English Literature Quiz 54
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Which of the following is NOT a modernist art movement ?
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In which book of the Republic did Plato ban poets from his ideal world ?
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Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
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Who uttered these words ?Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all? ?
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Who considers poetry ?a mother of lies? ?
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?Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.?- Who told it ?
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Who introduced the character of the ?tragic mulatto? ?
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John Dryden?s poem ?Annus Mirabilis? emphasizes the solution to which of the following important Restoration problems or events ?
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?Renaissance? means___________________?
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Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet?s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
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Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets ?
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The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
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Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature ?
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Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage ?
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According to Pizan, what is the most important element in a woman?s quest for equality ?
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Which of the following is not one of the 4 part of Puritan Sermon ?
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Who is the author of Utopia ?
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What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pound?s ?In a Station at the Metro? ?
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Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?
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Themes in colonial time period ?
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How many times does Satan work to tempt Jesus in the Gospels ?
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What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as _______________-?
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Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?
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Who were the troubadours ?
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According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child _______________?
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What is the meaning of ?Renaissance? ?
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Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning ?
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Shelley?s Adonais is an elegy on the death of _______________?
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In The Inferno, what quality does Virgil represent ?
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How do Shem the Penman and Shaun the Post differ ?
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The statements below are steps on ?How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay?. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?
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Stopping on a snowy Evening_____________?
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Whom did the corn clan member pray to for help ?
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In ?In Memorium?, Tennyson mourns the death of ________________?
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Fill in the blank. Christopher Marlowe?s influence on William Shakespeare was in all probability _______________?
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Which statement below best paraphrases what John Winthrop meant when he declared that the MBC would be as a ?city upon a hill? ?
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The last decade of the nineteenth century saw the development of a number of literary and cultural movements which amounted to a rejection of the principles of Victorianism because of which social transformations ?
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For inspiration in writing the poem, Milton says he depends on________________?
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Which of the following is considered the first great work in world literature ___________?
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What is the name of Wordsworth?s long poem ?
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The Jacobean era ended with a severe economic depression in 1620-1626, complicated by a serious outbreak of ____________in London in 1625 ?
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The classification of vowels into half__close vowels and half__open vowels is based on ________________?
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How does Sam secretly alert Eliza to Mr.Haley?s presence outside the inn ?
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Siegfried Sassoon?s poem ?To Victory? is concerned primarily with which of the following themes ?
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In ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? who says ?Lord, what fools these mortals be!? (III.ii.15) ?
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Who wrote the poem ?Solitary Reaper? ?
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According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art ?
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In the play, ?Macbeth,? how does Macbeth kill Duncan ?
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What is Augustine St. Clare?s selfish wife?s name ?
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