0% 0 English Literature Quiz 20 1 / 50 Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ? How readers learn to read How readers regard critics How readers participate in creating the meaning of a text How readers imagine visual images in a text 2 / 50 The term semiology was introduced by_____________? Ferdinand de Saussure Noam Chomsky Charles Sanders Pierce Edward Sapir 3 / 50 Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________? Fanatic Stingy Rude Unintelligent 4 / 50 When was William Wordsworth appointed poet laureate ? 1843 1861 1847 1839 5 / 50 What century does the play, ?Henry V,? take place in ? 17th century 15th century 14th century 16th century 6 / 50 Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory ? A clerk A dentist A thief A teacher 7 / 50 Whom does Mr.Haley choose from among Shelby?s slaves ? Uncle Tom and Eliza Uncle Tom and Harry Uncle Tom and Cassy Eliza and Harry 8 / 50 Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after_____________? Edward VII George III George IV William IV 9 / 50 Arthur, the good King of Britain?held a rich and royal court ? This line suggests that good kings are rewarded by God. This line suggests the elegance necessary for the feudal king to display being at the top of the economic hierarchy. This line suggests that Britain was the most important place in the medieval world. This line suggests that Arthur was beloved by the English, because he was good. 10 / 50 This is the name of the report by Cotton Mather about the trial accusing Martha Carrier of witchcraft_______________? Sinners in the Hand The Wonders of the Invisible World The Story of Plymouth Plantation The Burning of Our House 11 / 50 Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin?s philosophy of language ? Language includes multiple social dialects and jargons. Language is loaded with the intentions of others. Language exhibits and is bound up in the social lives and historical context of the people who speak it. Language can include socioideological contradictions from the past. 12 / 50 Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughes?s poem ?The Negro Speaks of Rivers? ? It is a meditation on the alienation of the modern person from nature. It is a meditation on the poet?s personal experience of assimilation. It is a meditation on the cultural isolation of African Americans in New England. It is a meditation on the communal and historical aspects of individual identity. 13 / 50 Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton ? ?Il Penseroso? ?Absolom and Achitophel? ?L?Allegro? ?Lycidas? 14 / 50 Percy Shelley can be understood as a poet with _________________? A desire to make the world into a better place A strong dislike of women No sense of reality A dark and twisted outlook on the world 15 / 50 The ?Merchant of Venice? Written by Shakespeare is________________? A novel a short story a poem a drama 16 / 50 There are ______ consonant sounds in English IPA. 24 22 23 25 17 / 50 Which of the following poetic lines is an example of a couplet ? ?Into my head there will come / a beach of cotton, a dock where from.? ?Death comes for all of us / even you.? ?I heard a car crash / just as I died.? ?To kiss the sky / to be the sun / is to live forever.? 18 / 50 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 ? ?Canterbury Tales? ?The Prelude? ?Paradise Lost? ?The Faerie Queen? 19 / 50 Which of the following patterns of intonation, is used in W.H. questions asked in a warm and friendly way indicating extra politeness ? None of the above The rising The fall__rise The falling 20 / 50 Which of the following statements about a sonnet is false ? A Shakespearean sonnet consists of the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-ef,g-g. A sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines. A sonnet is only written in Italian. The last two lines of a sonnet are a rhyming couplet. 21 / 50 In ?Rime of the Ancient Mariner,? what kind of animal does the Mariner kill ? A hawk An albatross A nightingale A dove 22 / 50 In the Middle Ages, what was the status of a married woman in relation to her husband ? she was considered her husband?s property she was more legally powerful than her husband she was her husband?s property, but could not be mistreated under law she was considered equal to her husband 23 / 50 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_______________? An autobiography A novel A fairy tale Gothic fiction 24 / 50 Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a novel of manners ? A novel set in Europe in the 18th century A novel that explores class conflict A novel that explores the behavior and values of a particular class of people A novel that attacks the lower classes 25 / 50 Which long Romantic poem opens with the line ?oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze? ? ?The Prelude? ?Don Juan? ?Rime of the Ancient Mariner? ?Childe Harold?s Pilgrimage? 26 / 50 What is TULIP ? Irresistible Grace Limited atonement Unconditional election Total depravity 27 / 50 What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ? The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi barbarous age. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness. 28 / 50 Milton in ?Samson Agonistes? uses a Chorus, which he borrows from what previous genre ? Greek Drama Greek Epic Medieval Mystery Plays French Chanson de Gestes 29 / 50 Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner ? The Seven Lamps of Architecture The Two Paths Modem Painters The Stones of Venice 30 / 50 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 ? unwarranted abuse love ignominy odium 31 / 50 Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice is a__________________? Picaresque novel Gothic novel Domestic novel Historical novel 32 / 50 ?The Medal? by John Dryden is a/an________________? prose translation satire play 33 / 50 Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ? Norwegian French Hungarian Spanish 34 / 50 The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ____________? Both ?a? & ?b? Leonard Bloomfield?s ?Language? Chomsky?s ?Aspects of the theory of Syntax? Chomsky?s ?Syntactic Structures? 35 / 50 To which category that two works of William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece belong to ? Historical Plays Comedies Tragedies Narrative Poems 36 / 50 At the end of Hare?s adventure with the headless bodies how does he turned them into ?fast-fish.? ? The headless bodies served Hare fish. The headless bodies liked to eat fish. The headless bodies were actually creatures who evolved from fish so they were simply returned to their primordial state The headless bodies tried to abuse people so they were turned into ?fast-fish? as a punishment. 37 / 50 Which best describes Bloom?s attitude towards nationalism ? he is disinterested in nationalism he is opposed to the nationalist cause he is deeply invested in the nationalist cause he hopes to join the IRB 38 / 50 In 1960 ?The Colossus? was the first book of poems published by which poetess ? Laura Jackson Elizabeth Bishop Marianne Moore Sylvia Plath 39 / 50 In which work do you read: ?Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. ? ? The Wild Swans of Coole The Second Coming The Canturbury Tales The Dark Angel 40 / 50 Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ? the morality play the romance the heroic epic the short story 41 / 50 Which of the following offers the best definition of ?criture f?minine ? Psychological studies of women The inscription of womanhood and femininity in texts How women really feel about male writers Second-wave feminism 42 / 50 Which of the following is the earliest comedy of Shakespeare ? Love?s labour?s lost A mid summer night?s dream As you like it Much ado about nothing 43 / 50 The study of the way that sequences of words are ordered into phrases, clauses, and sentences is called____________? Morphology Phonology Semantics Syntax 44 / 50 Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliot?s concept of the ?objective correlative? ? The objective correlative refers to a set of objects, situations, or events which necessarily produce a particular emotion. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem?s formal structure and its meaning. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem?s theme and its objective historical context. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem?s formal structure and its rhetorical aim. 45 / 50 Which of the following controversial ideas surround the life and work of William Shakespeare ? A and B only All of the above The idea that William Shakespeare was a Catholic. The idea that William Shakespeare never lived. 46 / 50 Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous ? Keats Browning Shelley Wordsworth 47 / 50 Sin was born out of Satan?s_________________? Head Lust Anger Rib 48 / 50 How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ? All of the above. New Historicism is interested in how texts help us understand economic realities. New Historicism does not make strict delineations between literary and nonliterary texts. New Historicism takes a particular interest in marginalized peoples. 49 / 50 In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature ? 1789 1798 1795 1779 50 / 50 Under Article 13 of the Constitution of 1962 ____________ can be impeached? None of these Prime-Minister President Speaker Provide Your Information Your score is The average score is 0% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on whatsapp WhatsApp PrevEnglish Literature Quiz 19 English Literature Quiz 21Next
