English Literature Quiz 42
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Which contemporary discussions on women?s rights did Tennyson?s The Princess address ?
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William Blake?s ?Little Black Boy? advocates for __________________?
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What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell?sHoratian Ode ?
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The term Implicature might refer to_________?
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According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, ?The Strivings of the Negro People,? what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?
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One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
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Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?
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About Johnathan Edwards____________?
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Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry ?
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Which devil is the main architect of Pandemonium ?
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Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term ?Orientalism? ?
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In Shakespeare?s play, Henry V is king of what country ?
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Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in West Africa ?
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All of the following define the Gothic EXCEPT________________?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 18?, the poet does which of the following ?
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Tennyson wrote____________?
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The Frankfurt School of literary theory was most greatly influenced by which of the following schools of thought ?
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What proceeded Jacobean era ?
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Jack London?s ?To Build a Fire? contained foreshadowing, which means_____________?
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Constitution of 1962, provided ___________ form of government ?
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In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington?s Up from Slavery, Washington?s primary goal is to______________?
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Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism ?
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Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare?s Hamlet ?
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Which of the following characters from ?The Canterbury Tales? might represent the rising middle class of the 14th century ?
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Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
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In The Dubliners, how does Joyce use epiphanies ?
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What is Christopher Ricks?s attitude toward literary theory ?
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In The Purgatorio, what is the function of the residents? punishments ?
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What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure?s Course in General Linguistics ?
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The characteristic of Naturalism that is most present in the first chapter of Ralph Ellison?s Invisible Man is_____________?
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When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern ?
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Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ?
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How does the character Dracula unsettle the Victorian patriarchy ?
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In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues; while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim. What is the meaning of the word audacity ?
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In Caedmon?s Hymn, the poet borrows the language of which literary form ?
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____________________are also called prosodic features?
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The theme of Tennyson?s Poem ?The Princess? is ?
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The novel ?The Jungle Book? is written by_______________?
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Poet Alexander Pope?s famous work_________________?
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What do most critics find notable about the virtues that Pizan highlights in her work ?
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What is a lai ?
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What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
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John Keats died from________________?
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Vanity Fair is a novel by ?
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Wordsworth?s theory of poetry appears in_____________?
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According to John Milton?s view of the structure of the universe, the ?Created Universe? is surrounded by what ?
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The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
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Which of the following sentiments would be LEAST likely in a poem by Lord Byron ?
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In which University Victor Frankenstein develops the technique to reanimate the dead tissues which ultimately leads to the creation of the monster ?
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