English Literature GRE Study Guide
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General
Author Index
Literary Terms
Literary Theory
World Literature
Grammar
Time Periods
1. Middle Ages
2. 16th Century
3. Early 17th Century
4. Restoration
5. 18th C: Pope & Swift
6. 18th C: Enlightenment

7. Early Romantic

8. Middle Romantic
9. Late Romantic
10. Early British Victorian
11.Transcendentalism
12. Realism
13. British Modernism
14. American Modernism
15. British Postmodernism
16. Amer. Postmodernism

 

General Terms Quiz 1

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 Questions
1.Which of these novels is an example of a bildungsroman?

Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
Autobiography of Malcolm X
All of the Above

2. "Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?"

The above quote is an example of

aside
apostrophe
epigraph
epithet

3. Decorum is lauded by which of these authors as an important stylistic trait?

Horace
Wordsworth
Amiri Baraka
Whitman

4. YE learned sisters which haue oftentimes
beene to me ayding, others to adorne:
Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull rymes,
That euen the greatest did not greatly scorne
To heare theyr names sung in your simple layes,
But ioyed in theyr prayse.
And when ye list your owne mishaps to mourne,
Which death, or loue, or fortunes wreck did rayse,
Your string could soone to sadder tenor turne,
And teach the woods and waters to lament
Your dolefull dreriment.
Now lay those sorrowfull complaints aside,
And hauing all your heads with girland[s] crownd,
Helpe me mine owne loues prayses to resound,
Ne let the fame of any be enuide,
So Orpheus did for his owne bride,
So I vnto my selfe alone will sing,
The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

The above stanza is an example of

an epithalamion
metaphysical conceit
liots
homeric ephithet

5. Which of the following are elegies?

Edmund Spenser's Astrophel
John Milton's Lycidas
Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs
all of the above

6. Hudibrastic is a type of English verse named for Samuel Butler's Hudibras of 1672. It is characterized by which of the following traits?

iambic tetrameter
rhyming couplets
feminine rhyme used for humor
all of the above

7. If British Neoclassicism is divided into three eras (the Restoration Age, the Augustan Age, and the Age of Johnson), in which of these eras is Alexander Pope the central figure?

Restoration Age
Augustan Age
Age of Johnson
none of the above

8. When Zeus hears Thetis' request, he

immediately grants it in full
is reluctant to grant it because he fears Hera
angrily sends Thetis away
calls a council of the gods to decide the matter

9. The quarrel between Zeus and Hera ends when

Hephaistos intervenes to calm things down
Zeus throws Hera off Mount Olympos
Zeus begs Hera to be understanding
the other gods object to Zeus' lack of dignity

10. At the end of Book 1 the gods are

quarreling and fighting
holding a solemn council of state
giving advice to various human beings
feasting and banqueting


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