English Literature Quiz 42
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Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry ?
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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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In Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 18?, the poet does which of the following ?
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Wordsworth?s theory of poetry appears in_____________?
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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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What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
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Constitution of 1962, provided ___________ form of government ?
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Jack London?s ?To Build a Fire? contained foreshadowing, which means_____________?
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What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure?s Course in General Linguistics ?
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William Blake?s ?Little Black Boy? advocates for __________________?
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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 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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John Keats died from________________?
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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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In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washington?s Up from Slavery, Washington?s primary goal is to______________?
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All of the following define the Gothic EXCEPT________________?
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Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?
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How does the character Dracula unsettle the Victorian patriarchy ?
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In Caedmon?s Hymn, the poet borrows the language of which literary form ?
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Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in West Africa ?
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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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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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What proceeded Jacobean era ?
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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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What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell?sHoratian Ode ?
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Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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____________________are also called prosodic features?
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The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
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Poet Alexander Pope?s famous work_________________?
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About Johnathan Edwards____________?
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In The Purgatorio, what is the function of the residents? punishments ?
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What is Christopher Ricks?s attitude toward literary theory ?
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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 is a lai ?
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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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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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The theme of Tennyson?s Poem ?The Princess? is ?
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Which contemporary discussions on women?s rights did Tennyson?s The Princess address ?
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Tennyson wrote____________?
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Which of the following sentiments would be LEAST likely in a poem by Lord Byron ?
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Vanity Fair is a novel by ?
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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 Dubliners, how does Joyce use epiphanies ?
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One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
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The term Implicature might refer to_________?
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In Shakespeare?s play, Henry V is king of what country ?
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