In The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, which traveler “loved chivalry, truth and honour, freedom and courtesy”?

In Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess (selected chapter), by what emblematic name does the Black Knight refer to his lady?

“Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song”—this recurrent refrain belongs to Spenser’s Prothalamion; identify the figure of speech chiefly exemplified by this apostrophe.

In Spenser’s Epithalamion, the architectonics match the day’s course; how many stanzas precede the envoy?

In Bacon’s Of Truth, “What is truth? said jesting Pilate” alludes most precisely to which verse?

In Bacon’s Of Studies, which activity “maketh a full man”?

Sidney’s An Apologie for Poetrie defines poetry as “a speaking picture, with this end…”—complete the stated end.

In The Book of Job (Bible), who is the final human speaker before the LORD answers from the whirlwind?

In Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, after the bloody signature, what Latin tag appears on Faustus’s arm?

In Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, who famously bites out his own tongue to thwart interrogation?

Ben Jonson relocates Every Man in His Humour (1598 stage version) to which city?

In Milton’s Paradise Lost Book IX, who first proposes that Adam and Eve work apart in Eden?

Donne’s The Canonization includes the line “We’ll build in sonnets pretty rooms”; which New Critical essay later made “well-wrought urn” emblematic from this poem?

In Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress, the speaker places his own vantage “by the tide of” which English river?

In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, the “glittering forfex” designates what implement?

In Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, the satiric “Achitophel” masks which statesman?

Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is traditionally linked with which churchyard?

Johnson’s Life of Milton censures Lycidas chiefly for what generic fault?

In Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Laputan “flappers” are termed, in the language, as which of the following?

In Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, who is martyred at Vanity Fair?

Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe first appeared in which year?

Wordsworth’s “Ode (Intimations of Immortality)” locates “trailing clouds of glory” in which doctrine-like notion?

In Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, with whom does the poet explicitly share the landscape at the poem’s close?

The Prelude Book I opens with the poet returning from which locale?

Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode contrasts joy as “an inmost” what?

In Kubla Khan, the “Abyssinian maid” plays which instrument?

Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale places the bird’s song as heard by which ancient figure?

Shelley’s “Ozymandias” originally appeared in which periodical contest venue?

Shelley’s Adonais elegizes which poet?

Lamb’s Essays of Elia piece “Christ’s Hospital” chiefly recollects which schooling context?

Hazlitt’s “My First Acquaintance with Poets” situates first encounter with which poet?

Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) famously defines poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,” which it ties to what process?

Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was first published in:

Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is framed through which primary narrator aside from Lockwood?

Shelley’s lyric drama Prometheus Unbound was published in which year?

Arnold’s “Dover Beach” places the “Sea of Faith” image in which stanza movement?

Browning’s “Andrea del Sarto” is often subtitled what?

Tennyson’s “Ulysses” frames the speaker at which life stage?

Yeats’s “Byzantium” contrasts with its earlier twin in tone; what is the earlier poem’s title?

Eliot’s The Waste Land ends with which triply repeated word?

Hopkins’s “God’s Grandeur” opens with which energetic phrase?

Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen” is mock-inscribed by which fictional agency?

Hughes’s “The Thought-Fox” first creeps in at what hour in the poem?

Carlyle’s On Heroes Lecture III names Shakespeare what kind of hero?

Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry” advances which touchstone method?

Orwell’s “You and the Atom Bomb” was first published in which year?

Dickens’s Hard Times centers on which fictional industrial town?

George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss features which siblings at its core?

Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is set chiefly over the course of how much time?

Osborne’s Look Back in Anger centers on Jimmy Porter’s marital conflict with whom?

Brecht’s Mother Courage loses how many children in the play?

Synge’s Riders to the Sea is set on which Irish islands?

Churchill’s Top Girls famously opens with a dinner hosting women from different eras; which medieval figure attends?

Shakespeare’s Othello features a handkerchief embroidered with what device?

In King Lear, which child first declares love in the love-test?

In The Tempest, Ferdinand first encounters Miranda while carrying what?

In Measure for Measure, who assumes the friar’s disguise?

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 closes with what claim of verse’s power?

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 names love “an ever-fixed” what?

Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” situates the boy-poet by which sea?

Anne Bradstreet’s “Prologue” self-positions as a woman with what instrument?

Emerson’s “Brahma” adopts which metrical pattern predominantly?

Frost’s “Birches” compares bent trees to which boyhood action?

Frost’s “Mending Wall” counters the proverb “Good fences make good neighbours” with what retort?

Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “The Sparrow” chiefly turns on which paradox of smallness?

Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (poem excerpt in the syllabus list) opposes the free bird’s “claim of the sky” to what caged condition?

E.E. Cummings’s “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls” exemplifies which stylistic habit?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Anti-Suffragists” targets which rhetorical strategy?

Thoreau’s Where I Lived, and What I Lived For advocates which economic principle?

Emerson’s “The American Scholar” calls the scholar primarily which of the following?

Faulkner’s Nobel Speech insists the writer must forget which fear?

Morrison’s Beloved names the revenant girl with what single name?

Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake gives Gogol a legal adult name change to which of the following?

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman ends with which character’s Requiem insight that Willy “had the wrong dreams”?

O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones features which repetitive sound motif as fate closes in?

Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire introduces Blanche arriving on which streetcar lines?

Tagore’s Gitanjali lyrics often translate by Yeats’s championing; which Nobel year recognized Tagore?

Nissim Ezekiel’s “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S.” satirizes which hallmark of speech?

Toru Dutt’s “Our Casuarina Tree” memorializes which affect toward the tree?

Kamala Das’s “An Introduction” declares “I am Indian, very brown, born in Malabar”; which posture is central?

Sujata Bhatt’s “A Different History” juxtaposes English with which deity of learning?

Nehru’s An Autobiography (1936) was written chiefly where?

Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste primarily attacks which institution?

Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie follows the life of which boy?

Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice focuses on which protagonist?

Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things is set in which Kerala town?

Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana draws its central motif from which source?

Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session centers on a mock trial aimed at whom?

Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali portrays Sanichari as which caste-based figure?

Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like a Man pivots on which classical dance?

Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal)’s “A Song of Hope” advocates what stance?

Banjo Paterson’s “Waltzing Matilda” uses “waltzing” to mean what?

Wole Soyinka’s “Telephone Conversation” turns on an exchange about what?

E.J. Pratt’s “The Dying Eagle” figures the bird chiefly as what?

Judith Wright’s “At Cooloola(h)” registers which ethical unease?

Abioseh Nicol’s “The Meaning of Africa” questions which reduction?

A. D. Hope’s “Australia” famously calls the land “drab green and desolate grey”; this tone is primarily:

Thomas King’s “Godzilla vs. Post-Colonial” parodies what critical habit?

Achebe’s Things Fall Apart takes its epigraphic title from which Yeats poem?

Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country foregrounds which South African city in Book I?

Patrick White’s Voss is loosely based on which explorer?

Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel pits modernity against tradition chiefly via which schoolteacher?

George Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe treats the displacement of which community?

Jane Harrison’s Stolen is structured around what shared experience?

Aristotle’s Poetics identifies tragedy’s most potent element as:

Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy features which spokesman most aligned with Dryden’s views?

Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria Ch. XIV defines primary imagination as which faculty?

Coleridge’s Ch. XVII distinguishes secondary imagination chiefly by its:

Eliot’s “The Metaphysical Poets” coins what phrase to diagnose a modern malady after the seventeenth century?

I. A. Richards’s “Four Kinds of Meaning” lists sense, feeling, tone and which fourth?

Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity type-counts ambiguity at how many levels?

Northrop Frye’s “Archetypes of Literature” correlates mythoi with seasons; which season matches comedy?

Cleanth Brooks’s “Irony as a Principle of Structure” argues irony is primarily what?

Allen Tate’s “Tension in Poetry” uses “tension” to denote what relation?

Elaine Showalter’s “Towards a Feminist Poetics” names what three historical phases?

Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex advances the famous dictum “One is not born, but rather…” what?

In historical linguistics (Unit IX), “Grimm’s Law” describes systematic shifts in which family?

In phonetics, English has approximately how many phonemic vowels (RP, monophthongs + diphthongs) traditionally enumerated?

A diphthong is best described in ELT phonology as:

In morphology, derivation vs inflection—which changes grammatical category more characteristically?

Semantics: which relation names words like “buy/sell”?

Dialect vs idiolect—idiolect refers to:

TG Grammar (Chomsky): “deep structure” most closely represents what?

Applied Linguistics: In SLA, Krashen’s hypothesis placing input just beyond current competence is called:

ELT: A product-oriented writing syllabus emphasizes chiefly:

Language Testing: Reliability chiefly concerns what property?

Unit X—Which is the correct British vs American pair?

Figures of Speech identification in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 65—“Time’s best jewel”:

Choose the correct tense usage (Unit X): “By 2027, she _ the thesis.”

Voice (Unit X): Active to Passive—“They awarded her the prize.” →

Parts of Speech (Unit X): In “Only the brave endure,” brave is:

Articles/Determiners (Unit X): Correct choice—“_ Ganges is sacred to many.”

Prefix/Suffix (Unit X): Irreverent contains which negative prefix?

Homophones (Unit X): Choose the correct pair for “reign/rain/rein”—control a horse:

Compound Words (Unit X): Correct closed compound:

Sentence Patterns (Unit X): Identify S-V-C—

Error spotting (Unit X): Choose the error-free sentence.

Figures of Speech (Unit X): “The wheels hummed a lullaby”—identify.

Synonyms (Unit X): “Abrogate” ≈

Antonyms (Unit X): “Intransigent” ≠

Phrases (Unit X): “At sixes and sevens” means:

Tenses—sequence (Unit X): “He said that he _ the letter.”

British/American (Unit X): BrE petrol vs AmE _

From Gray’s Elegy: “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day”—identify the metrical line.

From Donne’s The Canonization: “For God’s sake hold your tongue” primarily exemplifies what tone?

From Keats’s Nightingale: “Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!”—figura?

From Eliot’s The Waste Land: “April is the cruellest month”—which rhetorical inversion of pastoral is this?

From Arnold’s Dover Beach: “Ah, love, let us be true / To one another!”—the logic appeals chiefly to:

From Marvell’s Coy Mistress: “My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires”—identify trope.

From Hopkins’s God’s Grandeur: “It will flame out, like shining from shook foil”—the sonic device central here?

From Frost’s Mending Wall: “Good fences make good neighbours”—used in the poem as:

From Spenser’s Prothalamion: “Sweet Thames, run softly”—river invoked is:

From Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116: “It is the star to every wandering bark”—star serves as:

ELT—Testing (Unit IX): Which best enhances construct validity in a reading test?

SLA—Which hypothesis emphasizes conscious attention to form?

Phonology—Which is a voiceless interdental fricative in English?

Morphology—Which pair shows conversion (zero-derivation)?

Semantics—Hyponymy: which is a hyponym of vehicle?

Syntax—Which is a cleft construction?