English Literature Quiz 3
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Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others?
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Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ?
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Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
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Which of the following works is considered to be the first Gothic novel ?
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Which of the following describes the precolonial era?s literature styles ?
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According to Dr. Dino Felluga?s module on Freud, Sigmund Freud?s work on transference and trauma argues which of the following points ?
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Who introduced the Italian sonnet to the British Isles during the reign of King Henry VIII ?
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In A Portrait of the Artist, how is the artist represented ?
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What is contrapasso ?
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What are ?books of hours ??
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Which definition below best defines Transcendentalism ?
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A critic examining John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a critic ?
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What is hagiography ?
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The most important tenet of the Black Arts Movements is________________?
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According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on ?Tradition and the Individual Talent,? which of the following is true of ?tradition ??
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What is the significance of ?the Other? in Gothic novels ?
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______________refers to an individual?s equal and native command of two or more languages?
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How does Eliza cross the Ohio river ____________?
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In which century was Shakespeare born ?
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In his first lecture onWilliam Butler Yeats, Professor Hammer says that the young Yeats identified with King Goll. What does he mean by this ?
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Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
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Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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The general tone and attitude of Byron?s ?Don Juan? would be best described as ______________?
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Which of the following is a theme of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick?s book Epistemology of the Closet ?
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A collection of similar Idiolect make up ______________?
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Where does the sonnet form originate from ?
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Which of the following is not an example of Arthurian legend ?
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The form ?dog? is a __________morphemE?
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In the play, ?Henry V,? who is the Queen of France ?
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Who Is known as the Father of English Poetry_______________?
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Which ofWashington Irving?s characters falls asleep for twenty years ?
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Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ?love and loss? ?
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Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town in the novelfirst_____________?
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Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school ?
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What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homer?s lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?
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Which of the following descriptions accurately describes Joseph Conrad?s ?Heart of Darkness? ?
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What did Robert Frost?s father do ?
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What is blank verse ?
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______________________is a processes of word formation wherein two or more existing words are simply combined ?
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When Michael tells Adam what will become of mankind after the Fall, he is actually narrating stories taken directly from______________?
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Compared to Aquinas, the writers of Florentine humanism considered which of the following only unsystematically ?
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Jane Austen wrote during this period________________?
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________________is known as the ?friendly innkeeper of the town? ?
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According to Dante, when is it most appropriate to use Latin ?
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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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Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Chomsky?s competence and Performance ?
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Who write the story ?Story Teller? ?
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Where does Tom first meet Eva ?
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A postmodern play would most likely not make use of which of the following theatrical traditions ?
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Where was William Shakespeare was born and brought up ?
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