English Literature Quiz 45
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What author speaks of the exemplary story as a fundamental narrative unit in which it is important to follow chronological order ?
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Why do you think the uncle was named the ?Unnatural Uncle? ?
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Plato equated poetry with painting, and Aristotle equated it with_______________?
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Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________?s work?
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Who ?headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of Heav?n? ?
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Definition of unpaid seller is provided in Section _________ of The Sale of Goods Act, 1930?
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Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald?s novel The Great Gatsby (1925) ?
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How many books were originally planned to form the work The Faerie Queene ?
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Which of the following writers remained a firm believer in the Royal Supremacy ?
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Which of the following statements does NOT reflect the general characteristics of T.S. Eliot?s ?The Wasteland? ?
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According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child_________________?
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Who served as Protector under England?s first written constitution ?
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Who defined language as ?a purely human and noninstinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols? ?
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Famous romantic poets were_____________?
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When there was a momentary calm in that tempestuous sea of sound, the leader gave the sign, the procession resumed its march. On they went, like fiends that throng in mockery around some dead potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man?s heart. This is______________?
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Which of the following is NOT a common attribute of Byronic heroes ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Nathaniel Hawthorne ?
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A writer can establish ethos in a piece of writing by doing which of the following ?
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Monadnock on his forehead hoar Doth seal the sacred trust, Your mountains build their monument, Though ye destroy their dust. What is the meaning of the word ?hoar? ?
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As per-section 2(1), a person who buys or agrees to buy goods is called ________________?
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Which is/are a theme(s) of ?The Acts of Thecla ??
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Who wrote the book ?Ivan Hoe? ?
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Martin Luther King, Jr.?s ?Letter from Birmingham Jail,? King advocates_______________?
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Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of literacy in the 19thcentury ?
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In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called ?
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What is the study of poetry?s meter and form called ?
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?Hamlet and Oedipus? was written by_______________?
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/h/ in the word ?he? is a __________ sound?
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Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?
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In ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? who is Nick Bottom ?
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Jane Austen?s other writings are______________?
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Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance ?
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How did the development of nation-states in the late Middle Ages affect women ?
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Literary Theory and Criticism________________?
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Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states ?
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Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea behind Anthony DiMatteo?s essay, ?Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ?Reason of State? in ?Hamlet?? ?
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This work was written before the other three choices ?
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Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?
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? Some born great, some achieve greatness And some have greatness thrust upon them?. Above lines are taken from which of following plays ?
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Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare______________?
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The genre Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild? is______________?
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After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem ?Hero and Leander? ?
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What is the relationship between the practices of New Historicism and New Criticism ?
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Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text ?
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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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Which of the following is a 19th century woman novelist?
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As a result of the outbreak of World War I and anti-German sentiment which important British public figure had to adopt the family name of Windsor ?
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Choose the BEST answer to fill in the blank. John Milton is best described as a strong who emphasized the freedom of the individual ?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who is Richard?s elder brother ?
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According to Dr. Frances Pritchett?s version of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi?s ?The Historical Novel and the Historical Narrative?, what is the difference between a historical narrative and a historical novel ?
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