English Literature Quiz 9
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What British Romantic artist famously depicted John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? in a series of etchings and prints ?
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Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Indian autobiography genre ?
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Who coined the expression ?objective corelative? ?
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What is Shakespeare?s longest play ?
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In his poem Kipling said ?If you can meet with triumph and _____________??
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What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ?
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Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War ?
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Which among the following does not constitute the scientific nature of linguistics_____________?
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According section 5(2) Subject to provision of any law for the time being in force a contract of sale may be_______________?
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How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?
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Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the______________?
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Which of the following is written by P. Shelly ?
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In which work Edmund Spenser celebrates his marriage with Elizabeth Boyle ?
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In The Divine Comedy, what do many critics believe Beatrice allegorically represents ?
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About William Bradford__________________?
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Which of the following statements accurately reflects the status of England, its people, and its language in the early sixteenth century ?
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?Under the green wood tree? is a song in____________________?
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What type of play is ?Richard III? ?
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Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet?s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
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In which of the following ways was Dante involved in the Italian politics of his time ?
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Who succeeded Elizabeth I on the throne of England ?
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James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?
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We associate William Bradford with what colonial settlement ?
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Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
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Why do people evolve a language_______________?
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Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem ?
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Joyce?s novel ?Ulysses? takes place over what period of time ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significant of Maria Stewart ?
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By 1600 Holland had____________________?
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Which of the following is a love poem ?
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Through an amendment in ____________ 1962, name of the State was declared Islamic Republic of Pakistan instead of Republic of Pakistan ?
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Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet ?
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G. Rossetti was a true literary descendant of ?
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Why do we call Ralph Waldo Emerson the ?Father of American Literature? ?
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Who was the first literary critic who said that ?Art is twice removed from reality? ?
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Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans ?
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The Rape of the Lock is a_______________?
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How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?
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How did the Normans revolutionize English poetry ?
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Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry ?
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One of the dominant themes in Wallace Stevens?s poem ?Sunday Morning? consists of the juxtaposition of nature against which set of cultural symbols ?
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?The Prince Of Poets in his time?, on whom grave the inscription is given ?
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To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply? ?The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom.? ?
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_____________________is a processes of word formation whereby new words are formed by subtracting a root by deleting final syllable which is misunderstood as a suffix?
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Which of the following are King Lear?s daughters ?
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According to most critics, how does Dante distinguish love from lust ?
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?It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet no more than a long gown maketh an advocate?. Whose view is this ?
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Dr. Samuel Gladden believes Shelley?s agenda was to _____________?
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From where has the term Oedipus Complex originated ?
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Ultimately, the literary theory of deconstruction argues that ?
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