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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

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Religio Laici

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John Dryden

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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?

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octosyllabics

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Areopagitica is a 1644 prose polemic by John Milton opposing?

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licensing and censorship

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“On Shakespeare” (1630) and On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (1629) was written by?

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John Milton

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28
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Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes are works by?

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John Milton

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L’Allegro and Il Penseroso depicts?

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“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?

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John Milton

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“Lycidas” is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 and is an example of?

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a pastoral elegy.

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When I Consider How My Light is Spent or On Blindness is a poem by?

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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?

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When I Consider How My Light is Spent or On Blindness

by John Milton

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34
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“They also serve who only stand and wait”

which poem ends with these lines?

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When I Consider How My Light is Spent or On Blindness by John Milton

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35
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The Old Bachelor, The Double-Dealer, The Way of the World, The Mourning Bride are restoration dramas by?

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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?

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Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

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Absalom and Achitophel is a celebrated satirical poem by?

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John Dryden

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38
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Mac Flecknoe by John Dryden is an attack on?

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Thomas Shadwell

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39
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Annus Mirabilis, Astraea Redux, Religio Laici are poems by?

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John Dryden

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England’s first Poet Laureate

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John Dryden

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The Essay on Dramaticke Poesie by Dryden is a dialogue between four characters named?

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Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius, and Neander

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Defence of Poesie in 1580 was written by?

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Philip Sydney

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43
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Essay of Dramatick Poesie was published which year?

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1668

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44
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Leviathan was written by?

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Thomas Hobbes

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45
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Leviathan is a book on?

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political theory - social contract theory

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46
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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?

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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

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A Tale of a Tub (1704)

48
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An Essay on Man is a poem published by Alexander Pope dedicated to?

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Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke or Lord Bolingbroke

49
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Arabella Fermor was lead of which of Alexander Pope’s mock-heroic narrative poem?

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Rape of the Lock

50
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The Dunciad and An Essay on Criticism are written by

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Alexander Pope

51
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Which of Samuel Johnson’s work is known as The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated

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The Vanity of Human Wishes

52
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Who is best known to have written the biography of Samuel Johnson

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James Boswell

53
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Name the biography written by Samuel Johnson

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Life of Mr Richard Savage

54
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London, The Rambler, The Idler and The Adventurer. are works by?

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Samuel Johnson

55
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia is a work by?

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Samuel Johnson

56
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Samuel Johnson’s dictionary was published in?

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April 1755

57
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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?

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Charlotte Lennox

58
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81) by Samuel Johnson contain how many poets?

59
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Final version of Wordsworth’s prelude appeared in?

60
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“to suffer woes which hope thinks infinite” is a qoute by?

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P B Shelley

61
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Prometheus Unbound is a play by?

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P B Shelley

62
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“Ozymandias” was a sonnet by P B Shelley written in which weekly paper?

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The Examiner (founded by Leigh and John Hunt in 1808)

63
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Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems is a collection of poetry by?

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P B Shelley

64
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Christabel is a long narrative ballad by?

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

65
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“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”, “Mont Blanc”, Laon and Cythna (The Revolt Of Islam), Alastor, Epipsychidion are poems by?

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P B Shelley

66
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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?

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Peterloo Massacre (first poem on non-violence)

67
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Adonais is an Elegy by P B Shelley on the Death of which author?

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John Keats

68
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Endymion, Hyperion are works of?

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John Keats

69
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“A Defence of Poetry”, by P B Shelley is a response to Peacock’s article?

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“The Four Ages of Poetry”

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“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” is a quote by?

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P B Shelley

71
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Don Juan is a poem by?

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Lord Byron

72
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The work - Civil Disobedience which influenced Gandhi was written by?

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Henry David Thoreau

73
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The gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley was published in?

74
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Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830) are historical novels of?

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Mary Shelley

75
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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?

76
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“The Literature of Knowlege and the Literature of Power” was a critical essay by?

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Thomas De Quincey

77
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“In Memoriam A.H.H.” by Alfred Tennyson was written in memory of?

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Arthur Hallam

78
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“Break, Break, Break”, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, “Tears, Idle Tears”, and “Crossing the Bar”, “Ulysses” are works by?

79
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Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by?

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Thomas Hardy

80
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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?

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Thomas Hardy

81
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The English author Thomas Hardy set all of his major novels in an area he called?

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Wessex (Wessex novels)

82
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the office of circumlocution occurs in?

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Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

83
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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life is the first novel by English author

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Elizabeth Gaskell

84
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë was the posthumous biography written by?

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Elizabeth Gaskell

85
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“The Masque of the Red Death” and “Hop-Frog”

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Edgar Allan Poe

86
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Cranford (1851–53), North and South (1854–55), Wives and Daughters, and Mary Garton are works by?

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Elizabeth Gaskell

87
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The Quote “Poetry is a criticism of Life” appears in which essay by Mathew Anrold?

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The Study of Poetry

88
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Sartor Resartus is a novel by?

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Thomas Carlyle

89
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Modern Painters is a work by?

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John Ruskin

90
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“The Scholar Gipsy” is novel by?

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Mathew Arnold

91
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Aurora Leigh is a Book by?

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

92
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Martha Quest is a novel by?

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Doris Lessing

93
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Stream of consciousness was coined by Alexander Bain in?

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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?

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The Principles of Psychology

95
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The Golden Bough by George Fraser discuses?

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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?

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Maud Bodkin

97
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Hero with a Thousand Faces?

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Joseph Campbell

98
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The main protagonist of the death of a salesman by Arthur Miller is?

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Willy Lowman

99
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Leopold Bloom is a character in?

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Ulysses by James Joyce

100
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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?

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M G Vasanji

101
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Which Sr-Lankan based writer is the author of The English Patient (1992)

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Michael Ondaadje

102
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Who was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights?

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Judith Wright

103
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature is a survey of Canadian literature by?

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Margaret Atwood

104
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Half of a Life is a book by?

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V S Naipaul

105
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by

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Edward Albee first staged in October 1962

106
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Amiri Baraka was previously known as

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LeRoi Jones

107
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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?

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Amiri Baraka

108
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Dusk of Dawn is the autobiography of?

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W E B Dubois

109
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New Criticism is founded on the premise that the text is an—— artefact

110
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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

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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.

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Sprung rhythm

112
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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

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Procatalepsis/prolepsis

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—— is a figure of speech - stating a negative to further affirm a positive

114
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—— is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter

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Blank Verse

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