English Literature Quiz 19
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With which Irish figure(s) is HCE often identified ?
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In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?
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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 is not a major category of the romance genre ?
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Which of the following statements is a proper example of what Aristotle termed a syllogism ?
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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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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 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 does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
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Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
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The University Wits were_______________?
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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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Who wrote about the idyllic ?Isle of Innisfree? ?
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Who is the author of ?A Brief History of Time? ?
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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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Why is the Battle of Hastings relevant to the development of Middle English ?
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What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?
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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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Oedipus Complex is________________?
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Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
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What did Henry James describe as ?loose baggy monsters? ?
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Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
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According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
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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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Bear is supposed to be brave, so how does Hare trick him into being afraid ?
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Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
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What poet was famous for his ?Eclogues? ?
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In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in the sphere of the sun ?
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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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The pervading metaphor in the story is___________________?
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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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A person who has the ability to use only one language is called__________?
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There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.
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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 Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse ?
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Greville was biographer of ?
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In what form did Dylan Thomas?s ?Under Milk Wood? first become known ?
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Which of the following British monarchs was executed during the English Civil War ?
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When was John Milton born ?
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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 Welsh poet wrote ?Under Milk Wood ? ?
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What is the central theme of Keith Douglas?s ?How to Kill? ?
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Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
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All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
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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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Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi ?
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