English Literature Quiz 62
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In what language did Shakespeare write ?
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In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?
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The title Vanity Fair has been taken from_____________?
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What is double consciousness ?
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What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to ??Peddlers,? and ?Boats,? and ?Wagons?!? ?
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In Acrene Wisse, the mission of the anchorite was justified through what purpose ?
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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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What was the age of William Shakespeare when he retired from active service to Stratford around 1613 ?
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Which of the following play was written in 1601 ?
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What was vellum ?
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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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Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance ?
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Swinburne?s poems such as ?Hermaphroditus? are best known for which of the following ?
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Who said that Keat?s love letters of a surgeon?s apprentice ?
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Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?
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Section 31, of the Sale of Goods Act, duty bounds the buyer to______________?
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Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas ?
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Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?
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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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?The Excursion? was written by________________?
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How would ?Natural Supernaturalism? be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?
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In the phrase, ?thy seed shall bruise our foe,? the ?seed? refers to______________?
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In general, what is Judith Butler?s concept of gender ?
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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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What was a Lollard ?
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Why do scholars consider the first wave of the English Gothic novel an aspect of Romanticism ?
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Why did ?Poetry Quarterly? cease publication in 1953 ?
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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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Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley ?
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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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The group of four plays known as the ?major tetralogy? is ?
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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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?Ode on a Grecian Urn? Who is the poet of the poem ?
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?On Heroes and Hero?worship is written by________________?
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The Enlightenment in European history refers to which of the following ?
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James Joyce?s famous novel_____________?
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According to the position of lips vowels can be divided into__________?
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Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ?
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In The Paradiso, what event does Dante allegorically represent ?
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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 of the following was NOT a primary cause of the Industrial Revolution ?
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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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Which of the following terms is NOT closely associated with the Gothic novel ?
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When was John Milton born ?
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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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In ?Characters of Shakespeare?s Plays?, how does William Hazlitt ultimately conceptualize the character of Hamlet ?
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What is the craftsmen?s play at the end of ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? about ?
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How many languages did chaucer know ?
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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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Which of the following factors helped create a solidified British political identity ?
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