English Literature Quiz 42
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Tennyson wrote____________?
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Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in West Africa ?
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The novel ?The Jungle Book? is written by_______________?
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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 Christopher Ricks?s attitude toward literary theory ?
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All of the following define the Gothic EXCEPT________________?
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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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William Blake?s ?Little Black Boy? advocates for __________________?
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How does the character Dracula unsettle the Victorian patriarchy ?
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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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In The Purgatorio, what is the function of the residents? punishments ?
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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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The theme of Tennyson?s Poem ?The Princess? is ?
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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 the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure?s Course in General Linguistics ?
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Vanity Fair is a novel by ?
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What is a lai ?
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Which devil is the main architect of Pandemonium ?
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What proceeded Jacobean era ?
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Poet Alexander Pope?s famous work_________________?
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One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
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Which contemporary discussions on women?s rights did Tennyson?s The Princess address ?
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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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John Keats died from________________?
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Jack London?s ?To Build a Fire? contained foreshadowing, which means_____________?
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Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?
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Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term ?Orientalism? ?
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Constitution of 1962, provided ___________ form of government ?
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Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ?
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The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
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Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 18?, the poet does which of the following ?
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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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Wordsworth?s theory of poetry appears in_____________?
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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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Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry ?
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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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When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern ?
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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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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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In The Dubliners, how does Joyce use epiphanies ?
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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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What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell?sHoratian Ode ?
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What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
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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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