English Literature Quiz 54
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How do Shem the Penman and Shaun the Post differ ?
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Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage ?
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Which of the following is considered the first great work in world literature ___________?
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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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?Renaissance? means___________________?
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Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets ?
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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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What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as _______________-?
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Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?
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What is the meaning of ?Renaissance? ?
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Themes in colonial time period ?
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Who introduced the character of the ?tragic mulatto? ?
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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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According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child _______________?
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Who were the troubadours ?
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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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Whom did the corn clan member pray to for help ?
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In The Inferno, what quality does Virgil represent ?
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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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John Dryden?s poem ?Annus Mirabilis? emphasizes the solution to which of the following important Restoration problems or events ?
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Siegfried Sassoon?s poem ?To Victory? is concerned primarily with which of the following themes ?
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Which of the following is not one of the 4 part of Puritan Sermon ?
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Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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Who uttered these words ?Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all? ?
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Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature ?
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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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Shelley?s Adonais is an elegy on the death of _______________?
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In ?In Memorium?, Tennyson mourns the death of ________________?
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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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How many times does Satan work to tempt Jesus in the Gospels ?
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For inspiration in writing the poem, Milton says he depends on________________?
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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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How does Sam secretly alert Eliza to Mr.Haley?s presence outside the inn ?
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The classification of vowels into half__close vowels and half__open vowels is based on ________________?
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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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According to Pizan, what is the most important element in a woman?s quest for equality ?
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In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning ?
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According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art ?
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In which book of the Republic did Plato ban poets from his ideal world ?
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What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pound?s ?In a Station at the Metro? ?
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Who is the author of Utopia ?
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Who considers poetry ?a mother of lies? ?
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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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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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What is the name of Wordsworth?s long poem ?
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Stopping on a snowy Evening_____________?
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Fill in the blank. Christopher Marlowe?s influence on William Shakespeare was in all probability _______________?
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Who wrote the poem ?Solitary Reaper? ?
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Which of the following is NOT a modernist art movement ?
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