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Test 3 Flashcards

1
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Brassed Off

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  • Uninspired
  • Low in spirits
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2
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Bevvy

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Beverage

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3
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Flummoxed

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  • Bewildered
  • Perplexed
  • Confused
  • Confounded
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4
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Barney

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  • Noisy quarrel
  • A scuffle
  • Slight fight
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5
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Joe Soap

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  • Fool
  • Stooge
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6
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Belt Up

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Be quiet

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7
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Brassic

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  • Out of funds
  • Broke
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8
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Stonking

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  • Extremely large
  • Considerable
  • Powerful
  • Impressive
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9
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Meliorism

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Belief that things will keep getting better

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10
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Carl Jung

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Mythological Criticism: archetypes

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11
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Modernism

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  1. Historical Discontinuity
  2. Sense of Alienation
  3. Sense of Loss & Dispair
  4. Rejection of History & Society
  5. Rejection of Traditional Values & Assumptions
  6. Elevation of the individual & inner being over social men
  7. Preference for the unconcsious as opposed to the self-conscious
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12
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Most beautiful woman of Modern Era

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Maud Gonne

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13
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“Hap”

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Thomas Hardy

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14
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“The Convergence of the Twain”

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Thomas Hardy

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15
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“Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff”

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A.E. Housman

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16
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“Channel Firing”

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Thomas Hardy

17
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“Dulce et Decorum Est”

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Wilfred Owen (To Jessie Pope)

18
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“The Lake Isle of Innsfree”

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W.B. Yeats

19
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“The Wild Swans at Coole”

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W.B. Yeats

20
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“Leda and the Swan”

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W.B. Yeats

21
Q

“The Second Coming”

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W.B. Yeats

22
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“Sailing to Byzantium”

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W.B. Yeats

23
Q

“Under Ben Bulben”

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W.B. Yeats

24
Q

“In Memory of W.B. Yeats”

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W.H. Auden

25
Q

“Digging”

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Seamus Heaney

26
Q

“The Forge”

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Seamus Heaney

27
Q

“The Waste Land”

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T.S. Eliot

28
Q

“Musee des Beaux Arts”

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W.H. Auden

29
Q

“The Shield of Achilles”

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W.H. Auden

30
Q

“Shooting an Elephant”

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George Orwell

31
Q

“The Moment before the Gun Went Off”

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Nadine Gordimer

32
Q

Sprog

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Baby

33
Q

Codswallop

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Utter nonsense

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