English Literature Quiz 62
1 / 50
In what language did Shakespeare write ?
2 / 50
Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance ?
3 / 50
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.?
4 / 50
In The Paradiso, what event does Dante allegorically represent ?
5 / 50
?On Heroes and Hero?worship is written by________________?
6 / 50
Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ?
7 / 50
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 ?
8 / 50
In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?
9 / 50
Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the?.., which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era ?
10 / 50
Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley ?
11 / 50
Section 31, of the Sale of Goods Act, duty bounds the buyer to______________?
12 / 50
Which of the following play was written in 1601 ?
13 / 50
Why did ?Poetry Quarterly? cease publication in 1953 ?
14 / 50
Which American President reportedly referred to Harriet Beecher Stowe as ?the little lady who made this big war? ?
15 / 50
How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?
16 / 50
James Joyce?s famous novel_____________?
17 / 50
?The Excursion? was written by________________?
18 / 50
What is double consciousness ?
19 / 50
?Ode on a Grecian Urn? Who is the poet of the poem ?
20 / 50
The title Vanity Fair has been taken from_____________?
21 / 50
What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to ??Peddlers,? and ?Boats,? and ?Wagons?!? ?
22 / 50
Which of the following terms is NOT closely associated with the Gothic novel ?
23 / 50
In ?Characters of Shakespeare?s Plays?, how does William Hazlitt ultimately conceptualize the character of Hamlet ?
24 / 50
What is the craftsmen?s play at the end of ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? about ?
25 / 50
In the phrase, ?thy seed shall bruise our foe,? the ?seed? refers to______________?
26 / 50
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 ?
27 / 50
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 ?
28 / 50
What was a Lollard ?
29 / 50
According to the position of lips vowels can be divided into__________?
30 / 50
In his reading of Shakespeare?s ?Fair Youth Sonnets,? who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been ?
31 / 50
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas ?
32 / 50
What was vellum ?
33 / 50
In Acrene Wisse, the mission of the anchorite was justified through what purpose ?
34 / 50
How would ?Natural Supernaturalism? be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?
35 / 50
The Enlightenment in European history refers to which of the following ?
36 / 50
Which of the following is NOT a rhetorical purpose of ?An Indian? Looking Glass for the White Man? ?
37 / 50
Which of the following was NOT a primary cause of the Industrial Revolution ?
38 / 50
Why do scholars consider the first wave of the English Gothic novel an aspect of Romanticism ?
39 / 50
When was John Milton born ?
40 / 50
Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?
41 / 50
Who said that Keat?s love letters of a surgeon?s apprentice ?
42 / 50
Identify the work by Swinburne which begins ?when the hounds of spring are on winter?s traces..? ?
43 / 50
Swinburne?s poems such as ?Hermaphroditus? are best known for which of the following ?
44 / 50
Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?
45 / 50
In general, what is Judith Butler?s concept of gender ?
46 / 50
How did ideas about the spread of the British Empire start to shift in the Victorian Period ?
47 / 50
Which of the following factors helped create a solidified British political identity ?
48 / 50
The group of four plays known as the ?major tetralogy? is ?
49 / 50
How many languages did chaucer know ?
50 / 50
What was the age of William Shakespeare when he retired from active service to Stratford around 1613 ?
Provide Your Information
Your score is
The average score is 0%
Restart quiz
