English Literature Quiz 55
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?To be or not to be that is the question?, is famous line of which of Shakespeare?s plays ?
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How does this quotation from Behn?s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: ?I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet?s pleasure.? ?
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What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?
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Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?
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Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?
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Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it ?
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Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
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How many stressed are generally marked_____________?
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What is ?the gender fallacy? ?
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As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses a scene that mortifies him and brings him face to face for the first time with the horrors of slavery. What is it ?
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Chaucer and Langland were contemporaries, but there were several differences between their writing styles. Which of the following best describes these differences ?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?
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Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?
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Themes in modern literature are_____________?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of an epistolary novel ?
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The Yo__He__Ho Theory of the origin of language was advanced by ____________?
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Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
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What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?
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Which problem(s) shaped Joyce?s early home life?
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Which of the following best defines the work of a deconstructionist critic ?
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The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?
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What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?
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Is Dryden?s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of ?
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Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?
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Who wrote: ?In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree???
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Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?
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Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ?
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What the term Renaissance refers ?
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The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum ?
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Seven Ages of Man appears in ? As you like it?. Which character?s speech it is ?
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Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?
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Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?
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Samuel Richardson?s Pamela and Daniel Defoe?s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?
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Which of the following best represents Dante?s criticism of the medieval Church ?
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According to Langston Hughes?s essay ?The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain? (his answer to George Schuyler?s essay ?Negro Art Hokum?), what is the ?mountain? that stands in the way of ?any true Negro art in America? ?
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George Bernard Shaw is_________________?
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Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?
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In drama, a ?soliloquy? refers to which of the following ?
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Which of the following best defines Middle English ?
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Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?
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Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?
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?Post-Modernism? is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ?
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Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?
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As per Constitution of 1962, ___________ were held National Languages?
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What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?
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Which is/are typical of the supernatural in medieval romance ?
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Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
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What is the function of the Linati schema ?
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