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