English Literature Quiz 16
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All of the following refer to ?the uncanny? EXCEPT________________?
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Fill in the blank. John Lyly?s style is best described as ___________________?
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which of these is magnum opus of chaucer ?
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Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings ?
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The theme of Phillis Wheatley?s ?On Being Brought from Africa to America? is_______________?
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When did John Milton publish Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ?
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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 owned the rights to a theatrical script ?
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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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What was Shakespeare?s first play ?
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Which college did John Milton attend ?
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Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ?
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Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work ?
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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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The theory which is based on the assumption that language originated in the sense of rhythm innate in man ?
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What are some of the hallmarks or conventions of the poetic form of the ode ?
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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 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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Sounds articulated by two lips are called ____________?
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Which of the following is not an animal Hare prepared for humans to eat ?
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Which of the following critics is a famous Shakespearean scholar ?
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The narrator of Langston Hughes?s ?Weary Blues? is describing__________________?
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Coleridge considered imagination as______________?
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Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure?s Langue and Parole ?
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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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In The Romance of the Rose, which text does Guillaume de Lorris cite as his inspiration ?
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How many children were there in the Bronte family?
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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 is one of the five tenants of Puritanism ?
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Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?
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Who painted ?The Accommodations of Desire? ?
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Who is an American author ?
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In The Purgatorio, which of the following characters does Dante dream about ?
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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 called Aristotle ?the very Alexander of criticism? ?
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In Beowulf, what is the significance of the term wyrd ?
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?The Age of Chaucer? ranges from_______________?
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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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The term Electra Complex has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who is the author of his tragedy ?
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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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Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picasso?s periods of artistic production ?
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In which dialect is Dante?s Vita Nuova primarily written ?
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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 famous Shakespeare play does the quote, ?My salad days, when I was green in judgment.? come from ?
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King Henry VIII adopted what religion ?
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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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According to scholars, what is the function of the rose that Dante sees in paradise ?
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