English Literature Quiz 46
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Which of the following authors is NOT considered to be a practitioner of ?Magical Realism? ?
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Who established the Lyceum ?
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In Poem Daffodils ?Sprightly Dance? means________________?
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When did John Milton die ?
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Whitman uses line length and word choice to represent________________?
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Who is Voltimand ?
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In Paul Laurence Dunbar?s ?When Malindy Sings,? what kind of music is Malindy singing ?
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The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?
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Which is true of childbirth in the Middle Ages ?
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Which represents an example of alliteration ?
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The concept of otherness is related to which of the following theories ?
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Which of the following phrases best describes the central goal of Imagist poets ?
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Beowulf introduces the reader to the life of a thegn. Which of the following best describes the role of the thegn ?
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In the first 75 lines of Book One of ?Paradise Regained,? Satan refers to which person he has recently seen, who is identified by the following quote? ?Before him [Jesus] a great Prophet, to proclaim / His coming, is sent Harbinger, who all / Invites, and in the Consecrated stream / Pretends to wash off sin? ?
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Which among the following is an example for onomatopoeia ?
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Rabbit Angstrom Novels are written by ____________?
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John Milton was born in 1608 in what city ?
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What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
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In The Dubliners, which negative characteristic(s) does Joyce associate with Dublin as a place ?
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?Of Human Bondage? is written by_____________?
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In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature ?
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What do most critics believe the ?rose? of The Romance of the Rose symbolizes ?
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According to the tale, what horrible crime did the ucle commit ?
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Poetry is defined as ?Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling? by___________?
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Carlyle?s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of ?
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Which historical figure appears in the circle of lust ?
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What was the only acknowledged religion in England during the early sixteenth century ?
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In Chapter XV of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, where did Linda hide ?
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Which of the following Post-Modern theoreticians explores the contradictions of colonial discourse and the ambivalence that the colonizer feels towards the colonized ?other? in works such as ?Nation and Narration? ?
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William Blake?s /Songs of ?counterbalance his ?Songs of Experience? ?
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The foremost poet of Jacobean era was ?
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John Lyly became instantly famous with the publication of what text ?
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The poem ?Wind? is written by________________?
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Fill in the blank. According to Dr. Debra Schwartz, Greek ?new comedy? was often characterized as being ?
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Shakespeare died at the age of______________?
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Who was the first English Christian king ?
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According to Theodor Adorno?s and Max Horkheimer?s ?The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,? which of the following is true of the culture industry ?
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Who is of the following both a poet and a novelist?
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How is the concept of ?the new woman? Gothic ?
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The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as ?
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What is the significance of the words ?moocow? and ?tuckoo,? according to most critics ?
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Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in listing the items ?
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In Ulysses, which stylistic characteristic(s) appear ?
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The theory of Biolinguistics is given by__________?
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Which of the following was an important influence on Charles Reznikoff?s shift away from romantic rhetoric ?
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All of the following are associated with Gothic architecture EXCEPT_______________?
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How does The Cross, as speaker, portray Jesus in The Dream of the Rood ?
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This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least one of the following stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage ?
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Which is an exaggeration ?
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Which religious radical advocated the civic toleration of all religions, including Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam ?
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