English Literature Quiz 25
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Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers ?
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?Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will?, is a statement by______________?
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Blank verse refers to which of the following ?
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As per section 2 sub-section 8, of the Sales of Goods Act, insolvent means a person_________________?
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Which of the following statements demonstrates the use of pathos ?
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?Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey? explores ________________?
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Who wrote: ?Reader, I married him.? ?
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Who is termed as ?The Morning Star of Renaissance? ?
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Who is the writer of the poem ?Nun Priest?s Tale? ?
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Which was not among the newgenres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?
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Which of the following was the most copied book of the Middle Ages ?
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W.B.Yeats used the phrase ?the artifice of eternity? in his poem ?
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Which was the oldest period in English literature ?
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What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
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What literary purpose does Emily?s stay with the nuns at the convent NOT serve ?
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In which of the following words, is the sound /k/ aspirated ?
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Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form ?
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What was the profession of Thomas Hammond under whom John Keats joined for apprenticeship ?
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Black English is the creation of the____________________?
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The trickster figure is usually_______________?
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What does Gertrude Stein?s term ?the Lost Generation? designate ?
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Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ?
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Unlike the gods and goddesses of classical epics, John Milton?s God in ?Paradise Lost? is and____________?
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John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? is written in a(n) style ?
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Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?
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What is the stated subject of Paradise Lost ?
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Who will fall through his own ?fault? ?
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In the medieval Church, devotional acts _______________?
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What is Gothic about the narrative structure of ?Frankenstein? ?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a tragic hero ?
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What is Strawberry Hill ?
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Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ?
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What nationality was Shakespeare ?
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The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?
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?It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.? How does this opening sentence of Gilman?s ?The Yellow Wallpaper? NOT immediately suggest the Gothic ?
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Which of the following is NOT a central theme of Wordsworth?s poetry ?
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Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on ?The Literature of the British Empire? ?
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What do you mean by Phonetics ?
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?On Translating Homer? is written by________________?
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Who coined the phrase ?Egotistical Sublime? ?
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In Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild,? The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
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There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by ? This is a couplet from the Bailiff?s Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet ?
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In his essay ?The Business of Theory,? William Deresiewicz argues which of the following about Terry Eagleton?s book After Theory ?
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What Gothic literary convention did NOT originate with Horace Walpole?s ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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In which way(s) is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man a Modernist novel ?
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Based on your readings for the course, which of the following best states how critics often interpret the dead hand in ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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What poets before Milton were famous for writing epics ?
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The term Beat Generation comes from______________?
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Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?
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?Do we now live in an enlightened age? The answer is, ?no,? but we do live in an age of enlightenment.? ?
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