English Literature Quiz 57
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The probable date of composition of Ars Poetica is_______________?
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When did the Norman Invasion take place ?
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Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?
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What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse ?
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Where did Dante stay while he was in exile ?
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At the end of ?Eveline,? what decision does the title character make ?
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What is phenomenology ?
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What is a sonnet ?
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With which theorist is phenomenology associated ?
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Jazz music is described by which of the following characteristics ?
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What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet ?
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Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period ?
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/p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, and /g/ are examples for ______________?
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In coleridge?s poem ?The rime of the Ancient Mariner?where were the three gallants going ?
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?The Metaphysical Poets? is a critical essay by________________?
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Browning is famous for his______________?
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Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to _______________?
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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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Why was the book ?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? written ?
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In Chaucer?s Legend of Good Women, how many legends are there?
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Under which pseudonym the work The Shepheard?s Calendar was published ?
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Which is the shortest book ?
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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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The special features which affect speech sounds such as stress, pitch intonation and juncture are called ______________?
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Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________?
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Which of th following novels is called a ?Novel without a hero? ?
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Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 153? is what kind of poem ?
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Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in______________?
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How does Lewis portray the Catholic confessional in ?The Monk??
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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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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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In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with ?
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This mode of discourse attempts to convince someone______________?
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Exiles? is a______________?
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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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At the end of the play, ?Twelfth Night,? who is discovered to have been secretly married ?
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?Astrophel and Stella? is a ?
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John Lyly?s work significantly shaped the writing of which famous writer ?
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Who wrote ?Ten Little Niggers ??
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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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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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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 Chapter XV of William Wells Brown?s Clotel, Clotel is described as a quadroon. What does this mean ?
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Which of the following best describes the novel ?The God of Small Things??
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Thoreau was part of the Transcend lists, which were founded by________________?
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Which of the following concepts are NOT elements of neo-classicism ?
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Frost?s poem The Road Not Taken is included in his poetical collection______________________?
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Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet ?
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Which of the following best describes how the novel ?Frankenstein? is understood by critics ?
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Why do critics see Frankenstein?s monster as equivalent to the Biblical Adam ?
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