English Literature Quiz 25
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The term Beat Generation comes from______________?
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What nationality was Shakespeare ?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a tragic hero ?
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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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Who will fall through his own ?fault? ?
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Blank verse refers to which of the following ?
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John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? is written in a(n) style ?
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Who wrote: ?Reader, I married him.? ?
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The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?
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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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Which of the following statements demonstrates the use of pathos ?
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What is Gothic about the narrative structure of ?Frankenstein? ?
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Who coined the phrase ?Egotistical Sublime? ?
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What Gothic literary convention did NOT originate with Horace Walpole?s ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form ?
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What poets before Milton were famous for writing epics ?
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Which of the following is NOT a central theme of Wordsworth?s poetry ?
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Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers ?
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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 was not among the newgenres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?
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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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Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ?
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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 literary purpose does Emily?s stay with the nuns at the convent NOT serve ?
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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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In which of the following words, is the sound /k/ aspirated ?
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The trickster figure is usually_______________?
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Which was the oldest period in English literature ?
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?On Translating Homer? is written 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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Who is the writer of the poem ?Nun Priest?s Tale? ?
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What is Strawberry Hill ?
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Which of the following was the most copied book of the Middle Ages ?
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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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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 is the stated subject of Paradise Lost ?
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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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?Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will?, is a statement by______________?
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What does Gertrude Stein?s term ?the Lost Generation? designate ?
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What do you mean by Phonetics ?
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Black English is the creation of the____________________?
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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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In the medieval Church, devotional acts _______________?
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Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ?
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Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?
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Who is termed as ?The Morning Star of Renaissance? ?
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W.B.Yeats used the phrase ?the artifice of eternity? in his poem ?
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?Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey? explores ________________?
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In Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild,? The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
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What was the profession of Thomas Hammond under whom John Keats joined for apprenticeship ?
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