D-3006 Flashcards

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The Title the Sound and The Fury is taken from?

A

Macbeth

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2
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Pecola is a character in?

A

The Bluest Eye

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3
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Bloomsbury group

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Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.

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About whom did T. S. Eliot write “A thought to him was an experience”

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Donne

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The last book of Gulliver’s Travels is:

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“Voyage to Houyhnhnms”

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6
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Who edited The Tatler:

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Addison and Steele

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ohn Locke’s “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” is about:

A

nature of the human mind

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Which of Alexander Pope’s poems begins with the line “Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigued I said”:

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“Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”

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The statement “One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is one’s own” appears in

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Kanthapura - Raja Rao

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10
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Mudooro Narogin, David Malauf are authors from?

A

Australia

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The Tyger

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Poem by William Blake

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The Tulsis of Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas lived in:

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Hanuman House

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The quotation “a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM” appears in:

A

Bidgraphia Literaria

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“Fearful Symmetry” appears in the poem:

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The Tyger - Poem by William Blake

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The quotation “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reasons” is a definition of:

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Negative capability

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Which of Dickens novels opens with the words “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”

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A Tale of Two Cities

17
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The term “The Fleshly School of Poetry” is associated with the:

A

Pre Rephaelites

18
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The line “The sea is calm tonight” occurs in:

A

Arnold’s “Dover Beach”

19
Q

Gorboduc

A

revenge Play by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

20
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The gap-toothed character in “prologue” to The Centerbury Tales is:

A

the Wife of Bath

21
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Cowley

A

Dr Johnson

22
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The Red cross Knight is Spenser’s Faerie Queene represents

23
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The line “Present fears/Are less than horrible imaginings:” appear in:

24
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Preface to Shakespeare

A

Book by Samuel Johnson

25
Which novel of Daniel Defoe was considered to be the best by E. M. Forster?
Moll Flanders
26
The line “A man can be destroyed but not defeated” appears in
The Old Man and the Sea
27
Who is called the New England poet?
Robert Frost
28
"Negritude" was coined by?
Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor, Léon Damas
29
The Zoo Story
One-act by Edward Albee
30
Bertolt Brecht's concept of theatre was influenced by:
Irwin Piscator
31
The relationship between Othello and lago is an example of:
inversion (not sure)
32
A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is:
iamb
33
The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is:
abab, cdcd, efef, gg
34
Using “The Bench” for the judiciary is an example of:
metonymy
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Four feet, comprising a monosyllable, trochee, dactyl and first paeon is often called:
sprung rhythm