English Literature Quiz 31
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Horace was a friend of_______________?
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Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth conceives of himself as a ?chosen son? primarily because_____________?
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Why does Horace Walpole make use of elaborate machines in ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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How are Julia Kristeva?s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts ?
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John Dryden wrote ?Absalom and Achitophel.? Who was Achitophel, historically speaking ?
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How many times do the word Katharsis appear in the Poetics________________?
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The phrase ?willing suspension of disbelief? applies to which poet/critic ?
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What did the novelists of the first wave of Gothic literature think of religion ?
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Shakespeare died on ?
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What is Quinzaine ?
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Which language did young Elizabeth learn in secret ?
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When did William Wordsworth die ?
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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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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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An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?
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Which statement below best defined Whitman?s idea of Oversoul ?
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Chaucer became a member of Parliament in_______________?
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What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?
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Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in declarative sentences uttered as ordinary statements ?
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According to Randy Hofbauer, what is/are the purpose(s) of the epiphany ?
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In the Middle Ages, nuns also performed which of the following roles ?
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Which action served to ignite the French Revolution ?
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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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The final /n/ in the words ?sudden? and ?mutton? are __________________?
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How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil ?
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The literary work ?Kubla khan? is_______________?
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The /k/ sound in ?act?and ?picture? is a____________?
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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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Which work was published first ?
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To whom is the concept of the uncanny attributed ?
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Which of the following most accurately explains the Bretons influence on medieval literature ?
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What is Milton?s stated purpose in Paradise Lost ?
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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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Who is ?till wand?ring o?er the earth? ?
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Which of Upton Sinclair?s books is about the meat-packing industry ?
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?Preface to the Lyrical Ballads? was published in______________?
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Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
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Which of the following assertions would William Wordsworth most likely agree with ?
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The foundation story of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? derives from what text ?
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Name the author of The New Criticism ?
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Who is the heroin of The Tempest ?
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?Your? uses an upper case because ?
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Which of the following is the theme of Dante?s Vita Nuova ?
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________are articulated by raising the back of the tongue towards the soft palate?
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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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In what year did the Easter Rising occur ?
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Who was Fuseli ?
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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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Tracts for the Times relates to ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emerson ?
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