English Literature Quiz 36
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In which age is ?The Puritan Period? included ?
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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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Which of the following characters appears in The Purgatorio ?
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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 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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How many children does Uncle Tom have ?
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Who born in 1422 ?
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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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This mode of discourse is used to explain. (Example: repair manuals) ?
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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 statements best characterizes the formal qualities of Langston Hughes?s poem ?Life is Fine? ?
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Whom did John Milton marry at the age of 34 ?
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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 is not an English poet (i. e. from England) ?
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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 best defines the Enlightenment movement ?
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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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John Donne?s ?The Anniversaries? is a______________?
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How do most critics believe Joyce?s exile affected his use of language ?
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Which was not an objection raised against the public theaters in the Elizabethan period ?
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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 of the following literary devices is most prominent in Gertrude Stein?s poem ?New? ?
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The final /l/ in the words ?bottle?, ?cattle? and ?little? are examples of _____________ ?
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What is the feature of Romantic poetry ?
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Why was the alliterative revival associated with nationalism and nostalgia ?
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A factual account of the development of a people, nation, institution or culture_____________?
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What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is ?performed? ?
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Which work of William Wordsworth is generally considered to be his magnum opus ?
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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 is focused on considering which of the following ?
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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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Walt Whitman?s style of writing is known as______________?
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Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?
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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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Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the____________?
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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 focuses on considering how ?
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What invention won George Harris the respect of his factory?s proprietor ?
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Which of the following statements best describes Cleanth Brooks?s attitude towards studying literature ?
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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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Who was the co-author of ?Lyrical Ballads? with William Wordsworth ?
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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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William Shakespeare?s father primarily worked as which of the following ?
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Which of the following statements about Greek tragedies is true ?
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Which of the following characterize(s) a lay ?
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In whose memory did John Milton write Methought I saw my late espous?d saint ?
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Why do most critics also refer to the Middle Ages as the Dark Ages ?
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