English Literature Quiz 20
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There are ______ consonant sounds in English IPA.
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In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature ?
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Which of the following is the earliest comedy of Shakespeare ?
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Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton ?
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Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ?
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Which long Romantic poem opens with the line ?oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze? ?
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Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliot?s concept of the ?objective correlative? ?
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The cloud-spirits peeped from their silvery islands, as the congregated mirth went roaring up the sky! The Man in the Moon heard the far bellow. ?Oho,? quoth he, ?the old earth is frolicsome to-night!? This is_______________?
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Which best describes Bloom?s attitude towards nationalism ?
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What is TULIP ?
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Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?
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Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice is a__________________?
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?The Medal? by John Dryden is a/an________________?
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What century does the play, ?Henry V,? take place in ?
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When was William Wordsworth appointed poet laureate ?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous ?
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The term semiology was introduced by_____________?
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This is the name of the report by Cotton Mather about the trial accusing Martha Carrier of witchcraft_______________?
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Sin was born out of Satan?s_________________?
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Which of the following controversial ideas surround the life and work of William Shakespeare ?
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In which work do you read: ?Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. ? ?
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Which of the following patterns of intonation, is used in W.H. questions asked in a warm and friendly way indicating extra politeness ?
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Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
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The ?Merchant of Venice? Written by Shakespeare is________________?
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Percy Shelley can be understood as a poet with _________________?
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Which of the following poetic lines is an example of a couplet ?
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Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin?s philosophy of language ?
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Arthur, the good King of Britain?held a rich and royal court ?
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Whom does Mr.Haley choose from among Shelby?s slaves ?
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The study of the way that sequences of words are ordered into phrases, clauses, and sentences is called____________?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughes?s poem ?The Negro Speaks of Rivers? ?
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At the end of Hare?s adventure with the headless bodies how does he turned them into ?fast-fish.? ?
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In the Middle Ages, what was the status of a married woman in relation to her husband ?
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Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner ?
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Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after_____________?
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Which of the following statements about a sonnet is false ?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a novel of manners ?
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In ?Rime of the Ancient Mariner,? what kind of animal does the Mariner kill ?
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Under Article 13 of the Constitution of 1962 ____________ can be impeached?
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The foundation story of what poem is the Genesis account of the Creation of the world and of Adam and Eve, culminating in the drama of their temptation and fall ?
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In 1960 ?The Colossus? was the first book of poems published by which poetess ?
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Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory ?
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Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________?
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Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of_________formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court ?
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Milton in ?Samson Agonistes? uses a Chorus, which he borrows from what previous genre ?
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To which category that two works of William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece belong to ?
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How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ?
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The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ____________?
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Which of the following offers the best definition of ?criture f?minine ?
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