English Literature Quiz 30
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In ?Leda and the Swan?, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan ?
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In A Portrait of the Artist, what is the importance of music ?
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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 the play, ?Richard III,? who is the mother of Prince Edward ?
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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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In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?
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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 does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip?s composition ?
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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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Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ?Cockney School of Poetry? ?
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What is dialogism ?
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What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?
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?In Memoriam? is _______________?
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In what year was the First Folio published ?
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Which of the following descriptions best defines the literary theory known as formalism ?
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According to the myth, why must all things have an end ?
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Bret Harte?s ?The Outcasts of Poker Flat? took place in_______________?
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How did the fall of Roman imperialism affect Britain ?
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Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
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How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?
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The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________?
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What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
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____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman ?
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Roughly speaking, how long was the English Civil War ?
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Who is the narrator in Melville?s Moby Dick ?
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With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlain?s Man was renamed ?
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In Jean Toomer?s ?Her Lips Are Copper Wires,? a kiss is compared to_______________?
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?Love and Friendship? is written by___________________?
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Pre-colonial theme ?
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Who is the writer of ?The Ring of the Book? ?
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The concept of ?prose? refers to which of the following ?
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What were ?conduct books? ?
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Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
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Plato has a positive view of art, in so far as_______________?
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Sir Thomas More held which of the following positions in the English court ?
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In which year the play of Christopher Marlow The Jew of Malta first performed ?
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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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Who was the originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature ?
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Who called Chaucer the father of English literature?
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Who was King Henry VIII?s first wife ?
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What type of myth is the tale ?The Jealous Uncle? ?
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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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Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
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Catharsis refers to the term_______________?
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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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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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?He will give the gloom of gloom, and the sunshine of sunshine?. The pronoun ?He? refers to_______________?
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