English Literature Quiz 38
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Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
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Which writer(s) is/are associated with the Irish Literary Revival ?
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?Brevity is the soul of wit? is a quotation from ?
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Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire ?Absalom and Achitophel? ?
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Which of the following best characterizes the contrast between Gertrude Stein?s poetry and Imagist poetry ?
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What does Edward Said argue about the concept of the Orient ?
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What character leads Adam and Eve from the Gates of Paradise in the final book of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? ?
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Who is the author of ?Sherlock Holmes? ?
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In Gwendolyn Brooks? poem, ?we real cool,? the Golden Shovel is_______________?
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Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Enlightenment ?
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?After Apple Picking? is written by_______________?
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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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Complete the following sentence. The opening frame narrative of Frankenstein comes from_______________?
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Which theorist is most closely associated with the idea of art as imitation ?
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Who discusses cosmology and the battle of Heaven with Adam ?
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The study of signs is termed as_________?
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How many soliloquies does Hamlet deliver ?
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In his essay ?What Is an Author?? what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?
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Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
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What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?
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Who invented the term ?Sprung rhythm? ?
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On the Sublime was written in_____________?
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Harapha claims he wishes he could have fought Samson when he had his eyesight because_____________?
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Martin Luther?s translation of what text helped to develop a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation ?
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Which of the following accurately describes the way in which the comitatus ethic is represented in Beowulf, The Seafarer, and The Wanderer ?
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Who was killed by Hamlet unintentionally ?
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one of Chaucer?s daughter was___________?
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?April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot?s__________________?
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Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?
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With which of the following genres is The Romance of the Rose most closely associated ?
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How does Emily show initiative in ?The Mysteries of Udolpho? ?
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What are some common criticisms of literary theory ?
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Who introduced the Italian sonnet to the British Isles during the reign of King Henry VIII ?
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Who is the central character in Hemingway?s novel The Old Man and the Sea ?
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Etheridge Knight?s ?Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane,? what is Hard Rock?s function in the prison ?
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Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
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When Wordsworth?s ?Immortality Ode? was first published in 1802, it had only ?
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Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Saffin ?
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Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot ?
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During which war the castle of Edmund Spenser, Kilcolman by name burnt by native Irish forces ?
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A ?classic? book is usually one that possesses what quality ?
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Who said ?Cowards die many times before their death? ?
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Words which represent the sounds of their referents are called___________________?
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The English masque has its origins in the traditions of what European country ?
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Although at least one critic has likened Thornfield to Bridewell, in what way are the two structures different ?
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Who is the author of Symposium ?
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The farmer drove his plough-share deep ?Whose bones are these?? said he, ?I find them where my browsing sheep Roam o?er the upland lea.? What does ?lea? mean? Veldu eitt ?
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?O Captain! My Captain!? is a poem written by______________?
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