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Domande esonero Flashcards

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Qual è il concetto sviluppato da Burke?

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Sublime

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Chi ha sviluppato il concetto di “sublime”?

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Burke

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Qual era il lavoro del padre di Shakespeare?

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Merchant, well-to-do glower and whit tower by trade

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Chi è il successore di Elizabeth I?

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James I

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Che cos’è Samson agonistes

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It isa poem, a tragic closet drama by Milton

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Cosa portò la “reformation” in Inghilterra?

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The English Reformation began with Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE) and continued in stages over the rest of the 16th century CE. The process witnessed the break away from the Catholic Church headed by the Pope in Rome.
It included the establishment of a new church.

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Where can we find the character of Desdemona?

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She is a character in Othello, by Shakespeare

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What are the titles of Shakespeare’s comedies?

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All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter’s Tale

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What are the titles of Shakespeare’s tragedies?

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Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida

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What are the titles of Shakespeare’s histories?

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King John
Edward III
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Richard III
Henry VIII

Coriolanus
Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra

King Lear
Macbeth
Hamlet

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Which Shakespearean plays were not in the first folio?

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Pericles
The Two Noble Kinsmen

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Who was the highest autority in literature in 18th century?

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Johnson

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Who did the king execute during the puritan revolution and why?

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Charles I was convicted of treason and executed on 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall.

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Chi ha scritto e di cosa parla l’opera Pamela?

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Pamela è una novella epistolare di Samuel Richardson pubblicata nel 1740 che parla della resistenza alla seduzione e del matrimonio

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In che anno sono stati chiusi i teatri e perché?

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Il 6 settembre 1642 il Parlamento inglese, a maggioranza puritana, emanò un editto che sanciva la chiusura di tutti i teatri, colpevoli di promuovere «gioia e leggerezza» in un clima di «calamità pubbliche»

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Che lavoro faceva Richardson?

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Richardson era un romanziere, un editore ed un tipografo

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Milton era a favore o contro la Repubblica?

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Era a favore

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Da quale altro autore è stata rivisitata “The beggar’s opera” di Gay?

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Bertolt Brecht

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Qual è la cornice di Canterbury Tales?(3)

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Pellegrinaggio
Ognuno dice 2 storie all’andata e 2 al ritorno
Gli scritti sono 22/120

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19
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How does Beowulf end?

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It ends with Beowulf’s solemn funeral

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In quale anno si combatté la Battaglia di Hastings?

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Nel 1066

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Quale novella è definita “anti-novel”?

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Tristram shandy,a sentimental journey by Laurence Sterne

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Che tipo di opera è “Sir Gawain”?

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Chivalry romance poem / a verse romance poem

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Che tipo di opere scrive Ben Jonson?

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Comedy of humor

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Qual è il tema di “The rape of the lock”?

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It is a mockheroic poem in which tells of the quarrel between two families caused by the snipping of the beautiful Belinda

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What religion was Defoe?

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Defoe was a committed, Nonconforming Protestant

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Cos’è la “Glorious revolution”?

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1688, birth of first constitutional monarchy. Replacement of James II by William III (William of Orange, husband of Mary Stuart)

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Perché avviene il pellegrinaggio in “Canterbury Tales”?

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vanno a visitare la tomba di Becket

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Come inizia la riforma inglese?

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Henry VIII wanted a male heir

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Quali sono i personaggi di “Paradise Lost”?

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Satan, Adam, Eve

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Quali sono i generi letterari più in voga nel medioevo?

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Romance, religious and warrior type (Beowulf is a warrior type), epic and elegy

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What’s the plot of “A sentimental Journey”?

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journey Sterne had undertaken some years earlier for reasons of health. He was dead and so pardoned for his transgressions

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32
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What is “All for Love”?

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It is a heroic drama by John Dryden. It’s a tragedy in blank verse, imitation of Antony and Cleopatra, and focuses on last hours of the MC

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Quali sono gli autori metafisici?

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Donne, Marvell, Herbert, Vaughan and Crashaw

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What is Pilgrim’s progress?

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It is a religious allegory devided into two parts written by Bunyan. It a dream like story where Christian has to overcome difficulties and obstacles of every kind /journey to Celestial city

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Chi ha scritto l’opera Pamela?

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Richardson

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Quali opere ha scritto Richardson?

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Pamela, o la virtù premiata, 1740.
Pamela II, 1741.
Clarissa, 1748.
Sir Charles Grandison, 1753.

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Chi è Grendel in “Beowulf”?

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It is The monster

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Che religione veniva professata nel regno di Elisabetta I?

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She was Anglican protestant but open to Christianity

39
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Chi fu il successore di Henry VII?

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Edward VI

40
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Qual è l’opera di Shakespeare definibile una revenge Tragedy?

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Hamlet

41
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Chi ha scritto gli Amoretti?

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Spencer

42
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Qual è il sottotitolo di Oroonoko?

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The Royal Slave

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What is the setting of Hamlet?

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The late middle ages (14th and 15th centuries) around the royal palace in Elsinore, a city in Denmark

44
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Whose theories were read in the Elizabethan period?

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Seneca’s

45
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Cosa sono le masques?

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Per masque s’intende una forma di rappresentazione teatrale di corte che comparve nel XVI e primo XVII secolo in Europa

46
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Come si riconosce uno iambin pentameter?

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5 piedi che alternano breve e lunga, quindi sono 10 sillabe che seguono la ritmica “ba DUM ba DUM ba DUM ba DUM ba DUM)

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Di che religione era Thomas More?

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Cristiano

48
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Che cos’è il Globe?

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Il teatro di Shakespeare

49
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What is the plot of Moll Flanders?

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The protagonist becomes a thief and then a prostitute

50
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Who are the University Wits?

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They are men of letters schooled in the great seas of learning

51
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What are the Moralities?

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They are a genre of medieval play

52
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Who wrote Volpone, comedy (c. 1605–06; printed 1607)?

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Ben Jonson

53
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Quante sillabe e accenti ha il pentametro giambico?

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10 sillabe e 5 accenti

54
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Cosa successe nel 1660?

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Restauration

55
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What kind of Shakespearean plays are “As you like it” and “A Midsummer Night’s dream”?

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They are romantic comedies

56
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Who introduces the sonnet in Britain?

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Wyatt

57
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Qual è una caratteristica del 18esimo secolo?

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Il parlamento era più forte della monarchia

58
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A cosa si riferisce il titolo “The Rape of the Lock”?

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Si riferisce al taglio di una ciocca di capelli

59
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Qual è il nome della figlia prediletta di King Lear?

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Cordelia

60
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Qual è il titolo del capolavoro di Fielding?

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Tom James

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Di che genere è l’opera “Gulliver’s travels”?

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Satire/parody

62
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In che data fu costruito il primo teatro?

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Nel 1576

63
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Qual è la caratteristica dell’Old English?

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6 dialetti

64
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What did James Macpherson do that was so important?

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He translated an epic poem from Gaelic (Ossian)

65
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What kind of poet was Herrik? Metaphysical?

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Nope, he was a lyric poet and Anglican cleric

66
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Who were the parents of Elizabeth I?

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Henry VIII and Anne Bolena

67
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What was “The Spectator”?

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It was a magazine

68
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What is the rape of the lock? (4)

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a mock-epic
a satire on society
an attack on the manners of aristocrats
a critique of false or inverted values

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70
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Who wrote Roxana?

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Daniel Defoe

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What is a picaresque novel? (4)

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a story of adventures on the road
a story of a petty criminal
a genre coming from the Spanish tradition
one of Fielding’s favourite genres

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What was Samuel Richardson? (4)

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a puritan
a printer
a novelist
the inventor of the “write the moment” technique

73
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When were the theatres close by the Puritans?

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from 1643 to 1660

74
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What is Pearl?

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a medieval dream poem

75
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Who wrote “Love for Love”?

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Congreve

76
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What is “All for Love”?

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It is a version of Antony and Cleopatra’s vicissitudes

77
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Who was not an Elizabethan playwright?

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J. Gay

78
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What is Astrophil and Stella?

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It is a collection of love sonnets and songs by Philip Sidney

78
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Who was Bede?

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The first great English historian

79
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The battle of Hastings, In which Norman King William conquered England, was in

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1066

80
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What does “blank verse” mean?

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Unrymed pentameters

81
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Which of the following plays by Shakespeare does not include a forest?

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Romeo and Juliet

82
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Who wrote the Duchess of Malfi?

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John Webster

83
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What does an English sonnet consist of?

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Three quatrains and a couplet

84
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One of Swift’s works is entitled “The Battle of the…”?

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Books

85
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Orphelia is a female character in?

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Hamlet

86
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What is “The Spanish Tragedy” by Thomas Kyd?

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A revenge tragedy

87
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Who wrote Edward II?

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Marlowe

88
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In “The Rape of Lock” the ceremonial arming of the classical epic hero is parodied in the description of?

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A young lady at her dressing table

89
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What is the “fop” in a Restoration Comedy?

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he is an object of ridicule
he is full of affectation
he is a symbol of superficiality
he is fashiounably dressed

90
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Gothic fiction is a typical..?

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Pre-romantic genre

91
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Who was considered the highest authority in the literary scene?

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Dr. Samuel johnson

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