English Literature Quiz 45
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Why do you think the uncle was named the ?Unnatural Uncle? ?
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How did the development of nation-states in the late Middle Ages affect women ?
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Plato equated poetry with painting, and Aristotle equated it with_______________?
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Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of literacy in the 19thcentury ?
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In the play, ?Richard III,? who is Richard?s elder brother ?
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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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This work was written before the other three choices ?
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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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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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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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In ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? who is Nick Bottom ?
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Which of the following writers remained a firm believer in the Royal Supremacy ?
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Who ?headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of Heav?n? ?
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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 does NOT reflect the general characteristics of T.S. Eliot?s ?The Wasteland? ?
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Which is/are a theme(s) of ?The Acts of Thecla ??
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?Hamlet and Oedipus? was written by_______________?
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Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________?s work?
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According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child_________________?
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Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?
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What is the study of poetry?s meter and form called ?
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Who wrote the book ?Ivan Hoe? ?
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/h/ in the word ?he? is a __________ sound?
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Literary Theory and Criticism________________?
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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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Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance ?
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Famous romantic poets were_____________?
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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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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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How many books were originally planned to form the work The Faerie Queene ?
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Jane Austen?s other writings are______________?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Nathaniel Hawthorne ?
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Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?
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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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What is the relationship between the practices of New Historicism and New Criticism ?
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After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem ?Hero and Leander? ?
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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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The genre Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild? is______________?
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Which of the following is a 19th century woman novelist?
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Definition of unpaid seller is provided in Section _________ of The Sale of Goods Act, 1930?
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Which of the following is NOT a common attribute of Byronic heroes ?
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Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare______________?
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Martin Luther King, Jr.?s ?Letter from Birmingham Jail,? King advocates_______________?
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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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A writer can establish ethos in a piece of writing by doing which of the following ?
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As per-section 2(1), a person who buys or agrees to buy goods is called ________________?
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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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Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald?s novel The Great Gatsby (1925) ?
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Who served as Protector under England?s first written constitution ?
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Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text ?
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