0% 1 English Literature Quiz 5 1 / 50 While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ? a book of devotion a book of model letters an instructional manual for manners a history of everyday life 2 / 50 According to Hare, what work did the Earthmaker send him to do ? 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 play tricks on other animals to prove how intelligent he is To make mischief and cause trouble 3 / 50 What do you mean by Quatrain ? a stanza of four lines a poem of fourteen lines a stanza of fourteen lines a stanza of six lines 4 / 50 In A Portrait of the Artist, what is Stephen?s relationship with his Irish nationality ? 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 he deeply wants to leave Ireland, but he feels that, as an artist, he can only work with national themes 5 / 50 ______________ is the system of phonetic notation composed of symbols and letters devised by the International Phonetic Association? The international phonetic alphabet The international phonemic script The intelligible phonetic script. The international phonetic script 6 / 50 In which way was Dante a precursor of humanism ? He rejected the influence of Scholasticism. He wrote classical epics with Christian materials. He was uninterested in the poetics of the sublime. He promoted the worship of idolatrous statues from the ancient times. 7 / 50 The fruit of which tree were Adam and Eve forbidden to eat ? Tree of Life Tree of Knowledge Tree of Sin Tree of God 8 / 50 ?Paradise Lost? was written by__________________? John Milton Robert Browning W B Yeats Mathew 9 / 50 In the play, ?Macbeth,? who asks ?Whence is that knocking?? (2.11.55) Macduff Macbeth Duncan Lady Macbeth 10 / 50 Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England ? 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. 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. They were devout tractarians,as described by John Henry Newman. They were part of the High Church or the Catholicside of the church. 11 / 50 Murder in the Cathedral? is a play written by___________? Shakespeare Marlowe Oscar Wilde T.S. Eliot 12 / 50 In The Paradiso, which class of people does Dante place on the moon ? The best emperors and rulers Those with the most constancy of characters The souls of those who abandoned their vows The proud 13 / 50 The line ?Beauty is truth, truth beauty? occurs in which one of Keats? following poems_______________? Ode to Nightingale Ode to Grecian Urn Ode to Psyche None of these 14 / 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 ? Didactic effect Unity of effect Cataleptic effect Ratiocinactive effect 15 / 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 features a body transformation. An everyday object causes her terror. It reflects a woman?s everyday life. 16 / 50 Who is considered to be the father of English novel ? Francis Bacon Geoffery Chaucer King Alfred the Great Henry Fielding 17 / 50 Which of the following statements offers the best definition of the concept of strange attractors in chaos theory ? 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 entirely random. Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are both random and determined. 18 / 50 Which of the following poets does Milton emulate ? Homer Virgil Neither Virgil or Homer Both Virgil and Homer 19 / 50 What is ?Mimesis? ? A and C only It is a critical term, which describes the act of expression and the presentation of self-identity, theorized by academics, such as Erich Auerbach. It is a philosophical term which means ?imitation? or ?mimicry.? It is a philosophical and critical term meaning ?otherness.? 20 / 50 Othello was a _________________? Prince of England General of Denmark Prince of Denmark General of England 21 / 50 Who is addressed as ?you? in the poem ? an accomplished royal a frustrated romantic idealist a romantic achiever an under achiever 22 / 50 According to Aristotle pity and fear are evoked by_______________? Tragedy Comedy Melodrama Satire 23 / 50 Who contributed the term ?to see the object as in itself it really is? ? Goethe Coleridge Wordsworth Arnold 24 / 50 Which is the longest book ? Book VIII Book I Book X Book IX 25 / 50 In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet ? The Rambler The Tatler New Poetry The European Magazine 26 / 50 What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ? A supernatural language A language that does not yet constitute a real language A language about another language All of the above answers are correct. 27 / 50 Who of the following were among Shakespeare?s royal patrons ? Queen Victoria King Henry King Richard King James I. 28 / 50 This is the implied comparison between two dissimilar things_______________? Tradition Metaphor Myth History 29 / 50 According to Dante, which class of people reside on the planet Mars ? The contemplative The wise The warriors of faith The justice rulers 30 / 50 Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ? The Aeneid The Bahagavad Gita The Illiad The Odyssey 31 / 50 We associate John Winthrop with what colonial Settlement ? Rhode Island Massachusetts Bay Colony Plymouth Mayflower compact 32 / 50 At the end of the play ?Richard III,? what happens to Richard ? He is arrested. He is killed. He was sent into exile. He is crowned king. 33 / 50 Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ? There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry. 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. 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. 34 / 50 Seven is an archetype associated with____________? Evil Death Perfection Birth 35 / 50 ____________was father of Desdemona ? Gratiano Othello Brabantio Iago 36 / 50 Who is the author of ?Man and Superman? ? George Bernard Shaw W. Shakespeare Charles Dickens Leo Tolstoy 37 / 50 What was a virago ? an anchorite 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 asexual female saint 38 / 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 The notoriety of the Lake School Increased literacy, thanks in large part to Sunday schools Technological developments, such as the steam-driven printing press 39 / 50 Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice Walker?s ?Everyday Use? ? She is proud of her heritage. She wants to display it for her friends to see. She doesn?t want Maggie to have it. She loves the beauty of it. 40 / 50 /f/ and /v/ are called ? Affricates Plosives Trill fricatives 41 / 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 high cliff A bird A small mountain lake A wide river 42 / 50 The prevailing feature of Chaucer?s humour is its__________________? sanctity triviality urbanity crudity 43 / 50 HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by_______________? Edward gibbon William Blake Alexander Pope Thomas gray 44 / 50 What is the translation of the term ?dolce stil novo? ? ?Sweet new style? ?The sweet silence? ?The sweetness of love? ?Sweet and still? 45 / 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 & Noam Chomsky Max__Muller & Herman Gundert Leonard Bloomfield & Max__Muller 46 / 50 In what century and in what literary era was the first Gothic novel written ? 19th century; Romanticism 17th century; Enlightenment 18th century; Romanticism 18th century; Enlightenment 47 / 50 Georges Braque?s ?Woman with a Guitar? is an example of which of the following artistic movements ? Futurism A and B only Vorticism Cubism 48 / 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 ______________? None of above Partner Mercantile agent Agent 49 / 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________________? Earl of Oxford. Francis Bacon. John Shakespeare. Thomas More. 50 / 50 Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle ? Ars Poetica Rhetoric Metaphysics Ethics Provide Your Information Your score is The average score is 57% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on whatsapp WhatsApp PrevEnglish Literature Quiz 4 English Literature Quiz 6Next
