English Literature Quiz 3

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English Literature Quiz 3

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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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Jane Austen wrote during this period________________?

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What is contrapasso ?

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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 works is considered to be the first Gothic novel ?

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Which of the following descriptions accurately describes Joseph Conrad?s ?Heart of Darkness? ?

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________________is known as the ?friendly innkeeper of the town? ?

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Who introduced the Italian sonnet to the British Isles during the reign of King Henry VIII ?

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The general tone and attitude of Byron?s ?Don Juan? would be best described as ______________?

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______________refers to an individual?s equal and native command of two or more languages?

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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 Is known as the Father of English Poetry_______________?

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In A Portrait of the Artist, how is the artist represented ?

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What is hagiography ?

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Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?

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In the play, ?Henry V,? who is the Queen of France ?

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According to Dante, when is it most appropriate to use Latin ?

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Where does the sonnet form originate from ?

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A collection of similar Idiolect make up ______________?

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What is the significance of ?the Other? in Gothic novels ?

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Where was William Shakespeare was born and brought up ?

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Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?

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Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ?love and loss? ?

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Which of the following describes the precolonial era?s literature styles ?

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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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The form ?dog? is a __________morphemE?

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Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Chomsky?s competence and Performance ?

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In which century was Shakespeare born ?

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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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Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others?

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Who write the story ?Story Teller? ?

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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 are ?books of hours ??

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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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The most important tenet of the Black Arts Movements is________________?

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______________________is a processes of word formation wherein two or more existing words are simply combined ?

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Where does Tom first meet Eva ?

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Compared to Aquinas, the writers of Florentine humanism considered which of the following only unsystematically ?

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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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How does Eliza cross the Ohio river ____________?

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Which definition below best defines Transcendentalism ?

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What did Robert Frost?s father do ?

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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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Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town in the novelfirst_____________?

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A postmodern play would most likely not make use of which of the following theatrical traditions ?

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Which of the following is not an example of Arthurian legend ?

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Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school ?

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What is blank verse ?

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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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Which ofWashington Irving?s characters falls asleep for twenty years ?

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