English Literature Quiz 19
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In what way is Jane Toomer?s Cane an example of Modernism ?
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Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse ?
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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 is a proper example of what Aristotle termed a syllogism ?
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Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?
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Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
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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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Oedipus Complex is________________?
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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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A person who has the ability to use only one language is called__________?
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When was John Milton born ?
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What writing describes the death of two settlers at the hands of 300 bowmen ?
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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 did Henry James describe as ?loose baggy monsters? ?
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According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
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On liberty was written by_______________?
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What poet was famous for his ?Eclogues? ?
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What is the central theme of Keith Douglas?s ?How to Kill? ?
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Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
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What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?
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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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Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
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The pervading metaphor in the story is___________________?
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In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in the sphere of the sun ?
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In what form did Dylan Thomas?s ?Under Milk Wood? first become known ?
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What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
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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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Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi ?
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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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Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?
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Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
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In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?
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Which of the following British monarchs was executed during the English Civil War ?
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Why is the Battle of Hastings relevant to the development of Middle English ?
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Greville was biographer of ?
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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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With which Irish figure(s) is HCE often identified ?
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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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Who wrote about the idyllic ?Isle of Innisfree? ?
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The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was_______________?
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Bear is supposed to be brave, so how does Hare trick him into being afraid ?
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Which Welsh poet wrote ?Under Milk Wood ? ?
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Who is the author of ?A Brief History of Time? ?
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John Milton?s ?Lycidas? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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From which institution did Christopher Marlow receive Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584 ?
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Which of the following is not a major category of the romance genre ?
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The University Wits were_______________?
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All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
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Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
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