English Literature Quiz 51
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In Shakespeare ?Character is not Destiny? but ?character and Destiny?. Whose comment is this ?
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Which book was about the temptation of Christ ?
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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 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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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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The ?fearful trip? is a recall of________________?
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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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The Gothic novel was intended to have which of the following effects on the reader ?
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Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens____________?
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Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a_______________?
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Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
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Twelfth Night opens with the speech of ?
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What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?
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Inspired by Satan?s victory over man, Sin and Death construct ?
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How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?
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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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What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius ?
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What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
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In the context of Medieval literature, what does the term ?mystical marriage? mean ?
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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 do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?
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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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Adonis is modeled on________________?
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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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Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land ?
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In The Dubliners, what do most critics say is the function of paralysis ?
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The character of Delia in Zora Neale Hurston?s ?Sweat? was influenced by______________?
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Which text(s) are referenced in Joyce?s Ulysses ?
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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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Which statement best summarizes the parallel between Frankenstein and Prometheus ?
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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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Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
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How may W.B. Yeats? poem, ?The Second Coming,? be interpreted ?
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Booker T. Washington?s message in Up from Slavery is_______________?
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With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated ?
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What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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T. Hardy is_______________?
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In an attempt to defeat God and his angels, what do the rebel angels make ?
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Shelley?s ?Ode to Psyche? is narrated by __________________?
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Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with ?
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?The better part of valour is discretion? occurs in Shakespeare?s ?
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Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ?
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_______________is the discipline where the methodological perspectives of both linguistics and sociology converges ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between Futurism and Vorticism ?
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Which of the following offers the best definition of the literary term motif ?
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What was/were the reaction(s) to Ulysses when it was first published ?
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What is affective fallacy ?
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In The Dubliners, which best describes the order of the story arc ?
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