English Literature Quiz 49
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Fill in the blank. The term ?Renaissance? literally translates as ?_____________? ?
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One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the ?bestial? side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the ?bestial? side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the ?grownup? world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?
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Which of the following best characterizes an Elizabethan masque ?
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Dryden wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Is this ?
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Many critics see similarities between the tenets of Futurism and which of the following political philosophies ?
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Which of the following theorists is associated with formalism ?
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How is Thornfield in ?Jane Eyre? different from the structures found in the first wave of Gothic novels ?
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Fill in the blank. In the second edition of_________________, John Foxe promised that he would edit a collection of the works of William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes?
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In Book Four of ?Paradise Regained,? for his final temptation Satan takes Jesus to what location ?
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The New Critics were_________________?
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?Lapis Lazuli? is __________________?
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Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laureate in_______________?
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Which poet would be most likely to write a poem reflecting upon the psychological changes he has undergone since his youth ?
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To whom did Edmund Spenser addresses his sonnet sequence Amoretti ?
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Aphra Behn?s Oroonoko is a transitional text in all of the following ways EXCEPT________________?
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I would not have it imagined, however, that he was one of those cruel potentates of the school, who joy in the smart of their subjects; on the contrary, he administered justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burthen off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong. What is the meaning of the word ?smart? in this context ?
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Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
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From where does Eliza cross into Cananda ?
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What is the difference between traditional literary criticism and post-New Criticism literary theory ?
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About Anne Bradstreet__________________?
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Which of the following statements would Percy Shelley, author of ?A Defense of Poetry?, agree with ?
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?Tales from Shakespeare? is written by________________?
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Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?
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From where Christopher Marlowe received his early Education ?
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Which of the following is the first novel of H. Lawrence ?
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?An Indian?s Looking Glass for the White Man? illustrates what genre of early American writing ?
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John Milton?s ?Lycidas? is what genre of poetry ?
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In ?The Gift of the Magi? Della is presented as_____________?
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Which of the following is the theme of De Vulgari Eloquentia ?
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Some of the movements that took place in the modernist time period include___________?
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Which of the following best defines mysticism ?
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Which of the following statements about the poems in Blake?s Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the central questions faced by poetry after the Holocaust ?
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Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century ?
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Who is Cato ?
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Which genre is based on interactions between three feudal classes ?
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How does the Encyclop?die best epitomize the mission of the Enlightenment ?
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How old is Emmeline ?
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Find the odd one out____________________?
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Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?
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Which of the following statements offers the best characterization of a Greek tragedy ?
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Which cultural theme is NOT referenced in Stoker?s ?Dracula? ?
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Complete the following famous line from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state of_____________?
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The Canterbury Tales is an unfinished work, wherein each pilgrim was supposed to tell more than one tale. How many tales did Chaucer originally envision each pilgrim telling ?
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Along the way, goodman Brown and the character who seems to be the devil meet three people______________?
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?Essays of Elia? was written by______________?
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With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?
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Which of the following statements best represents Lacan?s view of Ophelia in his essay, ?Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in ?Hamlet?? ?
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Which of these female writers was least likely to have been literate ?
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William Shakespeare was______________ child of John and Mary?
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