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441. Horaces doctrine \ut pictura poesis\was interpreted to mean______________?
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A. A picture is worth a thousand words.

B. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.

C. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.

D. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.

442. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the____________?
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A. troubadour

B. bard

C. skald

D. chorister

443. which of these is not certain about Chaucer ?
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A. his birth date

B. his fathers name

C. none of the above

D. his death year

444. In which work do you read: Beauty is truth, truth beauty. ?
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A. Bright Star

B. La Bell Dame Sans Merci

C. Adonais

D. Ode on a Grecian Urn

445. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
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A. wit

B. naturalism

C. sprezzatura

D. gusto

446. Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet ?
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A. Ben Jonson

B. Alexander Pope

C. Henry Vaughan

D. John Dryden

447. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
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A. the heroic couplet

B. free verse

C. blank verse

D. the ode

448. Which of the following statements accurately reflects the status of England, its people, and its language in the early sixteenth century ?
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A. Intending his Utopia for an international intellectual community, Thomas More wrote in Latin, since English had no prestige outside of England.

B. English travelers often returned from the Continent with foreign fashions, much to the delight of moralists.

C. English travelers were not obliged to learn French, Italian, or Spanish during their explorations of the Continent.

D. English was fast supplanting Latin as the second language of most European intellectuals.

449. Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?
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A. none of the above

B. Seamus Heaney

C. W. B. Yeats

D. James Joyce

450. Who became the first prime minister of Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
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A. Henry St. John

B. Robert Harley

C. Robert Walpole

D. John Churchill

451. Who began to ignite the embers of dissent against the Catholic church in November 1517 in a movement that came to be known as the Reformation ?
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A. Anne Boleyn

B. Martin Luther

C. Pope Leo X

D. Ulrich Zwingli

452. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets ?
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A. woman

B. God

C. nature

D. civilization

453. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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A. Matthew Lewiss The Monk

B. Ann Radcliffes The Italian

C. William Beckfords Vathek

D. Tobias Smolletts Roderick Randsom

454. Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin ?
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A. Thomas Mores The History of King Richard III

B. Christopher Marlowes Doctor Faustus

C. William Shakespeares King Lear

D. Thomas Mores Utopia

455. What historical figure promoted the rapid growth of a high Anglican faction within the church whose ceremony, ritual, and doctrine more closely resembled Roman Catholicism ?
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A. William Laud

B. William Collins

C. William Shakespeare

D. William Tyndale

456. Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing ?
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A. a field of daffodils

B. All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature.

C. a graveyard

D. the Orient

457. Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality ?
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A. William Godwins Caleb Williams

B. Percy Bysshe Shelleys England in 1819

C. all of the above

D. William Godwins Inquiry Concerning Political Justice

458. Which was not an objection raised against the public theaters in the Elizabethan period ?
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A. They caused excessive noise and traffic.

B. They drew young people away from work.

C. They excited illicit sexual desires.

D. They charged too much.

459. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
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A. total recall

B. stream of consciousness

C. confused daze

D. automatic writing

460. What was the general subject of theWelsh poet Katherine Philipss work ?
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A. celebrations of female friendship in Platonic terms normally reserved for male Friendships

B. celebrations of religious ecstasy and divine inspiration

C. celebrations of the transience of all life and beauty

D. celebrations of lesbian sexuality in terms that did not imply a male readership

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