English Literature Quiz 62

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English Literature Quiz 62

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Swinburne?s poems such as ?Hermaphroditus? are best known for which of the following ?

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In what language did Shakespeare write ?

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What was a Lollard ?

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What is the craftsmen?s play at the end of ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? about ?

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?The Excursion? was written by________________?

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The group of four plays known as the ?major tetralogy? is ?

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When was John Milton born ?

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In general, what is Judith Butler?s concept of gender ?

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Which of the following terms is NOT closely associated with the Gothic novel ?

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Which of the following factors helped create a solidified British political identity ?

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What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to ??Peddlers,? and ?Boats,? and ?Wagons?!? ?

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The title Vanity Fair has been taken from_____________?

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James Joyce?s famous novel_____________?

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?On Heroes and Hero?worship is written by________________?

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Which of the following is NOT a rhetorical purpose of ?An Indian? Looking Glass for the White Man? ?

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Why do scholars consider the first wave of the English Gothic novel an aspect of Romanticism ?

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What was vellum ?

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How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?

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According to the position of lips vowels can be divided into__________?

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Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as ?Old Chaucer? who, ?like the morning star?, descends ?to the shades,? so that ?Darkness again the Age invades.?

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In his reading of Shakespeare?s ?Fair Youth Sonnets,? who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been ?

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Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?

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In Amy Lowell?s imagist poem, ?This Green Bowl,? a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound?s ?Cantos,? this poem?s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not ?

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Which of the following was NOT a primary cause of the Industrial Revolution ?

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Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the?.., which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era ?

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Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?

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How would ?Natural Supernaturalism? be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?

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Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance ?

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The Enlightenment in European history refers to which of the following ?

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Fill in the blank. The intellectual and social movement which historians call ?___________? is what lies at the base of the period we call the Renaissance ?

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Which American President reportedly referred to Harriet Beecher Stowe as ?the little lady who made this big war? ?

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In the phrase, ?thy seed shall bruise our foe,? the ?seed? refers to______________?

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In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?

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What was the age of William Shakespeare when he retired from active service to Stratford around 1613 ?

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What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?

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How many languages did chaucer know ?

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In ?Characters of Shakespeare?s Plays?, how does William Hazlitt ultimately conceptualize the character of Hamlet ?

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Which of the following play was written in 1601 ?

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Who said that Keat?s love letters of a surgeon?s apprentice ?

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Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas ?

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?Ode on a Grecian Urn? Who is the poet of the poem ?

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What is double consciousness ?

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In The Paradiso, what event does Dante allegorically represent ?

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In Acrene Wisse, the mission of the anchorite was justified through what purpose ?

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How did ideas about the spread of the British Empire start to shift in the Victorian Period ?

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Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ?

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Why did ?Poetry Quarterly? cease publication in 1953 ?

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Section 31, of the Sale of Goods Act, duty bounds the buyer to______________?

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Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley ?

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Identify the work by Swinburne which begins ?when the hounds of spring are on winter?s traces..? ?

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