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