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