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The general understanding is that Modernism happened during which period;
1890-1930
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Who is the author of the following passage? He holds him with his skinny hand, "There was a ship," quoth he. "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!" Eftsoons his hand dropt he.
S. T. Coleridge
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The lines are from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Write the character’s name speaking the lines. Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.
Claudius
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( ) is a poetic device that suggest multiple meanings with one object. One exemplary case of this device applied is a white dove.
Symbolism
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Later, Charley’s son, Bernard becomes a very successful ( ) in Death of a Salesman.
lawyer
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What is not related to Pound’s Imagist Movement?
Dutch Sculpture
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What kind of athlete was Troy in August Wilson’s Fences?
baseball
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The lines are from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Write the character’s name speaking the lines. Not a whit, we defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now.
Hamlet
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Which of the following characters does not appear in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations?
Mr. Brocklehurst
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Which is not related to Robert Frost’s poetics?
New York accent
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Who does Willy borrow money from every time in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman?
Charley
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This poet, highly influenced by painting, attempted to draw a picture with his poetic language. One example is “A Red Wheelbarrow.” Write the poet’s name. ( )
William Carlos Williams
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Which of the following characters does not appear in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations?
Carker
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Choose ONLY two key words provided below describing each writer’s contribution to the idea of modernism (you are asked not to choose one word more than twice) [ consciousness, atoms, pattern, subjective time (durée), public time, private psychology, memories, thoughts. ] - Henry Bergson:
subjective time (durée), memories
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Select a literary idea against which the idea of modernism stands.
Realism
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What is the title of following passage? Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up Foster’d alike by beauty and by fear, Much favor’d in my birthplace, and no less In that beloved vale to which erelong I was transplated.
The Prelude
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The lines are from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Write the character’s name speaking the lines. (Answer in English) Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble.
Higgins
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Which of the following characters is Pip’s real benefactor in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations?
Abel Magwitch
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Choose ONLY two key words provided below describing each writer’s contribution to the idea of modernism (you are asked not to choose one word more than twice) [ consciousness, atoms, pattern, subjective time (durée), public time, private psychology, memories, thoughts. ] - Virginia Woolf:
consciousness, pattern
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What subject did Biff fail in the last year of high school in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman?
Mathematics
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What does Eliza sell before she first meets Higgins in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion?
flowers
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What is the main purpose of Alfred Doolittle’s visiting of Higgins’s house in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Act 2?
To get some money
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Choose a character who is relevant to the following description: heightened sensitivity to the promise of life, an extraordinary gift for hope, incomparable milk of wonder, appalling sentimentality, the green light, the orgiastic future
Gatsby
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Langston Hughes wrote poems of the weary lives of poor African Americans, modernizing two African-American folk music genres, which are the blues and ( ).
jazz
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Fill in the blank the title of a story which is relevant to the following description. Toni Morrison, “124 was spiteful.” “Lay them down, Sethe. Sword and shield.” “He wants to put his story next to hers.”
Beloved
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Which is not related to W. B. Yeats’ poetics?
Harmonium
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Fill in the blank the name of a literary device that is relevant to the following description. the continuous flow of sense-perceptions, thoughts, and memories, a special form of interior monologue, random associations, Ulysses
stream of consciousness
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Write the name of the character who speaks the lines in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.
Eliza
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What does Willy’s brother, Ben symbolize in Death of a Salesman?
material success
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What is the title of following passage? "Why, William, on that old grey stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone, And dream your time away?
The Tables Turned
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Choose a character who is relevant to the following description: the odour of dusty cretonne, the Hill of Howth, Buenos Ayres, Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!, the iron railing
Eveline
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What does the fugitive at the churchyard threaten Pip to bring to him in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations?
File and food
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Who re-imagined the life of Helen in Greek mythology and wrote a poem about it?
H. D.
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Select a writer who you think is the most relevant in modernist theories.
William James
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What is the title of following passage? "Why, William, on that old grey stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone, And dream your time away?
Expostulation and Reply
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Which of the following characters does separate one’s private life in Walworth from one’s public life in London in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations?
Wemmick
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What is the title of following passage? Nor less I deem that there are powers, Which of themselves our minds impress, That we can feed this mind of ours, In a wise passiveness.
Expostulation and Reply
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Who presented the impersonal theory or the theory of depersonalization? Write the moderist poet’s name. ( )
T. S. Eliot
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Fill in the blank the name of the author who is relevant to the following description. Answer in English. [ The Scarlet Letter, Custom House, the Salem Witch Trials, Romance ]
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Who is not a member of Ezra Pound’s Imagist poetry group?
William C. Williams
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In the poem The Love of J. A. Prufrock, Eliot introduces a character walking through the streets. He doen’s seem to know the audience/ the reader listens to what he says. Such a technique is called irony in general, and ( ) irony in particular. Fill in the blank.
dramatic
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What is the title of following passage? If from the public way you turn your steps Up the tumultuous brook of Green-head Ghyll, You will suppose that with an upright path Your feet must struggle;
Michael
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T. S. Eliot presented the ( ) theory to renovate the previous tradition, emphasizing too much emotions. Fill in the blank.
impersonal
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What is the title of following passage? When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ‘Weep! weep! weep! weep! So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
The Chimney Sweeper
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The lines are from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Write the character’s name speaking the lines. Oh what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword, Th’expentancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
Ophelia
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From which country has Pickering returned in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion?
India
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Write the name of the character who speaks the lines in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up, the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
Eliza
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Who is Troy’s brother in August Wilson’s Fences?
Gabriel
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The lines are from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Write the character’s name speaking the lines. (Answer in English) That cannot be, since I am still possessed Of those effects for which I did the murder, My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.
Claudius
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What is the title of following passage? 'twas my joy To wander half the night among the cliffs And the smooth Hollows where the woodcocks ran Along the open turf. In thought and wish, That time, my shoulder all with springes hung, I was a fell destroyer.
The Prelude
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Wallace Stevens suggests that Life consists of ( ) about life. Fill in the blank.
propositions
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In Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, what is Joe’s occupation? Answer in English.
blacksmith
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The lines are from Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Write the character’s name speaking the lines. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and the Bible.
Higgins
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Choose a character who is relevant to the following description: West Briton, Robert Browning, The Dead, Desire to overmaster, narcissistic character
Gabriel Conroy
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Choose a term that is appropriate for the following blank: Heart of Darkness is a literary representation of _________________________, suggesting the European company’s ruthless domination over the African natives and its project of collecting ivory from them.
colonialism
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Which of the following poems is not included in Lyrical Ballads?
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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The lines are from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Write the character’s name speaking the lines. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Claudius
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Fill in the blank the name of the author who is relevant to the following description. Minimalistic style of writing, The Lost Generation, World War I, Iceberg principle, The Sun Also Rises, “A Clean, Well-lighted Place”
Ernest Miller Hemingway
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Read William Wordsworth’s definition of poetry and fill in the blanks. Poetry is the ( ) overflow of powerful ( ).
spontaneous, feelings
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Which is not related to T. S. Eliot’ poetics?
Irish Folk Tales
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Which of the following characters said, “I would prefer not to”?
Bartleby
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Write the name of the character who speaks the lines in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven, It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t, A brother’s murder.
Claudius
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Which is not a main component of Stevens's poetics?
Vorticism
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Select a literary idea against which the idea of modernism stands.
Realism
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Choose ONLY two key words provided below describing each writer’s contribution to the idea of modernism (you are asked not to choose one word more than twice) [ consciousness, atoms, pattern, subjective time (durée), public time, private psychology, memories, thoughts. ] - William James:
private psychology, thoughts
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Which is not a main component of Wallace Stevens's poetics?
Vorticism
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The lines are from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Write the character’s name speaking the lines. O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter.
Hamlet
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Write the name of the character who speaks the lines in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden, and now she pretends to play the fine lady with me.
Higgins
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What is the title of the poetry book authored by W. Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge?
Lyrical Ballads
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Who is the author of the following passage? Ah Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the Sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done;
William Blake
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What kind of athlete was Biff in high school in Death of a Salesman?
American Football
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Which of the following novels is not Thomas Hardy’s work?
Hard Times
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The lines are from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Write the character’s name speaking the lines. (Answer in English) To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause.
Hamlet
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Who is the author of the following passage? Up! up! my friend, and quit your books; Or surely you’ll grow double: Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks; Why all this toil and trouble?
William Wordsworth
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The lines are from Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Write the character name speaking the lines. But I, as one of the undeserving poor, have nothing between me and the pauper’s uniform but this here blasted three thousand a year that shoves me into the middle class.
Doolittle
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Who is not an imagist poet?
William Carolos Williams
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Fill in the blank the title of a story which is relevant to the following description. Paralysis, Epiphany, The Prison of Routine, The Desire for Escape, Circles of frustration, restraint, and violence, The Intersection of Life and Death, The living dead
Dubliners
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Choose a term that is appropriate for the following blank: The central idea of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is a literary representation of _________________________, inviting the reader’s participation as co-creators of the whole story, which in turn implicates the reader in the creation of Utopias that may involve unexpected moral responsibilities
true happiness
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What is the name of Young Goodman Brown’s wife? Answer in English.
Faith