English Literature Quiz 46
1 / 50
The concept of otherness is related to which of the following theories ?
2 / 50
Which historical figure appears in the circle of lust ?
3 / 50
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 ?
4 / 50
William Blake?s /Songs of ?counterbalance his ?Songs of Experience? ?
5 / 50
In The Dubliners, which negative characteristic(s) does Joyce associate with Dublin as a place ?
6 / 50
All of the following are associated with Gothic architecture EXCEPT_______________?
7 / 50
The poem ?Wind? is written by________________?
8 / 50
What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
9 / 50
Which is true of childbirth in the Middle Ages ?
10 / 50
Which religious radical advocated the civic toleration of all religions, including Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam ?
11 / 50
Which is an exaggeration ?
12 / 50
Which represents an example of alliteration ?
13 / 50
Shakespeare died at the age of______________?
14 / 50
In Poem Daffodils ?Sprightly Dance? means________________?
15 / 50
Who established the Lyceum ?
16 / 50
John Milton was born in 1608 in what city ?
17 / 50
In Paul Laurence Dunbar?s ?When Malindy Sings,? what kind of music is Malindy singing ?
18 / 50
How does The Cross, as speaker, portray Jesus in The Dream of the Rood ?
19 / 50
Who is of the following both a poet and a novelist?
20 / 50
The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as ?
21 / 50
Whitman uses line length and word choice to represent________________?
22 / 50
In Ulysses, which stylistic characteristic(s) appear ?
23 / 50
What do most critics believe the ?rose? of The Romance of the Rose symbolizes ?
24 / 50
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 ?
25 / 50
Who was the first English Christian king ?
26 / 50
Beowulf introduces the reader to the life of a thegn. Which of the following best describes the role of the thegn ?
27 / 50
Carlyle?s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of ?
28 / 50
When did John Milton die ?
29 / 50
Which among the following is an example for onomatopoeia ?
30 / 50
According to the tale, what horrible crime did the ucle commit ?
31 / 50
In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature ?
32 / 50
Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in listing the items ?
33 / 50
John Lyly became instantly famous with the publication of what text ?
34 / 50
What was the only acknowledged religion in England during the early sixteenth century ?
35 / 50
Which of the following was an important influence on Charles Reznikoff?s shift away from romantic rhetoric ?
36 / 50
Who is Voltimand ?
37 / 50
What is the significance of the words ?moocow? and ?tuckoo,? according to most critics ?
38 / 50
Fill in the blank. According to Dr. Debra Schwartz, Greek ?new comedy? was often characterized as being ?
39 / 50
How is the concept of ?the new woman? Gothic ?
40 / 50
The theory of Biolinguistics is given by__________?
41 / 50
The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?
42 / 50
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? ?
43 / 50
The foremost poet of Jacobean era was ?
44 / 50
In Chapter XV of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, where did Linda hide ?
45 / 50
?Of Human Bondage? is written by_____________?
46 / 50
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? ?
47 / 50
Rabbit Angstrom Novels are written by ____________?
48 / 50
Poetry is defined as ?Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling? by___________?
49 / 50
Which of the following phrases best describes the central goal of Imagist poets ?
50 / 50
Which of the following authors is NOT considered to be a practitioner of ?Magical Realism? ?
Provide Your Information
Your score is
The average score is 0%
Restart quiz
