English Literature Quiz 47
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What Pope poem begins, ?In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav?nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal?s veins ??
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According to Dante, which is necessary in order to make a perfect confession ?
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Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?
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The poem ?London? can be best understood as ______________?
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?When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. ? After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading???
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What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare?s Hamlet ?
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How many plays didWilliam Shakespeare write ?
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This term refers to the ?feeling? of a word______________?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughes?s poem ?The Negro Speaks of Rivers? ?
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Which of the following political themes was explored by American Objectivist poets ?
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Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
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The style of Paradise Lost is ?
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Which poet defines poetry as ?the expression of the imagination? ?
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This group united 5 tribes_____________?
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?A long poem is a combination of short poems.? Who has held the above opinion ?
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?Beauty is truth, truth is beauty? is stated by_____________?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of the concept of strange attractors in chaos theory ?
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The word ?Jacobean? is derived from the ___________ name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James?
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What is denouement ____________?
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______________________is a processes of word formation wherein new words are coined by combining the segments of two different existing words?
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According to critics, how does Dante?s underworld differ from Virgil?s hell ?
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Which Romantic poet was famous for being ?mad, bad and dangerous to know? ?
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What was the ?white man?s burden? that Kipling speaks of in his poem of the same title ?
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What is hermeneutics ?
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Which of the following is true of Charles Baudelaire?s ?B?n?diction? ?
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H.D.?s poem ?Oread? reads: ?WHIRL up, sea-/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green over us-/Cover us with your pools of fir.? To which of the following categories does this poem belong ?
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Wanders in that happy valley Through two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically To a lute?s well-tun?d law, Round about a throne, where sitting (Porphyrogene!) In state his glory well befitting, The sovereign of the realm was seen. What does Porphyrogene mean ?
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Which of the following is not a character in Paradise Lost ?
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What is distinctive about Emily?s bedchamber at Udolpho ?
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Let me for a few moments turn your attention to the reservations in the different states of New England, and, with but few exceptions, we shall find them as follows: the most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world ? a complete place of prodigality and prostitution. What does ?prodigality? mean ?
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The emagery in the poem is_________________?
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In her essay ?The Laugh of the Medusa,? what does H?l?ne Cixous suggest for women ?
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The main plot of Richardson?s Pamela reflects the main characteristics of the sentimental novel through its emphasis on which of the following ?
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In Beowulf, what is the significance of the term whale-road ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the role played by Gertrude Stein in American modernism ?
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?Macbeth and Oedipus? is by_________________?
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Who is Sharp-elbow ?
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What ritual does the character resembling the devil attempt to perform in the woods, with goodman Brown as the object ?
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Who wrote ?Mirror for Magistrates? ?
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All works of the highest art are meant to______________?
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The present__tense form of the verb ?read? and its past__tense which is pronounced as ?red? is an example of _____________?
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William Blake?s ?Songs of Innocence and Experience? explores ________________?
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Feminist criticism focuses on exploring which of the following aspects of literary texts ?
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?Hero and Hero worship? was written by______________?
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As per Constitution of 1962 age limit for Judge of Supreme Court was______________?
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Renaissance thinkers argued that women should be educated______________?
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Which of the following would probably NOT be the topic of a Romantic poem ?
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What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
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Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?
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Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria ?
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