Quiz
I've been reading up on literary theory. In doing so, I've found out where a lot of familar phrases come from.
So here's a quiz. Match the phrase with the writer who created or popularized it. (Answers will be provided later.)
A. Namby-pamby
B. End in itself
C. Purple prose
D. The dismal science
E. Sweetness and light
F. Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast
G. Objective correlative
H. Willing suspension of disbelief
I. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world
J. Negative capability
1. Horace
2. Swift
3. Congreve
4. Pope
5. Kant
6. Coleridge
7. Shelley
8. Keats
9. Carlyle
10. T. S. Eliot
PS The answers are listed here, but give the quiz a shot before you look them up.
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posted by LAGuy @ 12:38 AM
5 Comments:
A few I bet I can guess, but the only one I'm sure of is Congreve wrote about Music Hath Charms. (Some think it's Shakespeare and some thing it's "Beast").
How many point do I get?
Do we have to get them all? I can get a few but I doubt many can get them all off the top of their heads.
A quiz??? I come to Pajama Guy for entertainment, not tests! For shame.
PJGuy is your one-stop blog center, where we provide all sorts of services.
I know them all, of course, but I don't want to make others feel bad by showing off.
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