English Literature Quiz 57
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What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse ?
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The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work ?not serious poetry?, but it was another critic who accused him of ?callousness to the intrinsic nature of English?. Who ?
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Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 153? is what kind of poem ?
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Which of the following best describes the novel ?The God of Small Things??
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What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet ?
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In Chaucer?s Legend of Good Women, how many legends are there?
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The probable date of composition of Ars Poetica is_______________?
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Frost?s poem The Road Not Taken is included in his poetical collection______________________?
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Where did Dante stay while he was in exile ?
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What is phenomenology ?
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Which of th following novels is called a ?Novel without a hero? ?
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In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with ?
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?The Metaphysical Poets? is a critical essay by________________?
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In coleridge?s poem ?The rime of the Ancient Mariner?where were the three gallants going ?
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Under which pseudonym the work The Shepheard?s Calendar was published ?
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Which of the following best describes how the novel ?Frankenstein? is understood by critics ?
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At the end of the play, ?Twelfth Night,? who is discovered to have been secretly married ?
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In ?Samson Agonistes,? Samson predicts ?This day will be remarkable in my life / By some great act, or of my days the last?. This is interesting because___________?
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Jazz music is described by which of the following characteristics ?
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Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period ?
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Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?
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With which theorist is phenomenology associated ?
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Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary novels written about slavery. Toni Morrison?s Beloved is about the ghost of a baby the character Sethe murdered to keep her from being recaptured by their master. The opening chapter of the novel represents the neo-slave narrative by its________________?
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Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________?
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Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet ?
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In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown?s Clotel, Clotel is described as a quadroon. What does this mean ?
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John Lyly?s work significantly shaped the writing of which famous writer ?
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Lauren Beth Signore?s essay, ?Anne of Green Gables: The Transformation from Bildungsroman to Romantic Comedy?, argues that Anne of Green Gables is ultimately what kind of character ?
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?Astrophel and Stella? is a ?
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Why do critics see Frankenstein?s monster as equivalent to the Biblical Adam ?
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Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in______________?
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Which is the shortest book ?
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?Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.? Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night ?
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How does Lewis portray the Catholic confessional in ?The Monk??
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Who wrote ?Ten Little Niggers ??
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Which of the following concepts are NOT elements of neo-classicism ?
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What is a sonnet ?
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Dr. Samuel Gladden, in his essay ?Shelley?s Agenda Writ Large: Reconsidering Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant ,? argues that Shelley?s ?Oedipus- Tyrannus? is important because a_______________?
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Exiles? is a______________?
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This mode of discourse attempts to convince someone______________?
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Browning is famous for his______________?
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When did the Norman Invasion take place ?
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At the end of ?Eveline,? what decision does the title character make ?
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Thoreau was part of the Transcend lists, which were founded by________________?
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Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by________?
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In ?Characters of Shakespeare?s Plays?, what does William Hazlitt mean when he states the following: ?We do not like to see our author?s plays acted, and least of all, ?Hamlet?. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage? ?
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/p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, and /g/ are examples for ______________?
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The special features which affect speech sounds such as stress, pitch intonation and juncture are called ______________?
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Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to _______________?
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Why was the book ?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? written ?
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