English Literature Quiz 16

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English Literature Quiz 16

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In which dialect is Dante?s Vita Nuova primarily written ?

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Sounds articulated by the lower lip placed against the upper teeth are called________ ?

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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 is one of the five tenants of Puritanism ?

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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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King Henry VIII adopted what religion ?

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When did John Milton publish Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ?

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Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picasso?s periods of artistic production ?

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Identify the speaker of these lines: ?sweet Jesus, Jesus love? ?

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Which of the following poets does not belong to the ?Lake School? ?

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Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?

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Which college did John Milton attend ?

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In which style did John Milton write the poem Paradise Lost ?

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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 theme of Phillis Wheatley?s ?On Being Brought from Africa to America? is_______________?

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What was Shakespeare?s first play ?

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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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Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work ?

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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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Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?

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Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?

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The narrator of Langston Hughes?s ?Weary Blues? is describing__________________?

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Who called Aristotle ?the very Alexander of criticism? ?

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which of these is magnum opus of chaucer ?

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?The Age of Chaucer? ranges from_______________?

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Which of the following critics is a famous Shakespearean scholar ?

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According to scholars, what is the function of the rose that Dante sees in paradise ?

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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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Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ?

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In The Romance of the Rose, which text does Guillaume de Lorris cite as his inspiration ?

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Fill in the blank. John Lyly?s style is best described as ___________________?

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What are some of the hallmarks or conventions of the poetic form of the ode ?

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In The Purgatorio, which of the following characters does Dante dream about ?

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Which of the following is not an animal Hare prepared for humans to eat ?

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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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Complete the following sentence. In Pope?s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?

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In Beowulf, what is the significance of the term wyrd ?

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Who painted ?The Accommodations of Desire? ?

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Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure?s Langue and Parole ?

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Coleridge considered imagination as______________?

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Who is an American author ?

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All of the following refer to ?the uncanny? EXCEPT________________?

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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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How many children were there in the Bronte family?

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Who owned the rights to a theatrical script ?

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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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Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings ?

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Maria Stewart is associated with what major American literary movement ?

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