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A story within a literal and an implied level of meaning may suggest actual persons, places, events and situations or a set of ideas

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Allegory

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The repetition of similar consonant sounds within the beginning of a group of neighboring words or lines.

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Alliteration

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A reference within a work of literature to something outside it.

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Allusion

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The villain in the story

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Antagonist

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A brief statement, often witty, that expresses a principle, truth, or observation about life.

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Aphorism

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The addressing of nonpersonal object as if it were able to reply.

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Apostrophe

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A short, simple narrative poem.

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Ballad

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A nonfiction account in which the author tells the true events that makeup the life of a real individual other than himself.

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Biography

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

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Major pauses within lines

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Caesura

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11
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Drama that ends happily

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Comedy

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A striking and often elaborate comparison carried out in considerable detail

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Conceit

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The opposition of two or more chapters or forces

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Conflict

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A pair of rhymed lines

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Couplet

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Regional variations within this same language as spoken in different areas of a country

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Dialect

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A poem consisting of a speech by a character addressing an audience at a critical moment in his life

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Dramatic monologue

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Originally any poem of solemn meditation

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Elegy

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A poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next with no punctuation at the end of the first verse line.

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Enjambment

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Long, stylized narrative poems celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero of legend.

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Epic

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A metaphor that is developed beyond a single sentence or comparison

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Extended metaphor

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An artful deviation from literal speech or normal word order.

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Figurative Language

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A short tale, usually anonymous, passed along by word-of-mouth.

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Folktale

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A literary device that supplies clues that hint at later plot developments

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Foreshadowing

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A literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story

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Frame Story

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The use of language to convey meaning other than what is stated or a contradiction in what is expected to happen and what actually happens

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Irony

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A form of poetic imagery commonly found in Anglo-Saxon. A metaphorical phrase or compound word that is used to indirectly name a person, place, or thing.

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Kenning

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A brief poem expressing the personal views of a single speaker on a particular topic

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Lyrical poetry

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The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Meter

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The stated or implied equivalence of two things

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Metaphor

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Gives human characteristics to objects, ideas, abstractions, or animals

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Personification

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The main character of a story

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Protagonist

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32
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Attempt in fiction to create an illusion of actuality by the use of seemingly random detail or by the inclusion of the ordinary or unpleasant in life

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Realism

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A reaction against the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism

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Romanticism

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Corrective ridicule of some object of scorn usually outside of the literature itself

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Satire

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A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature

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Theme

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36
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The rule of reason in all areas of life

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Rationalism

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Evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of happiness

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Utilitarianism

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A reverence for a tradition as a source of authority or values in religion, morality, or art

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Traditionalism

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The preference for an uncivilized life, either for the simple, rustic life of an earlier era or for the “natural” existence of present day tribal communities

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Primitivism

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A movement originating among the German disciples of Immanuel Kant that sought a higher religious view than Christianity and a higher artistic ideal than neoclassicism

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Transcendentalism

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41
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Is the intellectual position most characteristic of the modern period

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Existentialism

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42
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Pluralism

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An attitude which favors a multiplicity of viewpoints, and assumes that no single view is universally valid.

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43
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Instruction in literature

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Didacticism

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44
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Rationalism can be defined

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The rule of reason in all areas of life.

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45
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What was Defoe’s most lasting contribution to the novel?

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Journalistic realism

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46
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What fundamental question does An Essay on Man seek to answer?

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Why does evil exist?

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47
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Which of Pope’s characteristics did Dryden lack?

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Diligence

48
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Utilitarianism evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of

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Happiness

49
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Christians would agree with romantics on all of the following points except that

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Freedom from limitations is needed.

50
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Characteristics of romantic poetry include which of the following

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The poet as the primary subject
A highly individual perspective
An awe-inspiring atmosphere
(All of the above)

51
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Wordsworth credited which of the following as being the major formative influence on his writings.

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Nature

52
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The primary mood Lamb’s essays is

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Nostalgic daydreaming

53
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A Byronic hero is characterized by all of the following except

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Remorse and repentance

54
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Section IV of “Ode to the West Wind” reveals Shelley’s agreement with the romantic belief in

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The superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature

55
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Tennyson’s poetry was deepened and enriched by

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The death of his best friend

56
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All of the following statements about the religious climate of nineteenth-century England are correct except

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Optimism increases as the century wore on and England began to achieve its promise

57
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In Tennyson’s In Memoriam, all of the following ideas are mirrored except

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A stoic resignation to accept the loss of faith and its subsequent despair

58
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Most of Lewis Carroll’s poems in the Alice books are best described as

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Parodies

59
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“The Darkling Thrush” reflects all of the following except the

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Consoling power of man’s ability to rise about the past

60
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All the following are true statements about A.E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” except

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Though dead, the boy will know bitterness when his record is broken.

61
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According to the doctor, what was the cause of McGoggin’s conversion?

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Overwork

62
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How did England’s domination of the seas help advance the industrial revolution?

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By crowding out the French, Dutch, and Spanish from valuable markets and sources of raw materials

63
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What is the purpose of satire?

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To upbraid and to warn

64
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Over what issue did the Wesleys and Whitefield sharply disagree?

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The Calvinist doctrine of limited atonement

65
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In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process, what idea reflects the romantic dislike of control?

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The depiction of poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”

66
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What question, which is probably the most famous rhetorical question in English literature, expresses the theme of Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”?

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“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind”?

67
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Name at least two missionaries sent out by evangelicals in Victorian England and tell the places in which they served

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William Carey in India
Hudson Taylor in China
David Livingston in Africa

68
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List the two areas in which Carlyle had his greatest impact on Victorian England

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Religious Thought and Social Criticism

69
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What was Hardy’s attitude toward the peasantry?

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“Noble” rustics or contended pagans

70
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“The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin” was said to be what form of literature?

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Tract

71
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(True or False) Swift stated that the purpose of Gulliver’s Travels was to entertain

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False

72
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(True or False) According to John Wesley’s Journal, he had a grasp of Greek and enjoyed secular as well as sacred reading

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True

73
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(True or False) The common element in all areas of romantic thinking— political, philosophical, and artistic—- is freedom from limits

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True

74
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(True or False) German Biblical scholars had an even more devastating effect on orthodox Christianity of the Victorian period than did Darwin’s ideas

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True

75
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The typical modern poem relies on

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Rhythm

76
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The founder of modern psychology who helped foster the existentialist philosophy

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Freud

77
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According to the modern writer, _________ is fatal to art.

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Didacticism

78
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The Middle Age

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450-1485

79
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The Old English Period

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450 to 1100

80
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The Middle English Period

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1100 to 1485

81
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The Renaissance

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1485-1688

82
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The Tudor Period

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1485 to 1603

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The Stuart Period

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1603 to 1688

84
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The Age of Revolution

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1688-1832

85
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The Neoclassical Period

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1688 to 1789

86
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The Romantic Period

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1789 to 1832

87
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The Age of Reform

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1832- Present

88
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The Victorian Period

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1832 to 1914

89
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The Modern Period

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1914 to Present

90
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Discuss pluralism and its impact on the modern culture.

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Do in advanced

91
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Sea-stream and sea-flood are examples of

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A kenning

92
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How does Beowulf arm himself for this crucial battle against Grendel’s mother?

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He usesGrendel as a hostage to pacify his mother

93
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Geoffrey Chaucer was born in

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London

94
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Who is the host of the Tabard Inn?

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Harry Bailey

95
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Chaucer characterized his pilgrims how?

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Vividly with frank descriptions and often satirical

96
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What did the writers of the Middle English period declare to be the primary remedy for the ills of society

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A return to the ideals of the past

97
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Which decree officially divorced England from the Roman Catholic Church?

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Act of Supremacy

98
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Elizabeth’s religious policy is best described as

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Moderate

99
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Who produced the first complete Bible in Enlgish?

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Miles Coverdale

100
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The greatest English literature was written for what purpose?

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The moral improvement of mankind

101
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In what year did restoration take place?

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1660

102
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A nationalist poet who wrote in dialect “A Red, Red Rose”

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Robert Burns

103
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Poet laureate

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John Dryden

104
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Complied and edited the dictionary of the English language

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Samuel Johnson

105
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After trying to reform Anglicanism, he converted to Catholicism

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John Henry Newman

106
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Wrote Satirical Travel Literature

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Jonathan Swift

107
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Essay on Criticism

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Alexander Pope

108
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I wandered lonely as a Cloud

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William Wordsworth

109
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Stephen’s sister

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Gertrude

110
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Stephen’s son who was hanged

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Absalom

111
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Champion of the native cause; he was murdered

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Arthur

112
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Reverend who sent for Stephen and helps in Johannesburg

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Msimangu

113
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Donates milk, a church, and other goods to help the native cause

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James

114
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Stephan rented a room from her in Johannesburg

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Lithebe

115
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Main character of the novel; looks for his brother, sister, and son

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Stephan

116
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Stephan’s brother, a politician

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John

117
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The word for “pastor” or “reverend”

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Umfundisi

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