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