English Literature Quiz 28
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Sylvia Plath married which English poet ?
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Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
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Who applied the term Romanticto the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
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A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as ?
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What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact ?
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The adventure of another lay/Just as it happened, I?ll relay ?
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Who composed The Preludes ?
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Chaucer was released from legal action by____________in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction ?
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To what idea does the term heteroglossia refer ?
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Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing ?
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What is the main function of literary theory ?
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In ?A Little Cloud,? what does Little Chandler dream about becoming ?
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The Renaissance was known for originating which of the following philosophical movements ?
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Which is not a characteristic of Realism ?
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Which among the following does not constitute the general methodology of science ?
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Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?
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What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare?s Hamlet ?
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Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business ?
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Which of the following concepts does Aristotle consider to be the most important element of a Greek tragedy ?
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In A Portrait of the Artist, what unique style does Joyce use ?
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Where was John Milton born? Where was John Milton born ?
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Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing ?
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In The Inferno, his journey starts on which holiday ?
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What text greatly popularized the sonnet form in England during the Elizabethan period ?
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Abraham Lincoln: the war Years________________?
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Short plays called ____________ staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political themes were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters?
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Which one is the famous prose work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ?
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After Hare had destroyed all the bad animals what did he decide to do next ?
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In The Inferno, who defends the city of Dis ?
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The final consonants /s/, /z/ and /iz/ in the words ?cats?, ?dogs? and ?boxes? are instances of ______________?
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Complete the following sentence. In the opening lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins?s ?The Windhover,? the words ?daylight?s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon? ?
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Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry ?
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According to Larry Neal, the primary goal of the Black Arts Movement is_______________?
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Which of the following British monarchs was executed during the English Civil War?
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What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night ?
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How many times does Milton invoke a muse ?
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What does the priest?s son?s prayers for the punishment of the tribe?s iniquities tell us about the Zuni tribe ?
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Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to what royal family ?
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Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?
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Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry ?
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Words composed of two or more elements that are identical or slightly different are called____________?
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One of the following was a Romantic poet______________?
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Which poem by Wordsworth examines writer?s block ?
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Keats?s Endymion is dedicated to _______________?
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Aristotle and Plato belong to phase of criticism ?
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The repetition of beginning consonant sounds_____________?
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Why did Catherine of Siena refuse to marry a husband ?
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The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch ?
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What is the purpose of feminist theory ?
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