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Jenny Geddes
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threw chair at a bishop
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Oliver Cromwell
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Commonwealth leader who declared himself "Lord Protector for Life"
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Cavaliers
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soldiers who supported King Charles I
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Charles II
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called from exile in France to lead the country
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Buckingham
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responsible for the war with Spain, murdered in 1628
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Cavalier poets
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members of the court of Charles I
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Metaphysical poets
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wrote highly intellectual works that used unusual metaphors from many sources
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Cavalier poets
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often dealt with themes such as love, honor, or loyalty
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Cavalier poets
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modeled themselves after Ben Jonson, who wrote graceful lyric poetry
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Puritans
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primarily produced political and religious works
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Protestant Interregnum
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era of Protestant rule, which lasted from 1649 to 1660
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Roundheads
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citizens' army of Puritans
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William Laud
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appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Charles I
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Oliver Cromwell
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led Puritan army and declared himself "Lord Protector for Life"
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The Commonwealth
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period during which Cromwell and the Puritan Parliament ruled, which lasted from 1649 to 1653
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James I
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the end of his reign was relatively peaceful
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Charles II
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monarchy was restored when he was invited to return as king
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Cavaliers
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dandyish troops who supported the king
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Charles I
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executed for making war on Parliament
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The Protectorate
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period that began in 1653 when Cromwell dissolved Parliament
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Metaphysical poet
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John Donne
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Puritan writer
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John Bunyan
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Puritan writer
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John Milton
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Cavalier poet
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Robert Herrick
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Metaphysical poet
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George Herbert
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personification
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"Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me"
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allegory
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work in which element symbolizes something else
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antihero
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Satan in Paradise Lost
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concrete poem
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a poem, such as "Easter Wings," that is printed in a shape that suggests its subject matter
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Allusion
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reference in "On His Blindness" to the parable of the servant condemned for hiding a talent
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metaphor
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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main"
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epic
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a long story, often told in verse, such as Paradise Lost, that involves heroes and gods
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allegory and allusion
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"I would / Love you ten years before the Flood, / And you should if you please, refuse, / Till the conversion of the Jews"
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The Commonwealth and the Protectorate
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The Protestant Interregnum is divided into these two periods:
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John Milton
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Which is not considered a Cavalier poet?
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Death
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John Donne's "Holy Sonnet 10" addresses and personifies ___?
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that he will not be able to do God's work
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What does the speaker of "On His Blindness" worry about?
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angels that soar above
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Who knows the freedom that the speaker of "To Althea, From Prison" knows?
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Time's winged chariot
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The speaker of "To His Coy Mistress" is urged on by ___?
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they lost what they had and became most poor
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According to "Easter Wings," what happened to the people God created "in wealth and store"?
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the story of Adam and Eve
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On what biblical story is Paradise Lost based?
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Cavalier
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"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.
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Metaphysical
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"Mark but this flea, and mark in this / How little that which thou deny'st me is; / It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, / And in this flea our two bloods mingled be."
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Cavalier
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"When, like committed linnets, I / With shriller throat shall sing / The sweetness, mercy, majesty, / And glories of my king;"
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Puritan
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"Here we may reign secure; and in my choice / To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: / Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven..."
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1660 - 1785
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The Age of Reason lasted approximately ___ to ___?
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the period's insistence on the power of intellect over feeling
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The "Enlightenment" is a reference to:
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Romanticism
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The Age of Reason inevitably lost its attractiveness, eventually transforming into:
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Swift
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Which of the following literary figures does not have his own "age"?
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women in the Bible
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"The Introduction" alludes to ___ to drive home the main idea to the reader.
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the organ
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St. Cecilia is known as the inventor of:
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heavenly harmony
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What was the source of "this universal frame" in "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day"?
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the Glorious Revolution
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Which event does Pepys' diary NOT respond to?
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poetry
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Which of the following would not describe Gulliver's Travels?
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liked individuals but hated humanity
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Jonathan Swift made clear his outlook on the world when he said that he "___."
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irony
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a difference between appearance and reality
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"A Modest Proposal"
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Which of the following titles is an example of irony?
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Oroonoko
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Many people argue that ___ is the first English novel.
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characterization
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use of literary techniques to create a character
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behavior, direct description, and representation of internal states
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Three common types of characterization are:
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understatement
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Saying "Mount Everest is not small" is an example of?
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overstatement
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Saying "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example of?
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sarcasm
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To refer to a 98-pound weakling as a "real he-man" would be an example of which satirical device?
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pathos
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"I love my country, my wife, my job, and Bosco Sticks" is an example of?
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"The Life of Samuel Johnson"
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"Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years."
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"Pressed by the Moon..."
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"They hear the warring elements no more: / While I am doomed - by life's long storm oppressed, / To gaze with envy on their gloomy rest."
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Addison's "dissections"
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"The muscle which turns the eye towards heaven did not appear to have been used at all."
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An Essay on Criticism
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"We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; / Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so."
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"A Dictionary of the English Language"
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Lexicographer
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Gulliver's Travels
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"The King was struck with horror at the description I had given of those terrible engines and the proposal I had made."
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"St. Cecilia's Day"
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"When to her organ vocal breath was given, / An angel heard, and straight appeared, / Mistaking earth for heaven."
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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"...I did in Drury-lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and Lord have mercy upon us writ there - which was a sad sight to me, being the first of that kind that to my remembrance I ever saw."
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Baron Thunder ten-tronckh
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one of the most powerful lords in Westphalia
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King of the Bulgarians
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granted Candide clemency
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Pangloss
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Candide's tutor
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Candide
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forced into the Bulgarian army
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Cunegonde
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Candide's beloved
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Burns
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The Scottish poet who wrote "Auld Lang Syne" was?
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Gray
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The best example of a "transition poet" studied in this unit is?
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elegy
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a solemn, reflective poem, usually about death, written in a formal style
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an epitaph
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"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" ends with?
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Blake
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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience were collections written by?
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Keats
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The poet who died young due to tuberculosis was?
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engravings and other artwork
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William Blake, in addition to being a poet, was widely recognized for his?
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Coleridge
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The Romantic Poet who most effectively employed fantastic or dream-like images and subjects was?
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a preoccupation with correct poetic diction
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Which one of the following is NOT a concern of Romanticism?
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Wordsworth
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This poet discusses the soothing effect of nature on humanity in his poem "...Tintern Abbey."
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Keats
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The poet who writes with the most appeal to the senses is?
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picturesque
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The style of writing that Wordsworth employs, giving his readers a realistic portrayal of an image, is?
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an effective but poorly drawn political cartoon
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Which of the following examples could be considered didacticism?
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gothic novel
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the finest examples of?
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cathartic
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What kind of experience does Mary Shelley intend for the readers of Frankenstein to experience?
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terza rima
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What is the term used to describe the rhyme scheme in Percy Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"?
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a willing suspension of disbelief
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What did Coleridge require of his audience in order to fully appreciate his poetry?
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Robert Burns
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Which of these poets is noted for his use of dialect?
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a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
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Wordsworth and Coleridge defined poetry as:
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a good education
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In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, what does Wollstonecraft assert women need to achieve their full potential?
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after listening to a discussion about the nature of the creative process
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Mary Shelley says she conceived the idea for Frankenstein?
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"London"
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Which is one of Blake's songs of experience?
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revive his thoughts and spread his verse
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What does the speaker of "Ode to the West Wind" want the wind to do?
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Mary Shelley
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"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper."
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John Keats
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"When old age shall this generation waste, / Thou shalt remain..."
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Percy Shelley
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"Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven, like ghosts..."
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Robert Burns
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"And hand in hand we'll go, / And sleep thegither at the foot"
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William Blake
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"In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
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Thomas Gray
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"Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, / Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood."
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William Wordsworth
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"That time is past, / And all its aching joys are now no more, and all its dizzy raptures. Not for this/ Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts have followed."
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Percy Shelley
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"Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Could I revive within me / Her symphony and song... I would build that dome in air."
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John Keats
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"...then on the shore / Of the wide world I stand alone, and think / Till love and fame to nothingness do sink."
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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"How grossly do they insult us who thus advise us only to render ourselves gentle, domestic brutes!"
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Thomas Gray
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"Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard"
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Mary Shelley
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the Introduction to Frankenstein
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William Blake
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"London"
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John Keats
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"When I Have Fears"
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Robert Burns
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"John Anderson, My Jo"
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Kubla Khan"
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Lord Byron
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"She Walks in Beauty"
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Percy Shelley
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"Ozymandias"
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women
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William Blake
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"The Tyger"
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William Wordsworth
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"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
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the Crystal Palace
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In what "marvel of modern architecture" was the Great Exhibition of 1851 held?
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William Paley
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The Victorian thinker who saw the proof of God's existence in life's complexities was:
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non-intrusive
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"Laissez-faire" refers to a preference of governing style most likely described as?
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Utilitarianism
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"the greatest good for the greatest number" most accurately describes:
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His father's imprisonment and his removal from school for employment in a factory
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Which TWO of the following childhood events left a permanent mark on the life of Dickens?
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a novel inspired by naturalism
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The main character of a story is a hapless victim of fate. This theme would most likely be found in:
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Poet Laureate
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson succeeded William Wordsworth as:
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Camelot
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The setting of "The Lady of Shalott" is:
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Lancelot
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What characters in "The Lady of Shalott" acts as a foil to the lady herself?
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Robert Browning
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Find the name of the poet famous for dramatic monologue:
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smiles
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What caused the Duke's jealousy in "My Last Duchess"?
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reconciliation of faith and science
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What issue is at the center of the poem "Dover Beach"?
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tranquil to melancholy
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As "Dover Beach" progresses, the tone of the poem shifts from:
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Sophocles
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What is the allusion used in "Dover Beach"?
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gunnery practice at sea
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"Channel Firing" contains a concrete representation of people's preoccupation with war. What is this representation?
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had more fun
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In "Channel Firing," what does Parson Thirdly wish he had done?
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God and dead people laying in their coffins
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Which TWO of the following make an unlikely contribution to "Channel Firing" through common speech?
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painfully somber
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What is the tone of the first half of "The Darkling Thrush"?
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birdsong
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What breaks the mood of the first half of "The Darkling Thrush"?
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Love
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What theme is treated in the poems by Rossetti studied in this unit?
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Pre-Raphaelite
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Rossetti's poetry is labeled as:
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Industrialization and Personal isolation
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Though "The Signalman" can be viewed as a mere ghost story, it does represent strong, uniquely Victorian, characteristics. TWO of these characteristics are:
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very precise and dutiful
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What kind of worker is the signalman?
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the engineer recounting the events of the accident that killed the signalman
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What does the visitor in "The Signalman" see as he approaches the train tracks at the end of the story?
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these are the exact words that the narrator had imagined accompanying the gesture that the ghost reportedly made.
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In "The Signalman," what is significant about the phrase "For God's sake, clear the way" being spoken by the engine driver?
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sprung rhythm
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The poetic device that Hopkins used where each line has the same number of stressed syllables but a variable number of unstressed syllables is called:
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appreciation of things marked with spots or blotches of color
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The phrase "pied beauty" refers to:
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the grandeur of God
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According to Hopkins, what is the world "charged" with?
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Primitivism, Technicality, Imagism, Aestheticism, and Impersonalism
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List the five major subcategories of Modernism studied in this unit?
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Sassoon, Owen, and Brooke
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Name the three War Poets emphasized in this unit.
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Proud
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What is the tone of "The Soldier"?
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Sassoon
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Who wrote "Base Details"?
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Angry
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What is the tone of "Base Details"?
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It means Sweet and Noble to die for one's country
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What is ironic about the poem title "Dulce et Decorum Est"?
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Sight and sound
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What are the two senses that dominate "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"?
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He longs to return to his County Sligo, where he laid his childhood to rest
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Why might Yeats have sounded so agitated during his reading of "...Innisfree"?
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Prose poem. Vignettes.
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What kind of work is Margaret Atwood's "Bread"? What was the term used in class for the five "episodes" in the work?
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Second person point of view. This is seldomly done in prose poetry.
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In what point of view is "Bread" written? Why is this significant?
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In the beginning, it is a want or a luxury. In the end, it becomes an ultimate need or necessity.
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How does the role and function of bread shift throughout "Bread"?
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Discussing Poetry
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What subject matter is Yeats addressing?
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Anything worthwhile will take time but seem like no time
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What is his commentary on this subject matter?
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Maude Gonne
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To whom is this poem addressed?
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His unrequited love is still present
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What is the outcome of the poem?
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St. Louis, Missouri
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Where was T.S. Eliot born and raised?
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objective correlative
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What technical term did T.S. Eliot coin to describe the technique used in much of his poetry?
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objective correlative
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using one image to describe an array of emotions
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to offer some insight to the reader, about what the story will contain
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What is the purpose of an epigraph in a work of poetry?
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Sybil's Cumae from "The Satirycon"
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Describe the source material for the epigraph of Eliot's The Waste Land.
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Ezra Pound
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To whom did Eliot dedicate The Waste Land?
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1. The Burial of the Dead
2. A Game of Chess 3. The Fire Sermon 4. Death by Water 5. What The Thunder Said |
List the titles of each section of The Waste Land.
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She is a famous clairvoyant with a wicked deck of cards
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In The Waste Land, who is Madam Sosostris?
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The peace which passeth understanding
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What is the approximate translation/connotation of "Shantih Shantih Shantih" in the closing lines of The Waste Land?
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Philomel was raped by her sister's husband, Tereu.
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Describe the legend of Philomel.
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Hurry Up Please, Its Time
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The Waste Land contains several memorable and oft-quoted lines and phrases. Write at least one below.
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Man vs. Nature and Man vs. Formal Education
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Identify the 2 major conflicts in D.H. Lawrence's "Snake."
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We should leave nature alone, because it was here before we were.
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"Snake" dramatizes the conflict between how we are taught to think about certain creatures and how we actually feel in their presence. What does this poem imply is the proper relationship of human beings to the natural world?
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Primitivism
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To what subcategory of Modernism does "Snake" belong?
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Alliteration of "s"
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What specific device does Lawrence use early in this poem to convey the presence of the snake?
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Cheap, inexpensive biography
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In "Who's Who," what is a "shilling life"?
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An old man who is accomplished
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Who is the main character in W.H. Auden's "Who's Who"?
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He has climbed mountains and named seas
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What kind of achievements had this person known?
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A women who is unremarkable and she doesn't care about him
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What does the reader find out about the love interest of the main character in "Who's Who"? Why is this information surprising?
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"The Landscape of The Fall of Icarus" by Pieter Brueghel
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On what painting is Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts" based?
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Somethings in this world go unnoticed
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What is the message or theme in the poem?
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In the painting, there is a man who is flailing in the water, but nobody seems to notice his despair.
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How is this theme connected to the painting?
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"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight" by Dylan Thomas
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Give the title and author of the villanelle assigned in your text.
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Each is a sign of life
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Why does the speaker of this poem ask his father to "curse, bless" him?
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Wales
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Where was Dylan Thomas born?
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Villanelle
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In what specific form is this poem written?
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Repetition of 1st and 3rd line
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What is particularly challenging about this form and structure?
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Thought man was a joker
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Why didn't the people observing worry when they saw the man waving his arms?
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Stevie Smith
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Who wrote this poem?
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1. Aging of Parents
2. Responsibility of Family |
What TWO themes strongly impact Seamus Heaney's "Follower" and "A Call"?
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Instead of following his father's footsteps. At the end, his father is following his footsteps.
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What is the "twist" at the end of "Follower"?
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He wants to be able to say goodbye to his father before he passes on.
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In "A Call," what causes the speaker to wait on the phone?
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Visualizes Father doing hard labor. He hears clocks.
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While he is waiting, what goes through his mind? What does the speaker hear through the phone that causes some of these thoughts?
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"I Love You"
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What does the wandering of his mind cause him to "nearly" say when his father picks up the phone?
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Not very well. Difficult time expressing feelings.
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How well does the speaker know his father? How do you know?
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Modernists
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What is the term used to describe most "Anti-Realist" poets of the 20th Century?
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technicality
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Identify the style of writing in which the author emphasizes technique and materials over representational content.
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primitivism
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Identify the style of writing in which the author encourages the reader to reconsider his or her education and gain awareness of a simpler, more basic approach to living, reconnecting with suppressed human nature.
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Aestheticism
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Identify the style of writing that encourages "art for art's sake."
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Pop Art (Warhol)
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What movement was the inspiration for Pop-Tarts?
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Lily
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The caretaker's daughter is:
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embarrassed
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Gabriel's conversation with the caretaker's daughter leaves him feeling:
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Mr. Malins
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Which character is feared to be intoxicated upon his arrival?
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his after-dinner speech
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What is Gabriel nervous about before the dinner?
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Molly Ivors
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Who begins an argument with Gabriel about patriotism?
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yes
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Is Gabriel's speech well received by those who hear it?
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no
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Does Gabriel quote Robert Browning during his after-dinner speech?
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standing silently
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What is Gretta doing when Gabriel spots and watches her on the stairway?
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heavy and silent
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Which combination of words would best describe Gabriel and Gretta's ride from the party to the hotel?
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Michael Furey
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Whose name is added to the storyline upon arrival at the hotel?
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cold anger
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What emotion comes over Gabriel when he first hears the name?
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caring, self-conscious, well-meaning
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What kind of person is Gabriel?
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independent, retrospective, slightly confused
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What kind of person is Gretta?
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poverty in Dublin
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Which of the following themes DOES NOT influence "The Dead"?
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