English Literature Quiz 8
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How do theorists suggest that the Gothic novel resembles queer and camp ?
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In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term ?willing suspension of disbelief? in 1817 ?
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Thackeray?s ?Esmond? is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of ____________?
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The pastoral elegy often begins with which of the following poetic conventions ?
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On which Biblical theme that Paradise lost is based ?
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Which of the following themes IS NOT important to John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? ?
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Complete the following statement. John Milton explains in the first 26 lines of ?Paradise Lost? that that goal of his epic poem will be ?
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The consonants /j/ and /w/ are called__________?
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Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy ?
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Which of the following statements about the plot of Shakespeare?s ?Hamlet? is not true ?
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Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ?
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What is affective piety ?
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Find the Odd man out ?
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?The Day Duke Raised? by Quincy Troupe is a jazz poem because______________?
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Abslom, Absalom is a novel written by______________?
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A picaresque novel dramatizes the life of what kind of person ?
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How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett?s Waiting for Godot ?
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Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by ?
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Who succeeded Lyly ?
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Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers ?
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The title of the poem ?The Second Coming? is taken from ?
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The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________?
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Which of the following does NOT accurately describe Robinson Crusoe?s and Oroonoko?s relationship to central features of the early English novel ?
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?But God?s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.? In which poem do these lines appear ?
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Who is the writer of ?Vision of Sin? ?
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Which of the following are tragedies of Shakespeare ?
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Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing ?
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The change TV brought into the society can be summed up as_________________?
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In The Paradiso, who leads Dante on his tour of heaven ?
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Fill in the blanks from Tennyson?s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the ?..: Man to command and woman to ____________?
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Marxist theory focuses on examining which of the following aspects of literary texts ?
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What lesson does Hare?s adventure involving a tall man with a cane attempt to teach the Winnebago people ?
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In the Middle Ages, how did society treat prostitution ?
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What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowe?s father ?
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Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
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The theory which Is based upon the assumption that language has been formed from the words uttered by groups of persons engaged in joint burdensome labour ?
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What does George Harris? master demand of him that prompts him to plan his escape ?
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Why did Bradford and the Pilgrims create Plymouth Colony ?
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Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?
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Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?
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/m/ is a ______________consonant?
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Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work ?
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Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?
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For Joyce, what are epiphanies ?
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Which of the following is not an apparition shown to Macbeth by the Witches ?
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Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot ?
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a description that appeals to one of the five senses____________?
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Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist ?
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What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in ?Appeal in Four Articles? ?
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Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?
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