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