English Literature Quiz 35
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____________________are gliding sounds during the articulation of which, the speech organs glide from one vowel position to another ?
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According to most critics, what does Geryon represent in The Inferno ?
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Please identify the story: ?her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition. ?
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Who was Shakespeare?s wife ?
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How are Polonius and Laertes related ?
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The first stanza of John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? begins with what topic(s) ?
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What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
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The Poet Laureate is_________________?
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In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Walt Whitman ?
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In ?The Yellow Wallpaper? what does Gilman suggest about madness ?
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With which text is the term mock-epic most closely associated ?
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____________is a monosyllabic vowel combination of a diphthong and a the weak vowel?
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Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?
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Which is true of medieval property laws ?
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Who is the main focus of a number of Shakespeare?s sonnets ?
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Which of the following best characterize noble women in the Middle Ages ?
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This Puritan author wrote about the Salem witch trials_____________?
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In the play, ?Twelfth Night,? what country is Orisono from ?
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Who coined the phrase ?Lost Generation? ?
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What vice does Tom attempt to convince Augustine Clare to renounce ?
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In Lanval, how does Marie de France represent King Arthur ?
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Who took Degree at fifteen from Cambridge in 1518 ?
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Who does Shelley consider the true founders of civilized cultures and laws ?
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In writing Beloved, Toni Morrison drew on what for inspiration ?
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Which best describes the tone at the end of ?Araby ??
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Yusef Komunyakaa?s ?Blue Dementia? is an example of what kind of poetry ?
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The development of cubism, with its geometric and abstract concerns, can be attributed largely to which of the following two artists ?
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Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ?
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With which character in The Odyssey does Molly Bloom best correspond ?
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Ann Hathaway was____________years older than Shakespeare?
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Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play ?
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In Saul Bellow?s novel Herzog (1964), Moses Herzog is a________________?
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Which of these statements does NOT apply to Hawthorne as a moralist ________________?
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In which book of the Bible does the story of Adam and Eve occur ?
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Synecdoche refers to the term_____________?
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Who was Can Grande ?
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__________ is term introduced by CHOMSKY to describe ?the actual use of language in concrete situations?
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Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true ?
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The supportive network of female slaves led to_______________?
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When did Christopher Marlow die ?
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__________________________is the study of how the mentally represented grammar of language is employed in the production and comprehension of speech?
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What is generally considered to be Theodor W. Adorno?s primary concern as a theorist ?
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The Manitou is a great god in this legend ?
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Of the following, who was NOT a well known modernist author ?
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What do scholars Michael O?Rourke and David Collings argue about ?Queer Romanticism? ?
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To what subgenre did the Senecan influence give rise, as evidenced in the first English tragedy Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex ?
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Which of the following is Hamlet?s mother ?
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?The Lotus?Eaters? was written by________________?
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Which of the following is not a cultural myth we attribute to those earliest Massachusetts colonial settlements at Plymouth and Massachusetts ?
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