English Literature Quiz 51
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What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?
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With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated ?
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The ?fearful trip? is a recall of________________?
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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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?The better part of valour is discretion? occurs in Shakespeare?s ?
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In Shakespeare ?Character is not Destiny? but ?character and Destiny?. Whose comment is this ?
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In The Dubliners, what do most critics say is the function of paralysis ?
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Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between Futurism and Vorticism ?
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In an attempt to defeat God and his angels, what do the rebel angels make ?
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What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
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Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with ?
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What is affective fallacy ?
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Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land ?
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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 is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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Adonis is modeled on________________?
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What was/were the reaction(s) to Ulysses when it was first published ?
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_______________is the discipline where the methodological perspectives of both linguistics and sociology converges ?
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Which book was about the temptation of Christ ?
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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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In The Dubliners, which best describes the order of the story arc ?
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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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How may W.B. Yeats? poem, ?The Second Coming,? be interpreted ?
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Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
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Which statement best summarizes the parallel between Frankenstein and Prometheus ?
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Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a_______________?
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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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The Gothic novel was intended to have which of the following effects on the reader ?
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Who remarked, ?Spenser write no language.? ?
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Which contemporary discussions on women?s rights did Tennyson?s The Princess address ?
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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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Twelfth Night opens with the speech of ?
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Inspired by Satan?s victory over man, Sin and Death construct ?
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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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What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?
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Which text(s) are referenced in Joyce?s Ulysses ?
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Which of the following offers the best definition of the literary term motif ?
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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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What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius ?
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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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T. Hardy is_______________?
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What is the original meaning of the term Hamartia ?
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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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Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens____________?
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Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
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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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In the context of Medieval literature, what does the term ?mystical marriage? mean ?
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