English Literature Quiz 48
1 / 50
Edmund Spenser was directly influenced by which writer?s epic poetry ?
2 / 50
What do structuralist and formalist critics have in common ?
3 / 50
In his Letter to Can Grande, which topic does Dante attempt to explain ?
4 / 50
Who was ?Fortinbras? ?
5 / 50
The initial sound in ?chair? and ?jam? are examples for__________?
6 / 50
Which Romantic poet did Shelley consider a close friend ?
7 / 50
Fill in the blank. ____________ is remembered as the ?Morning Star of the Reformation.?
8 / 50
What does the term ?translatio studii? mean ?
9 / 50
What is the name of the sequel to Paradise Lost ?
10 / 50
What is the purpose of feminist theory ?
11 / 50
Which is the first major work of Geoffrey Chaucer ?
12 / 50
Wordsworth described all good poetry as______________?
13 / 50
Where did Edmund Spenser born ?
14 / 50
Which of the following poems can be described as a haiku ?
15 / 50
How many nasal sounds are there in the Malayalam language ?
16 / 50
Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
17 / 50
When was Paradise Regained published ?
18 / 50
Early in Book Two of ?Paradise Regained,? who yearns to see the missing Jesus (who has wandered into the desert) ?
19 / 50
What religion was Mary Queen of Scots ?
20 / 50
What do you mean by Diction ?
21 / 50
Who is the author of Ars Poetica ?
22 / 50
In A Portrait of the Artist, the main character is named after which mythical figure ?
23 / 50
Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word ?
24 / 50
New trends in literary theory tend to do which of the following ?
25 / 50
Which of the following best defines the work of a deconstructionist critic ?
26 / 50
Langston Hughes was among the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of his experiences before he published his first book ?
27 / 50
In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
28 / 50
What type of non-rhymed poetry did Christopher Marlowe pioneer ?
29 / 50
?Of all philosopher?s Plato is the most poetic.? Who said this______________?
30 / 50
?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? as a literary work exposed the evils of________________?
31 / 50
The initial /l/ and the final /l/ in the word ?little? are___________?
32 / 50
Who is the writer of ?The Charge of the Light Brigade? ?
33 / 50
In the play, ?Henry V,? who is the close friend and mentor of young Henry ?
34 / 50
The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the ?
35 / 50
Who served as an Irish senator for two terms? A___________ Wilde?
36 / 50
About the Delaware_______________?
37 / 50
Which qualities do the fixed stars in paradise represent ?
38 / 50
In what way does the Gothic novel of the 18th century differ from the modern English novel that began to emerge in the 17th century and flourished in the 18th century ?
39 / 50
Which of the following best explains the treatment of the heroine in ?The Mysteries of Udolpho? ?
40 / 50
Shakespeare often employed which of the following stylistic forms in his dramas ?
41 / 50
What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley?s poems to the working classes A Song: Men of Englandand England in 1819 ?
42 / 50
What is the philosophical theory known as pragmatism ?
43 / 50
Who wrote the poem ?The Seven Ages? ?
44 / 50
A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers? intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.
45 / 50
Which of the following theaters could be found in England after Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne ?
46 / 50
Which of the following themes appears in ?The Miller?s Tale? ?
47 / 50
What was the Great Migration ?
48 / 50
Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
49 / 50
Which Romantic poet would be the least likely to write a piece of literary criticism ?
50 / 50
Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill are characters from the novel____________?
Provide Your Information
Your score is
The average score is 0%
Restart quiz
