion in ?A Modest Proposal? that the Irish eat their children exemplifies the characteristics of a satire in all of the following ways EXCEPT_______________?
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The Frankfurt School of literary theory was most greatly influenced by which of the following schools of thought ?
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Who painted ?The Accommodations of Desire? ?
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In Beowulf, what is the significance of the term wyrd ?
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Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ?
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Complete the following sentence. In Pope?s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?
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The term Electra Complex has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who is the author of his tragedy ?
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Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure?s Langue and Parole ?
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According to Professor Hammer, which of the following is the central question explored by T.S. Eliot in ?The Waste Land? ?
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Sounds articulated by two lips are called ____________?
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Coleridge considered imagination as______________?
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which of these is magnum opus of chaucer ?
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Which of the following poets does not belong to the ?Lake School? ?
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Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?
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Which of the following is not an animal Hare prepared for humans to eat ?
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Maria Stewart is associated with what major American literary movement ?
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The theory which is based on the assumption that language originated in the sense of rhythm innate in man ?
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Which is one of the five tenants of Puritanism ?
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Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, ?My salad days, when I was green in judgment.? come from ?
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Which of the following critics is a famous Shakespearean scholar ?
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In The Romance of the Rose, which text does Guillaume de Lorris cite as his inspiration ?
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Who called Aristotle ?the very Alexander of criticism? ?
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Who owned the rights to a theatrical script ?
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Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work ?
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All of the following refer to ?the uncanny? EXCEPT________________?
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Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
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The narrator of Langston Hughes?s ?Weary Blues? is describing__________________?
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The theme of Phillis Wheatley?s ?On Being Brought from Africa to America? is_______________?
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Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I ?
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When did John Milton publish Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ?
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Fill in the blank. John Lyly?s style is best described as ___________________?
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Which college did John Milton attend ?
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In The Purgatorio, which of the following characters does Dante dream about ?
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Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings ?
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The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. This work draws upon_____________?
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In which dialect is Dante?s Vita Nuova primarily written ?
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Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picasso?s periods of artistic production ?
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Sounds articulated by the lower lip placed against the upper teeth are called________ ?
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How many children were there in the Bronte family?
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Who is an American author ?
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