English Literature Quiz 67
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The quote ?abandon all hope ye who enter here? is from which text ?
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Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase ?to make the stones stonier? ?
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In the first decades after the Norman Conquest, which of the following best describes the use of language in England ?
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What is the central argument in Dr. Richard Kelly?s ?The Novelist?s Eye? ?
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Which of the following statements demonstrates use of logos ?
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How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ?
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Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
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What does the phrase ?White Man?s Burden,? coined by Kipling, refer to ?
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Which member of the corn clan could not overlook the wrondoings of the rest of the clan ?
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According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by ?legitimate? drama ?
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In what centuries did mystical women writers primarily work ?
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Fill in the blank. According to Dr. Debora Schwartz, Greek ?old comedy? was often characterized as being ?
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After ____________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London?
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Shelley?s ?Ode to the West Wind? can be best understood as a poem about _____________?
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Which royal dynasty Edmund Spenser celebrates in his epic poem The Faerie Queene ?
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Which of the following statements regarding Oscar Wilde is false ?
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______________refers to the linguistic norm specific to a geographical area, social class or status affecting mutual intelligibility ?
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Why does the ?Fl?neur? begin to disappear as a Parisian phenomenon ?
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A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language. When we construct WORDS and SENTENCES we follow a certain order in arranging the individual items.
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Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ?
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Estella is the daughter of ?
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Which of the following offers the best description of the concept of pathos ?
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Which of the following are not among the subjects of Shakespeare?s sonnets ?
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At what age did Mary Shelley start writing the novel Frankenstein ?
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When did Hemingway receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
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At what point does the narration unfolds in the poem Paradise Lost ?
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Who is the writer of ?Comedy of Errors? ?
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In what book does the fall take place ?
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What does ?transhumanize? mean ?
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Who is Pip?s friend in London ?
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Which of the following exemplifies the Modernist style of The Dubliners ?
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About the Iroquois_______________?
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The basic theme of Arnold?s Literature and Dogma is____________?
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In A Portrait of the Artist, what is Stephen?s relationship with his Catholic faith ?
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The older term used to designate the study of languages is____________?
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In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down during a production of which play ?
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In which hospital John Keats registered as a medical student after finishing his apprenticeship with Hammond ?
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Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for________________?
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In what country is ?Dr Faustus? based ?
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What do you mean by Burlesque ?
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Shakespeare?s ?Hamlet? was published in________________?
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During the early 20th century, a black person?s purpose in passing might have been_________________?
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Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?
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?A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to me during my travels in Italy, which was copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed account of the horrors which ended in the extinction of one of the noblest families of that city during the Pontificate of Clement VIII, in the year 1599.? All of the following state why this quotation from Perce Shelley?s ?The Cenci? represents the Gothic EXCEPT_____________?
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Which of the following directives was part of Queen Victoria?s moral crusade ?
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Novel which is not written by H Lawrence ?
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When was Christopher Marlowe baptized ?
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Which of the following terms is most closely related to the phrase ?the explained supernatural? ?
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Which of the following represents a stage of development in the poetic form of the elegy ?
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This mode of discourse presents details that appeal to the senses______________?
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