English Literature Quiz 32
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What is the name of the sister of William Wordsworth, who is also a poet and diarist ?
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Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
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Which is called the Victorian Age______________?
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Why was Acrene Wisse written in the vernacular language ?
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Which of the following is a critical work of Ben Jonson ?
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In The Inferno, how is the idea of Fortune represented ?
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According to Dr. Mazzotta, what trait distinguishes Dante?s purgatory from his hell ?
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Which of these words or usages did Milton NOT coin ?
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Who is the author of ?Around the World in Eighty Days? ?
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With which theorist is the concept imaginative geography associated ?
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What approach is described by the paragraph? This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that ?literature? exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader ?
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Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
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In which work do you read: ?I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.? ?
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Which of the following themes is not explored in ?Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? ?
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This is a system of fundamental laws governing a society______________?
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Which provides the best example of a medieval allegory ?
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__________________is the accent on certain words within the a sentence?
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In Ulysses, which characteristic(s) can be considered Modernist ?
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When did John Keats die ?
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The motto ?art for art?s sake? means that artists began to do which of the following ?
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The theme is_____________?
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Between 1890 and 1919, which of the following was a preoccupation of Western European literature ?
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On the Sublime is considered ______________?
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Which of the following is true of Ezra Pound?s ?Canto XIV? ?
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Which of the following are characteristics of a medieval romance ?
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Which among the following is not a characteristic feature of language ?
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Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?
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Paul O?Brien contends that _____________make(s) Shelley a ?radical.??
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Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
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Fill in the blank. John Lyly?s ________ exercised considerable influence upon its author?s contemporaries?
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Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great popularity with which of his first work ?
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Which of the following novels has the subtitle ?A Novel Without a Hero? ?
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The two main characters in The Pearl are______________?
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What job does Uncle Tom perform at the St. Clare plantation ?
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?The Cambridge school? refers to a group who emerged when ?
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Fill in the blank. The greatest insurrection of the______________ age in England was over religion?
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The author of The Bluest Eyes (1970) is__________?
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Yes, when the stars glisten?d, All night long on the prong of a moss-scallop?d stake, Down almost amid the slapping waves, Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears. What is a prong ?
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Which of the following statements about Elizabeth Barrett Browning?s sonnet 43 (?How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.?) is false ?
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Fill in the blank. Sir Philip Sidney?s strong_____________ convictions made him publicly oppose a projected marriage for Queen Elizabeth?
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Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century ?
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Detractors argue that such an approach can be too ?judgmental.? Some believe literature should be judged primarily (if not solely) on its artistic merits. What approach possess this disadvantage ?
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Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of first-wave feminism ?
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The statements below are steps on ?How to Read a Short Story Critically?. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the critical reading of a narrative ?
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Who wrote The sound and the furry ?
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In his essay, ?The Significance of Fictionalizing?, Wolfgang Iser argues which of the following points ?
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The theory which is based on the assumption that language originated as a result of the involuntary exclamations of pain, surprise, pleasure or wonder_________________?
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The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?
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In De Monarchia, what language does Dante primarily use ?
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?He glanced with rapid eyes_____________ they looked like frightened beads?. The figure of speech used here is ?
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