0% 1 English Literature Quiz 5 1 / 50 ______________ is the system of phonetic notation composed of symbols and letters devised by the International Phonetic Association? The intelligible phonetic script. The international phonetic script The international phonemic script The international phonetic alphabet 2 / 50 We associate John Winthrop with what colonial Settlement ? Mayflower compact Massachusetts Bay Colony Rhode Island Plymouth 3 / 50 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________________? Francis Bacon. Earl of Oxford. Thomas More. John Shakespeare. 4 / 50 HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by_______________? Thomas gray William Blake Edward gibbon Alexander Pope 5 / 50 The line ?Beauty is truth, truth beauty? occurs in which one of Keats? following poems_______________? Ode to Psyche Ode to Nightingale None of these Ode to Grecian Urn 6 / 50 Who contributed the term ?to see the object as in itself it really is? ? Wordsworth Goethe Coleridge Arnold 7 / 50 According to Hare, what work did the Earthmaker send him to do ? To play tricks on other animals to prove how intelligent he is The hare has no purpose that is why his grandmother must always watch over him To trample upon evil beings that were abusing his aunts and uncles To make mischief and cause trouble 8 / 50 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 ? A small mountain lake A bird A wide river A high cliff 9 / 50 What is the translation of the term ?dolce stil novo? ? ?The sweet silence? ?The sweetness of love? ?Sweet and still? ?Sweet new style? 10 / 50 What was a virago ? a saint who was NOT the humble, pious, and chaste figure she was expected to be a heroine who used female attributes to become a saint an anchorite an asexual female saint 11 / 50 In A Portrait of the Artist, what is Stephen?s relationship with his Irish nationality ? he deeply wants to leave Ireland, but he feels that, as an artist, he can only work with national themes he is conflicted by his desire to leave Ireland because he has inextricable ties to it he is committed to staying in Ireland he is sure of his desire to become a leader like Parnell because his friends and family universally praise Irish leaders 12 / 50 In the play, ?Macbeth,? who asks ?Whence is that knocking?? (2.11.55) Lady Macbeth Macbeth Macduff Duncan 13 / 50 Seven is an archetype associated with____________? Death Evil Birth Perfection 14 / 50 Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ? The Odyssey The Illiad The Aeneid The Bahagavad Gita 15 / 50 Who is considered to be the father of English novel ? Geoffery Chaucer Henry Fielding King Alfred the Great Francis Bacon 16 / 50 Who is addressed as ?you? in the poem ? an under achiever a romantic achiever a frustrated romantic idealist an accomplished royal 17 / 50 What do you mean by Quatrain ? a poem of fourteen lines a stanza of four lines a stanza of six lines a stanza of fourteen lines 18 / 50 In what century and in what literary era was the first Gothic novel written ? 18th century; Enlightenment 18th century; Romanticism 17th century; Enlightenment 19th century; Romanticism 19 / 50 Which is the longest book ? Book X Book I Book IX Book VIII 20 / 50 The two great linguists who have contributed much to frame the device of Immediate Constituent analysis are__________________? Edward Sapir & Ferdinand de Saussure Leonard Bloomfield & Max__Muller Max__Muller & Herman Gundert Leonard Bloomfield & Noam Chomsky 21 / 50 Who of the following were among Shakespeare?s royal patrons ? King Richard King James I. Queen Victoria King Henry 22 / 50 Who is the author of ?Man and Superman? ? W. Shakespeare Leo Tolstoy Charles Dickens George Bernard Shaw 23 / 50 This is the implied comparison between two dissimilar things_______________? Metaphor Tradition History Myth 24 / 50 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 ______________? Partner Mercantile agent None of above Agent 25 / 50 In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet ? The Tatler New Poetry The Rambler The European Magazine 26 / 50 Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice Walker?s ?Everyday Use? ? She doesn?t want Maggie to have it. She wants to display it for her friends to see. She loves the beauty of it. She is proud of her heritage. 27 / 50 What is ?Mimesis? ? It is a philosophical and critical term meaning ?otherness.? It is a philosophical term which means ?imitation? or ?mimicry.? It is a critical term, which describes the act of expression and the presentation of self-identity, theorized by academics, such as Erich Auerbach. A and C only 28 / 50 /f/ and /v/ are called ? Affricates Plosives Trill fricatives 29 / 50 What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ? A language that does not yet constitute a real language A language about another language All of the above answers are correct. A supernatural language 30 / 50 Which of the following poets does Milton emulate ? Neither Virgil or Homer Homer Both Virgil and Homer Virgil 31 / 50 Georges Braque?s ?Woman with a Guitar? is an example of which of the following artistic movements ? Cubism Vorticism Futurism A and B only 32 / 50 In The Paradiso, which class of people does Dante place on the moon ? Those with the most constancy of characters The souls of those who abandoned their vows The best emperors and rulers The proud 33 / 50 Which of the following statements offers the best definition of the concept of strange attractors in chaos theory ? Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are entirely random. Strange attractors are complex forces that are entirely random. Strange attractors are complex forces that are determined by the laws of physics. Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are both random and determined. 34 / 50 Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle ? Ars Poetica Ethics Rhetoric Metaphysics 35 / 50 In which way was Dante a precursor of humanism ? He was uninterested in the poetics of the sublime. He promoted the worship of idolatrous statues from the ancient times. He wrote classical epics with Christian materials. He rejected the influence of Scholasticism. 36 / 50 According to Aristotle pity and fear are evoked by_______________? Satire Tragedy Comedy Melodrama 37 / 50 ?Paradise Lost? was written by__________________? W B Yeats John Milton Mathew Robert Browning 38 / 50 In which way does Gilman?s ?The Yellow Wallpaper? include elements of the uncanny ? An apparently normal person is revealed as a man. It reflects a woman?s everyday life. An everyday object causes her terror. It features a body transformation. 39 / 50 ____________was father of Desdemona ? Gratiano Iago Brabantio Othello 40 / 50 The fruit of which tree were Adam and Eve forbidden to eat ? Tree of Knowledge Tree of Life Tree of God Tree of Sin 41 / 50 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 ? Unity of effect Didactic effect Ratiocinactive effect Cataleptic effect 42 / 50 Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England ? They were part of the High Church or the Catholicside of the church. They were devout tractarians,as described by John Henry Newman. Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833. A group of unattractive people relegated to the colonies to perform missionary work where they wouldn?t tarnish the aesthetics of the Church of England. 43 / 50 Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ? The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages. WorldWar I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images. The Imagists valued brevity, which could be achieved with precise visual images, whereasWorldWar I poets preferred declamatory statements in their poems. There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry. 44 / 50 Othello was a _________________? Prince of Denmark General of England General of Denmark Prince of England 45 / 50 Murder in the Cathedral? is a play written by___________? Shakespeare T.S. Eliot Oscar Wilde Marlowe 46 / 50 The prevailing feature of Chaucer?s humour is its__________________? crudity sanctity triviality urbanity 47 / 50 Which of the following factors did not contribute to the growth of the reading public in this period ? Innovations in retailing, such as the cut-price sale of remaindered books Technological developments, such as the steam-driven printing press The notoriety of the Lake School Increased literacy, thanks in large part to Sunday schools 48 / 50 According to Dante, which class of people reside on the planet Mars ? The wise The contemplative The justice rulers The warriors of faith 49 / 50 While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ? a book of model letters a history of everyday life an instructional manual for manners a book of devotion 50 / 50 At the end of the play ?Richard III,? what happens to Richard ? He is killed. He is arrested. He is crowned king. He was sent into exile. 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