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Emma and Auden Flashcards

Handsome, Clever and Rich

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“Auden uses _ to attract attention” - John Blair

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Imperatives

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“Trash is the inevitable result whenever a person tries to do for himself by _ what can only be done by study or prayer” - Auden

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Writing poetry

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“The Enemy was and still is the _” - Unpublished book, 1939

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Politician

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“People _ in order to be read” - Outline for Boys and Girls and their Parents

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Write

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“The only reason for doing anything is for _” - Auden’s Journal

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Fun

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“Auden, who followed Dante in believing that the deepest human motive is creative _” - Boly

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Joy

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“The need to find an acceptable expression for his _ was the first technical obstacle” - Clive James

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Homosexuality

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“The natural world is for Auden a place of _” - Marchetti

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Unfreedom

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Ward is derived from keep safe/guard and surgery is derived from _

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Done by hand

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Auden set sail for New York in _

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1939

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Auden became religious from _

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1944

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WWII was from _

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1939 - 1945

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Throughout which period was the Spanish Civil War?

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1936 - 1939

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“_ is the subject in which we deceive ourselves the most” - Auden

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Love

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Structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among beings of the same species - Jung

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Collective Unconscious

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Auden considers himself to be an “_” of society, not a “prophet”

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Interpreter

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17
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“Poetry makes nothing _” - Auden

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Happen

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Rebecca Price Parkin suggests the tone of In Praise of Limestone can be summarised into “intimacy, humility, and _”

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Tenderness

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In In Praise of Limestone there is a “relaxed but intimate and knowing contact with _.” - Rebecca Price Parkin

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Reality

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In Praise of Limestone “presents to us a _, which corresponds to, certain moral qualities of human behavior” - Anthony Hecht

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Climate

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Up There has less sestets than Down There and is catalectic (metrically incomplete) as it commonly only has _ syllables per line

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11

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  1. “Now a schooner on which a lonely only//Boy sails North or approaches _” - Up There (1963)
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Coral islands

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  1. “All it knows of a changing world it has to guess from _” - Up There (1963)
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Children

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  1. “A starving spider spins for the occasional fly: No _ recalls it” - Up There (1963)
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Clock

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  1. “Can’t _ now what they couldn’t bear to part with” - Up There (1963)
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Name

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  1. “Only _ cling to items out of their past they have no use for” - Up There (1963)
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Women

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  1. “Men would never have come to need _” - Up There (1963)
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An attic

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Down There mainly uses _ syllable lines and is formed into orderly sestets

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12

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  1. “A cellar never takes umbrage; it takes us as we are, explorers, _” - Down There (1963)
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Homebodies

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  1. “The rooms we talk and work in always look _” - Down There (1963)
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Injured

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  1. “A father sends the younger boys to fetch something for _ from down there” - Down There (1963)
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Mother

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  1. “Its flag-stoned vault is not for _” - Down There (1963)
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Girls

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  1. “Where light and heat can never spoil what sun _” - Down There (1963)
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Ripened

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  1. “We dine at _” - Down There (1963)
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Street-level

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  1. “A hold by occupation made to smell _” - Down There (1963)
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Human

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  1. “Caves water-scooped from _ were our first dwellings” - Down There (1963)
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Limestone

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  1. “Dear water, clear water, _ in all your streams” - Streams (1953)
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Playful

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  1. “If I were a plainsman I should _ us all” - Plains
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Hate

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  1. “A potter’s cuff, a gravel that as concrete//Will _ any space which it encloses” - Plains
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Unsex

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  1. “A culture is not better than its _” - Woods (1952)
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Woods

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  1. “The trees encountered on a country stroll//Reveal a lot about a country’s _” - Woods (1952)
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Soul

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  1. “A fruit in vigor or a dying leaf, utters its private _ for descent” - Woods (1952)
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Idiom

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  1. “Cuckoos mock in Welsh, and doves create//In rustic _” - Woods (1952)
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English

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  1. “Nor thought the lightning-kindled bush to tame, but, flabbergasted, fled the _” - Woods (1952)
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Useful flame

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  1. “Sylvan meant savage in those _ woods” - Woods (1952)
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Primal

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  1. “A _ hurries to inspect his rain-gauge” - Winds (1953)
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Paterfamilias

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  1. “When I seek an image//For our _ city” - Winds (1953)
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Authentic

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  1. “Winds make weather;weather//Is what _ people are//Nasty about” - Winds (1953)
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Nasty

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  1. “That _ Friday when [..] One bubble brained creature said I am loved therefore I am” - Winds (1953)
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Pliocene

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  1. “But the _ winds that blow//Round law-court and temple” - Winds (1953)
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Boneless

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There is no regular rhyme scheme In In Praise of Limestone, which mirrors the irregularity of the _

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Limestone landscape

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In In Praise of Limestone midway through the poem it shifts from addressing humanity to directing it to a _

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Single person

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  1. “When I try to imagine a faultless love […] What I see is the _ landscape” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
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Limestone

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  1. “The oceanic whisper://I am the solitude that asks and ; that is how I shall set you free” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
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Promises nothing

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  1. “On our plains there is room for armies to drill; rivers//Wait to be _ “ - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
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Tamed

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  1. “Come! purred the clays and _” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
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Gravels

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  1. “How evasive is your humour, how accidental//Your kindest kiss, how permanent is _” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
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Death

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  1. “Born lucky//Their legs have never encountered the fungi//And _ of the jungle” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
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Insects

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  1. “Their eyes have never looked into _ space” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
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Infinite

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  1. “Examine this region//Of short distances and _ places” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
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Definite

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  1. “A secret system of caves and _” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
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Conduits

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  1. “The one landscape that we, _,//Are consistently homesick for” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
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The inconstant ones

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In praise of limestone is about “the beauty of mutable, imperfect _ nature,” - James Persoon

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Human

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In Law Like Love there is no formal scheme or meter however there are perfect rhymes, showing that even non static law can _

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Be understood

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  1. “Like love we often weep,//Like love we seldom _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
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Keep

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  1. “Like love we don’t know where or why,//Like love we can’t compel or _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
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Fly

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  1. “thinking it absurd//To identify Law with some other _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
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Word

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  1. “Law is _,//And always the soft idiot softly Me” - Law, Like Love (1939)
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We

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  1. “Others say, Law is our Fate;//Others say, Law is our _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
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State

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  1. “Law is neither wrong nor right,//Law is only _//Punished by places and by times” - Law, Like Love (1939)
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Crimes

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  1. “Law is _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
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The Law

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  1. “Law is the sense of the _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
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Young

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  1. “Law is the _ of the old” - Law, Like Love (1939)
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Wisdom

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  1. “Law, say the _, is the sun” - Law, Like Love (1939)
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Gardeners

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A yew is a tree which symbolises _

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Death

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In Refugee Blues the rhyme scheme is _ focussing on constant refrain and rhythmic blues

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AAB

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  1. “Dreamed I saw _ with a thousand floors//A thousand windows and a thousand doors” - Refugee Blues (1939)
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A building

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  1. “Saw the _ in the trees;//They had no politicians and sang at their ease” - Refugee Blues (1939)
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Birds

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  1. “Saw fish swimming as if _,//Only ten feet away, my dear, only ten feet away” - Refugee Blues (1939)
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They were free

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  1. “Went down to the harbour and stood upon the _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
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Quay

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  1. “If we let them in, they will steal our daily _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
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Bread

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  1. “But we are still _, my dear, but we are still _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
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Alive

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  1. “If you’ve got no passport you’re officially _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
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Dead

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  1. “In the village churchyard there grows an old _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
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Yew

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  1. “Yet there’s no place for us, my _, yet there’s no place for us” - Refugee Blues (1939)
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Dear

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  1. “Some are living in mansions, some are living in _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
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Holes

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As I Walked Out One Evening is in _ form, however not syllabically, rather Auden sticks to three stressed syllables per line

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Ballad

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  1. “The clocks had ceased their _, And the deep river ran on” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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Chiming

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  1. “And Time will have his _//To-morrow or to-day” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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Fancy

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  1. “Time watches from the shadow//And coughs when you would _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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Kiss

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  1. “‘O let not Time deceive you,//You cannot _ Time” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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Conquer

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  1. “But all the clocks in the city//Began to whirr and _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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Chime

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  1. “The years shall run like _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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Rabbits

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  1. “I’ll love you till the _//Is folded and hung up to dry” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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Ocean

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  1. “I’ll love you//Till China and _ meet” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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Africa

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  1. “Under an arch of the railway: ‘Love has no _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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Ending

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  1. “And down by the _//I heard a lover sing” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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Brimming river

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  1. “The crowds upon the pavement//Were fields of harvest _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
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Wheat

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The second part of Musee des Beaux arts is in _ form

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Octave

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Auden starts Musee des Beaux Arts with regular _, however this soon drifts between longer and shorter lines

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Pentameter

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  1. “And the expensive delicate ship […] had somewhere to get to and _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
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Sailed calmly on

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  1. “The white legs disappearing into the green _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
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Water

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  1. “The sun shone//As _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
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It had to

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  1. “But for him it was not an important _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
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Failure

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  1. “The ploughman may//Have heard the splash, the _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
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Forsaken cry

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  1. “In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away//Quite leisurely from _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
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The Disaster

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  1. “Even the dreadful _ must run its course” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
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Martyrdom

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  1. “The aged are reverently, passionately waiting//For the _ birth” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
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Miraculous

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  1. “While someone else is _ or opening a window or just walking dully along” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
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Eating

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  1. “About suffering they were never wrong, The Old _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
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Masters

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In A Dream every line is perfectly how many syllables long?

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6

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112
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A Dream uses a half rhyme scheme throughout the three stanzas of what?

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ABCDDCA

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  1. “And I, _, felt//Unwanted and went out” - A Dream (1936)
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Submissive

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  1. “That you then […] confessed another _” - A Dream (1936)
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Love

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115
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  1. “What hidden worm of guilt//Or what _//Am I the victim of” - A Dream (1936)
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Malignant doubt

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116
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  1. “Indifferent to those//Who sat with hostile _” - A Dream (1936)
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Eyes

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117
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  1. “Our whisper woke no _” - A Dream (1936)
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Clocks

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118
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  1. “Were beds, and we in one//In a _ lay” - A Dream (1936)
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Fare corner

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119
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  1. “Though the _ is gone,//Its dream still haunts to-day” - A Dream (1936)
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Night

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120
Q

In The Quarry the quatrains, regular ABAB rhymes, four beats and _ create a sense of drumming

A

Tetrameter

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121
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The Quarry is written in traditional _ form, invoking an atmosphere of impending war

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Ballad

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122
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In The Quarry the question and answer could be switched between both a man and a _, changing the meaning

A

Man

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123
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  1. “Their _ are heavy on the floor//And their eyes are burning” - The Quarry (1934)
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Boots

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124
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  1. “No I promised to love you, dear,//But I must be _” - The Quarry (1934)
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Leaving

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125
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  1. “Stay with me here!//Were the _ you swore deceiving, deceiving?” - The Quarry (1934)
A

Vows

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126
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  1. “They have passed the farmyard already, dear//And now they are _” - The Quarry (1934)
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Running

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127
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  1. “Why, they are none of them wounded, dear,//None of the _” - The Quarry (1934)
A

Forces

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128
Q
  1. “Perhaps a change in their orders, dear. Why are you _?” - The Quarry (1934)
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Knelling

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129
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  1. “Only their usual manoeuvres, dear,//Or perhaps a _” - The Quarry (1934)
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Warning

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130
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  1. “O what is that light I see _ so clear” - The Quarry (1934)
A

Flashing

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131
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  1. “Only the scarlet soldiers, dear,//The _” - The Quarry (1934)
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Soldiers coming

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132
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  1. “O what is that _ which so thrills the ear” - The Quarry (1934)
A

Sound

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133
Q

Auden’s rhyme scheme in Lullaby is mostly using _ rhymes, contrasting hugely with the largely regular meter

A

Slant

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134
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In Lullaby Auden mainly uses _ tetrameter to mimic the soothing sound and rhythm sued in Children’s songs

A

Trochaic

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135
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  1. “Nights of _ let you pass” - Lullaby (1937)
A

Insult

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136
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  1. “Noons of _ see you fed” - Lullaby (1937)
A

Dryness

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137
Q
  1. “Find the _ enough” - Lullaby (1937)
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Mortal

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138
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  1. “Beauty, _, vision dies” - Lullaby (1937)
A

Midnight

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139
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  1. “Among the glaciers and the rocks//The hermit’s _ ecstasy” - Lullaby (1937)
A

Carnal

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140
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  1. “Soul and _ have no bounds” - Lullaby (1937)
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Body

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141
Q
  1. “Let the living _ lie,//Mortal, guilty but to me//The entirely beautiful” - Lullaby (1937)
A

Creature

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142
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  1. “the grave//Proves the child _” - Lullaby (1937)
A

Ephemeral

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143
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  1. “Time and _ burn away//Individual beauty” - Lullaby (1937)
A

Fevers

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144
Q
  1. “Lay your sleeping head, my love,//Human on my _” - Lullaby (1937)
A

Faithless arm

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145
Q

Surgical Ward is a _, the octave conforms however the sestet doesn’t; there is no volta, no rhyme and non-uniform meter

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Sonnet

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146
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  1. “Only _ is shared//and anger, and the idea of love” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
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Happiness

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147
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  1. “And cannot//imagine _” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
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Isolation

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148
Q
  1. “And believe//In the common world of the _” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
A

Uninjured

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149
Q
  1. “Even a scratch we can’t recall when _” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
A

Cured

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150
Q
  1. “His knowledge of the world is restricted to//the treatment that the _ are giving” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
A

Instruments

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151
Q
  1. “They are and _; that is all they do” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
A

Suffer

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152
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In This Lunar Beauty Auden primarily uses _ (a metrical opposite to iambic) and juxtaposes strong rhymes with slant ones

A

Trochees

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153
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In This Lunar Beauty the _ could signify rising,prominence,setting and birth,life,death

A

Three part structure

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154
Q
  1. “Love shall not near//_//Nor sorrow take//His endless look” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
A

The sweetness here

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155
Q
  1. “But this was never//A _ endeavour” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
A

Ghost’s

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156
Q
  1. “For time is _//And the heart’s changes//Where ghost has haunted” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
A

Inches

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157
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  1. “And _ is//The loss of this” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
A

Daytime

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158
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  1. “This like a _//Keeps other time” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
A

Dream

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159
Q
  1. “This lunar beauty//Has no _//Is complete and early” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
A

History

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160
Q

The rhyme scheme in Roman Wall Blues draws upon the simplicity of rhyming _

A

Couplets

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161
Q

The purpose of Hadrian’s Wall was to keep an intact _ empire

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Roman

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162
Q

Who is the speaker in Roman Wall Blues?

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A soldier on Hadrian’s Wall

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163
Q
  1. “When I’m a _ with only one eye//I shall do nothing but look at the sky” - Roman Wall Blues
A

Veteran

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164
Q
  1. “She gave me a ring but I _ it away;//I want my girl and I want my pay” - Roman Wall Blues
A

Diced

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165
Q
  1. “Piso’s a _, he worships a fish” - Roman Wall Blues
A

Christian

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166
Q
  1. “The _ creeps over the hard grey stone” - Roman Wall Blues
A

Mist

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167
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  1. “I’m a _ soldier, I don’t know why” - Roman Wall Blues
A

Wall

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168
Q

Roman Wall Blues was aired as a radio play under the name Hadrian’s Wall in _

A

1937

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169
Q
  1. “Over the heather the wet wind blows,//I’ve lice in my tunic and a cold in my _” - Roman Wall Blues
A

Nose

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170
Q

Post 1932 Auden could make connections between “individual guilts and pleasures and the crisis that was eating away at _” - Hamilton

A

European Civilization

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171
Q

How many syllables does Auden strictly use in the second stanza of The Letter (1928)?

A

8

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172
Q

How many syllables does Auden strictly use in the first stanza of The Letter (1928)?

A

9

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173
Q
  1. “I, decent with the _, move//Different or with a different love” - The Letter (1928)
A

Season

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174
Q
  1. “If love not seldom has received//An unjust answer, was _” - The Letter (1928)
A

Deceived

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175
Q
  1. “Your _ comes, speaking as you,//Speaking of much, but not to come” - The Letter (1928)
A

Letter

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176
Q
  1. “Thought warmed to _ through and through” - The Letter (1928)
A

Evening

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177
Q
  1. “Shall see, shall pass, as we have _” - The Letter (1928)
A

Seen

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178
Q
  1. “Love’s worn _ re-begun” - The Letter (1928)
A

Circuit

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179
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  1. “Cry out against the storm, and found//The year’s _ a completed round” - The Letter (1928)
A

Arc

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180
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  1. “From the very first coming down//Into a new _ with a frown” - The Letter (1928)
A

Valley

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181
Q

The Unknown Citizen uses mostly _ as a meter

A

Anapest

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182
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The Unknown Citizen has rhyme schemes, however they are irregular and _

A

Interwoven

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183
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During the late 1930s while other poets to be shifting to _ verse, Auden sticks with rhyme

A

Unrhymed

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184
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Who is the narrator in The Unknown Citizen?

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Government bureaucrat

185
Q
  1. “Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have _” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
A

Heard

186
Q
  1. “Was he free? Was he _? The question is absurd” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
A

Happy

187
Q
  1. “When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was _, he went” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
A

War

188
Q
  1. “He held the proper opinions for the _” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
A

Time of Year

189
Q
  1. “He was fully sensible to the advantages of the _//And had everything necessary to the Modern Man” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
A

Installment Plan

190
Q
  1. “His reactions to advertisements were _ in every way” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
A

Normal

191
Q

A person who stops a strike early by going back to work

A

A scab

192
Q
  1. “Yet he wasn’t a scab or odd in his _” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
A

Views

193
Q
  1. “He was a saint,//For in everything he did he served the _” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
A

Greater Community

194
Q
  1. “He was found by the _ to be//One against whom there was no official complaint” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
A

Bureau of Statistics

195
Q
  1. “To _/07 M 378 This Marble Monument is Erected by the State” (epigraph) - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
A

JS

196
Q

“Emma’s perfection is limited only by her _” - Stuart Tave

A

Imagination

197
Q

Frank Churchill’s masculinity is “dandified and _” - Darryl Jones

A

Continental

198
Q

“The false world of _ becomes the instrument for illustrating the “real” world of the novel” - Edward White

A

Literature

199
Q

Austen’s father was both a teacher and a _

A

Farmer

200
Q

Define - Marriage Market

A

The scope of young females looking for husbands and suitors looking for wives

201
Q

“_ doesn’t add lovers to the list” - Austen

A

Knowledge

202
Q

What form is The Three Sisters written in?

A

Epistolary

203
Q

“I am the happiest creature in _, for I have received an offer of marriage from Mr. Watts” - Mary Stanhope (The Three Sisters)

A

The World

204
Q

“Marriage is legal _” - Mary Wollstonecraft (1790)

A

Prostitution

205
Q

Bath is described as “All vapor, shadows, _ and confusion”

A

Smoke

206
Q

Jane Austen would not marry _ for fear of marrying for the wrong reasons

A

Harris

207
Q

Emma was published in 1815 and dedicated to the _

A

Prince Reagent

208
Q

“It lacked incident and _” - John Murray

A

Romance

209
Q

“There was no _ in it” - Maria Edgeworth (Author of Belinda)

A

Story

210
Q

“One is not _ a woman, but rather becomes a woman” - Simone de Beavouir

A

Born

211
Q

“A man attaches himself to a _ - not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself” - Simone de Beavouir

A

Woman

212
Q

“Gender reality is _ which means, quite simply, that it is real only to the extent that it is performed” - Judith Butler

A

Performative

213
Q

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of _” - Charlotte Lucas (Pride and Prejudice)

A

Chance

214
Q

“All _ works… are “rewritten”, if only unconsciously, by the societies which read them” - Terry Eagleton

A

Literary

215
Q

Austen crafts an “Interior _” for Emma - Kathryn Sutherland

A

Space

216
Q

Elizabeth Bennett is drawn to the idea of marrying Mr. Darcy after she sees his comfortable home, _

A

Pemberley

217
Q

“nothing is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without _” - Jane Austen to Fanny Knight (1814)

A

Affection

218
Q

“Is there one among the _, who would not protest against such a weakness as a second proposal to the same woman?” {Bennett}

A

Sex

219
Q

“Her {Bennett’s} heart did _ that he {Mr Darcy} had done it for her {Lydia}” - Pride and Prejudice

A

Whisper

220
Q

“Emma’s idée fixe, _, is her only fixation” - Bruce Stovel (Article on The New Emma)

A

Love

221
Q

“Emma had never known how much of her happiness depended on being first with Mr Knightley, first in _ and affection”

A

Interest

222
Q

Austen has an “intense moral _” - FR Leavis

A

Preoccupation

223
Q

“The first _ deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden” - Phaedrus

A

Appearance

224
Q

After Mr Knightley confronts her Emma is awoken from her “supreme _ and serene delusion” - Andrew Wright

A

Self-confidence

225
Q

Emma is a heroine “whom no-one but myself will much _” - Jane Austen

A

Like

226
Q

“Emma may have been called Pride and _” - Mark Schorer

A

Perception

227
Q

How much could a gentleman in government or trade be expected to earn annually in the 19th century?

A

£52 - £134

228
Q

How much could an agricultural labourer be expected to earn annually in the 19th century?

A

£30

229
Q

How much roughly did a pianoforte cost in Jane Austen’s period?

A

£35

230
Q

Define - Savoir Faire

A

The ability to act or speak appropriately in social situations

231
Q

“Emma begins the novel confident that she knows who are the _ and the best in Highbury” - John Mullan

A

Chosen

232
Q

“The wishes, the hopes, the confidence […] were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the _”

A

Union

233
Q

“Their {Harriet and Emma’s} friendship must change into a calmer sort of _”

A

Goodwill

234
Q

“The stain of _, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed”

A

Illegitimacy

235
Q

“Such was the blood of _ which Emma had formerly been so ready to vouch for!”

A

Gentility

236
Q

“She {Emma} had never been more sensible of Mr Knightley’s high _”

A

Superiority of character

237
Q

“I {Emma} hope so - for at that time {Discussing Martin and Harriet match before} I was _”

A

A fool

238
Q

“I {Emma} always deserve the _, because I never put up with any other; and. therefore, you must give me a plain, direct answer”

A

Best treatment

239
Q

“These matters are always a _ till it is found out that everybody knows them” {Mr Weston}

A

Secret

240
Q

“I do not say when, but perhaps you may guess where - in the building which N. takes M. for better, for _” {Emma}

A

Worse

241
Q

“By dint of fancying so many errors, have been in love with you {Emma} ever since you were _ at least” {Mr Knightley}

A

Thirteen

242
Q

“I {Emma} know what my manners were to you {Jane}. So _! I had always a part to act. It was a life of deceit!”

A

Cold and artificial

243
Q

“She {Harriet} would be a _ in every way”

A

Loser

244
Q

“She {Emma} felt that in quitting Donwell, he {Mr Knightley} must be sacrificing a great deal of independence of _”

A

Hours and habits

245
Q

“While he {Mr Woodhouse} lived, it must be only _”

A

An engagement

246
Q

“Poor _ little suspected what was plotting against him in the breast of that man whom he was so cordially welcoming”

A

Mr Woodhouse

247
Q

“Faultless in spite of all her {Emma’s} _”

A

Faults

248
Q

“My {Mr Knightley’s} dearest _ […] for dearest you will always be, whether the even of this hour’s conversation”

A

Emma

249
Q

“A man would always wish to give a woman a better _ than the one he takes her from” {Mr Knightley}

A

Home

250
Q

“How was it {Everyone moving away} to be _?”

A

Endured

251
Q

“If to these losses the loss of Donwell were to be added, what would remain of cheerful or of _ within their {Woodhouse’s} reach?”

A

Rational society

252
Q

“_ would not do for her {Emma}. It would be incompatible with what she owed to her father”

A

Marriage

253
Q

“Oh! Had she {Emma} never brought _ forward! Had she left her where she ought […] None of this dreadful sequel would have been”

A

Harriet

254
Q

“Such an elevation on her side! Such _ on his!”

A

A debasement

255
Q

“To understand, thoroughly understand her {Emma’s} own _, was the first endeavour”

A

Heart

256
Q

“I {Harriet} hope I know better now than to care for _, or to be suspected of it”

A

Mr Martin

257
Q

“How inconsiderate, how indelicate, how irrational, how _, had been her {Emma’s} conduct”

A

Unfeeling

258
Q

“It darted through her {Emma} with the speed of an arrow that _ must marry no one but herself!”

A

Mr Knightley

259
Q

“_ Harriet”

A

Poor

260
Q

“Emma thought first of herself, and then of _” {Frank’s attachment announcement}

A

Harriet

261
Q

“The world is not theirs, nor the world’s _” {Emma}

A

Law

262
Q

“She {Emma} wanted to be of use to her {Jane}; wanted to show a value for her _”

A

Society

263
Q

“He took her {Emma’s} hand, and certainly was on the point of carrying it to his lips, when, from some _, he suddenly let it go”

A

Fancy or other

264
Q

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete _ belong to any human disclosure”

A

Truth

265
Q

“Emma was obliged to think of the _; and the remembrance of all her former fanciful and unfair conjectures”

A

Pianoforte

266
Q

“She {Emma} sat musing on the difference of woman’s _”

A

Destiny

267
Q

“It was a morning more completely misspent, more totally bare of _ at the time”

A

Rational satisfaction

268
Q

“And how suffer him {Mr Knightley} to leave her {Emma} without saying one word of gratitude, of concurrence, or _”

A

Common kindness

269
Q

“Never had she {Emma} felt so agitated, mortified, grieved […] how could she have been so brutal, so cruel to _!”

A

Miss Bates

270
Q

“Emma recollected, _, was sorry, but tried to laugh it off”

A

Blushed

271
Q

“Find somebody for me. I am in no hurry. Adopt her; educate her” {Frank} “And make her like _” {Emma}

A

Myself

272
Q

“How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and _ it all the rest of his life!” {Frank}

A

Rued

273
Q

“A slight _ showed that it could pain her {Miss Bates}”

A

Blush

274
Q

“Emma could not resist” “Pardon me, but you will be limited as to _” {Emma to Miss Bates}

A

Number

275
Q

“He {Frank} said nothing worth hearing - _ - admired without intelligence - listened without knowing”

A

Looked without seeing

276
Q

“I {Frank} want a change […] I am sick of England, and would leave it tomorrow if i could” {Frank} “You are sick of _” {Emma}

A

Prosperity and Indulgence

277
Q

Involving or happening between two people in private

A

Tete-a-tete

278
Q

“Mr Knightley and Harriet! It was an odd tete-a-tete; but she {Emma} was _ to see it”

A

Glad

279
Q

“I {Emma} am delighted to find that you {Mr Knightley} can vouchsafe to let your _ wander”

A

Imagination

280
Q

“I {Mr Knightley} have lately imagined that I saw _ of attachment between them {Jane and Frank}”

A

Symptoms

281
Q

“These letters were but the vehicle for _. It was a child’s play, chosen to conceal a deeper game on Frank Churchill’s part”

A

Gallantry and trick

282
Q

“Emma, you are a great _” {Mr Weston}

A

Dreamer

283
Q

“I {Frank} am a great _. I dream of everybody at Highbury”

A

Dreamer

284
Q

“He {Mr Knightley} might wish to escape any of Emma’s errors of _”

A

Imagination

285
Q

“There were symptoms of intelligence between them {Jane and Frank} - he {Mr Knightley} thought so at least - _”

A

Symptoms of admiration

286
Q

Mr Knightley is “So superior to _” {Harriet}

A

Mr Elton

287
Q

“When I {Harriet} saw him {Mr Knightley} coming - his noble look […] from perfect _ to perfect happiness”

A

Misery

288
Q

“I {Harriet} shall never _”

A

Marry

289
Q

“Now I {Harriet} will _; and it is my particular wish to do it in your {Emma} presence, that you may see how rational I am grown”

A

Destroy it all

290
Q

“How much more must _, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight?”

A

An imaginist

291
Q

“The _ was over, and Emma could harbour little fear of the pulse {Harriet’s} being quickened again by injurious courtesy”

A

Fever

292
Q

“We {Mr Knightley and Emma} are not really so much _ as to make it at all improper”

A

Brother and sister

293
Q

“Not your {Emma’s} vain spirit, but your _. If one leads you wrong, I {Mr Knightley} am sure the other tells you of it”

A

Serious spirit

294
Q

“Mr Knightley leading _ to the set! Never had she {Emma} been more surprised seldom more delighted, than at that instant”

A

Harriet

295
Q

“There was not one among the whole row of _ who could be compared with him {Mr Knightley}”

A

Young men

296
Q

“Mrs Elton must be asked to begin the _ […] which interfered with all their wishes of giving Emma that distinction”

A

Ball

297
Q

“She {Emma} had no doubt as to his {Frank} being less _”

A

In love

298
Q

“If a separation of two months should not have _ him {Frank}, there were dangers and evils before her {Emma}”

A

Cooled

299
Q

“Mr Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs Elton’s beginning to _”

A

Talk to him

300
Q

“She {Mrs Weston} thinks nobody _ to him {Frank}”

A

Equal

301
Q

“I {Mrs Elton} feel very thankful that I have so many (resources) myself as to be quite independent of _”

A

Society

302
Q

“I {Mr Knightley} do not admire it. It is too small - wants strength. It is like a woman’s _ {Frank’s writing}”

A

Writing

303
Q

“_ are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse” {John Knightley}

A

Letters

304
Q

“Emma could not but rejoice to hear that she {Jane} had a _”

A

Fault

305
Q

“The extent of your {Mr Knightley’s} _ may take you by surprise some day or other” {Emma}

A

Admiration

306
Q

“_ Jane Fairfax” {Emma}

A

Poor

307
Q

“My {Emma’s} resolution is taken as to noticing _. I shall have her very often at my house, shall introduce her wherever I can”

A

Jane Fairfax

308
Q

Mrs. Elton is “Self-important, presuming, familiar, ignorant and _”

A

Ill-Bred

309
Q

“Knightly! [,,,] {Frank is}Always the first person to be thought of! Frank Churchill comes as regularly into my _”

A

Mind

310
Q

“It would be a charming introduction for you {Emma to visit bath}, who have lived so _ a life”

A

Secluded

311
Q

“Her {Mrs Elton’s} society would certainly do Mr Elton no good. _ would have been a better match”

A

Harriet

312
Q

“Mrs Elton was a vain woman, extremely well satisfied with herself, and thinking much of her own _”

A

Importance

313
Q

“I {Emma} mention no names; but _ the man who changes Emma for Harriet”

A

Happy

314
Q

“Harriet is my {Emma’s} superior in all the _ and all the felicity it gives”

A

Charm

315
Q

“The _ little friend - suggested to her {Emma} the idea of Harriet’s succeeding her in his {Frank’s} affections”

A

Beautiful

316
Q

“He {Frank} is undoubtedly very much in love - everything _ it” {Emma}

A

Denotes

317
Q

“Emma continued to entertain no doubt of her being _”

A

In love

318
Q

“This feeling of everything’s being dull and _ about the house! I must be in love” {Emma}

A

Insipid

319
Q

“To complete every other recommendation, he {Frank} had almost told her {Emma} that he _”

A

Loved her

320
Q

“He {Frank} was more in love with her than _ had supposed”

A

Emma

321
Q

“The loss of the _ - the loss of the young man - and all that the young man might be feeling!”

A

Ball

322
Q

“Women will have their little nonsenses and _” {Gentlemen probably thought}

A

Needless cares

323
Q

“Men never know when things are _ or not” {Ladies probably thought}

A

Dirty

324
Q

“The party did not break up without Emma’s being positively secured for the _ by the hero of the evening”

A

Two first dances

325
Q

“When she {Emma} saw that […] there had been a smile of secret delight, she had less scruple in the _”

A

Amusement

326
Q

“Emma wished he {Frank} would be less _”

A

Pointed

327
Q

“True _ only could have promoted it {Sending the Piano}” {Frank}

A

Affection

328
Q

“The _ themselves are the very finest sort for baking […] some of Mr Knightley’s most liberal supply”

A

Apples

329
Q

“Don’t class us together, Harriet. My {Emma’s} _ is no more like hers {Jane’s} than a lamp is like sunshine”

A

Playing

330
Q

“Perfect _, even in memory, is not common”

A

Happiness

331
Q

“Emma would then resign her place to Miss Fairfax whose _ […] was infinitely superior to her own”

A

Performance

332
Q

“She {Emma} knew the limitation of her own _ too well to attempt more than she could perform with credit”

A

Powers

333
Q

“He {Mr Knightley} is as happy as possible by himself […] He has no occasion to marry, either to fill up his _ or his heart”

A

Time

334
Q

“He {Frank} had found them {Knightley, Cox and Cole} in general a set of _, sensible men”

A

Gentlemanlike

335
Q

“Emma divined what everybody present must be thinking. She was his {Frank’s} _, and everybody must perceive it”

A

Object

336
Q

“I {Emma} am perfectly convinced myself that Mr Dixon is a principal in the _”

A

Business

337
Q

“A water party; and by some accident she {Jane} was _. He {Mr Dixon} caught her”

A

Falling overboard

338
Q

“She {Emma} felt that she should like to have had the _ {of Cole’s invitation}”

A

Power of refusal

339
Q

“Hum! Just the trifling, _ I took him {Frank} for” {Mr Knightley}

A

Silly fellow

340
Q

“There was nothing to denote him {Frank} unworthy of the distinguished honour which her {Emma’s} _ had given him”

A

Imagination

341
Q

Cutting his {Frank’s} hair in London “Did not accord with the rationality of plan, the _, or even the unselfish warmth of heart”

A

Moderation in expense

342
Q

“Emma’s very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the following day by hearing that he was gone off to London _”

A

To have his hair cut

343
Q

“Emma in her own mind determined that […] he showed a very amiable inclination to settle early in life, and to marry from _”

A

Worthy motives

344
Q

“_ between Miss Fairfax and me {Frank} is quite out of the questions”

A

Intimacy

345
Q

“There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a _” {Emma}

A

Reserved person

346
Q

“Emma watched, and decided that […] Mr Knightley certainly had not done him {Frank} _”

A

Justice

347
Q

“She {Emma} had no doubt of what Mr Weston was often _ {Her and Frank}”

A

Thinking about

348
Q

Emma wondered whether the suspicion of their pairing “Which had taken strong _ of her mind, had ever crossed his”

A

Possession

349
Q

Commonly “It was to be rather supposed that Miss Taylor had formed Miss Woodhouse’s character, than _ Miss Taylor’s”

A

Miss Woodhouse

350
Q

“Even a _ would have been sufficient {To replace Mr Elton}; but nothing else, she feared {Emma} would cure her”

A

Robert Martin

351
Q

“The charm of _ to occupy the many vacancies of harriet’s mind was not to be talked away”

A

An object

352
Q

“It did not appear that she {Hawkins} was at all Harriet’s _. She brought no name, no blood, no alliance”

A

Superior

353
Q

“He {Elton} had not thrown himself away - he had gained a woman of _”

A

£10,000

354
Q

“_, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable {Miss Hawkins}”

A

Handscombe

355
Q

“_ is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations”

A

Human nature

356
Q

Emma became curious about Ms Hawkins “Which could conduce to place the Martins under proper subordination in her _”

A

Fancy

357
Q

“While he {Mr Woodhouse} _ that young people would be in such a hurry to marry - and to marry strangers too”

A

Lamented

358
Q

“The young man’s {Martin’s} conduct, and his sister’s, seemed the result of _, and she {Emma} could not but pity them”Real

A

Real feeling

359
Q

“She {Emma} was obliged to _”

A

Stop and think

360
Q

“If it were love, it might be simple, single, _ love on {Jane’s} her side alone”

A

Successless

361
Q

“Jane Fairfax was very _, remarkably _”

A

Elegant

362
Q

“There were moments of _ in which her {Emma’s} conscience could not quite acquit her {from wanting to be like Jane}”

A

Self-examination

363
Q

“Jane remained with them, sharing as another daughter, in all the _ pleasures of an elegant society”

A

Rational

364
Q

“Her disposition {Jane’s} and _ were equally worthy of all that friendship could do”

A

Abilities

365
Q

“At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion entering Emma’s _ with regard to Jane Fairfax”

A

Brain

366
Q

“There is nobody’s praise that could give us so much pleasure as Miss _” {Miss Bates}

A

Woodhouse’s

367
Q

“I {Miss Bates} really must, in justice to Jane, apologise for her writing so short a _”

A

Letter

368
Q

“To take a dislike to a young man […] was unworthy the real _ which she was always used to acknowledge in him {Mr Knightley}”

A

Liberality of mind

369
Q

“My {Emma} idea of him {Frank} is that he […] has the power as well as wish of being _ agreeable”

A

Universally

370
Q

“His {Frank Churchill’s} _ disgust me”

A

Letters

371
Q

“You {Mr Knightley} are very fond of _ little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority” {Emma}

A

Bending

372
Q

“Depend upon it, Emma, a _ man would find no difficulty in it {Visiting Frank’s father}” {Mr Knightley}

A

Sensible

373
Q

“You are the worst judge in the world, Mr Knightley, of the difficulties of _” {Emma}

A

Dependence

374
Q

“Where the wound had been given, there must the _ must be found, if anywhere”

A

Cure

375
Q

“Tried to console her with all her heart and understanding - really for the time convinced that Harriet was the _ of the two”

A

Superior creature

376
Q

“_ could not have been more plainly spoken than in a civility to her father, from which she was so pointedly excluded”

A

Resentment

377
Q

“Oh that I {Emma} had been satisfied with persuading her not to accept _. There I was quite right: that was well done of me”

A

Young Martin

378
Q

“It was foolish, _, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together. It was adventuring too far, assuming too much”

A

It was wrong

379
Q

“He {Mr Elton} must know that in _ and consequence she was greatly his superior”

A

Fortune

380
Q

“How she {Emma} could have been so _!”

A

Deceived

381
Q

“My visits to Hartfield have been for yourself {Emma} only’ and the _ I {Mr Elton} received”

A

Encouragement

382
Q

“Everybody had their _” {Mr Elton}

A

Level

383
Q

“But Mr Elton had only drunk _ enough to elevate his spirits not at all to confuse his intellects”

A

Wine

384
Q

“Hoping - fearing - adoring - ready to _ if she {Emma} refused him {Mr Elton}”

A

Die

385
Q

“She {Emma} was _” {Upon realising Mr Elton’s intentions}

A

Vexed

386
Q

“There are _ in all families, you know” {Mr Weston}

A

Secrets

387
Q

“a sort of pleasure in the idea of their being coupled {Frank and Emma} in their friends’ _”

A

Imaginations

388
Q

“There was something in the _, in the idea, of Mr Frank Churchill, which always interested her {Emma}”

A

Name

389
Q

“Can it be possible for this man {Elton} to be beginning to _ his affections from _ to me {Emma}? - Absurd”

A

Transfer

390
Q

“Little matters on which the _ happiness of private life depends”

A

Daily

391
Q

“Emma was rather in dismay when only half _afterwards he {Mr Elton} began to speak of other things”

A

A minute

392
Q

“Are you {John Knightley} imagining me {Emma} to be Mr Elton’s _?”

A

Object

393
Q

“With men he {Mr Elton} can be _ and unaffected” {John Knightley}

A

Rational

394
Q

“A _ is so high in the class of their {Single men’s} pleasures, their employments, their dignities, almost their duties” {Emma}

A

Dinner engagement

395
Q

“Never had his {Mr Elton’s} _ been stronger, nor his eyes more exulting than when he next looked at her {Emma}”

A

Smile

396
Q

“Indeed you should take care of yourself {Emma} as well as of your _ {Harriet}” {Mr Elton}

A

Friend

397
Q

“Mr Elton’s would be _ when he knew her {Harriet’s} state”

A

Depressed

398
Q

“but only Jane Fairfax one knows to be so very accomplished and _, and exactly Emma’s age” {Mrs John Knightley}

A

Superior

399
Q

“Southend is an _ place” {Mr Woodhouse}

A

Unhealthy

400
Q

“It makes me {Emma} envious and miserable; I who have never seen it! _ is prohibited”

A

Southend

401
Q

“My poor _ Isabella” {Mr Woodhouse}

A

Dear

402
Q

“There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for _”

A

Themselves

403
Q

“Objects of interest, objects for the affections, which is, in truth, the great point of _” {Emma}

A

Inferiority

404
Q

“Never could I {Emma} expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always _ and always right in any man’s eyes”

A

First

405
Q

“But I {Emma} have never been in love; it is not my way, or my _”

A

Nature

406
Q

“Emma had a charitable visit to pay to a _ family who lived a little way out of Highbury”

A

Poor sick

407
Q

“Mr Knightley might quarrel with her, but Emma could not quarrel with _”

A

Herself

408
Q

“_ spoke for her {Harriet}”

A

Emma

409
Q

“It is so much beyond anything I {Harriet} deserve […] He {Mr Elton} is so very _”

A

Superior

410
Q

“The course of true love never did run _” {Emma}

A

Smooth

411
Q

“There does seem to be something in the air of _ which gives love exactly the right direction” {Emma}

A

Hartfield

412
Q

“One half of the world cannot understand the _ of the other” {Emma}

A

Pleasures

413
Q

“Till they {Men} do fall in love with well-informed _ instead of handsome faces” {Emma}

A

Minds

414
Q

“There can scarcely be a doubt that her {Harriet’s} father is a _ - and a _ of good fortune” {Emma}

A

Gentleman

415
Q

“She {Harriet} is not a _ girl” {Mr Knightley}

A

Sensible

416
Q

“He {Mr Martin} is as much her {Harriet’s} _ in sense as in situation. Emma, your infatuation about that girl blinds you”

A

Superior

417
Q

“Elton may talk sentimentally, but he will act _”

A

Rationally

418
Q

“His {Mr Martin’s} mind has more true _ than Harriet Smith could understand.”

A

Gentility

419
Q

“How cheerful, how animated, how auspicious, how busy their {Mr Elton’s family} _ all are!”

A

Imaginations

420
Q

“You {Harriet} confined to the _ of the illiterate and vulgar all your life!”

A

Society

421
Q

“It would have grieved me {Emma} to lose your acquaintance {Harriet’s}, which must have been the consequence of your marrying _”

A

Mr Martin

422
Q

“I {Emma} shall not give you any advice, Harriet. […] This is a point which you must settle with your own _”

A

Feelings

423
Q

“This man is almost too _ to be in love […] there may be a hundred different ways of being in love”

A

Gallant

424
Q

“You have made her too tall, Emma” “Emma knew that she had, but would not _ it”

A

Own

425
Q

“No husbands and wives in the case at present indeed, as you {Emma} _”

A

Observe

426
Q

“{Mrs Weston} would _ whenever I {Emma} asked”

A

Sit

427
Q

“It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a _ […] But there is nobody hereabouts to attach her”

A

Proper object

428
Q

“John {Knightley} loves Emma with a _, and therefore not a blind affection”

A

Reasonable

429
Q

“Can you _ anything nearer perfect beauty than Emma altogether - face and figure?”

A

Imagine

430
Q

“How can Emma imagine she has anything to learn herself while Harriet is presenting such a delightful _?”

A

Inferiority

431
Q

“Emma is spoiled b being the _ of her family”

A

Cleverest

432
Q

“Of this great _ between Emma and harriet Smith, I {Mr Knightley} think it a bad thing”

A

Intimacy

433
Q

“You {Harriet} might not see one in a hundred with _ so plainly written as in Mr Knightley”

A

Gentleman

434
Q

“{Mr Martin} is very plain, remarkably plain; but that is nothing compared with his entire want of _”

A

Gentility

435
Q

“Emma watched through the fluctuations of this speech {Harriet’s} and saw no alarming _”

A

Symptoms of love

436
Q

“There can be no doubt of your {Harriet} being a _ daughter”

A

Gentleman’s

437
Q

“A young farmer, whether on horseback or on foot, is the very last sort of person to raise my {Emma’s} _”

A

Curiosity

438
Q

“Harriet would be loved as one to whom she could be _. For Mrs Weston there was nothing to be done; for Harriet everything”

A

Useful

439
Q

“_ certainly was not clever”

A

Harriet

440
Q

“{Emma} would improve {Harriet}; she would detach her from her bad acquaintance, and introduce her into good _”

A

Society

441
Q

“Those soft blue eyes {Harriet’s}, all all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the _ of Highbury”

A

Inferior society

442
Q

“{Harriet} was a very pretty girl, and her beauty happened to be of a sort which Emma particularly _”

A

Admired

443
Q

“Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of _”

A

Somebody

444
Q

“{Miss Bates} was a great talker upon little matters […] full of trivial communications and _”

A

Harmless gossip

445
Q

“She {Miss Bates} had no intellectual _ to make atonement to herself”

A

Superiority

446
Q

“Mr Perry was _, gentlemanlike man”

A

An intelligent

447
Q

Mr Weston’s family had been “rising into _ and property”

A

Gentility

448
Q

“Miss Churchill, however, being of age, and with the full command of her _”

A

Fortune

449
Q

“What was _ to him {Mr Woodhouse} he regarded as unfit for anybody “

A

Unwholesome

450
Q

“A great deal better to choose than be chosen, to excite _ rather than feel it {Regarding Mr Weston}”

A

Gratitude

451
Q

“He {Mr Woodhouse} could not meet her in conversation, rational or _”

A

Playful

452
Q

“Poor Mr Elton! […] There is nobody in _ who deserves him”

A

Highbury

453
Q

“Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always _ {To Mr Woodhouse}”

A

Disagreeable

454
Q

“Highbury, the large and populous village […] afforded her {Emma} no _”

A

Equals

455
Q

“Success supposes _” {Said by Mr Knightley}

A

Endeavour

456
Q

“{Miss Taylor} Intelligent, well-informed, _, gentle”

A

Useful

457
Q

“_ never thinks of herself”

A

Emma

458
Q

Austen wrote in what period and after what period?

A

In the Romantic period after the Age of Reason (Neoclassical Era)

459
Q

Auden wrote in what period?

A

Modernist and Postmodernist period

English Literature (3 decks)

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