English Literature Quiz 19
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Greville was biographer of ?
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On liberty was written by_______________?
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Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
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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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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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The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was_______________?
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What is the central theme of Keith Douglas?s ?How to Kill? ?
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Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?
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With which Irish figure(s) is HCE often identified ?
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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 Welsh poet wrote ?Under Milk Wood ? ?
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Oedipus Complex is________________?
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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 writing describes the death of two settlers at the hands of 300 bowmen ?
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Which of the following statements is a proper example of what Aristotle termed a syllogism ?
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Who wrote about the idyllic ?Isle of Innisfree? ?
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In what way is Jane Toomer?s Cane an example of Modernism ?
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What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?
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Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
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In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in the sphere of the sun ?
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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 was the tile of Thomas Hobbes?s defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?
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In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?
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When was John Milton born ?
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What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
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The character of Little Neil is a creation of______________?
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Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
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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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Who is the author of ?A Brief History of Time? ?
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Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
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What poet was famous for his ?Eclogues? ?
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The University Wits were_______________?
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According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
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There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.
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John Milton?s ?Lycidas? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse ?
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Which of the following British monarchs was executed during the English Civil War ?
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Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
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Which of the following is not a major category of the romance genre ?
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In what form did Dylan Thomas?s ?Under Milk Wood? first become known ?
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Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi ?
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Why is the Battle of Hastings relevant to the development of Middle English ?
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What did Henry James describe as ?loose baggy monsters? ?
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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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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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A person who has the ability to use only one language is called__________?
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All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
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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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