English Literature Quiz 52
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What does a prologue serve to do in a Greek tragedy or comedy ?
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Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
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?Samson Agonistes? differs from its source material, the Biblical book of ?Judges,? in what way(s) ?
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Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?
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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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The ?father of humanism? was_______________?
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John Milton claimed from an early age that he would become ?
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Who accuses Arnold of ?high pamphleteering ??
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Edmund Burke?s ?Reflections on the French Revolution? ______________?
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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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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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What was the ?Woman Question? in the Victorian Period ?
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In which county was Jane Austin born ?
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The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?
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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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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
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The reason for Eve?s fall might best be described as_______________?
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Who is the writer of the poem ?Andrea Del Sarto? ?
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Which of the following plays by William Shakespeare is a comedy ?
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E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels ?
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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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____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?
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Which text(s) is/are associated with mysticism ?
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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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In addition to driving the family coach, what other responsibility do the St. Clare assign Uncle Tom ?
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Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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Plato?s Republic is written in the form of______________?
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What was the licensing system ?
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The Freudian concept of ?the uncanny? refers to_________________?
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Why was the ?drop of blood? rule developed ?
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What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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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 text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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Fill in the blank. The plot of ?Venus and Adonis? is based on passages from_____________?
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This Puritan author wrote a persuasive speech ?
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What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth?s The History of the Kings of Britain ?
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Richard Wright said he created the character of Bigger in Native Son because______________?
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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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In the Middle Ages, which class of people was most likely to be literate ?
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Which of the following descriptions best describes the character of Hamlet ?
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Who is the writer of ?The Two Voices? ?
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A diary of someone?s day by day account of events_______________?
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T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ?Unreal City? in the first and third sections from ?
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In The Paradiso, Dante bases his structure of paradise on which of the following ?
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What is a ?lay? in medieval literature ?
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Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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?I count religion but a childish toy? is a line from Marlowe?s play______________?
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/s/, /z/ are called ____________?
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What was ?courtly love? ?
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