English Literature Quiz 59
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What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
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Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
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Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any person?s pursuit of their personal interests ?
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Hardy is a__________________?
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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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University Wits were those who ?
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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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Which of the following does Professor Hammer identify as one of the most important goals of Imagist poetry ?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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The poem ?In Flanders Fields? was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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In ?Samson Agonistes,? the character who tells others of Samson?s death is_____________?
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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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Which of the following is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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Which British philosopher believed that monarchs repressed citizens and that revolution is proper when a government does not protect its people ?
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Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time?. Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare ?
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Who was villain in Othello ?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?
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Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane?s poem ?Voyages? is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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