English Literature Quiz 55
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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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What is ?the gender fallacy? ?
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Is Dryden?s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of ?
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How many stressed are generally marked_____________?
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Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?
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What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?
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What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?
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Who wrote: ?In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree???
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Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
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George Bernard Shaw is_________________?
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The Yo__He__Ho Theory of the origin of language was advanced by ____________?
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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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Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?
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Themes in modern literature are_____________?
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What the term Renaissance refers ?
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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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Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?
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Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?
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Which of the following best represents Dante?s criticism of the medieval Church ?
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Which of the following statements offers the best definition of an epistolary novel ?
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Which of the following best defines the work of a deconstructionist critic ?
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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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What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?
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Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?
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Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
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Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?
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As per Constitution of 1962, ___________ were held National Languages?
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Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?
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Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?
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What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ?
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Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum ?
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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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Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?
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Which problem(s) shaped Joyce?s early home life?
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In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?
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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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Seven Ages of Man appears in ? As you like it?. Which character?s speech it is ?
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Which is/are typical of the supernatural in medieval romance ?
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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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Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it ?
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What is the function of the Linati schema ?
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?Post-Modernism? is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ?
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Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?
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Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?
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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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The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?
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The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?
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