English Literature Quiz 42
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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 is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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The theme of Tennyson?s Poem ?The Princess? is ?
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Poet Alexander Pope?s famous work_________________?
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In Shakespeare?s play, Henry V is king of what country ?
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Tennyson wrote____________?
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The novel ?The Jungle Book? is written by_______________?
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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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Wordsworth?s theory of poetry appears in_____________?
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The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
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Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ?
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____________________are also called prosodic features?
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Which of the following sentiments would be LEAST likely in a poem by Lord Byron ?
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What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell?sHoratian Ode ?
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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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Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare?s Hamlet ?
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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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Which of the following characters from ?The Canterbury Tales? might represent the rising middle class of the 14th century ?
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What proceeded Jacobean era ?
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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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Vanity Fair is a novel by ?
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What is Christopher Ricks?s attitude toward literary theory ?
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Jack London?s ?To Build a Fire? contained foreshadowing, which means_____________?
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Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term ?Orientalism? ?
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Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
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Which contemporary discussions on women?s rights did Tennyson?s The Princess address ?
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How does the character Dracula unsettle the Victorian patriarchy ?
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When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern ?
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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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Which devil is the main architect of Pandemonium ?
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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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One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
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In The Dubliners, how does Joyce use epiphanies ?
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What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
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What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure?s Course in General Linguistics ?
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In The Purgatorio, what is the function of the residents? punishments ?
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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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What is a lai ?
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What do most critics find notable about the virtues that Pizan highlights in her work ?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 18?, the poet does which of the following ?
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Constitution of 1962, provided ___________ form of government ?
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Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?
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Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in West Africa ?
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John Keats died from________________?
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In Caedmon?s Hymn, the poet borrows the language of which literary form ?
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The term Implicature might refer to_________?
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William Blake?s ?Little Black Boy? advocates for __________________?
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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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All of the following define the Gothic EXCEPT________________?
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