English Literature Quiz 52
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A diary of someone?s day by day account of events_______________?
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John Milton claimed from an early age that he would become ?
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What was ?courtly love? ?
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What was the licensing system ?
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Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?
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What does a prologue serve to do in a Greek tragedy or comedy ?
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What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city ?
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How did the New Critics view literature ?
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Everyone in Elizabethan England was born into a social class. Peasants were the unluckiest of the lot: they were denied basic comforts, security, and even the chance to dress well. Yep, the Statutes of Apparel outlined the clothes one could legally wear based on rank. Which of the following could the poor wear ?
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This Puritan author wrote a persuasive speech ?
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Fill in the blank. The plot of ?Venus and Adonis? is based on passages from_____________?
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The voiced sound /z/ denoting the plural morpheme in the word ?dogs? is an instance of ________________assimilation?
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?I count religion but a childish toy? is a line from Marlowe?s play______________?
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With which famous writer Coleridge became friends with in Christ?s Hospital, also called The Bluecoat School ?
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In which county was Jane Austin born ?
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T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ?Unreal City? in the first and third sections from ?
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Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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In The Paradiso, Dante bases his structure of paradise on which of the following ?
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The Freudian concept of ?the uncanny? refers to_________________?
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In the Middle Ages, which class of people was most likely to be literate ?
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Edmund Burke?s ?Reflections on the French Revolution? ______________?
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Plato?s Republic is written in the form of______________?
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The ?father of humanism? was_______________?
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?Samson Agonistes? differs from its source material, the Biblical book of ?Judges,? in what way(s) ?
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Why was the ?drop of blood? rule developed ?
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Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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Which of the following statements accurately compares Rupert Brooke?s ?The Soldier? and Siegfried Sassoon?s ?The Rear Guard? ?
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The reason for Eve?s fall might best be described as_______________?
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E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels ?
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Who is the writer of ?The Two Voices? ?
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Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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What is a ?lay? in medieval literature ?
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What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth?s The History of the Kings of Britain ?
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Elizabeth Barrett?s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?
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Which of the following descriptions best describes the character of Hamlet ?
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What was the ?Woman Question? in the Victorian Period ?
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____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?
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Who accuses Arnold of ?high pamphleteering ??
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Richard Wright said he created the character of Bigger in Native Son because______________?
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In addition to driving the family coach, what other responsibility do the St. Clare assign Uncle Tom ?
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Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
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Which work of William Wordsworth, with the joint publication with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature ?
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Who is the writer of the poem ?Andrea Del Sarto? ?
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/s/, /z/ are called ____________?
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The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?
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Which text(s) is/are associated with mysticism ?
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Which of the following plays by William Shakespeare is a comedy ?
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Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
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