English Literature Quiz 51
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What was/were the reaction(s) to Ulysses when it was first published ?
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How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?
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The character of Delia in Zora Neale Hurston?s ?Sweat? was influenced by______________?
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How may W.B. Yeats? poem, ?The Second Coming,? be interpreted ?
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Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare?s Hamlet ?
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Which of the following offers the best definition of the literary term motif ?
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?Book 1? of ?Paradise Lost? presents Satan with his angels fallen into Hell. When recovered, Satan awakens all his legions and speaks to them. The first he addresses is described as ?one next to himself in power, and next in crime, long after known in Palestine?. What?s the name of this fallen angel?
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What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius ?
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A critic argues that in John Milton?s ?Samson Agonistes,? the shearing of Samson?s locks is symbolic of his castration at the hands of Delilah. What kind of critical approach is this critic using ?
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Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
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_______________is the discipline where the methodological perspectives of both linguistics and sociology converges ?
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Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson ?Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.? ?
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Booker T. Washington?s message in Up from Slavery is_______________?
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Shelley?s ?Ode to Psyche? is narrated by __________________?
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Which book was about the temptation of Christ ?
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Which text(s) are referenced in Joyce?s Ulysses ?
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The ?fearful trip? is a recall of________________?
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T. Hardy is_______________?
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In the early books of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost,? Satan conspires with which of the following characters ?
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What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ?
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In the context of Medieval literature, what does the term ?mystical marriage? mean ?
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Twelfth Night opens with the speech of ?
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Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
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In The Dubliners, which best describes the order of the story arc ?
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Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a_______________?
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Who remarked, ?Spenser write no language.? ?
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Wordsworth?s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it published ?
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?The better part of valour is discretion? occurs in Shakespeare?s ?
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Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
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The Gothic novel was intended to have which of the following effects on the reader ?
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Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land ?
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In an attempt to defeat God and his angels, what do the rebel angels make ?
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Which statement best summarizes the parallel between Frankenstein and Prometheus ?
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With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated ?
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What is the original meaning of the term Hamartia ?
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What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?
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Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with ?
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Adonis is modeled on________________?
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In The Dubliners, what do most critics say is the function of paralysis ?
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As per section 2, sub section 7 every kind of moveable property other than actionable claim and money is called __________________?
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In Shakespeare ?Character is not Destiny? but ?character and Destiny?. Whose comment is this ?
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What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between Futurism and Vorticism ?
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Which contemporary discussions on women?s rights did Tennyson?s The Princess address ?
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Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens____________?
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What is affective fallacy ?
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?Of Man?s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe,With loss of Eden.? This is an extract from ?
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What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
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Inspired by Satan?s victory over man, Sin and Death construct ?
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