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Category: Ages, era, period
The use of “whale-road”for sea and “lifehouse” for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?
A. symbolism
B. simile
C. metonymy
D. kenning
Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law ?
A. tenth
B. twelfth
C. thirteenth
D. fourteenth
Which work did Edmund Spenser author ?
A. The Castle of Perseverance
B. The Double
C. The Metamorphoses
D. The Faerie Queene
For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
B. modern literary criticism
C. late “nineteenth-century and early” twentieth-century satirical drama
D. the surrealist movement
To what subgenre did the Senecan influence give rise, as evidenced in the first English tragedy Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex ?
A. villain tragedy
B. poetic tragedy
C. heroic tragedy
D. revenge tragedy
Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?
A. a French revolutionary
B. a Greek or Roman mythological figure
C. a monster fabricated in a laboratory
D. All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.
Which of the following was not an expressed objective of the Long Parliament when it convened in 1640 ?
A. abolishing extra-legal taxes and courts
B. mounting a revolution and executing the king
C. bringing to trial the king’s hated ministers, Strafford and Laud
D. remaining in session until they themselves agreed to disband
How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
A. the Battle of Hastings
B. Saint Patrick’s mission
C. the Fourth Lateran Council
D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
A. Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
B. Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.
C. Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.
D. Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed
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