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72 Cards in this Set
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first popular Victorian novelist
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Dickens
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physical background of a work
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setting
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John Milton wrote
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Paradise Lost
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"The paths of glory lead but to the grave"
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Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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an earlier popular ballad
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Bonnie Barbara Allen
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the first anglo-saxon literature
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poetry
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the founder of English literature
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Venerable Bede
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two lines rhyming together
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couplet
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wrote Amazing Grace
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Newton
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wrote Hamlet
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Shakespeare
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wrote the Cantebury Tales
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Geoffery Chaucer
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ridicule of human folly
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satire
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a teaching by Karl Marx
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neo-orthodoxy
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Faerie Queen was written by
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Spencer
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wrote the Book of Martyrs
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Foxe
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John Bunyan wrote
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Pilgrim's Progress
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the Pearl Poet wrote
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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the invisible man was written by who, and belonged to what series
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Chesterton
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Moore wrote
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Utopia
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Bunyan wrote
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Pilgrim's Progress
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Swift wrote
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Gulliver's Travels
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classic love song
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pastoral
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book published by Wordsworth and Coeleridge
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Lyrical Ballads
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wrote My Utmost, and Glorious of a Morning Sky
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Chambers
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a fourteen lined poet
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sonnet
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"beauty is true,
true beauty" |
Keats, Ode on A Graecian Urn
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a play that ends happily
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comedy
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England's first poet-lauriat
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Johnson
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works were shaped by an overpowering idea
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Keats
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"Tis better to loved and lost than to never have loved at all"
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Tennyson, In Memoriam
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God seen as nature
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pantheism
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Pride and Prejudice
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written by Jane Austen
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"Tiger, Tiger burning bright"
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Blake, Tiger
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greatest epic in English literature
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Paradise Lost
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English national epic
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Beowulf
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first essayist in English literature
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Bacon
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speech by one character alone
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soliliquy
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apostle to the skeptics
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Lewis
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Conrad wrote
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Heart of Darkness
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characterized a great mark of modern fiction
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secularism
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struggle between forces
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conflict
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Yeats wrote what
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Second Coming
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Joyce is known for his
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stream of conciousness
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the Deserted Vilage is written by
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Goldsmith
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most influential economist
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John Keynes
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Daniel Defoe wrote
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Robinson Crusoe
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Richardson wrote
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Pamela
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"Shall i compare thee to a summer day"
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Shakespeare, Sonnet 43
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didn't speak english until he was 21
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Conrad
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first developed in North America
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short story
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native of Poland
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John Conrad
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during the first world war he stationed troops in Africa
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Chambers
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First English poet
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Caedmon
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greatest master of languages since Milton
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Joyce
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the main character is known as
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protagonist
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first person described in the prologueof Cantebury Tales
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Knight
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expressed almost entirely throughout poetry
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Romanticism
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the anglo-saxon poets were called
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Scops
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a satire on communism
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Animal Farm
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calls his novels fables
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Golding
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"If winter comes can spring be far behind"
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Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
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wrote Hidden Years of Nazareth
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Morgan
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Spurgeon wrote
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Treasury of David
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central idea of a work
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theme
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reached its highest peak in the Elizabethan period
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drama
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"Water, water everywhere nor a drop to drink"
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Coelridge, The Rim of Ancient Modern
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an anglo-saxon metaphor
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kenning
example is whale road |
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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blank verse
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the poet of nature
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Wordsworth
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type of Elizabethan song
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Madriol
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the Prince of Preachers was
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Charles Spurgeon
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Scotland's greatest poet
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Burns
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