English Literature Quiz 43
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Who said ?Keats was a Greek? ?
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The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?
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Edmund Spenser is a_________________?
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Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ?Ode to the West Wind? ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the form of Claude McKay?s poem ?The Harlem Dancer? ?
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Who were the ?Two Nations? referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli?s Sybil (1845) ?
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How does the uncanny function in ?Frankenstein? ?
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What is the main goal of ethnic criticism ?
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Which of the following best defines caesura ?
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?The Revolt of Islam? was written by________________?
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How was mystical literature significant ?
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With which important literary figure(s) was Joyce in contact in his lifetime ?
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?Picture must not be too picturesque?. Emerson here means pictures must_______________?
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Who is the first modern novelist ?
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Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?
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Words such as ?smog? and ?motel? are instances of ____________?
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Coleridge?s Biographia Literaria appeared in the year ?.
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What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?
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His ?To Penthurst? is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement ?
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John Keats would probably NOT have written a poem celebrating _______________?
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John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? is best described by which of the following genres ?
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Who is the Writer of The White Tiger ?
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Which statement below best defined Dickinson?s idea of circumference ?
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Fill in the blanks from Tennyson?s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the ?..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________?
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what was the occupation of Chaucer?s father ?
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Which of the following is NOT one of the general themes of concern in Derek Walcott?s poem?Becune Point? ?
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Despite Samson?s defeat and shame, Samson predicts that God will ?arise and his great name assert? by making Dagon receive ?Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies won on me / And with confusion blank his Worshippers? (467?71). This prediction is interesting because ?
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What does George Shelby give Uncle Tom to wear on a string around his neck before Tom is taken away ?
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Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written_______________?
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Which of the following is an example of female hagiography ?
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On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared_________________?
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?Elegy? is______________________?
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In ?Samson Agonistes,? Samson?s father, Manoa, is trying to get Samson freed from imprisonment mainly so he can help Samson to____________?
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What do Wordsworth?s ?Tintern Abbey? and Coleridge?s ?Dejection Ode? have in common ?
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The classification of vowels into high vowels and low vowels is based on ____________?
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Which of the following best defines alliterative verse ?
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John Milton?s ?L?Allegro? and ?Il Penseroso? are companion poems and are both written in ?
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Who should NOT be viewed as Prometheus in Shelley?s ?Frankenstein? ?
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Dickens? first novel which focused on the specific social ills was______________?
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In ?Macbeth,? where is Macduff when he learns of his family?s execution ?
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The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as____________?
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______________is the degree of force with which a sound of syllable is uttereD ?
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In which essay did Arnold say that for good literature to flourish two powers are necessary ? creative and the critical ?
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An Elizabethan Puritan critic denounced the poets as ?fathers of lies?,?schools of abuse? and?caterpillars of a commonwealth?. Mark him out from the following crities________________?
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The concept of otherness is related to which of the following theories ?
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Which was Marlowe?s first play ?
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Macbeth is a_____________?
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From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?
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Fill in the blank. In Shakespeare?s plays, prose is often used in_________________?
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In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown?s Clotel, why was Clotel made to cut her long hair ?
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