English Literature Quiz 42
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What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell?sHoratian Ode ?
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All of the following define the Gothic EXCEPT________________?
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What proceeded Jacobean era ?
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Which contemporary discussions on women?s rights did Tennyson?s The Princess address ?
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The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
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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 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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Which of the following characters from ?The Canterbury Tales? might represent the rising middle class of the 14th century ?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 18?, the poet does which of the following ?
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William Blake?s ?Little Black Boy? advocates for __________________?
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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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The Frankfurt School of literary theory was most greatly influenced by which of the following schools of thought ?
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Which devil is the main architect of Pandemonium ?
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Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?
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Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry ?
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Poet Alexander Pope?s famous work_________________?
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The term Implicature might refer to_________?
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John Keats died from________________?
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Vanity Fair is a novel by ?
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What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure?s Course in General Linguistics ?
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Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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Jack London?s ?To Build a Fire? contained foreshadowing, which means_____________?
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The novel ?The Jungle Book? is written by_______________?
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Constitution of 1962, provided ___________ form of government ?
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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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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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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 human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare?s Hamlet ?
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What do most critics find notable about the virtues that Pizan highlights in her work ?
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What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
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What is a lai ?
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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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Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
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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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According to John Milton?s view of the structure of the universe, the ?Created Universe? is surrounded by what ?
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Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ?
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When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern ?
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How does the character Dracula unsettle the Victorian patriarchy ?
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In Shakespeare?s play, Henry V is king of what country ?
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Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term ?Orientalism? ?
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Wordsworth?s theory of poetry appears in_____________?
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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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____________________are also called prosodic features?
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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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