English Literature Quiz 45
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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 of the following statements does NOT reflect the general characteristics of T.S. Eliot?s ?The Wasteland? ?
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This work was written before the other three choices ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Nathaniel Hawthorne ?
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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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? 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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Jane Austen?s other writings are______________?
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Which of the following is NOT a common attribute of Byronic heroes ?
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Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who is Richard?s elder brother ?
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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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Plato equated poetry with painting, and Aristotle equated it with_______________?
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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 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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Which of the following is a 19th century woman novelist?
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Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?
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Literary Theory and Criticism________________?
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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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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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Which is/are a theme(s) of ?The Acts of Thecla ??
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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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Who served as Protector under England?s first written constitution ?
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?Hamlet and Oedipus? was written by_______________?
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After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem ?Hero and Leander? ?
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Martin Luther King, Jr.?s ?Letter from Birmingham Jail,? King advocates_______________?
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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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Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________?s work?
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Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald?s novel The Great Gatsby (1925) ?
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/h/ in the word ?he? is a __________ sound?
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Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text ?
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How many books were originally planned to form the work The Faerie Queene ?
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Definition of unpaid seller is provided in Section _________ of The Sale of Goods Act, 1930?
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Who ?headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of Heav?n? ?
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Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare______________?
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Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of literacy in the 19thcentury ?
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A writer can establish ethos in a piece of writing by doing which of the following ?
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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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What is the study of poetry?s meter and form called ?
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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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Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance ?
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Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states ?
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Why do you think the uncle was named the ?Unnatural Uncle? ?
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What is the relationship between the practices of New Historicism and New Criticism ?
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Who wrote the book ?Ivan Hoe? ?
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According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child_________________?
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The genre Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild? is______________?
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Which of the following writers remained a firm believer in the Royal Supremacy ?
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How did the development of nation-states in the late Middle Ages affect women ?
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In ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? who is Nick Bottom ?
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