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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Who is termed as ?The Morning Star of Renaissance? ?
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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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Who wrote: ?Reader, I married him.? ?
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?On Translating Homer? is written by________________?
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What does Gertrude Stein?s term ?the Lost Generation? designate ?
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The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?
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Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?
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What is Gothic about the narrative structure of ?Frankenstein? ?
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What nationality was Shakespeare ?
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What is Strawberry Hill ?
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Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ?
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In which of the following words, is the sound /k/ aspirated ?
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Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form ?
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Who coined the phrase ?Egotistical Sublime? ?
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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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Which of the following was the most copied book of the Middle Ages ?
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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 statements demonstrates the use of pathos ?
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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 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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?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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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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Blank verse refers to which of the following ?
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Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?
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The trickster figure is usually_______________?
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What poets before Milton were famous for writing epics ?
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Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers ?
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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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?Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey? explores ________________?
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Which of the following is NOT a central theme of Wordsworth?s poetry ?
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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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Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ?
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Who is the writer of the poem ?Nun Priest?s Tale? ?
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What do you mean by Phonetics ?
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John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? is written in a(n) style ?
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The term Beat Generation comes from______________?
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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 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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?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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In the medieval Church, devotional acts _______________?
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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 was the profession of Thomas Hammond under whom John Keats joined for apprenticeship ?
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In Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild,? The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
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W.B.Yeats used the phrase ?the artifice of eternity? in his poem ?
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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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