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