English Literature Quiz 59
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In his essay ?The Death of the Author,? Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
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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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In ?Samson Agonistes,? the character who tells others of Samson?s death is_____________?
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American Civil War was fought in_______________?
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W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washington of being______________?
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The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
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?On his blindness?, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
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Which of the following is NOT a theme of ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
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Utopia was first printed in ?
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The ?ish in the word ?childish? is ______________?
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Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
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Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics ?
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University Wits were those who ?
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How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?
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Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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Who was villain in Othello ?
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Who wrote ?Holy Sonnets? ?
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Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
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Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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Hardy is a__________________?
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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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Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane?s poem ?Voyages? is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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Thomas More?s Utopia placed the blame for society?s problems on_______________?
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How is Dante?s relationship with Beatrice an example of courtly love ?
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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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Which poem is considered Wordsworth?s magnum opus ?
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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?
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The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? ?
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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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The poem ?In Flanders Fields? was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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In Acrene Wisse, what is the author?s advice regarding priests ?
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Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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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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What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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Who is the author of ?Heaven and Earth? ?
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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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Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
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