Test 1

Question 0

The term for subjectively pleasing sounds is

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Euphony

Question 1

An obsolete phrase, idiom, syntax, or spelling used intentionally to recreate the atmosphere of the past is known as

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Archaism

Question 2

An epistolary novel is

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One in which the narrative is carried forward by letters

Question 3

The meaning of verisimilitude is

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The semblance if truth

Question 4

In poetry, a hiatus

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A.pause or break between two vowels separated by a consonant

Question 5

Of these terms, the one Poe applied to his stories in which the material was selected for its strangeness and its appeal to the sense of wonder is

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Arabesque

Question 6

Those who leave their native land and reside elsewhere are know as

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Expatriates

Question 7

Hypertext is best known as

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Written or printed material interconnected in such a complicated way that it could not be conveniently represented on paper

Question 8

The number of lines in a traditional sonnet is

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14

Question 9

A sustained and formal poem setting forth mediations on death or other solemn thoughts is an/a

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Elegy

Question 10

The Reformation of the English Church an the revival of learning known as Humanism modifies English life and thought substantially during the

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Early Tudor age

Question 11

The group of writers which is characterized by the following “writers working to expose the dishonest methods and unscrupulous motives in big businesses and in city star, and national government

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The Muckrackers

Question 12

The dates used for the Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period of American literature are

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1900-1930

Question 13

The period in literature which was a time of the gradual tempering of the romantic impulse ad the steady growth of realism in English letters is called

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The Early Victorian Age.

Question 14

The age in literary history which emphasized self knowledge, self-control, discipline, and the rule of law order and decorum is known as the

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Age of reason

Question 15

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bronson Alcott are associated with the American movement called

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Transcendentalism

Question 16

The Angry Young Men were demonstrating a particular bitterness in their attacks on outmoded bourgeois values in England during the

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1950s and 1960s

Question 17

W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory led the Abbey Theatre in

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Ireland

Question 18

The idea that the courtly love philosophy flourished first in France and then in England along with

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Chivalry

Question 19

The aspect of American history concerning the westward movement of the frontier - when all free lands had generally been closed - ended in

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1890

Question 20

The legend which was the basis for famous works by Geoffery of Monmouth, Malory and Tennyson is

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The Arthurian legend

Question 21

The Castle of Otrano, the first Gothic nove,l was written in 1764 by

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Horace Walpole

Question 22

Of these poets, the ones identified with the Graveyard School are

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Thomas Gray and William Cullen Bryant

Question 23

The author of uncle Remus is

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Joel Chandler Harris

Question 24

Treasure Island was written by

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Question 25

Peter Pan was penned by

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James M. Barrie

Question 26

The author of The Old Man and the Sea was

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Ernest Hemingway

Question 27

The Color Purple was written by

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Alice Walker

Question 28

Received the Pulitzer Prize or poetry in 1979 as well as the Pulitzer Prize for fiction All the Kings Men in 1947 was

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Robert Penn Warren

Question 29

The one of these create an anachronism if it were a situation in a novel is

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Geoffrey Chaucer attending the play by Shakespeare