N-03017 Flashcards

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1
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Fear no more the heat o’ the sun,
Nor the furious winter’s rages;

Is from Shakespeare’s?

A

Cymbeline

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“Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages” lines by Shakespeare is repeated several times in Virginia Woolf’s

A

Mrs. Dalloway

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3
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grande chartreuse is a poem by

A

Mathew Arnold

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“Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born” is from which Arnold poem?

A

grande chartreuse

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Emblems(1635) book is a book collecting emblems and text with it. Was by?

A

Francis Quarles

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“I want a hero : an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one” which work by Byron begons with these lines?

A

Don Juan

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The title of Sir Thomas Browne’s famous treatise, Religio Medici means

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The Religion of a Doctor

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which of Kamila Shamsie’s novel is a retelling of Sophocles’s Antigone

A

Home Fire

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9
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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour…”.

are line by?

A

William Blake

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“The Heresy of Paraphrase” is the title of a chapter in The Well-Wrought Urn by?

A

Cleanth Brooks

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Colin Clout’s Come Home Again (pastoral poem)

A

Edmund Spencer

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Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is set in

A

Surinam

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Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is also called?

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Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave

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Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poems in 1918 ?

A

Robert Bridges

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15
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Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of the characters in __________.

A

Philip Sidney’s Arcadia

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Charles Dickens’s Bleak House is pointedly critical of England’s :

A

) Court of Chancery

17
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Geraldine is a character by?

A

in Christabel by coleridge

18
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. Which novel of Thomas Hardy begins with the sombre description of Egdon Heath

A

The Return of the Native

19
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What happens to the lock of hair at the end of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

A

turns into a star

20
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Which of the novels by Margaret Atwood depicts the historical event of the notorious
murders committed in 1843

A

Alias Grace

21
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“Sailing to Byzantium”

A

W B Yeats

22
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The poem - “Widgeon” by Seamus Heaney is dedicated to the Irish poet?

A

Paul Muldoon

23
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In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies which of the following characters is put to death?

A

PIGGY AND JACK

24
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. In Canterbury Tales who has a red face full of sores?

A

the Summoner

25
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The rate, pace, or rhythm of speech is called :

A

tempo

26
Q

A literature of their own

A

Book by Elaine Showalter

27
Q

Sexual Politics

A

Book by Kate Millett

28
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Thinking About Women

A

Book by Margaret L. Andersen

29
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The Laugh of the Medusa

A

Essay by Hélène Cixous

30
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Which historical events does Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” describe?

A

Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War

31
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“Andrea del Sarto”

A

Robert Browning

32
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Which rivers are mentioned in Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy
Mistress”

A

Ganges and Humber

33
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Steps to the Temple

A

Richard Crashaw

34
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Look Back in Anger

A

Play by John Osborne(life of character named Jimmy Porter)

35
Q

Room at the Top

A

novel by John Braine

36
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Hurry on Down

A

Book by John Wain

37
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Lucky Jim

A

Novel by Kingsley Amis (The novel follows the exploits of the eponymous James Dixon)

38
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The title of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood is derived from a poem by Derek Walcott called?

A

the swamp