English Literature Quiz 17
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Ezra Pound?s ?Canto XIV? opens with the line ?Io venni in luogo d?ogni luce muto? [I came to a place devoid of light]. This creates a connection between the Canto and which of the following works ?
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Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature ?
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?Ode to a Nightingale? focuses on ______________?
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According to most scholars, what does The Purgatorio allegorically represent ?
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At what famous university is Faustus a scholar ?
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What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form ?
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In The Purgatorio, what do the steps to the Gate of Purgatory represent ?
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Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare?s greatest ?
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Which author writes a profound criticism of Joseph Conrad?s ?Heart of Darkness,? accusing Conrad of reinforcing typical European stereotypes of Africa ?
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What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries ?
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?Sweet are the uses of adversity? was stated by__________________?
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Which of the following are popular sources of dispute in the critical study of Finnegans Wake ?
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In Samuel Taylor Coleridge?s ?Rime of the Ancient Mariner?, why does the Mariner kill the albatross ?
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chaucer?s franklin was guilty of which sin ?
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Which one is not a science fiction writer_________________?
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What is dialectical materialism ?
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What is a Satanic Hero ?
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Which of the following traditions was particularlyimportant in Hart Crane?s modernist poetry ?
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The period of English literature from 1660to the end of the century is called_____________?
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Wordsworth described all good poetry as_______________?
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Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin?s philosophy of language ?
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The phonemes which do not occur in the same linguistic environment and which when occur so, do not bring about a change in meaning are said to be in __________?
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Which American writer published ?A brave and startling truth? in 1996 ?
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What was Elizabeth?s nickname for Sir Walter Raleigh ?
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Complete the following sentence. Keats?s idea of ?negative capability? refers to the idea that______________?
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In ?Paradise Lost,? Milton calls his Muse by which of the following names ?
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Which school of literary theory shows a particular interest in the role of testimony in literature ?
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In The Inferno, how is heresy defined ?
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With which text(s) is the word ?riverrun? associated ?
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In Nikki Giovanni?s ?The American Vision of Lincoln,? the poet argues that the Capitol needs a statue of _____________next to the one of Abraham Lincoln?
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To what idea does the ancient Greek term aporia refer in terms of deconstruction theory ?
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Shaw died at the age of_______________?
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In her essay ?The Laugh of the Medusa,? what does H?l?ne Cixous suggest for women ?
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Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?
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Which of the following themes do both Julian of Norwich and Catherine of Siena explore ?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who is Richard?s primary accomplice ?
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Who wrote the fantasy novel ?The Lord of the Rings? ?
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In verse, ?meter? refers to which of the following ?
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What does Chaucer write concerning the devastating effect of the Black Death upon English social, cultural, and economic life in ?The Canterbury Tales? ?
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This checkmark diagram represents the plot structure for what genre of early American writing ?
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?The Lay of the Last Minstrel? is written by_______________?
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Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang spirituals for all of the following reasons except______________?
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Fill in the blanks. From being narrowly focused on the achievements of north Italians in the______________ and early ____________centuries, the Renaissance is now being seen in a far wider context.
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A gothic novel will probably not deal with which of the following themes ?
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______________are sounds articulated in the glottis ?
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Sonia Sanchez?s ?right on: white america? is protesting________________?
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Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes ?
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which of these is not certain about Chaucer ?
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Yeats?s ?Song of Wandering Aengus? ends with the lines: ?And pluck till time and times are done/The silver apples of the moon/The golden apples of the sun.? Which of the following is NOT a symbolic meaning of the apples ?
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When was William Shakespeare baptized ?
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