English Literature Quiz 19
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What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?
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The University Wits were_______________?
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Why is the Battle of Hastings relevant to the development of Middle English ?
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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 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 characterizes the last two stanzas of Charles Baudelaire?s symbolist poem ?Correspondences? ?
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Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
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What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
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Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
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On liberty was written by_______________?
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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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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 of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud?s poem ?Eternity? undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?
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Which of the following is not a major category of the romance genre ?
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Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?
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A person who has the ability to use only one language is called__________?
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With which Irish figure(s) is HCE often identified ?
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In what form did Dylan Thomas?s ?Under Milk Wood? first become known ?
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Bear is supposed to be brave, so how does Hare trick him into being afraid ?
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Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?
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Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
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Who is the author of ?A Brief History of Time? ?
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The character of Little Neil is a creation of______________?
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Greville was biographer of ?
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Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse ?
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In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in the sphere of the sun ?
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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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The pervading metaphor in the story is___________________?
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Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
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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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Which Welsh poet wrote ?Under Milk Wood ? ?
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What poet was famous for his ?Eclogues? ?
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According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
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In what way is Jane Toomer?s Cane an example of Modernism ?
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There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.
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What did Henry James describe as ?loose baggy monsters? ?
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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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How did Henry II, the first of England?s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
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Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi ?
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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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John Milton?s ?Lycidas? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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Which of the following British monarchs was executed during the English Civil War ?
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Who wrote about the idyllic ?Isle of Innisfree? ?
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What is the central theme of Keith Douglas?s ?How to Kill? ?
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From which institution did Christopher Marlow receive Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584 ?
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The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was_______________?
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