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Who painted "Self-Portrait" and is a Dutch realistic painter
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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What is a short story
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an imaginative prose narrative written to give the reader entertainment and insight
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What are characters
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the imaginary persons who carry our the action of the plot
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What is a static character
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A character that stays the same
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What is a dynamic character
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A character that changes
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Who wrote "Good Morning, Miss Dove"
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Frances Gray Patton
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Who wrote "Education, Our Own Work"
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John Todd
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Who painted the "Mona Lisa"
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Who wrote "A School of Facts" and is from Portsmouth, England
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Charles Dickens
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Who wrote "The Garden-Party"
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Kathrine Mansfield
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What is the point of view of a story
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the method of presenting the reader with the materials of the story or the perspective from which the story is told
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Who painted "Hogarth's Servants"
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William Hogarth
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Who painted "The Sacrifice of Isaac"
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Rembrandt ban Rijn
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Who wrote "A poet's Plea for Poetry"
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Edwin Markham
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Who sculpted "The Prodical Son amid the Swine"
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Albrecht Durer
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What is a ballad
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a short narrative song written in stanzas
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What is dialogue
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Conversation between characters
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Who wrote "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
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Robert Browning
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Who wrote "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"
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Edna St. Bincent Millay
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Who painted "The parable of the Blind Leading the Blind"
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Who wrote "The Highwayman"
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Alfred Noyes
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Who wrote "The Death of the Hired Man"
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Robert Frost
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Who wrote "The Deacon's Masterpiece, or the Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Who painted "Decent from the Cross"
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Peter Paul Rubens
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Who painted"The adoration of the Shepherds"
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Giorgine da Castelfranco
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What is perspective
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Drawing things as they appear rather than as they exist by creating the illusion of a three-dementional space in a two-dementional surface
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Who wrote "The Annunciation"
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Jan van Eyck
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What is texture
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the quality of a surface and appeals to the sense of touch
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What is the Plot
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the arrangement of incidents or events the sequence of related actions
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Who wrote "The Tell-Tale Heart"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Who painted "Madonna della Sedia"
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Raphael Sanzio
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Who wrote "The Raven"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Who wrote "The Red-headed League"
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Who wrote "The Inspiration of Mr. Budd"
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Dorothy L. Sayers
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Who wrote "The Skater of Ghost Lake"
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William Rose Benet
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Who wrote "The Listeners"
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Walter de la Mare
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Who wrote "The Dead Hand"
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Percival Christian Wren
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Who painted "The Campo di SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
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Bernado Belloto
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Who wrote "The Erl-King
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Who wrote "Leiningen Versus The Ants"
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Carl Stephenson
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Who painted "The Conversion of St. Paul
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Michelangelo
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Who wrote "Smells"
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Christopher Morley
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Who wrote "Meeting at Night"
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Robert Browning
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Who wrote "Platero and I
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Juan Ramon Jumenez
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Who painted "View of Toledo
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El Greco
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Who wrote "The Oak
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Alfed, Lord Tennyson
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Who wrote A Loney Pine Is Standing
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Heinrich Heine
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Who painted Wonam with a Parasol
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Claude Monet
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Who wrote I like to See it Lap the Miles
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Emily Dickinson
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Who wrote It Sifts from Leaden Sieves
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Emily Dickinson
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Who wrote The Deserted House
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Who wrote The Story Teller
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Mark Van Doren
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Who Painted Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
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Jan Vermeer
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What has meaning in itself but also represents something beyond itself
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Symbol
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Who wrote The Road Not Taken
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Robert Frost
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Who wrote Alone
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Hermann Hesse
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What is adressing an inanimate object as if it were alive or addressing an absent person as present
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apostrophe
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Who Painted Sisyphus
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Titian
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Who wrote Of the Imitation of Christ
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Thomas A. Kempis
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Who wrote After St. Augustine
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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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Who wrote The Practice of the Presence of God
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Brother Lawrence
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Who wrote Three Words of Strength
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Friedrich Von Schiller
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Who wrote Excelsior
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Who wrote The Great Stone Face
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Who wrote Deserve it!
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Author Unknown
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Who wrote Work
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Henry Van Dyke
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Who painted Saying Grace
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Jean-Babtiste Chardin
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Who wrote Quality
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John Galsworthy
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Who wrote The Elixir
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George Herbert
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Who wrote The Verger
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W. Somerset Maugham
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Who wrote My Fathers Hands
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Calvin R. Worthington
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Who wrote Pleasures of Knowledge
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Sydney Smith
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Who painted The Surrender of Breda
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Diego Velazquez
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Who wrote The Ways
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John Oxenham
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Who wrote Hinds' Feet on High Places
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Hannah Hurnard
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Who painted Peasant Wedding
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Who painted Henry IV at the Battle of Ivry
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Peter Paul Rubens
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Who wrote the Pied Piper of Hamelin
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Robert Browning
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Who Painted The Horse Fair
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Rosa Bonheur
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What is the repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry
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End Rhyme
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What is a rhyme that occurs within a line
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Internal Rhyme
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Sound simularies that aren't actual rhymes are called
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Approximate rhymes
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Who wrote Winter Ocean
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John Updike
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Who wrote God's Grandeur
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Who wrote The Bells
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Who wrote Lochinvar
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Sir Walter Scott
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Name of foot
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Iamb (meter= Iambic)
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Name of foot
m/ay b^e |
Trochee (meter=trochaic)
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Name of foot
^in t^er c/ede |
Anapest (meter=anapestic
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Name of foot
h/ap p^i l^y |
Dactyl (Dactylic)
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Name of Foot
pl/ay M/ate |
Spondee (Spondaic)
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Name of Foot
g/o |
Monosyllabic foot (monometer)
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One Foot
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Monometer
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Two feet
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Dimeter
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Three Feet
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Trimeter
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Four feet
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tetrameter
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Five Feet
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Pentameter
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Six Feet
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Hexameter
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Seven Feet
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Heptameter
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Eight Feet
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Octameter
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What is a rhyme that occurs within a line
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Internal Rhyme
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Sound simularies that aren't actual rhymes are called
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Approximate rhymes
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Who wrote Winter Ocean
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John Updike
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Who wrote God's Grandeur
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Who wrote The Bells
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Who wrote Lochinvar
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Sir Walter Scott
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Name of foot
^a w/ay |
Iamb (meter= Iambic)
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Name of foot
m/ay b^e |
Trochee (meter=trochaic)
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Name of foot
^in t^er c/ede |
Anapest (meter=anapestic
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Name of foot
h/ap p^i l^y |
Dactyl (Dactylic)
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Who wrote Upon His Departure Hence
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Robert Herrick
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Who wrote The Destruction of Sennacherib
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Who painted The Lion Hunt
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Eugene delacroix
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Who painted Child in a Straw Hat
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Mary Cassatt
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Who wrote What Men Live By
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Leo Tolstoy
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Who painted Slave Ship
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Joseph Turner
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Who wrote Boy at the Window
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Richard Wilbur
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Who wrote The Rainy Day
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Who wrote Remember
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Christina Rossetti
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Who wrote The servant
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S. T. Semyonov
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Who painted Saint George and Princess Sabra
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Dante Gavriel Rossetti
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Who wrote Sympathy
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Who painted Horse Attacked by Lion
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George Stubbs
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Who wrote The Frill
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Pearl S. Buck
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Who wrote Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
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Robert Frost
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Who wrote On the Grasshopper and Cricket
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John Keats
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Who painted Alom
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Victor Vasarely
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Who wrote Sonnet LXXIII:
That Time of Year |
William Shakespeare
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What is a fixed form of five lines with an anapestic rhythm and a rhyme scheme of aabba
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Limerick
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What is a Japanese form that is usually unrhymed and consists of three lines with five, seven, and five syllables respectively
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Haiku
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What is a five-line poem of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 syllables
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Cinquain
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Who Painted Compsition with Red, Yellow, and Blue
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Piet Mondrian
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Who wrote Takes Talent
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Don Marquis
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Who wrote I thank you God for most this amazing
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E. E. Cummings
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A simple, honest, and kindhearted weaver. After losing faith in both God and his fellow man, Silas lives for fifteen years as a solitary miser. After his money is stolen, his faith and trust are restored by his adopted daughter, Eppie, whom he lovingly raises.
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Silas Marner
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The eldest son of Squire Cass. Godfrey is good-natured but selfish and weak-willed. He knows what is right but is unwilling to pay the price for obeying his conscience.
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Godfrey Cass
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A girl whom Silas Marner eventually adopts. Eppie is the biological child of Godfrey Cass and Molly Farren, Godfrey’s secret wife. Eppie is pretty and spirited, and loves Silas unquestioningly.
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Eppie
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The object of Godfrey’s affection and his eventual wife. Nancy is pretty, caring, and stubborn, and she lives her life by a code of rules that sometimes seems arbitrary and uncompromising.
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Nancy Lammeter
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Godfrey’s younger brother. Dunsey, as he is usually called, is cruel, lazy, and unscrupulous, and he loves gambling and drinking
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Dunstan Cass
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The wealthiest man in Raveloe. The Squire is lazy, self-satisfied, and short-tempered.
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Squire Cass
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The wheelwright’s wife who helps Silas with Eppie. Dolly later becomes Eppie’s godmother and mother-in-law. She is kind, patient, and devout.
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Dolly Winthrop
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Godfrey’s secret wife and Eppie’s mother. Once pretty, Molly has been destroyed by her addictions to opium and alcohol.
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Molly Farren
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Silas’s proud and priggish best friend from his childhood in Lantern Yard. William Dane frames Silas for theft in order to bring disgrace upon him, then marries Silas’s fiancée, Sarah
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William Dane
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Raveloe’s parish clerk. Mr. Macey is opinionated and smug but means well.
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Mr. Macey
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Dolly’s son and Eppie’s eventual husband.
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Aaron Winthrop
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Nancy’s homely and plainspoken sister. Priscilla talks endlessly but is extremely competent at everything she does.
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Priscilla Lammeter
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Silas’s fiancée in Lantern Yard. Sarah is put off by Silas’s strange fit and ends up marrying William Dane after Silas is disgraced.
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Sarah
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Nancy’s and Priscilla’s father. Mr. Lammeter is a proud and morally uncompromising man.
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Mr.Lammeter
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A somewhat disreputable character and a poacher. Jem sees Silas in the midst of one of Silas’s fits. Silas later accuses Jem of stealing his gold.
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Jem Rodney
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Godfrey’s uncle and Raveloe’s doctor. Mr. Kimble is usually an animated conversationalist and joker, but becomes irritable when he plays cards. He has no medical degree and inherited the position of village physician from his father.
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Mr. Kimble
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The town farrier, who shoes horses and tends to general livestock diseases. Mr. Dowlas is a fiercely contrarian person, much taken with his own opinions.
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Mr. Dowlas
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The landlord of the Rainbow, a local tavern. By nature a conciliatory person, Mr. Snell always tries to settle arguments.
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Mr. Snell
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- An anonymous peddler who comes through Raveloe some time before the theft of Silas’s gold. The peddler is a suspect in the theft because of his gypsylike appearance—and for lack of a better candidate.
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the peddler
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A friend of both Godfrey and Dunsey. Bryce arranges to buy Wildfire, Dunsey’s horse.
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Bryce
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Sisters from a larger nearby town who come to the Squire’s New Year’s dance. The Misses Gunn are disdainful of Raveloe’s rustic ways, but are nonetheless impressed by Nancy Lammeter’s beauty.
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Ms. Gunns
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Silas’s neighbor and the wheelwright’s wife. Silas eases the pain of Sally’s heart disease and dropsy with a concoction he makes out of foxglove.
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Sally Oates
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George Elliots Real Name
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Mary Ann Evans
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Syn: sideways, distrustfully, enviously, suspiciously
Ant: straightforwardly; approvingly, trustfully |
Askance
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Syn: boggle, recoil, scruple
Ant: accelerate, quicken, urge Syn: baffle, foil, frustrate, thwart Ant: accomplish, achieve, fulfill, promote |
Balk
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Syn: crude, ignorant, ill-informed, rude, unelightened
Ant: enlightened, learned, refined, urbane, knowledgeable |
benighted
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Syn: cowardly, craven, poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant
Ant: fearless, gallant, heroic |
Dastardly
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Syn: old age, senescence, senility
Ant: adolescence, infancy, youth |
Dotage
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Syn: pilage, plunder, raid
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Foray
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Syn: forrunner, herald, precursor
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Harbinger
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Syn: limber, lissome, supple
Ant: awkward, clumsy, inflexible, stiff, tense, wooden |
Lithe
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Syn: blench, flinch, recoil, shrink, wince
Ant: confront, defy, endure, stand |
Quail
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Syn: Compunction, demur, misgiving, scruple
Ant: cerainty, confidence |
Qualm
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Syn: cast, discard as unwanted
Ant: keep, retain, use |
Slough
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Syn: Accord, award, concede, deign
Ant: Deny, gainsay, refuse, scorn, withhold |
Vouchsafe
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