English Literature Quiz 58
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Fill in the blank. Prior to the rise of the famed tragedians of the late 1580s,_____________ were the great headliners of the Elizabethan stage?
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Marlowe?s poem ?The Passionate Shepherd to His Love? begins with the line ?Come live with me and be my love?; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?
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A neoclassical poet would be most likely to compose a poem celebrating which of the following ideals ?
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The importance of Freedom?s Journal was____________?
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From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam ?
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In which work do you read: ?In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree?? ?
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In ?A Defense of Poetry,? Percy Shelley argues that humans have an impulse to ____________________?
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Which of the following offers the best description of literary theory ?
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Yahoo?s according to Gulliver were______________?
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Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what ?
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In ?The Monk? what event does NO represent the theme of entrapment of women ?
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Paradise Lost was originally written in ?
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Who became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I and was knighted and appointed captain of the Queen?s Guard in 1587 ?
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In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?
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The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem by________________?
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Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
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How did the interaction between the English and the Bretons affect literature ?
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Which of the following authors is considered a major theorist of deconstruction ?
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According to the essay ?A Defense of Poetry,? which of the following is one of the two ?classes of mental action? ?
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The Petrarchan sonnet is typically composed in what form of meter ?
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Using words or letters to imitate sounds_____________?
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Which of the following themes is/are addressed in Ulysses ?
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Which among the following is an example for portmanteau__________________?
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Which of these was not one of Shakespeare?s plays ?
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Robinson Crusoe?s isolation on a deserted island allows Defoe to explore his development in which of the following ways ?
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Fill in the blank. Th ?. was a movement that had profound implications not only for the modern world in general but also for literary history.
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?O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don?t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!? These lines characterize Samuel Richardson?s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?
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In ?Everyman,? which of the following provides the path to redemption in the afterlife ?
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Tennyson?s poem ?In Memoriam?was written in memory of ?
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who is considered as the model of the people during the renaissance ?
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Fill in the blank. In the play, ?Macbeth,? a number of characters refer to the Three Witches as________________?
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Parker?s report to Margaret is_________________?
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Which among the following pairs are Alveolar plosives ?
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According to the height to which the tongue is raised, vowels can be classified into __________?
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Jane Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? pursues which of the following themes ?
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Who is the writer of The Restoration Period ?
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This literary critic warned: ?We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ?backward? or so ?eccentric? as to continue to believe.? ?
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From whom does Stephen borrow his idea of clarity ?
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When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born ?
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Who is Eliza?s mother ?
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Aristotle?s critical work is entitled_______________?
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Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?
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Which of the following did Milton not advocate in print in the 1640s and 1650s ?
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Section 57, of the Sale of Goods Act, deals with_____________?
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what was chaucer?s profession ?
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Which of the following figures is the author of the 1909 ?Futurist Manifesto? ?
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How does the motif of the wandering Jew figure in ?The Monk? ?
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Which events in and after the 1960s contributed significantly to the decentralization of England from London to a more regional focus, ultimately also making way for a less homogenous vision of England and the popularity of postcolonial fiction ?
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How does Lady Macbeth explain her husband?s wild behavior at the banquet ?
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In ?Of Poetry in General,?William Hazlitt contends that good poetry comes from ____________?
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