English Literature Quiz 51
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Which of the following offers the best definition of the literary term motif ?
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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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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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Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson ?Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.? ?
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Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with ?
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Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ?
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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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In the early books of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost,? Satan conspires with which of the following characters ?
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How may W.B. Yeats? poem, ?The Second Coming,? be interpreted ?
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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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Which book was about the temptation of Christ ?
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In The Dubliners, which best describes the order of the story arc ?
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What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?
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Who remarked, ?Spenser write no language.? ?
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What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius ?
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Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
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What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between Futurism and Vorticism ?
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T. Hardy is_______________?
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The character of Delia in Zora Neale Hurston?s ?Sweat? was influenced by______________?
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What is affective fallacy ?
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In the context of Medieval literature, what does the term ?mystical marriage? mean ?
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Which contemporary discussions on women?s rights did Tennyson?s The Princess address ?
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What was/were the reaction(s) to Ulysses when it was first published ?
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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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Inspired by Satan?s victory over man, Sin and Death construct ?
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Booker T. Washington?s message in Up from Slavery is_______________?
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What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
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In Shakespeare ?Character is not Destiny? but ?character and Destiny?. Whose comment is this ?
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Shelley?s ?Ode to Psyche? is narrated by __________________?
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Twelfth Night opens with the speech of ?
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_______________is the discipline where the methodological perspectives of both linguistics and sociology converges ?
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The ?fearful trip? is a recall of________________?
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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 better part of valour is discretion? occurs in Shakespeare?s ?
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Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a_______________?
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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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What is the original meaning of the term Hamartia ?
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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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Adonis is modeled on________________?
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How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?
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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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In The Dubliners, what do most critics say is the function of paralysis ?
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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 name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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