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