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Introduction To English Major

Subject : english
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Assertion of personal experience and the individual author as source of art


2. (Author and period)


3. (Title and period)


4. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment


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






6. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished






7. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press






8. Reformist bent






9. Pagan authors = sources for thinking






10. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?






11. Visionary - celebrates the imagination






12. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history


13. Expresses concern about the state of English culture


14. Example of the metaphysical poem


15. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period






16. 'A Far Cry from Africa' (Period and characteristics)


17. Christianized Germanic culture






18. On the cusp of romanticism/realism






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


20. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy


21. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power






22. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'






23. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature






24. Radically experimental and diverse






25. T. S. Eliot


26. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'


27. Puritanism and gender






28. (Title and period)


29. Religious controversy and persecution






30. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression






31. Symbolic landscape


32. Example of the metaphysical poem


33. Decolonization throughout 20th century






34. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority


35. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems






36. Example of the country house poem


37. Sense of despair - crisis of faith






38. Naturalistic Period






39. In the Kiowa tale - language =






40. Embrace of cacophony and chaos






41. Monarchy and episcopacy restored






42. Growing economic inequality






43. Beat Generation






44. 19th century as a corpse seen through winter landscape


45. Content of Iroquois prayer-song






46. Process of Iroquois prayer-song






47. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature






48. Nation-states with strong monarchs develop






49. How does 'A Supermarket in California' reflect the post-war conditions of the US?


50. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality