English Literature Quiz 58
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Section 57, of the Sale of Goods Act, deals with_____________?
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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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Which of the following authors is considered a major theorist of deconstruction ?
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The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem by________________?
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Paradise Lost was originally written in ?
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In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?
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Which among the following is an example for portmanteau__________________?
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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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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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Fill in the blank. In the play, ?Macbeth,? a number of characters refer to the Three Witches as________________?
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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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In ?Everyman,? which of the following provides the path to redemption in the afterlife ?
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In ?A Defense of Poetry,? Percy Shelley argues that humans have an impulse to ____________________?
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Tennyson?s poem ?In Memoriam?was written in memory of ?
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Using words or letters to imitate sounds_____________?
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How did the interaction between the English and the Bretons affect literature ?
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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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Which of the following themes is/are addressed in Ulysses ?
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Jane Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? pursues which of the following themes ?
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In ?The Monk? what event does NO represent the theme of entrapment of women ?
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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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Which of the following did Milton not advocate in print in the 1640s and 1650s ?
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Which of the following figures is the author of the 1909 ?Futurist Manifesto? ?
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who is considered as the model of the people during the renaissance ?
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Aristotle?s critical work is entitled_______________?
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Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
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When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born ?
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How does Lady Macbeth explain her husband?s wild behavior at the banquet ?
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Who is the writer of The Restoration Period ?
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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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In ?Of Poetry in General,?William Hazlitt contends that good poetry comes from ____________?
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According to the height to which the tongue is raised, vowels can be classified into __________?
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In which work do you read: ?In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree?? ?
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Who is Eliza?s mother ?
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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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what was chaucer?s profession ?
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Parker?s report to Margaret is_________________?
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The importance of Freedom?s Journal was____________?
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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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?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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Which of these was not one of Shakespeare?s plays ?
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Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?
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From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam ?
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The Petrarchan sonnet is typically composed in what form of meter ?
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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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Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what ?
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How does the motif of the wandering Jew figure in ?The Monk? ?
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Which among the following pairs are Alveolar plosives ?
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