English Literature Quiz 25
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Who wrote: ?Reader, I married him.? ?
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Which of the following was the most copied book of the Middle Ages ?
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The trickster figure is usually_______________?
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Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers ?
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The term Beat Generation comes from______________?
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What do you mean by Phonetics ?
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Which of the following statements demonstrates the use of pathos ?
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Who is termed as ?The Morning Star of Renaissance? ?
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?Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey? explores ________________?
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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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?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 literary purpose does Emily?s stay with the nuns at the convent NOT serve ?
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W.B.Yeats used the phrase ?the artifice of eternity? in his poem ?
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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 psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ?
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Which of the following is NOT a central theme of Wordsworth?s poetry ?
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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 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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Black English is the creation of the____________________?
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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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What nationality was Shakespeare ?
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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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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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Who will fall through his own ?fault? ?
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In Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild,? The Tlick keep the humans happy 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 poets before Milton were famous for writing epics ?
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?On Translating Homer? is written by________________?
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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 Strawberry Hill ?
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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 statements offers the best definition of a tragic hero ?
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Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?
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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 Gothic about the narrative structure of ?Frankenstein? ?
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In which of the following words, is the sound /k/ aspirated ?
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Which was the oldest period in English literature ?
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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 is a Japanese poetic form ?
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Blank verse refers to which of the following ?
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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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The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?
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What was the profession of Thomas Hammond under whom John Keats joined for apprenticeship ?
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In the medieval Church, devotional acts _______________?
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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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