English Literature Quiz 19
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Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
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Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?
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Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
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From which institution did Christopher Marlow receive Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584 ?
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?The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.? The above lines have been taken from ?
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According to Anthony DiMatteo?s ?Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ?Reason of State? in ?Hamlet??, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?
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Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?
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The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was_______________?
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What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
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What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?
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In what form did Dylan Thomas?s ?Under Milk Wood? first become known ?
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Why is the Battle of Hastings relevant to the development of Middle English ?
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All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the last two stanzas of Charles Baudelaire?s symbolist poem ?Correspondences? ?
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In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?
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The pervading metaphor in the story is___________________?
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Which Welsh poet wrote ?Under Milk Wood ? ?
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Which of the following statements is a proper example of what Aristotle termed a syllogism ?
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Which of the following British monarchs was executed during the English Civil War ?
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When was John Milton born ?
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What did Henry James describe as ?loose baggy monsters? ?
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Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
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Greville was biographer of ?
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Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi ?
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Who is the author of ?A Brief History of Time? ?
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In what way is Jane Toomer?s Cane an example of Modernism ?
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John Milton?s ?Lycidas? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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The University Wits were_______________?
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On liberty was written by_______________?
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With which Irish figure(s) is HCE often identified ?
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The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism ? and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides. There are two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven. What is ?antinomianism? ?
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How did Henry II, the first of England?s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
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According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
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Which of the following is not a major category of the romance genre ?
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Bear is supposed to be brave, so how does Hare trick him into being afraid ?
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What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes?s defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?
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What writing describes the death of two settlers at the hands of 300 bowmen ?
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What poet was famous for his ?Eclogues? ?
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Oedipus Complex is________________?
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Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse ?
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What is the central theme of Keith Douglas?s ?How to Kill? ?
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A person who has the ability to use only one language is called__________?
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Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud?s poem ?Eternity? undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?
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In which work do you read: ?That?s my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive.? ?
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Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
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Who wrote about the idyllic ?Isle of Innisfree? ?
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Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
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There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.
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The character of Little Neil is a creation of______________?
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In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in the sphere of the sun ?
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