English Literature Quiz 67
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Who is the writer of ?Comedy of Errors? ?
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According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by ?legitimate? drama ?
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Who is Pip?s friend in London ?
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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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About the Iroquois_______________?
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When did Hemingway receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
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In what centuries did mystical women writers primarily work ?
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Which of the following terms is most closely related to the phrase ?the explained supernatural? ?
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Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for________________?
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Which of the following exemplifies the Modernist style of The Dubliners ?
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Which of the following statements regarding Oscar Wilde is false ?
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Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase ?to make the stones stonier? ?
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What does the phrase ?White Man?s Burden,? coined by Kipling, refer to ?
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What do you mean by Burlesque ?
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When was Christopher Marlowe baptized ?
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This mode of discourse presents details that appeal to the senses______________?
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Novel which is not written by H Lawrence ?
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At what point does the narration unfolds in the poem Paradise Lost ?
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The basic theme of Arnold?s Literature and Dogma is____________?
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Shelley?s ?Ode to the West Wind? can be best understood as a poem about _____________?
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In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down during a production of which play ?
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Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
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The older term used to designate the study of languages is____________?
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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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How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ?
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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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At what age did Mary Shelley start writing the novel Frankenstein ?
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Which of the following directives was part of Queen Victoria?s moral crusade ?
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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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Shakespeare?s ?Hamlet? was published in________________?
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Which of the following statements demonstrates use of logos ?
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Why does the ?Fl?neur? begin to disappear as a Parisian phenomenon ?
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In what country is ?Dr Faustus? based ?
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In A Portrait of the Artist, what is Stephen?s relationship with his Catholic faith ?
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Horace Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ?
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In which hospital John Keats registered as a medical student after finishing his apprenticeship with Hammond ?
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What is the central argument in Dr. Richard Kelly?s ?The Novelist?s Eye? ?
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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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Estella is the daughter of ?
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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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Which of the following are not among the subjects of Shakespeare?s sonnets ?
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Which royal dynasty Edmund Spenser celebrates in his epic poem The Faerie Queene ?
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The quote ?abandon all hope ye who enter here? is from which text ?
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What does ?transhumanize? mean ?
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In what book does the fall take place ?
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During the early 20th century, a black person?s purpose in passing might have been_________________?
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Which of the following offers the best description of the concept of pathos ?
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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 represents a stage of development in the poetic form of the elegy ?
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