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161. In which work of Edmund Spenser the Ape and the Fox serve to satirize the customs of the court ?
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A. Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie

B. The Teares of the Muses

C. Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale

D. Ruines of Rome: by Bellay

162. Who wrote the poems, On death and Women, Wine, and Snuff ?
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A. John Keats

B. William Wordsworth

C. John Milton

D. P.B Shelley

163. Geoffrey Chaucer is also known as_______________?
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A. The father of English literature

B. The father of English language

C. The reformer of English language

D. The poet of English language

164. In A Portrait of the Artist, what unique style does Joyce use ?
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A. vowel shift

B. chiasmus

C. stream of consciousness

D. acatalectic

165. In Ulysses, to what does Bloom often compare life ?
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A. a book

B. a newspaper

C. a law

D. a stream

166. Using words or letters to imitate sounds_____________?
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A. onomatopoeia

B. simile

C. alliteration

D. none of the above

167. Sylvia Plath married which English poet ?
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A. Causley

B. Larkin

C. Masefield

D. Hughes

168. Which problem(s) shaped Joyces early home life?
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A. poverty

B. lack of stable work

C. his fathers alcoholism

D. All of the Above

169. Who wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles ?
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A. P D James

B. Arthur Conan Doyle

C. Agatha Christie

D. H Ryder-Haggard

170. According to most critics, what does the circular structure of Finnegans Wake represent ?
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A. unrequited love

B. the unconscious

C. the patterns of birth, life, and death

D. the impossibility of resurrection

171. What is the significance of the words moocow and tuckoo, according to most critics ?
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A. it represents Joyces decision not to use stream of consciousness

B. it emulates an adults intellectual process

C. it captures the intellectual perceptions of a child

D. it represents Joyces shift to more conventional language

172. What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as _______________-?
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A. Assonance

B. Scansion

C. Prosody

D. Allegory

173. Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
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A. none of the above

B. alliteration

C. onomatopoeia

D. personification

174. In what context does Joyce use the term amor matris, or motherly love ?
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A. in Ulysses, Stephen uses it in his lectures on art

B. in Ulysses, Leopold uses it to describe his personal identity

C. in The Dubliners, Chandler uses it to describe family relationships

D. in The Dubliners, Gabriel uses it in his discussions about death

175. How has Stephen Dunn been described in the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry ?
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A. Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness

B. One of the leading prairie poets

C. A poet of middleness

D. Has some distinction as a critic

176. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters_______________?
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A. lyric

B. free verse

C. none of the above

D. narrative

177. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme______________?
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A. free verse

B. none of the above

C. narrative

D. lyric

178. What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?
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A. Alliterative

B. Acrostic

C. Haiku

D. Epic

179. In Ulysses, Joyce retells which ancient story ?
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A. Virgils The Aeneid

B. Sophocless Antigone

C. Homers The Odyssey

D. Homers The Iliad

180. Harold Nicholson described which poet as Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners ?
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A. John Greenleaf Whittier

B. Walt Whitman

C. T. S. Elliot

D. e. e. Cummings

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