0% 1 English Literature Quiz 21 1 / 50 Which of the following offers the best definition of a theatrical tragedy ? A play that depicts the downfall of a noble person A play in which no form of humor appears A play in which someone gets revenge A play in which a hero faces likely defeat and overcomes it 2 / 50 The ?r? in red is articulated as a______________? Semi__vowel Lateral Trill Frictionless continuant 3 / 50 Dumas, whose father was a General in the French Army, is a Mulatto; Soulie, a Quadroon. He went from New-Orleans, where, though to the eye a white man, yet, as known to have African blood in his veins, he could never have enjoyed the privileges due to a human being. A Mulatto is a person who has one white parent and one black parent; what, then, is a Quadroon ? A person who has two black parents. A person who has one white parent and one parent who is a Mulatto A person who has two Delfigo parents. A person who has one Meranto parent and one black. 4 / 50 The story is told from the point of view of________________? a third person Mrs. Mallard?s sister Josephine Mr. Mallard Mrs. Mallard 5 / 50 According to the myth, how did frogs loose their teeth ? Hare hit a frog with a club and burned the frog and cursed it by declaring it would never be able to harm anyone because it threatedned to hunt the hare down with dogs. Frogs never had any teeth. Frogs used to eat rocks and one day a frog ate a rock that was too hard and smashed its teeth. Grandmother wanted to eat frog leg stew so she captured a frog and extracted its teeth one by one while chanting a Winnebago song, and since then frogs were without teeth. 6 / 50 The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe was known as_______________? The Great Order of Life The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker The Great System of Shakespeare The Great Chain of Being 7 / 50 How many narrative arcs does Paradise Lost have ? 2 1 12 4 8 / 50 What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets ? God woman civilization nature 9 / 50 Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new ?mythical method? in place of the old ?narrative method? and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about ?making the modern world possible for art? ? Joseph Conrad?s Heart of Darkness James Joyce?s Ulysses Virginia Woolf?s The Waves James Joyce?s Finnegan?s Wake 10 / 50 Ultimately, the literary theory of deconstruction argues that___________? the instability of a text is actually evident in the text itself. All of the above. any system for the production of meaning is inevitably bound by context, yet also limitless. texts are always heterogeneous. 11 / 50 Reflections on Language is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________? 1977 1975 1976 1988 12 / 50 Postmodern writing often uses and as literary devices ? Symbolism; Imagery. Metaphors; verbal irony. Black humor; metafiction. Hyperbole; Personification. 13 / 50 Which on of the following is first long poem in English ? The Seafarer Beowulf Dream of the Road The Wanderer 14 / 50 Which of the following is NOT a tenet of F.T. Marinetti?s ?Futurist Manifesto? ? ?We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.? ?The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, daring, and revolt.? ?We want never to glorify war, the scourge of the planet.? ?We want to sing the man who holds the steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of its orbit.? 15 / 50 At the beginning of the play, the Scots are at war with which country ? Prussia Poland Norway Iceland 16 / 50 In the narrative poem, ?The Rape of Lucrece,? who is Lucretia ? A fairy queen A Roman matron A beggar woman A villainess 17 / 50 The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ? Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French. A and C only They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers. Their readers? primary language was English. 18 / 50 ______________________is used to designate words pronounced differently though identically? Homophones Homonyms Homographs Allophones 19 / 50 According to Aristotle the unravelling of the plot_____________? By the choral odes By supernatural machinery Should arise from the circumstances of the plot itself By narration 20 / 50 The consonant /l/ is called ____________? Nasal Sibilant Lateral Semi__vowel 21 / 50 The words denoting the colour ?red? and the past__tense of the verb ?read? ; ?right? and? ?write?; and ?site? and sight? are examples for________________? Allophones Homophones Homographs Homonyms 22 / 50 The Oxford Movement was started by______________? The Scholars of the Oxford University The University Wits The clergymen of Oxford The people of the Oxford area 23 / 50 Why do most scholars assume that Radcliffe favored ?explained supernaturalism? ? Her full embrace of the Gothic vision of Walpole, Beckford, and Lewis Her sense of morality and decorum Her defiance of contemporary culture Her lack of imagination 24 / 50 Radcliffe?s version of the Gothic differs most from Walpole?s in its use of which of the following ? Its medieval settings Its use of mysterious events to spur readers? interests and emotional responses The sublime The explained supernatural 25 / 50 ?Fl?neur,? according to Dr. Heather Marcelle Crickenberger in her essay ?The Fl?neur,? is a term the French understand to mean which of the following ? Both A and B An inhabitant of a rural village Stroller, idler, walker A religious believer 26 / 50 Psychoanalytic criticism during its earliest stages tended to focus on_____________? how children relate to their parents in terms of literary texts. translation issues. the typographical structures of literary texts. the psychologies of individual authors. 27 / 50 Which of the following statements does NOT accurately characterize a lyric poem ? The lyric poem is a popular form in the Romantic era. The lyric poem has a song-like quality. The lyric poem creates a personal sense of emotion. The lyric poem focuses on action. 28 / 50 The ?en in strengthen is a __________? Plural morpheme Possessive morpheme Verb forming morpheme An adjective forming morpheme 29 / 50 Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ? Stealing a horse Skipping church on Sunday A woman screaming at her husband in public Public drunkenness 30 / 50 Both the Gothic and sentimental fiction emphasize which of the following ? The power of feelings A sense of adventure The necessity for an aristocracy Reason over emotions 31 / 50 In the phrase, ?thy seed shall bruise our foe,? ?thy? refers to__________________? Eden Satan Sin Eve 32 / 50 A person who writes about his own life writes ______________? a diary a chronicle an autobiography a biography 33 / 50 ______________________is a processes of word formation by which new words are formed by attaching prefixes or suffixes to the base form? Derivation Portmanteau Compounding Backformation 34 / 50 Who was appointed as Poet-Laureate after William Wordsworth ? Robert Browning George Eliot Tennyson D.G Rossetti 35 / 50 For I have learned/To look on nature, not as in the hour/Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes/The sad, still music of humanity? ? The utter rejection of youthful folly in favor of mature rationality The poet?s changing relationship to nature as fount of meaning and significance The falsity of human art as opposed to the immediate truth of nature The failure of the poet when a youth to imagine his future 36 / 50 How many poets were included in Jhonson?s ?The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets? ? 54 50 48 52 37 / 50 How was the philosophical and popular emphasis on sensibility in the 18th century related to the development of the novel ? Like the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings. Like the novel, it focused on romantic relationships. Like the novel, it demonized the aristocracy. Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract reason over experience and emotion. 38 / 50 Which of the following is true of Arthur Rimbaud?s poem ?Eternity? ? The poem speaks of the necessity of seeking human approval and communal acceptance. It begins with the lines: ?I kissed the dawn of summer.? It suggests that the quest for knowledge and enlightenment is deeply satisfying. It ends with the lines: ?Eternity./It is the sea run off/ With the sun.? 39 / 50 How did the increase in universities affect most middle-class women ? they were not able to attend so their education levels declined, compared to men they were not able to attend so they were virtually unaffected most of them were unable to read, so they were not admitted they were exposed to new opportunitiesto learn in universities 40 / 50 Tennyson?s ?Ulysses? can be characterized in all of the following ways, EXCEPT________________? it thematizes the importance of choosing action over complacency. it uses Greek mythology to comment on contemporary questions. it emphasizes the internal life of the mind over social action. it reflects a Victorian attitude of continuing to fight against loss of hope or faith. 41 / 50 Who wrote ?Shakespeare?s Later Comedies? ? None of these A.C. Bradley Palmer D.J. Dr.Johnsofl 42 / 50 Who wrote the following statement: ?When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant? ? Virginia Woolf Amy Lowell Alice Walker Gertrude Stein 43 / 50 Who is the main protagonist of Paradise Lost ? Eve Satan God Adam 44 / 50 Which of the following was NOT a prominent theme of American and English modernist poetry ? The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion 45 / 50 Which of the following statements is/are TRUE concerning John Milton?s ideal republic ? There was to be no king, bishops, or House of Lords. There were to be no churches except Anglican churches. There was to be no Oxford University. A and C 46 / 50 Which of the following best defines satire ? A work of literature that attempts to improve society All of these answers A text that exposes serious flaws under the veil of comedy Literature that relies on devices like irony, sarcasm, and humor 47 / 50 Which of the following statements best defines the poetic form of the villanelle ? A poem that has no rhyme scheme A poem that carries a pattern on two rhymes and offers an alternating refrain A poem that eulogizes the dead A poem that celebrates the life of a cruel person 48 / 50 As a mode of literary criticism or theory, gender theory attempts to bring which of the following to literary texts ? An understanding of gender as a human construct An understanding of the various conceptions and understandings of gender that have carried throughout various cultures All of these. An understanding of how standard histories of western societies are presented in terms of heterosexual identity 49 / 50 Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in________? 2000 1997 1998 1999 50 / 50 Thomas Paine?s ?The Rights of Man? argues that ________________? Revolution is inhumane Revolution is proper when a government does not take care of its people Revolution never succeeds Every government should be revolted against Provide Your Information Your score is The average score is 50% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on whatsapp WhatsApp PrevEnglish Literature Quiz 20 English Literature Quiz 22Next
