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