Question "Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representation of general nature" This quotation

on is from
Type Multiple_Choice
Option Dryden Incorrect
Option Johnson correct
Option Addition Incorrect
Option Fielding Incorrect
Solution [The quotation "nothing can please many, and
please long, but just representations of general
nature" occurs in Johnson's "Preface to
Shakespeare."]
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Question Octave is a stanza of:

Type Multiple_Choice
Option Five lines Incorrect
Option Four lines Incorrect
Option Eight lines correct
Option Six lines Incorrect
Solution [An octave is a verse form consisting of eight lines
of iambic pentameter. The most common rhyme
scheme for an octave is abba abba. An octave is the
first part of a Petrarchan sonnet, which ends with a
contrasting sestet. In traditional Italian sonnets the
octave always ends with a conclusion of one idea,
giving way to another idea in the sestet.]
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Question Marriage of Heaven and Hell is written by

Type Multiple_Choice
Option William Blake correct
Option Andrew Marvell Incorrect
Option Matthew Arnold Incorrect
Option Dryden Incorrect
Solution [The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by
William Blake. It is a series of texts written in
imitation of biblical books of prophecy but
expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic
and revolutionary beliefs. The work was composed
between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical
ferment and political conflict immediately after the
French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to
Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work Heaven
and Hell published in Latin 33 years earlier.]
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Question George Orwell's Animal Farm is:

Type Multiple_Choice
Option a parable Incorrect
Option an epistolary novel Incorrect
Option an allegory correct
Option a political fable Incorrect
Solution [Animal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novel by
George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August
1945, the book reflects events leading up to and
during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a
democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin
and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism,
especially after his experiences with the NKVD, and
what he saw of the results of the influence of
Communist policy during the Spanish Civil War.]
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Question "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport" Who utters this line?
Type Multiple_Choice
Option King Lear Incorrect
Option Cordelia Incorrect
Option Edger Incorrect
Option Gloucester correct
Solution [The lines were uttered by the Duke of Gloucester
in Shakespeare's play "King Lear". Gloucester, like
Lear, has had to face up to cruel revelations. The
son he thought treacherous-Edgar-has proved
innocent, but only after Gloucester drove him out.
He is the wormlike "fellow" Gloucester saw before
his blinding-Edgar in dis-guise as a mad beggar. And
like Lear, the pompous Gloucester has been forced
to feel what the wretched of the earth feel-the
cruelties of heaven and of mankind alike. The duke
sums up his revelation in two of the most
memorable lines in ShakesPeare, In Act 4, Scene 1,
Lines 36-37, likening the gods to immature,
uncaring, unjust children, and man to insignificant
flies, creatures subject to scornful cruelty: "As flies
to wanton boys are we to th' gods, They kill us for
their sport. ']
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