English Literature Quiz 25

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English Literature Quiz 25

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What nationality was Shakespeare ?

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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 is the stated subject of Paradise Lost ?

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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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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a tragic hero ?

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What literary purpose does Emily?s stay with the nuns at the convent NOT serve ?

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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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The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?

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Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ?

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Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form ?

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What Gothic literary convention did NOT originate with Horace Walpole?s ?The Castle of Otranto? ?

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Who coined the phrase ?Egotistical Sublime? ?

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?On Translating Homer? is written by________________?

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In Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild,? The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?

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Who is the writer of the poem ?Nun Priest?s Tale? ?

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Black English is the creation of the____________________?

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In which of the following words, is the sound /k/ aspirated ?

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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 was the profession of Thomas Hammond under whom John Keats joined for apprenticeship ?

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Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?

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John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? is written in a(n) style ?

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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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Who is termed as ?The Morning Star of Renaissance? ?

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Who will fall through his own ?fault? ?

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Which of the following statements demonstrates the use of pathos ?

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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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What does Gertrude Stein?s term ?the Lost Generation? designate ?

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In the medieval Church, devotional acts _______________?

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Which was not among the newgenres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?

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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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Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?

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The trickster figure is usually_______________?

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Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ?

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The term Beat Generation comes from______________?

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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 writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on ?The Literature of the British Empire? ?

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Blank verse refers to which of the following ?

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?Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey? explores ________________?

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What is Gothic about the narrative structure of ?Frankenstein? ?

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Which of the following was the most copied book of the Middle Ages ?

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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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What is Strawberry Hill ?

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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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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 poets before Milton were famous for writing epics ?

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Who wrote: ?Reader, I married him.? ?

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W.B.Yeats used the phrase ?the artifice of eternity? in his poem ?

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What do you mean by Phonetics ?

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