English Literature Quiz 69

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English Literature Quiz 69

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In Jorge Luis Borges? ?The Library of Babel,? which of the following is NOT a major concern of the work ?

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What was the name of the Bronte sister?s only brother ?

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Period in English Literature from 1901 to 1910 is called___________?

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According to the ?Book of Luke,? Herod was the king of ?

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?Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter? is a line from_______________?

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The lines ?The loveliest and the lastThe bloom, whose petals nipped before they blewDied on the promise of the fruit? are from a poem honoring________________?

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That Milton was of the Devil?s party without knowing it, was said by ?

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Which of the following plays were written by Christopher Marlowe ?

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The foundation story of what poem is the Genesis account of the Creation of the world and of Adam and Eve, culminating in the drama of their temptation and fall ?

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?My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the intellect.? Who wrote this ?

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Fill in the blank. John Wycliffe challenged a number of ______________doctrines with arguments which centuries later would echo during the Protestant Reformation ?

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Complete the following sentence. The politics of Radcliffe?s medieval settings______________?

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In Shakespeare?s literary output, the period 1604-1608 is the period of__________________?

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The IPA came into existence in the year__________?

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For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick?s paintings is described as follows: ?A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth.? What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?

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In his essay ?The Symbolism of Poetry,? William Butler Yeats argues that which of the following is the purpose of rhythm ?

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In Dryden?s Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden?s own views ?

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What is a plot ?

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We associate Nathaniel Hawthrone with what literary movement ?

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The phrase ?where the sun is silent? is an example of which poetic device ?

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What was a favorite entertainment in Elizabeth?s court ?

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Which event did Percy Shelley call ?the master theme of the epoch in which we live? ?

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Who is the author of ?For Whom the Bell Tolls? ?

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Which of the following was not a cause associated with militant Protestant reformers (Puritans, Presbyterians, and separatists) ?

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This is the title of a famous Puritan sermon______________?

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Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?

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All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare?s__________________?

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According to Constitution of 1962, Provincial Assemblies were consisting ____________ members?

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The poem ends on a_____________?

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Which of the following is NOT considered a write for the Transcendentalism Movement ?

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How does Queen Gertrude die ?

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Complete the following statement. Chaucer wrote his elegiac poem, ?The Book of the Duchess,? to praise the young Duchess of Lancaster who tragically died of___________________?

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What was the nationality of OscarWilde ?

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What are some common criticisms of literary theory ?

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In the poem ?When Malindy Sings,? Paul Laurence Dunbar uses irony and caricature to ?signify? on white assumptions about African Americans. What does Henry Louis Gate?s term ?signify? mean ?

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Who coined the term New Historicism ?

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Which of the following is not a poet ?

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Which one is a great patriotic poem by Frost ?

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What is the principal subject of Marianne Moore?s poem ?An Octopus? ?

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?The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses? is an example of what dramatic genre ?

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How did lay literacy affect traditional devotional practices ?

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How did courtly literature characterize its heroines ?

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The founder of Jamestown____________?

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How do the themes of Marie de France?s Lanval and Chretien de Troyes Yvain compare ?

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What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Benjamin Franklin ?

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The classification of vowels into tense vowels and lax vowels is based on ________________?

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Which of the following statement is correct ?

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Which of the following cultural changes occurred as a result of the Norman invasion ?

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Where were the pilgrims going in the Canterbury tales ?

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It was about this time that I conceiv?d the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection. I wish?d to live without committing any Fault at any time; I would conquer all that either Natural Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a Task of more difficulty than I had imagined. ? I included under Thirteen names of Virtues all that at that time occurr?d to me as necessary or desirable, and annex?d to each a short Precept, which fully express?d the Extent I gave to its Meaning ?

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