English Literature Quiz 66
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Shakespeare sometimes used the trochee, which in meter refers to which of the following? In Shakespeare?s plays, a troche is___________________?
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Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize__________________?
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Which of the following statements regarding the success and importance of the oral tradition of literature is true ?
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From whom did New Historicists draw the idea of ?self-regulating systems? ?
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What is affective fallacy ?
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The magazine ?Contemporary Poetry and Prose? was inspired by which exhibition ?
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______________is the scientific study of language ?
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The most notable characteristic of Keats? poetry is ?
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Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy ?
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Which one of the following events inspired the trend of body transformation in Gothic novels ?
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Native Son (1940) is written by_____________?
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The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to_______________?
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Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
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With which literary form is Ancrene Wisse most closely related ?
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Who was Charles Parnell ?
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Based on your readings for this course, which of the following best summarizes how most critics interpret the crumbling castle in ?The Castle of Otranto? ?
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John Lyly?s work significantly shaped the writing of which famous writer ?
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Which of the following describes the chief system by which writers received financial rewards for their literary production ?
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Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813 ?
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Carl Sandburg ?Planked whitefish? contains what kind of imagery ?
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How are Julia Kristeva?s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts ?
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Which of the following was a result of Charlemange?s decree on the production of books ?
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes Marianne Moore?s poem ?A Grave ??
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What does hermeneutic theory suggest about how readers view literature ?
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Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in polite requests________________?
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In The Paradiso, Dante focuses on which kind of politics ?
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Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler?s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb bowdlerize.What does it mean ?
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?Epipsychidion? is composed by ______________?
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What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era ?
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To what does the title of Joyce?s short story ?After the Race? refer ?
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A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters_______________?
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What do you mean by Archaism ?
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_______ is a term denotes historical perspective for studying language ?
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Was the Globe ?
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?The quality of Mercy is not strained? the line is taken from________________?
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In transformational Generative Grammar, the ?Generative? means______________?
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Percy Shelley?s poem ?Mont Blanc? presents nature as ________________?
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I know that many say that they are willing, perhaps the majority of the people, that we should enjoy our rights and privileges as they do. If so, I would ask why are not we protected in our persons and property throughout the Union? Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders, a most unrighteous, unbecoming and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be?while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights? I would ask you if you would like to be disfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin is white, and for no other crime? I?ll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to be such a barrier in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! Awful injustice! ?
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Samuel Johnson?s Dictionary of the English Language most reflects an 18thcentury interest in which of the following ?
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The ?Cycle of American Literature? was written by ?
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Which of the following playwrights is thought to have had the greatest influence on Shakespeare ?
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With which theorist is phenomenology associated ?
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The importance of Lucy Terry?s ?Bars Flight? is________________?
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Who is the writer of ?Harold? ?
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What was special about Zora Neale Hurston?s home town of Eatonville, Florida ?
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The initial sounds in the words ?ship?, ?church? and ?judge; are examples for__________?
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What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
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Which of the following descriptions does NOT pertain to the Imagists ?
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According to the myth, which of the following are likely hunting preparation rituals that the Winnebago perform ?
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The study of relationships between two or more languages and the investigation whether the common languages have a common ancestor is called___________?
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