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