English Literature Quiz 7
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Which of the following statements best describes the worldview represented by postmodern theater ?
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Fill in the blank. Prior to the rise of the famed tragedians of the late 1580s,_____________ were the great headliners of the Elizabethan stage?
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The beginning of the renaissance may be traced to the city____________?
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Why does Radcliffe favor the term ?romance? as the subtitle to ?The Mysteries of Udolpho? ?
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In Fredric Jameson?s book The Political Unconscious, what does Jameson suggest about literature ?
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What is ?Post-Modernism? ?
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Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in commands_____________?
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Hardy?s Nature is_____________?
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In which city was Milton ?
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What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?
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Ecotheorists tend to show an interest in which of the following ?
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Faustus? servant shares his name with a famous German composer. Who ?
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The kind Claudius was killed by________________?
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Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?
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In A Portrait of the Artist, how do most critics suggest that the flight motif functions ?
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Which of the following questions would a student of Book Nine of John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? likely ask ?
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In Saturn, what does Peter Damian say about God?s ways ?
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Which of the following are well-known Post-Modern theoreticians ?
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Many of William Shakespeare?s plays were performed at what theater in Elizabethan England ?
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The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as_____________?
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Future goods means goods to be manufactured or produced or acquired by the seller ________________?
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This term is an elaborate comparison between two different subjects___________?
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According to Dr. Roger Dunkle, in ancient times, what was considered a tragedy ?
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What is one reason that Mystery Plays are referred to as such ?
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Henry Higgins is a character in________________?
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Shakespeare?s ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? can be described as what kind of play ?
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Which event(s) characterized the Middle Ages ?
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What unforgivable action does Mag Smith take in Chapter One of Our Nig ?
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Siegfried Sassoon?s ?The Dragon and the Undying? includes the following lines: ?Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilder?d seas.? Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect ?
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Who wrote ?The Hound of the Baskervilles ??
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Who was the most illustrious disciple of Socrates ?
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What is New Historicism ?
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In his introductory lecture, how does Paul Fry define literary theory ?
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Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase ?to make the stones stonier? ?
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Which literary theory would most directly explore questions of the role of spatial setting in a poem ?
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A poem that generally has meter and rhyme______________?
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The clear /l/ and the dark /l/ may be considered to be the ______________________of the same phoneme /l/?
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Which of the following offers the best description of the concept of logos ?
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Which school of literary theory shows a particular interest in the role of testimony in literature ?
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Which of the following are examples of poetic structures ?
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In the first lecture of his Modern Poetry course, what argument does Professor Langdon Hammer make about the relationship between the modern city and poetic modernism ?
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One important feature of Jane Austen?s style is ?
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In ?Two Gallants,? Joyce?s major critical commentary is__________________?
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Ezra Pound?s poem ?In a Station of the Metro? reads: ?The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.? Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem ?
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In which state was ?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? written ?
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?Paradise Lost? and ?Paradise Regained? are written by________________?
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Which of the following natural forces ?speaks? in the culminating passage of T.S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land? ?
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According to Dante, what does the term ?gramatica? mean ?
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In the context of Medieval literature, what does ?inner rule? mean ?
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In the late seventeenth century, a battle of the bookserupted between which two groups ?
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