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