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1
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A story with a literal and an implied level of meaning

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Allegory

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The repetition of similar consonant sounds within a group of neighboring words or lines. Often initial consonant sounds are repeated. This poetic device often increases the musical effect of the language

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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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A force or character who struggles against the protagonist

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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 non personal object as if it were able to reply

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Apostrophe

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A short, simple narrative song

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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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Drama that ends happily

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Comedy

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A of comparison that draws a striking parallel between two dissimilar things

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Conceit

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The opposition of two or more characters or forces; the three main conflicts are man against man, man against himself, and man against a greater force

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Conflict

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Two consecutive lines in poetry, often wrong then in iambic pentameter, with end words that rhyme

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Couplet

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

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Dialect

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A poem in which the main character addresses an identifiable by silent listener at a time of crisis in the speakers life

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Dramatic monologue

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A mournfully contemplative poem that mourns death of someone, or the loss of something

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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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A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero

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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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21
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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 story originally in oral tradition

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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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27
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A short, melodic, personally expressive poem

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Lyrical poetry

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The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry

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Meter

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Broadly, the expression of one thing in terms of other. In stricter ways, it is the stated or implied equivalence at two things

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Metaphor

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30
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The giving of personal characteristics to something that is not person

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Personification

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31
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The main character of the story

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Protagonist

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32
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The attempt in fiction to create an illusion of actuality by the use of scemingly random detail or by the inclusion of the ordinary of unpleasant in life

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Realism

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33
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A reaction agonies the cultural climate and values of neoclassical. It insisted on the greater importance of individualism, imagination, nature, and the distant

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Romanticism

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Corrective ridicule in literature or a work that is designed to correct an evil by means of ridicule

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Satire

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35
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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 belief that human reason than revolution or authority is the source of all knowledge and the only valid basis for search

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Rationalism

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An ethical system developed by Jeremy Bentham based on the human desire for pleasure rather than pain and, politically, on the principle of the greatest good for the greatest number

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Utilitarianism

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A reverence for tradition as a source of authority of 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 life4 an earlier era or for the “natural” existence of present-day tribal communities

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Primitivism

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40
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A movement originating among the German disciples of Immanuel Kant that sought a higher religious view than Christianity and higher artistic deal the neoclassicism

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Transcendentalism

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41
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Romantic pessimism as expressed in philosophy, religion, and ethics. Agnostic, relativistic, and antiauthoritarian, it regards with God and the external world as unknowable; denies the existence of all values external to the individual; and holds that the assertion of the will is necessary to selfhood

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Existentialism

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42
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Belief that there is a multiparty of view points and that no single view point is universally valid

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Pluralism

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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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The Old English Period

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450 to 1100

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45
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The Middle English Period

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1100 to 1485

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46
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The Tudor Period

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1485 to 1603

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47
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The Stuart Period

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1603 to 1688

48
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The Neoclassical Period

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1688 to 1789

49
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The Romantic Period

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1789 to 1832

50
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The Victorian Period

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1832 to 1914

51
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The Modern Period

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1914 to Present

52
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Sea-stream and sea-flood are examples of

short answer

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A kenning

53
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How does Beowulf arm himself for this crucial battle against Grendel’s mother ?
(short answer)

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He uses Grendel as a hostage to pacify his mother

54
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Geoffrey Chaucer was born in

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London

55
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Who is the host of the Tabard Inn ?

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Harry Bailey

56
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Chaucer characterized his pilgrims how ?

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Vividly, with frank descriptions and often satirical

57
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What did the writers of the Middle English period declare to be the primary remedy for the ills of society ?
(short answer)

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A return to the ideals of the past

58
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Which decree officially divorced England from the Roman Catholic church ?

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Act of Supremacy

59
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Elizabeth’s religious policy is best described as

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Moderate

60
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Who produced the first complete Bible in English ?

short answer

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Miles Coverdale

61
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The greatest English literature was written for what purpose ?
(short answer)

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Th moral improvement of mankind

62
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In what year did restoration take place ?

short answer

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1660

63
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Rationalism can be denied as

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The rule of reason in all areas of life

64
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What was Defoe’s most lasting contribution to the novel ?

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Journalistic realism

65
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What fundamental question does An Essay on Man seek to answer ?

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Why does evil exist ?

66
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Which of Pope’s characteristics did Dryden lack ?

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Diligence

67
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How did England’s domination of the seas help advance the industrial revolution ?
(short answer)

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

68
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What three main beliefs of Scripture did deists reject ?

short answer

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Deity of Christ
Christ’s death
bodily resurrection and miracles of scripture

69
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What is the purpose of satire ?

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To upbraid and to warn

70
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Over what issue did the Wesleys and Whitfield sharply disagree ?
(short answer)

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The Calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement

71
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True/False: Swift stated that the purpose of Gulliver’s Travels was to entertain

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Fasle

72
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True/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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Utilitarianism evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of

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Happiness

74
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Christians would agree with romantics on all the following points except that

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Freedom from limitations is needed

75
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Characteristics of romantic poetry include who of the following ?

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The poet as the primary
A highly individual perspective
An name-inspiring atmosphere
(all of the above)

76
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Wordsworth credited which of the following as being the major formative influence on his writing ?

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Nature

77
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The primary mood of Lamb’s essays is

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Nostalgic daydreaming

78
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The Byronic hero is characterized by all the following except

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Remorse and repentance

79
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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

80
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In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process, what idea reflects the romantic dislike of control ?
(short answer)

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The deception of poetry as “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”

81
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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” ?
(short answer)

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If Winter comes - Can Spring be far behind ?

82
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True/False: The common element in all areas of romantic thinking - political, philosophical, and artistic - is freedom from limits

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True

83
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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 increased as the century wore on and England began to achieve its promise

84
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Tennyson’s poetry was deepened and enriched by

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The death of his best friend

85
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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 loss of faith and its subsequent despair

86
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Most of Lewis Carroll’s poems in the Alice books are best described as

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Parodies

87
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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 above the past

88
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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

89
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According to the doctor, what was the cause of McGoggin’s conversion ?

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Overwork

90
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Name at least two missionaries sent out by evangelicals in Victorian England and tell the places in which they serve (short answer)

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William Carey in India

Hudson Taylor in China

91
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List the two areas in which Carlyle had his greatest impact on Victorian England
(short answer)

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Religious thought and social criticism

92
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What was Hardy’s attitude toward the peasantry ?

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“Noble” rustics or contended pagans

93
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“The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin’ was said to be what form of literature ?

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Tract

94
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True/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

95
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A nationalist poet who wrote in dialectic

“A Red, Red Rose”

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Robert Burns

96
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Poet laureate

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John Dryden

97
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Complied and edit the dictionary of the English language

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Samuel Johnson

98
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After trying to reform Anglicanism, he converted to Catholicism

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John Henry Newman

99
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Wrote Satirical Travel Literature

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Johnathan Swift

100
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Essay on Criticism

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Alexander Pope

101
Q

I Wondered lonely as a Cloud

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William Wordsworth

102
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Stephen’s sister

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Gertrude

103
Q

Stephen’s son who was hanged

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Absalom

104
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Champion of the native cause; he was murdered

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Arthur

105
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Reverend who sent for Stephen and helps in Johannesburg

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Msimangu

106
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Priest from England who found a free lawyer

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Vincent

107
Q

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

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James

108
Q

Stephan rented a room from her in Johannesburg

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Lithebe

109
Q

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

A

Stephan

110
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Stephen’s brother, a politician

A

John

111
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The word for “pastor” or “reverend”

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Umfundisi

112
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What does the typical poem relies on ?

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Rhythm

113
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What maintains the strongest influence on writers of the modern period ?

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Rationalism

114
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What is the intellectual position most characteristics of the modern period ?

A

Existentialism

115
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Who was the founder of modern psychology who helped foster the existentialist philosophy ?
(short answer)

A

Freud

116
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According to the modern writer, what is fatal to art ?

short answer

A

Didacticism

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