English Literature Quiz 25
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Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?
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What was the profession of Thomas Hammond under whom John Keats joined for apprenticeship ?
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John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? is written in a(n) style ?
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Which of the following was the most copied book of the Middle Ages ?
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In which of the following words, is the sound /k/ aspirated ?
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Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ?
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What literary purpose does Emily?s stay with the nuns at the convent NOT serve ?
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Black English is the creation of the____________________?
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What is Gothic about the narrative structure of ?Frankenstein? ?
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Which of the following statements demonstrates the use of pathos ?
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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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As per section 2 sub-section 8, of the Sales of Goods Act, insolvent means a person_________________?
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What do you mean by Phonetics ?
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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 nationality was Shakespeare ?
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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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What is the stated subject of Paradise Lost ?
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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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Who coined the phrase ?Egotistical Sublime? ?
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Who is termed as ?The Morning Star of Renaissance? ?
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?On Translating Homer? is written by________________?
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Who is the writer of the poem ?Nun Priest?s Tale? ?
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What poets before Milton were famous for writing epics ?
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Which was the oldest period in English literature ?
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The term Beat Generation comes from______________?
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The trickster figure is usually_______________?
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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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Blank verse refers to which of the following ?
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The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?
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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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Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ?
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In Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild,? The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
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What Gothic literary convention did NOT originate with Horace Walpole?s ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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What is Strawberry Hill ?
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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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Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form ?
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?Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey? explores ________________?
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Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers ?
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Which of the following is NOT a central theme of Wordsworth?s poetry ?
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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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?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 was not among the newgenres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?
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What does Gertrude Stein?s term ?the Lost Generation? designate ?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a tragic hero ?
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W.B.Yeats used the phrase ?the artifice of eternity? in his poem ?
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Who will fall through his own ?fault? ?
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Who wrote: ?Reader, I married him.? ?
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Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?
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In the medieval Church, devotional acts _______________?
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