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Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?
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A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures
C. ironic understatement
D. stress on every third diphthong
According to Samuel Johnson, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
A. love.”
B. honor.”
C. money.”
D. his party.”
What was Elizabeth’s close circle of advisers called ?
A. The Star Chamber
B. Parliament
C. The Privy Council
D. The Cabinet
With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
A. eugenics
B. psychoanalysis
C. phrenology
D. all of the above
What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?
A. Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
B. Butler’s Hudibras
C. Fielding’s Jonathan Wild
D. Pope’s Dunciad
Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by ?
A. Sir Walter Scot
B. Christopher Marlow
C. Ben Johnson
D. George Herbert
The Prince was written to gain favor of the_______________?
A. Pazzi
B. Republic
C. Medici
D. Inquisition
In which work do you read: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” ?
A. Adonais
B. Bright Star
C. Ode on a Grecian Urn
D. La Bell Dame Sans Merci
In which work do you read: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?
A. The Man of Feeling
B. In Memoriam
C. Song to Aella
D. Ozymandias
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