English Literature Quiz 71
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Human beings can talk about experiences, objects and events which are not present at the time and place of speaking. This property of language is called______________ ?
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Which of the following is not a work of John Keats ?
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Words like ?Buzz?, ?Hiss?, ?thud? etC. which represents the sounds of their referents are known as ___________?
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Which of the following events occur(s) at some point in John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? ?
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His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with th?e old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother?s heels, equipped in a pair of his father?s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are ?galligaskins? ?
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Which of the following statements best characterizes Randall Jarrell?s 1945 poem ?The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner? ?
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In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. What?s the name of that masque ?
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The ?tragic mulatto? myth_________________?
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Which contemporary fictional character can be understood as a Byronic hero ?
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Where does Senator Bird take Eliza and Harry ?
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In Book Six of ?Paradise Lost,? Adam is told of what major event ?
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Which of the following themes are developed in Finnegans Wake ?
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In Marlowe?s play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta ?
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In ?A Mother,? what does Mrs. Kearney make her daughter learn ?
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There are _______________, essential requisites of sale ?
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The final /m/ in the word ?Prism? is an instance of ____________?
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What is Christopher Ricks?s attitude toward literary theory ?
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In drama, what is a ?climax? ?
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Who is the heroine of the play, ?All?sWell that Ends Well? ?
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What was the function of the Anglo- Saxon Chronicle ?
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in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French ?
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What does the term ?monasticism? mean ?
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The /t/ in little is an instance of __________________?
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W.B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature in the year ?
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In ?Jane Eyre? how does Bertha NOT trouble the patriarchy ?
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With which genre is ?The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity? most closely associated ?
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How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write ?
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Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with_______________?
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We find Subjective Elements in ?
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Which of the following are common literary elements used to analyze novels ?
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Define trickster tale ?
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The Bronte sisters wrote during this period______________?
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What has Dryden to say about the observance of the three Classical Dramatic Unities ?
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In ?The Dead,? what do most critics suggest is important about the snowfall ?
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Alice Walker?s novels often explore the abuse experienced by African American women. What is the only abuse Celie does not experience The Color Purple ?
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How many chapters are in the Quran ?
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The twins in Lord of the Flies are ?
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Which of the following are examples of literary interpretation ?
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Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ?
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One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make readings too subjective ?
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What was the name of the theater group that Shakespeare worked with for most of his career ?
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To what idea does the term heteroglossia refer ?
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During the 19th century, the term ?middle class? described people who were______________?
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Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
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Paradise Lost shows an influence of_______________?
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Shakespeare dedicated his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis to________________?
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Who was the first black woman who win the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
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Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
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Which is/are an element(s) of Stephen?s aesthetic theories ?
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What did John Smith write ?
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