English Literature Quiz 5
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While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
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It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down ? but with a shudder even more thrilling than before ? upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?
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This is the implied comparison between two dissimilar things_______________?
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What do you mean by Quatrain ?
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Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice Walker?s ?Everyday Use? ?
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In which way was Dante a precursor of humanism ?
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/f/ and /v/ are called ?
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The two great linguists who have contributed much to frame the device of Immediate Constituent analysis are__________________?
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Who is the author of ?Man and Superman? ?
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Who is addressed as ?you? in the poem ?
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Which of the following poets does Milton emulate ?
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The prevailing feature of Chaucer?s humour is its__________________?
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Georges Braque?s ?Woman with a Guitar? is an example of which of the following artistic movements ?
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Which of the following factors did not contribute to the growth of the reading public in this period ?
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The fruit of which tree were Adam and Eve forbidden to eat ?
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In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet ?
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What is the translation of the term ?dolce stil novo? ?
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The agent having in customary course of business as such agent authority either to sell goods or to consign goods for the purpose of sale or to buy goods or to raise money on the security of goods is called ______________?
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What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
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The line ?Beauty is truth, truth beauty? occurs in which one of Keats? following poems_______________?
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Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?
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Who of the following were among Shakespeare?s royal patrons ?
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In A Portrait of the Artist, what is Stephen?s relationship with his Irish nationality ?
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HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by_______________?
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According to Dante, which class of people reside on the planet Mars ?
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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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Othello was a _________________?
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What is ?Mimesis? ?
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According to Aristotle pity and fear are evoked by_______________?
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At the end of the play ?Richard III,? what happens to Richard ?
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In what century and in what literary era was the first Gothic novel written ?
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What was a virago ?
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In the play, ?Macbeth,? who asks ?Whence is that knocking?? (2.11.55)
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According to skeptics of Shakespeare?s authorship, all of the following are considered to be the ?true? authors of some of Shakespeare?s plays EXCEPT________________?
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Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ?
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We associate John Winthrop with what colonial Settlement ?
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In The Paradiso, which class of people does Dante place on the moon ?
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Which is the longest book ?
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According to Hare, what work did the Earthmaker send him to do ?
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Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?
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?Paradise Lost? was written by__________________?
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____________was father of Desdemona ?
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Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle ?
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Who contributed the term ?to see the object as in itself it really is? ?
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I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment?that of looking down within the tarn?had been to deepen the first singular impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition? for why should I not so term it??served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis. This work exemplifies ?
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Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England ?
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Seven is an archetype associated with____________?
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Murder in the Cathedral? is a play written by___________?
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______________ is the system of phonetic notation composed of symbols and letters devised by the International Phonetic Association?
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In which way does Gilman?s ?The Yellow Wallpaper? include elements of the uncanny ?
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