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