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Who said:
So the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused

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the Royal Dane, character in a Shakespeare play.

Dane’s are from Denmark

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The unglazed opening in the center of the dome of the Pantheon in Rome is called?

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oculus

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Parallel feet, flat-footed steps, undulating torso, body isolation, and syncopated rhythms refer to what type of dance?

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Jazz

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The hero of what nineteenth century novels states “vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation”

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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

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A trumpet can play different notes by adjusting the lip or by doing what?

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pressing down a valve

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One of the greatest modern chronicles of a famous incident during the Civil War is?

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Catton’s A Stillness at Appomatox

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In the early 1800’s, which American minister and writer promoted the philosophical and literary movement called transcendentalism?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What does the following describe:

What we write and speak most of the time in our everyday intercourse: unmetered, unrhymed language.

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Prose

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What is Freytag’s Pyramid and what is it used to describe?

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originally used to describe the structure of a five-act drama but now widely used to analyze fiction. Stages: introduction or exposition, complication, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement or conclusion.

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What describes the character in a story who struggles toward or for someone or something?

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protagonist

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What describes the character in a story who struggles against someone or something?

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the antagonist

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In literature, what is a detail or element of the story which is repeated throughout, and which may even become symbolic?

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A motif

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Which famous poet maintained that the meaning of poetry existed purely to distract us “while the poem did its work”?

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T.S. Eliot

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Which famous poet said:
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all
ye know on earth, and all ye need to know —

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John Keats

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what is the difference between blank and free verse

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free verse is unrhymed and has a varying metrical pattern, blank verse is also unrhymed but has a strict rhythm

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What is it called when a part of an object is used to represent the entire thing or vice versa

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Synecdoche

Example: Give me a hand, does not mean literally give me your hand, it means give me help

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What type of poetry was Browning known for?

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dramatic monologues

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what type of sonnet is organized into two groups: eight lines and six - the octave and setset

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The Petrarch or Italian sonnet

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what type of sonnet organizes the lines into three groups of four lines: quatrains and a couplet

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The Shakespearean or English sonnet

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Which sonnet has the rhyme scheme

abbaabba-cdecde

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Petrarch or Italian sonnet

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Which sonnet has the rhyme scheme

abab cdcd efef gg

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Shakespearean or English sonnet

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Which great epic was about Adam and Eve and the Fall?

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Milton’s Paradise Lost

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Which two poets marked a turning point by not only using the language of men but also by moving away from narrative poems to the lyric?

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Wordsworth and Coleridge

24
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What is known as one of the most famous elegies?

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Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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What is the difference between an elegy and an ode?

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they are both part of the lyric family, although an ode is usually longer, dealing with more profound areas of human life than simply death

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Which English poet is best known for his odes?

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John Keats (Ode to a Grecian Urn)

27
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What is the most famous and arguably the best villanelle?Villanelle: a courtly love poem structure from medieval times

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Dylan Thomas’s Do not go gentle into that good night

28
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what kind of comedy in drama is described as low comedy intended to make us laugh by means of a series of exaggerated, unlikely situations that depend less on plot and character than on gross absurdities, sight gags, and coarse dialogue

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Farce

29
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What type of comedy in drama is rather high comic form implying that humanity and human institutions are in need of reform?

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satire

30
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How did Henrik Ibsen’s plays begin the modern era in drama?

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with his emphasis on realism, a seeking of truth through direct observation using the five senses

31
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Though often considered a work for children, this nineteenth century classic continues to amuse and amaze adults interested in puzzles, poems, and hidden meanings?

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Alice in Wonderland by Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carrol

32
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Which novel presents a series of entertaining monologues and bawdy tales told by individuals with a common purpose?

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The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

33
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Which of the following is generally recognized as the most accurate literary representation of American soldiers in battler?

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Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage
Henry Fleming fled the battle field. The red badge was literally a blood wound received during battle and signaled couragesness. He wished he had one and was brave.

34
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In what work does the author deal with his or her blindness?

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John Milton’s When I Consider How My Light is Spent

35
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Which poet said:

They also serve who only stand and wait

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John Milton. Last lines of When I Consider How My Light is Spent

36
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Which work can be seen as a fable in which the main characters represent political personages engaged in the conflict of political systems?

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George Orwell’s Animal Farm

37
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Which work presents a fascinating survey of English life at the time of William the Conqueror?

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The Domesday Book commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085 in order to raise taxes to pay for his army, he needed to assess everyone’s wealth and assets

38
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Many of Shakespeare’s works are based on which philosophical and literary construct?

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The Great Chain of Being Its major premise was that every existing thing in the universe had its “place” in a divinely planned hierarchical order, which was pictured as a chain vertically extended.

39
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Which novel was written by Charles Dodgson under a pen name?

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Alice in Wonderland, pen name Lewis Carroll

40
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Which poet is known for dramatic monologues such as Andrea del Sarto?

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Robert Browning

41
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Which American novelist was known for his love of deep sea fishing and bullfighting?

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Ernest Hemingway

42
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Which novel revolved around the bureaucratic aspects of the pursuit of war?

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Heller’s Catch-22

A famous novel about American fighter pilot during WWII.

43
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John Donne is considered the leader of what poets?

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metaphysicals

44
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Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dawson, Lionel Johnson, and Arthur Symons were part of which group of poets?

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1890’s the decadents

45
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Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs were part of which group of poets?

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1960’s post war the Beat poets

46
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Who were the two most prominent restoration poets?

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John Milton and John Dryden 1600’s

47
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Considered one of the greatest expressions of existentialism, this play by Samuel Beckett involves only two characters?

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Waiting for Godot

48
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Which modern novel portrays a New England prep school as America is about to go to war?

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A Separate Peace by John Knowles

49
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Which famous ship is the subject of a novel about WWII mutiny?

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USS Caine by Henry Wouk in his novel The Caine Mutiny

50
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Which nineteenth century novel end with a hanging at sea?

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Herman Melville’s Billy Budd

51
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Some of Shakespeare’s sonnets are presumed to be written to someone critics call?

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Dark Lady

52
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A fixed form with five tercets and a quatrain

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villanelle

53
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an aubade is a poem that greets the

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dawn

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