English Literature Quiz 16

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English Literature Quiz 16

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

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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 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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King Henry VIII adopted what religion ?

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

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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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Who called Aristotle ?the very Alexander of criticism? ?

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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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Sounds articulated by two lips are called ____________?

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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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?The Age of Chaucer? ranges from_______________?

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Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ?

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

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

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

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

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Who is an American author ?

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Which of the following critics is a famous Shakespearean scholar ?

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

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

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

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

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

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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 best defines sentimentalism ?

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

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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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How many children were there in the Bronte family?

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Coleridge considered imagination as______________?

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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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Who owned the rights to a theatrical script ?

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When did John Milton publish Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ?

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Maria Stewart is associated with what major American literary movement ?

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

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

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

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

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

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which of these is magnum opus of chaucer ?

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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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Who painted ?The Accommodations of Desire? ?

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Which is one of the five tenants of Puritanism ?

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