English Literature Quiz 16
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King Henry VIII adopted what religion ?
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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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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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Identify the speaker of these lines: ?sweet Jesus, Jesus love? ?
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In which dialect is Dante?s Vita Nuova primarily written ?
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Who called Aristotle ?the very Alexander of criticism? ?
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Who painted ?The Accommodations of Desire? ?
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According to scholars, what is the function of the rose that Dante sees in paradise ?
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Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?
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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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The Frankfurt School of literary theory was most greatly influenced by which of the following schools of thought ?
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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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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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What was Shakespeare?s first play ?
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Who is an American author ?
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Sounds articulated by the lower lip placed against the upper teeth are called________ ?
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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 Age of Chaucer? ranges from_______________?
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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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How many children were there in the Bronte family?
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Which is one of the five tenants of Puritanism ?
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In The Purgatorio, which of the following characters does Dante dream about ?
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Which college did John Milton attend ?
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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 approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the author?s life and times ?
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which of these is magnum opus of chaucer ?
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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 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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Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure?s Langue and Parole ?
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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 poets does not belong to the ?Lake School? ?
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Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?
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In The Romance of the Rose, which text does Guillaume de Lorris cite as his inspiration ?
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The narrator of Langston Hughes?s ?Weary Blues? is describing__________________?
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Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings ?
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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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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 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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Fill in the blank. John Lyly?s style is best described as ___________________?
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In which style did John Milton write the poem Paradise Lost ?
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Maria Stewart is associated with what major American literary movement ?
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Coleridge considered imagination as______________?
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