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