English Literature Quiz 30
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Catharsis refers to the term_______________?
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In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.
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What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?
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Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speaker?s linguistic capabilities, was developed by_________?
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Ezra Pound?s ?Cantos? may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound?s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?
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Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
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Who called Chaucer the father of English literature?
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Which of the following descriptions best defines the literary theory known as formalism ?
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Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
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Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ?Cockney School of Poetry? ?
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____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman ?
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What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip?s composition ?
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According to the myth, why must all things have an end ?
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Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
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Elizabethans were notoriously superstitious. They feared witches, believed in magical animals, and sought good luck charms. What ?science? did they utilize in trying to predict and control the future ?
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Pre-colonial theme ?
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How did the fall of Roman imperialism affect Britain ?
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With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlain?s Man was renamed ?
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Which of the following terms is traditionally associated with the male Gothic ?
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Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school ?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who is the mother of Prince Edward ?
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Plato has a positive view of art, in so far as_______________?
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Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
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In what year was the First Folio published ?
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?Love and Friendship? is written by___________________?
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What type of myth is the tale ?The Jealous Uncle? ?
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What were ?conduct books? ?
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Who is the narrator in Melville?s Moby Dick ?
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In A Portrait of the Artist, what is the importance of music ?
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?He will give the gloom of gloom, and the sunshine of sunshine?. The pronoun ?He? refers to_______________?
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In ?Leda and the Swan?, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan ?
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In which year the play of Christopher Marlow The Jew of Malta first performed ?
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Bret Harte?s ?The Outcasts of Poker Flat? took place in_______________?
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What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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Roughly speaking, how long was the English Civil War ?
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In Jean Toomer?s ?Her Lips Are Copper Wires,? a kiss is compared to_______________?
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Who was King Henry VIII?s first wife ?
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Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts ?
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The concept of ?prose? refers to which of the following ?
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Sir Thomas More held which of the following positions in the English court ?
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What is dialogism ?
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The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________?
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Having emerg?d from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World, and having gone so far thro? Life with a considerable Share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made use of, which, with the Blessing of God, so well succeeded, my Posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own Situations, and therefore fit to be imitated ?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?
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?In Memoriam? is _______________?
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Who is the writer of ?The Ring of the Book? ?
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Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new mythical methodin place of the old narrative methodand demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about making the modern world possible for art ?
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With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?
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How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?
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Who was the originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature ?
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