Cultural and Historical Contexts

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GRE Subject Test: Literature in English › Cultural and Historical Contexts

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KING: … Hieronimo, it greatly pleaseth us

That in our victory thou have a share

By virtue of thy worthy son’s exploit.

… Bring hither the young prince of Portingale!

The rest march on, but, ere they be dismissed,

We will bestow on every soldier

Two ducats, and on every leader ten,

That they may know our largesse welcomes them.

Exeunt all \[the army\] but BALTHAZAR,

LORENZO, and HORATIO.

What genre of play is this?

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In pious times, e’r Priest-craft did begin,

Before Polygamy was made a Sin;

When Man on many multipli’d his kind,

E’r one to one was cursedly confin’d,

When Nature prompted and no Law deni’d

Promiscuous Use of Concubine and Bride;

Then Israel’s Monarch, after Heavens own heart,

His vigorous warmth did, variously, impart

To Wives and Slaves: And, wide as his Command,

Scatter’d his Maker’s Image through the Land.

Who is the author of this poem?

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Who is the author of “The Man-Moth”?

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Who is the author of “The Man-Moth”?

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KING: … Hieronimo, it greatly pleaseth us

That in our victory thou have a share

By virtue of thy worthy son’s exploit.

… Bring hither the young prince of Portingale!

The rest march on, but, ere they be dismissed,

We will bestow on every soldier

Two ducats, and on every leader ten,

That they may know our largesse welcomes them.

Exeunt all \[the army\] but BALTHAZAR,

LORENZO, and HORATIO.

What genre of play is this?

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Who wrote The Remains of the Day?

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Which of the following literary devices does not appear in Angels in America?

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Which of the following literary devices does not appear in Angels in America?

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Who is the author of “The Man-Moth”?

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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Who is the author of this poem?

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