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Introduction To English Major

Subject : english
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (Title - period and definition of quyting)






2. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority


3. (Period and definition)






4. Protest movements and counterculture






5. T. S. Eliot


6. What does the line 'the space between - is but an hour' mean?


7. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality






8. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)






9. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality






10. Focus on technologies of stimulation






11. Reign of Queen Victoria






12. Motivated by industrial reform






13. Modernist alienation from mainstream


14. Expresses concern about the state of English culture


15. Impact of WWI






16. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'






17. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown






18. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'






19. Aim of postcolonial criticism






20. Conscious efforts to innovate






21. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?






22. Interest in nature






23. Puritanism and gender






24. Growth of public education and literacy






25. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism






26. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'


27. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion






28. What period - and what did this result in?






29. The proofs - the figures' for 'the mystical moist night-air' is an example of...


30. (Title and period)


31. English colonization






32. Personal experience > learned knowledge






33. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'






34. Relations of colonizer and colonized






35. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'


36. European contact and loss of native cultures






37. (Title and period)






38. William Butler Yeats


39. Reformist bent






40. Dates of the Neoclassical Period






41. Includes a lot of repressed stuff


42. Types of literature from Colonial Period






43. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)






44. Theme of the Kiowa tale






45. (Period and characteristics)






46. Motivated by industrial reform






47. Emphasis on individual






48. Visionary - celebrates the imagination






49. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history


50. Freud and psychoanalysis