English Literature Quiz 36

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English Literature Quiz 36

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Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?

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Some critics argue that the use of dialect by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt did all of the following except_______________?

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Which of the following statements best describes Cleanth Brooks?s attitude towards studying literature ?

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What quality does the Gothic novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries share with the majority of English novels of the same time period ?

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Reader-response theory focuses on considering how ?

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Which of the following characters appears in The Purgatorio ?

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Which of the following characterize(s) a lay ?

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How many children does Uncle Tom have ?

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Whom did John Milton marry at the age of 34 ?

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Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?

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Which of the following literary devices is most prominent in Gertrude Stein?s poem ?New? ?

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Which writer(s) is/are associated with mysticism ?

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Which of the following political ideas is least related to the Enlightenment ?

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Why was the alliterative revival associated with nationalism and nostalgia ?

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In ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? who is chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen?s play ?

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Which of the following events increased the appeal of communism among American intellectuals both black and white in the years between 1918 and 1939 ?

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Which of the following statements best characterizes the formal qualities of Langston Hughes?s poem ?Life is Fine? ?

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The fact that Claude McKay visited Russia in 1922 exemplifies the following theme of Modernism_____________?

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Which of the following best defines the Enlightenment movement ?

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This mode of discourse is used to explain. (Example: repair manuals) ?

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Why do most critics also refer to the Middle Ages as the Dark Ages ?

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The battle between God?s army and Satan?s rebels in heaven lasted ?

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A factual account of the development of a people, nation, institution or culture_____________?

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Which of the following statements about Greek tragedies is true ?

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John Donne?s ?The Anniversaries? is a______________?

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The purpose of placing ?fallen cold and dead? at the end of each section is to_____________?

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What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is ?performed? ?

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A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time

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Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work?s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?

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How do most critics believe Joyce?s exile affected his use of language ?

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In whose memory did John Milton write Methought I saw my late espous?d saint ?

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William Shakespeare?s father primarily worked as which of the following ?

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There was greater emphasis placed on human potentiality for growth and excellence through Europe by which year ?

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Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ?

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How did the term ?Gothic? become associated with the literary phenomenon known as the Gothic novel ?

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Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any person?s pursuit of their personal interests ?

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Walt Whitman?s style of writing is known as______________?

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In which age is ?The Puritan Period? included ?

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Which work of William Wordsworth is generally considered to be his magnum opus ?

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The final /l/ in the words ?bottle?, ?cattle? and ?little? are examples of _____________ ?

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Who born in 1422 ?

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Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the____________?

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Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?

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Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ?

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Who was the co-author of ?Lyrical Ballads? with William Wordsworth ?

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Which was not an objection raised against the public theaters in the Elizabethan period ?

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What is the feature of Romantic poetry ?

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Everyday before the Fall Adam and Eve went out to work. What did their work consist of ?

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Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England) ?

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What invention won George Harris the respect of his factory?s proprietor ?

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