English Literature Quiz 36
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Which of the following literary devices is most prominent in Gertrude Stein?s poem ?New? ?
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Which of the following statements about Greek tragedies is true ?
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William Shakespeare?s father primarily worked as which of the following ?
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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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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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Who was the co-author of ?Lyrical Ballads? with William Wordsworth ?
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What invention won George Harris the respect of his factory?s proprietor ?
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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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Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ?
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Walt Whitman?s style of writing is known as______________?
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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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What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is ?performed? ?
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Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ?
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How many children does Uncle Tom have ?
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Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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The final /l/ in the words ?bottle?, ?cattle? and ?little? are examples of _____________ ?
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Which of the following statements best describes Cleanth Brooks?s attitude towards studying literature ?
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Which of the following characterize(s) a lay ?
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In which age is ?The Puritan Period? included ?
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The battle between God?s army and Satan?s rebels in heaven lasted ?
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Which of the following political ideas is least related to the Enlightenment ?
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Which writer(s) is/are associated with mysticism ?
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The purpose of placing ?fallen cold and dead? at the end of each section is to_____________?
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Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England) ?
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How did the term ?Gothic? become associated with the literary phenomenon known as the Gothic novel ?
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How do most critics believe Joyce?s exile affected his use of language ?
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Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?
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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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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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Why do most critics also refer to the Middle Ages as the Dark Ages ?
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Which of the following best defines the Enlightenment movement ?
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John Donne?s ?The Anniversaries? is a______________?
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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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This mode of discourse is used to explain. (Example: repair manuals) ?
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Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?
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Whom did John Milton marry at the age of 34 ?
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What is the feature of Romantic poetry ?
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A factual account of the development of a people, nation, institution or culture_____________?
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Which was not an objection raised against the public theaters in the Elizabethan period ?
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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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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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The fact that Claude McKay visited Russia in 1922 exemplifies the following theme of Modernism_____________?
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Reader-response theory focuses on considering how ?
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In whose memory did John Milton write Methought I saw my late espous?d saint ?
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Why was the alliterative revival associated with nationalism and nostalgia ?
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Which of the following characters appears in The Purgatorio ?
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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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Which work of William Wordsworth is generally considered to be his magnum opus ?
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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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