English Literature Quiz 16
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In Beowulf, what is the significance of the term wyrd ?
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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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Who is an American author ?
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Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picasso?s periods of artistic production ?
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How many children were there in the Bronte family?
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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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According to scholars, what is the function of the rose that Dante sees in paradise ?
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All of the following refer to ?the uncanny? EXCEPT________________?
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Who owned the rights to a theatrical script ?
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Which of the following critics is a famous Shakespearean scholar ?
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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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In The Purgatorio, which of the following characters does Dante dream about ?
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Who painted ?The Accommodations of Desire? ?
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Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?
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Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ?
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Fill in the blank. John Lyly?s style is best described as ___________________?
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What was Shakespeare?s first play ?
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Who called Aristotle ?the very Alexander of criticism? ?
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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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Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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In The Romance of the Rose, which text does Guillaume de Lorris cite as his inspiration ?
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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 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 is not an animal Hare prepared for humans to eat ?
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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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In which dialect is Dante?s Vita Nuova primarily written ?
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Identify the speaker of these lines: ?sweet Jesus, Jesus love? ?
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King Henry VIII adopted what religion ?
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Maria Stewart is associated with what major American literary movement ?
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In which style did John Milton write the poem Paradise Lost ?
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When did John Milton publish Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ?
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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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Coleridge considered imagination as______________?
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What are some of the hallmarks or conventions of the poetic form of the ode ?
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?The Age of Chaucer? ranges from_______________?
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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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The narrator of Langston Hughes?s ?Weary Blues? is describing__________________?
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Sounds articulated by two lips are called ____________?
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Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work ?
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The theme of Phillis Wheatley?s ?On Being Brought from Africa to America? is_______________?
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Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?
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Which is one of the five tenants of Puritanism ?
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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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Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure?s Langue and Parole ?
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Which college did John Milton attend ?
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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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Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
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Sounds articulated by the lower lip placed against the upper teeth are called________ ?
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Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings ?
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