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1
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First folio of Shakespeare appeared in?

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1623

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Restoration comedy begins with?

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George Etherege

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The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter is a play by?

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George Etherege

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Of the progress of the soul?

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John Donne

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“ancestral voices prophesying war” is a qoute by?

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Coleridge in Kubla Khan

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Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus mean?

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meaning ‘The tailor re-tailored’

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The protagonist of Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy??

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Cytherea Graye

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The protagonist of Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy?

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Dick Dewy

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The protagonist of A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy?

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Elfride Swancourt

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The protagonist of Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy?

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Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene

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The protagonist of Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy

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Sue Bridehead

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The protagonist of Return of The Native by Thomas Hardy?

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Diggory Venn, Thomasin

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Return of The Native by Thomas Hardy is set in?

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Edgon Heath in Wessex

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Quote - “Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions”

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Ezra Pound

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Who said - my poems are not about violence but vitality

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Ted Hughes

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The Caretaker - a comedy of menace - by Harold Pinter? Name the characters in the play

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Ashton, Davies (the homeless man) and Mick

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17
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Toni Morrison used a male narrator for the first time in?

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Song of Solomon

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18
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young African-American girl named Pecola is central character in?

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The Bluest eye by Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison’s Sula is set in?

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The Bottom - a black neighbourhood on the hill above the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio.

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Which novel portrays a love affair between Jadine and Son?

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Tar Baby - Toni Morrison

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the protagonist Sethe is from which of Toni Morrison’s Novel?

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Beloved

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Christine, Cosey and Heed are characters in which of Toni Morrison’s Novel?

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Love

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Florens, a slave is the protagonist in which of Toni Morrison’s Novel?

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A Mercy

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Which novel tells the story of Frank Money, a 24-year-old African-American veteran of the Korean War?

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Home - Toni Morrison

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The Hungry Tide is authored by?

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Amitav Ghosh

26
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According to Aristotle - the soul of tragedy is

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plot

27
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Fabula and Syuzhet are concepts in?

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Russian Formalism

28
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Fabula and Syuzhet mean?

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Fabula - “raw material of a story”

Syuzhet - “the way a story is organized”

29
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Fabula and Syuzhet are concepts first used by?

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They were first used in this sense by Vladimir Propp and Viktor Shklovsky

30
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The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction (1981) is written by?

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Jonathan Culler

31
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a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition is called?

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antithesis

32
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in?

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1848

33
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The———- method was a technique expounded by Ezra Pound which allowed poetry to deal with abstract content through concrete images

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ideogrammic

34
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Des Imagistes: An Anthology, edited by ——- and published in 1914

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Ezra Pound

35
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Name the Movement poets

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Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn and Robert Conquest

36
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The Movement was a term coined in 1954 by

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J. D. Scott

37
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New Lines was an anthology of the movement literature edited by?

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Robert Conquest

38
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The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974) are works by?

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Philip Larkin

39
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Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake’s Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986) are works by?

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Kingsley Amis

40
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“The Theatre of the Absurd” is an essay by (coined by)

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Martin Esslin in 1960

41
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The Bald Soprano is a play of Absurd theatre written by?

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Eugène Ionesco

42
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The four playwrights that Martin Esslin defined to be part of the Theatre of Absurd is?

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Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet,

43
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Waiting for Godot.

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Samuel Beckett

44
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Krapp’s Last Tape

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Samuel Beckett

45
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Hamm, Clov, Nagg, Nell are characters in which play by Samuel Becket?

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Endgame

46
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On the road with Kafka and Genet
Christie in Love
Shaking the audience
Sheer exhaustion

Above are plays associated with?

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Portable Theatre

47
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Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor)

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Thomas Browne

48
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Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial is by?

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Thomas Browne

49
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Urn Burial by Thomas Browne discusses?

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the subject was the discovery some 40 to 50 Anglo-Saxon pots in Norfolk

50
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Birthplace with Buried Stones (2013) Atmospheric Embroidery (2018) are both works by?

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Meena Alexander

51
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The Fall of Hyperion

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Dan Simmons

52
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Idylls of the King

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Tennyson

53
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The diverting history of John Gilpin

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William Cowper

54
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The Castle of Otranto

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Horace Walpole

55
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Wuthering Heights

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Emily Brontë

56
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Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional place invented by?

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William Faulkner

57
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Glossematics is a structuralist linguistic theory proposed by

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Louis Hjelmslev and Hans Jørgen Uldall

58
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Rabelais and His World

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Bakhtin

59
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Gargantua and Pantagruel is a novel by?

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Francois Rabelais

60
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Carnivalesque is a literary mode originated as “carnival” in Mikhail Bakhtin’s—-?

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Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics

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Affective stylistics - is derived from analyzing further the notion that a literary text is an event that occurs in time—that comes into being as it is read—rather than an object that exists in space. Was established by?

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Stanley Fish

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