English Literature Quiz 25
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In which of the following words, is the sound /k/ aspirated ?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a tragic hero ?
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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 do you mean by Phonetics ?
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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 is Gothic about the narrative structure of ?Frankenstein? ?
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In Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild,? The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
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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 statements demonstrates the use of pathos ?
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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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The term Beat Generation comes from______________?
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Who coined the phrase ?Egotistical Sublime? ?
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Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers ?
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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 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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What nationality was Shakespeare ?
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What is Strawberry Hill ?
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Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?
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In the medieval Church, devotional acts _______________?
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Which was the oldest period in English literature ?
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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 literary purpose does Emily?s stay with the nuns at the convent NOT serve ?
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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 is a Japanese poetic form ?
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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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?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 colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?
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?Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey? explores ________________?
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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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John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? is written in a(n) style ?
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What poets before Milton were famous for writing epics ?
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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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As per section 2 sub-section 8, of the Sales of Goods Act, insolvent means a person_________________?
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?On Translating Homer? is written by________________?
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Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ?
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What is the stated subject of Paradise Lost ?
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Black English is the creation of the____________________?
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Which of the following was the most copied book of the Middle Ages ?
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The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?
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Who is termed as ?The Morning Star of Renaissance? ?
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Who will fall through his own ?fault? ?
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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 the writer of the poem ?Nun Priest?s Tale? ?
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Which was not among the newgenres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?
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W.B.Yeats used the phrase ?the artifice of eternity? in his poem ?
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