English Literature Quiz 31

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English Literature Quiz 31

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Which statement below best defined Whitman?s idea of Oversoul ?

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Complete the following sentence. Yeats?s ?Sailing to Byzantium? is a good example of High Modernism, because it_____________?

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According to Randy Hofbauer, what is/are the purpose(s) of the epiphany ?

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Name the author of The New Criticism ?

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_____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?

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Shakespeare died on ?

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The phrase ?willing suspension of disbelief? applies to which poet/critic ?

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Apess claims that Native Americans in New England are the ?most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world.? Which of the following is NOT a reason he offers as an explanation for their misery ?

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How are Julia Kristeva?s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts ?

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An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?

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Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus? character at the beginning of the play ?

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What is Milton?s stated purpose in Paradise Lost ?

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Which work was published first ?

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Who is ?till wand?ring o?er the earth? ?

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The literary work ?Kubla khan? is_______________?

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?Preface to the Lyrical Ballads? was published in______________?

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In what year did the Easter Rising occur ?

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Chaucer became a member of Parliament in_______________?

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Tracts for the Times relates to ?

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When did William Wordsworth die ?

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The final /n/ in the words ?sudden? and ?mutton? are __________________?

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?Your? uses an upper case because ?

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Which of Upton Sinclair?s books is about the meat-packing industry ?

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What did the novelists of the first wave of Gothic literature think of religion ?

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How many times do the word Katharsis appear in the Poetics________________?

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John Dryden wrote ?Absalom and Achitophel.? Who was Achitophel, historically speaking ?

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Which language did young Elizabeth learn in secret ?

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Which of the following assertions would William Wordsworth most likely agree with ?

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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emerson ?

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To whom is the concept of the uncanny attributed ?

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Why does Horace Walpole make use of elaborate machines in ?The Castle of Otranto? ?

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The foundation story of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? derives from what text ?

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The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?

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Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth conceives of himself as a ?chosen son? primarily because_____________?

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Which of the following most accurately explains the Bretons influence on medieval literature ?

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In the Middle Ages, nuns also performed which of the following roles ?

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What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?

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Horace was a friend of_______________?

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How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil ?

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Which action served to ignite the French Revolution ?

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The /k/ sound in ?act?and ?picture? is a____________?

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________are articulated by raising the back of the tongue towards the soft palate?

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Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in declarative sentences uttered as ordinary statements ?

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Which of the following is the theme of Dante?s Vita Nuova ?

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Who was Fuseli ?

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Who is the heroin of The Tempest ?

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Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?

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In ?Rime of the Ancient Mariner,? who is the ?he? referred to in the lines ?A sadder and a wiser manHe rose the morrow morn.? ?

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What is Quinzaine ?

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In his lectures on Shakespeare?s tragedies, A.C. Bradley states that he will not do which of the following ?

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