English Literature Quiz 63
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________ is a unit of speech which is at a level higher than the speech sound or phoneme ?
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Who exemplified the role of the peasant poet ?
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Some critics of literary theory argue that literary theory is problematic for which reason ?
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What is the character of Delia most of afraid of in Zora Neale Hurston?s ?Sweat? ?
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Which group of radicals got their name from their penchant for rambling prophecy ?
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In Lucille Clifton?s ?wishes for son,? the narrator lists what wishes her sons ?
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Which of the following historical figures influenced Dante ?
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Which of the following writers authored the poem ?Dulce et Decorum Est??
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In the play, ?Hamlet,? who is Yorick ?
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Who was the father of the Mary I_______________?
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__________are produced involving the tip of the tongue and the back part of the teeth ridgE ?
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Which scene happens first chronologically ?
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Which ruler?s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
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Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries ?
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Which of the following is a requirement of a dramatic monologue ?
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As well as poetry, Milton published extensively on politics, philosophy and religion. Which of the following was NOT one of his works ?
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______________is the school of literary writings is a medical theory ?
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The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city ?
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Stress is used for the sake of ______________?
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In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the floweringof Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?
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Which of the following is an alternative name for the Middle Ages ?
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Why is the presence of the comitatus ethic in Beowulf significant ?
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Which of the following inventions is associated with the rise in literacy ?
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Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem ?
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The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work ?Against the Grain,? is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?
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?Written in March? is a poem composed by_______________?
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The main reason for Adam?s fall might best be described as ?
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?SARTOR RESARTUS? is a prose work by________________?
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Even in John Milton?s lifetime, ?Paradise Regained? was considered in literary quality as largely to ?Paradise Lost.? ?
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Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?
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Which are examples of devotional acts ?
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What is the significance of the ?wandering Jew? motif ?
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Which of the following is a theme of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick?s book Epistemology of the Closet ?
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Greek theater was often of what genre ?
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Who ?haunts? the evil Simon Legree when he is drunk ?
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Fill in the blank. The greatest insurrection of the______________ age in England was over religion?
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What does Edward Said argue about the concept of the Orient ?
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Who wrote ?The Spanish Tragedy? ?
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What character in ?Paradise Lost? is first tempted to eat of the Tree of Knowledge ?
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In the title of Marlowe?s play, of where was Dido the Queen ?
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From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date ?
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The pronunciation of English practised by the educated people at the public schools came to be called____________?
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Which of the following was written first________________?
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What does the critical term ?esemplatic? mean ?
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The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was_______________?
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Which of the following descriptions of Jane Austen?s ?Northanger Abbey? seems most appropriate ?
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Alexander Pope coined many a modern day clich?. Which of the following did not originate with him ?
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The repetition of similar ending sounds_______________?
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?There?s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.? The line given above occurs in_______________?
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Heathcliff is a character from_____________?
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