D-3004 Flashcards
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In William Langland’s work - Pier’s Plowman, Piers is?
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Jesus
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Geoffrey Chaucer starts his Canterbury Tales in which Inn?
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The Tabard Inn in Southwark
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The Canterbury Tales is set in which month?
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April
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The pilgrims of The Canterbury Tales is set to go to whose shrine?
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St. Thomas Becket
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How many stories does each pilgrim in the Canterbury Tales tell?
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4
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Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece are narrative Poems by?
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William Shakespeare
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The Two Noble Kinsmen was a collaborative work between Shakespeare and?
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John Fletcher
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Titus Andronicus, was a collaborative work between Shakespeare and?
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George Peele
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The Passionate Pilgrim by W. Shakespeare was published by?
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William Jaggard (also known to publish the First Folio pf Shakespeare)
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Edward III was a collaborative work between Shakespeare and?
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Thomas Kyd
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre was a collaborative work between Shakespeare and?
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George Wilkins
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First Folio of W Shakespeare includes how many plays?
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36
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In Shakespeare studies, the problem plays was a term coined by the critic?
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F. S. Boas
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Name the three problem plays of Shakespeare
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All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida.
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Total number of sonnets by Shakespeare
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154
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Total number of plays by Shakespeare
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38
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Shakespeare plays not in first folio
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Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen
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Barabas and Machiavel are heroes of which Christopher Marlowe play?
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Jew of Malta
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Hudibras
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Samuel Butler
20
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Religio Laici
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John Dryden
21
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The adventures of David Simple
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Sarah Fielding
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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Daniel Defoe
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Paradise Lost was first published in?
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1667
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Name the two characters aiding Satan in Paradise Lost?
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Mammon and Beelzebub
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Il Penseroso, a poem written in 1631 by John Milton was written in rhymed?
octosyllabics
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Areopagitica is a 1644 prose polemic by John Milton opposing?
licensing and censorship
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"On Shakespeare" (1630) and On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629) was written by?
John Milton
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Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes are works by?
John Milton
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L'Allegro and Il Penseroso depicts?
"the happy man" and "the melancholy man"
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Of Education (1644), Of True Religion (1673), Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643) were all prose works by?
John Milton
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"Lycidas" is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 and is an example of?
a pastoral elegy.
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When I Consider How My Light is Spent or On Blindness is a poem by?
John Milton
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When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
which poem begins with these lines?
When I Consider How My Light is Spent or On Blindness
| by John Milton
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"They also serve who only stand and wait"
| which poem ends with these lines?
When I Consider How My Light is Spent or On Blindness by John Milton
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The Old Bachelor, The Double-Dealer, The Way of the World, The Mourning Bride are restoration dramas by?
William Congreve
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All for Love; or, the World Well Lost, is a 1677 heroic drama by John Dryden imitating which play?
Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
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Absalom and Achitophel is a celebrated satirical poem by?
John Dryden
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Mac Flecknoe by John Dryden is an attack on?
Thomas Shadwell
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Annus Mirabilis, Astraea Redux, Religio Laici are poems by?
John Dryden
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England's first Poet Laureate
John Dryden
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The Essay on Dramaticke Poesie by Dryden is a dialogue between four characters named?
Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius, and Neander
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Defence of Poesie in 1580 was written by?
Philip Sydney
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Essay of Dramatick Poesie was published which year?
1668
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Leviathan was written by?
Thomas Hobbes
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Leviathan is a book on?
political theory - social contract theory
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A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729) are works by?
Jonathan Swift
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Which work of Jonathan Swift is considered a religious allegory or a satire on the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches and English Dissenters
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
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An Essay on Man is a poem published by Alexander Pope dedicated to?
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke or Lord Bolingbroke
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Arabella Fermor was lead of which of Alexander Pope's mock-heroic narrative poem?
Rape of the Lock
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The Dunciad and An Essay on Criticism are written by
Alexander Pope
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Which of Samuel Johnson's work is known as The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated
The Vanity of Human Wishes
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Who is best known to have written the biography of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
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Name the biography written by Samuel Johnson
Life of Mr Richard Savage
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London, The Rambler, The Idler and The Adventurer. are works by?
Samuel Johnson
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia is a work by?
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson's dictionary was published in?
April 1755
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The Female Quixote or The Adventures of Arabella , is a novel imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Who was the author?
Charlotte Lennox
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81) by Samuel Johnson contain how many poets?
52
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Final version of Wordsworth's prelude appeared in?
1850
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"to suffer woes which hope thinks infinite" is a qoute by?
P B Shelley
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Prometheus Unbound is a play by?
P B Shelley
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"Ozymandias" was a sonnet by P B Shelley written in which weekly paper?
The Examiner (founded by Leigh and John Hunt in 1808)
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Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems is a collection of poetry by?
P B Shelley
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Christabel is a long narrative ballad by?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", “Mont Blanc”, Laon and Cythna (The Revolt Of Islam), Alastor, Epipsychidion are poems by?
P B Shelley
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The Masque of Anarchy (or The Mask of Anarchy) is a British political poem written in 1819 by Percy Bysshe Shelley about?
Peterloo Massacre (first poem on non-violence)
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Adonais is an Elegy by P B Shelley on the Death of which author?
John Keats
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Endymion, Hyperion are works of?
John Keats
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“A Defence of Poetry”, by P B Shelley is a response to Peacock’s article?
“The Four Ages of Poetry”
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“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” is a quote by?
P B Shelley
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Don Juan is a poem by?
Lord Byron
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The work - Civil Disobedience which influenced Gandhi was written by?
Henry David Thoreau
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The gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley was published in?
1818
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Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830) are historical novels of?
Mary Shelley
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Written by John Keats in which poem?
Endymion
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"The Literature of Knowlege and the Literature of Power" was a critical essay by?
Thomas De Quincey
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"In Memoriam A.H.H." by Alfred Tennyson was written in memory of?
Arthur Hallam
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"Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears", and "Crossing the Bar", "Ulysses" are works by?
Tennyson
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Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by?
Thomas Hardy
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895) are works by?
Thomas Hardy
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The English author Thomas Hardy set all of his major novels in an area he called?
Wessex (Wessex novels)
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the office of circumlocution occurs in?
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life is the first novel by English author
Elizabeth Gaskell
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë was the posthumous biography written by?
Elizabeth Gaskell
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"The Masque of the Red Death" and "Hop-Frog"
Edgar Allan Poe
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Cranford (1851–53), North and South (1854–55), Wives and Daughters, and Mary Garton are works by?
Elizabeth Gaskell
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The Quote "Poetry is a criticism of Life" appears in which essay by Mathew Anrold?
The Study of Poetry
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Sartor Resartus is a novel by?
Thomas Carlyle
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Modern Painters is a work by?
John Ruskin
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"The Scholar Gipsy" is novel by?
Mathew Arnold
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Aurora Leigh is a Book by?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Martha Quest is a novel by?
Doris Lessing
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Stream of consciousness was coined by Alexander Bain in?
The Senses and the Intellect
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Stream of consciousness is commonly credited to William James who used it in 1890 in his?
The Principles of Psychology
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The Golden Bough by George Fraser discuses?
Religion and symbols. (archetypal literary criticism) Discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices
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Archetypal Patterns in Poetry?
Maud Bodkin
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Hero with a Thousand Faces?
Joseph Campbell
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The main protagonist of the death of a salesman by Arthur Miller is?
Willy Lowman
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Leopold Bloom is a character in?
Ulysses by James Joyce
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The Gunny Sack, No New Land, The Book of Secrets, The Assassin's Song are works by which Indian Candian author?
M G Vasanji
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Which Sr-Lankan based writer is the author of The English Patient (1992)
Michael Ondaadje
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Who was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights?
Judith Wright
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature is a survey of Canadian literature by?
Margaret Atwood
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Half of a Life is a book by?
V S Naipaul
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by
Edward Albee first staged in October 1962
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Amiri Baraka was previously known as
LeRoi Jones
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A Black Mass, Dutchman, The Baptism and The Toilet, Most Dangerous Man in America (W. E. B. Du Bois), Blues People are all works by?
Amiri Baraka
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Dusk of Dawn is the autobiography of?
W E B Dubois
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New Criticism is founded on the premise that the text is an------ artefact
autotelic
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T S Eliot defines ---- as “a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion” that the poet feels and hopes to evoke in the reader
Objective correlative (used in the essay "Hamlet and His Problems")
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-----is a poetic metre designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech.
Sprung rhythm
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----- is a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an objection to their own argument and then immediately answers it
Procatalepsis/prolepsis
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------ is a figure of speech - stating a negative to further affirm a positive
Litotes
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------ is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter
Blank Verse
