British Literature Quiz 22 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is an example of a motif in the novel?
2. The main characters of The Nightingale and the Rose are:
3. Recklessness; a foolish disregard of danger
4. In this period of British Literature all genres are represented.
5. Who was the philosopher who FIRST suggested dividing the government into separate powers?
6. To clear of quilt, to declare innocent
7. Strong feelings and attachment to the poet's love are conveyed in the poem.
8. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one
9. The language was highly inflected.
10. Which version of English did Shakespeare write in?
11. A lyric poem in which a single character engages in conversation with a silent listener, revealing a dramatic situation
12. Sound similarities that occur between words but which are not true rhymes.
13. Lydia and Wickham ran off together and spent the night together, but only married after Darcy hunted them down in London and ..... Wickham to marry her.
14. The period starts with French as the official language.
15. What do you call a two-line stanza that often concludes a Shakespearean sonnet with a rhyming pair?
16. One of the most remarkable characteristics of ..... is its ability to change over time.
17. There are ..... types of people in the Canterbury Tales.
18. The suffix ..... ? ..... means tending to, having the quality of.
19. The root word ..... ? ..... means to rule, to keep straight.
20. It was this philosopher, through his study of government, who first devised the idea of a separation of powers