English Literature Quiz 9
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Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
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Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the______________?
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In which of the following ways was Dante involved in the Italian politics of his time ?
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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 work Edmund Spenser celebrates his marriage with Elizabeth Boyle ?
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What type of play is ?Richard III? ?
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How did the Normans revolutionize English poetry ?
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Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem ?
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Who was the first literary critic who said that ?Art is twice removed from reality? ?
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?The Prince Of Poets in his time?, on whom grave the inscription is given ?
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?Under the green wood tree? is a song in____________________?
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By 1600 Holland had____________________?
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Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Indian autobiography genre ?
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From where has the term Oedipus Complex originated ?
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Dr. Samuel Gladden believes Shelley?s agenda was to _____________?
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According to most critics, how does Dante distinguish love from lust ?
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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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We associate William Bradford with what colonial settlement ?
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Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War ?
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In his poem Kipling said ?If you can meet with triumph and _____________??
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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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What is Shakespeare?s longest play ?
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About William Bradford__________________?
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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 generally considered to be a neoclassical poet ?
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What statement below best sums up the literary significant of Maria Stewart ?
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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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To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply? ?The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom.? ?
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How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?
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Why do we call Ralph Waldo Emerson the ?Father of American Literature? ?
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G. Rossetti was a true literary descendant of ?
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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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Ultimately, the literary theory of deconstruction argues that ?
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Which of the following are King Lear?s daughters ?
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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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Who coined the expression ?objective corelative? ?
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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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In The Divine Comedy, what do many critics believe Beatrice allegorically represents ?
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Which of the following is a love poem ?
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Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry ?
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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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What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ?
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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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James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?
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Joyce?s novel ?Ulysses? takes place over what period of time ?
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Who succeeded Elizabeth I on the throne of England ?
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Why do people evolve a language_______________?
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Which of the following is written by P. Shelly ?
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