Brit Lit Flashcards
(172 cards)
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The Return of the Native
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Thomas Hardy
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Clym Yeobright
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Return of the Native
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One character plays the Turkish Knight in the play “Saint George” in this novel
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The Return of the Native
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Thomas Hardy poem written in response to the sinking of the Titanic
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Convergence of the Twain
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Adapted by Simon Armitage written shortly after 9/11 terrorist attacks
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Convergence of the Twain
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A creature crawls “over the mirrors meant/to glass the opulent” in this poem
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Convergence of the Twain
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Dead Man Walking
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Thomas Hardy
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“fling[ed] his soul/upon the growing gloom”
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The Darkling Thrush
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“The Darkling Thrush”
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Thomas Hardy poem
10
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“leaning upon a coppice gate”
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The Darkling Thrush
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His wife is Emma Gifford, wrote the poems “Rain on a Grave” and “After a Journey” for her
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Thomas Hardy
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A book about a former milkmaid set in the fictional English county of Wessex
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles
13
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Wife of Angel Clare
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles
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Jude the Obscure
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Thomas Hardy
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Arabella Donn and Sue Bridehead
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Jude the Obscure
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Mayor of Casterbridge
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Thomas Hardy
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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Thomas Hardy
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Under the Greenwood Tree
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Thomas Hardy
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Little Father Time
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Jude the Obscure
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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D H Lawrence
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Eusatasia Vye
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The Return of the Native
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Michael Henchard
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Mayor of Casterbridge
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Lucetta
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Mayor of Casterbridge
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Donald Farfrae
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Mayor of Casterbridge
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A footnote with an “isolated and weird character”
The Return of the Native
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“The Ruined Maid”
Thomas Hardy
27
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
28
A man called “most original moralist in England” takes ten pounds instead of five and explains that “undeserving poverty is my line” in this play
Pygmalion
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Adapted into the musical My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
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Eliza Doolittle
Pygmalion
31
This play begins in Covent Garden
Pygmalion
32
Henry Higgins
Pygmalion
33
Colonel Pickering
Pygmalion
34
Man and Superman
George Bernard Shaw
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A character in this play is called a “squashed cabbage leaf”
Pygmalion
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Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw
37
Raina Petkoff
Arms and the Man
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The servant girl Louka
Arms and the Man
39
War with the Newts
Karel Čapek
40
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
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This play’s title comes from the Aeneid
Arms and the Man
42
Candida
George Bernard Shaw
43
Quintessence of Ibsenism (about Hedda Gabler)
George Bernard Shaw
44
The main character of this play is dressed in a blue kimono by the housekeeper Mrs. Pearce
Pygmalion
45
“What Happened Afterward”
George Bernard Shaw
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Character portrayed by Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Eliza Doolittle
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This play has a woman who yells “not bloody likely!”
Pygmalion
48
Adolphus Cusins
Major Barbara
49
Ode on Melancholy
John Keats
50
Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats
51
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
52
This poem address Love, Ambition, and Poesy
Ode on Indolence
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“Thou wast not born for death” and asks “do I wake or sleep?”
Ode to a Nightingale
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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
Ode on a Grecian Urn
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Adonais (dedicated to Keats)
Percy Shelley
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This poem was originally published under the pseudonym “Caviare”
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats
58
“Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again”
John Keats
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“On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”
John Keats
60
Endymion
A narrative poem by John Keats
61
Holy Sonnets/Divine Sonnets/Divine Meditations
John Donne
62
“A Valediction of My Name, In the Window”
John Donne
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“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
John Donne
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Author analysed in TS Eliot’s “The Metaphysical Poets”
John Donne
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“The Canonization”
John Donne
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“Death, be not proud”
Holy Sonnets (Sonnet 10)
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“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
Christopher Marlowe
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“Come live with me and be my love” is the opening line of this pastoral love poem
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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Husband of Anne More
John Donne
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“Slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men”
Death, be not proud
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“The Second Coming”
William Butler Yeats
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“Sailing to Byzantium”
William Butler Yeats
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“slouches towards Bethlehem to be born”
“The Second Coming”
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“Easter, 1916”
William Butler Yeats
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“Turning and turning in the widening gyre”
“The Second Coming”
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“Michael Robartes and the Dancer”
William Butler Yeats
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“The Wanderings of Oisín”, and epic poem
William Butler Yeats
78
“an aged man as a paltry thing”
“Sailing to Byzantium”
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The speaker’s heart is “fastened to a dying animal” in this poem
“Sailing to Byzantium”
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“Among School Children”
William Butler Yeats
81
“things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”
“The Second Coming”
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“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
William Butler Yeats
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“The Final Problem”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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“the Speckled Band”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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This man believed in the Cottingley Fairies and was mocked by Harry Houdini
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Lost World
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Professor Challenger discovers dinosaurs in South America in this novel
The Lost World
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” (Sonnet 43)
Sonnets from the Portuguese
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“Yes, call me by my pet-name!” (Sonnet 33)
Sonnets from the Portuguese
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The narrator of this poem loves the addressee “freely as men strive for right”
Sonnet 43 (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
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Macbeth
Shakespeare
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Weird Sisters
The witches from Macbeth
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“L’allegro”
John Milton
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“Il Penseroso”
John Milton
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Areopagitica
John Milton
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This poem features the invocations of Saturn, Vesta, and Urania
Il Penseroso
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Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
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David Balfour
Kidnapped
100
Captain Hoseason
Kidnapped
101
The Black Arrow
Robert Louis Stevenson
102
A Child’s Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson
103
This poem opens when the “siege and assault had ceased at Troy”
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
104
Lord Bertilak
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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“To an Athlete Dying Young”
AE Housman
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“When I was one-and-twenty”
AE Housman
107
Korova Milk Bar
A Clockwork Orange
108
Welsh poet, “Do not go gentle into that good night”
Dylan Thomas
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“Fern Hill”
Dylan Thomas
110
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Dylan Thomas
111
Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns
112
Ode to a Mouse
Robert Burns
113
“Sylvan historian”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
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This poem mentions “forest branches” and “trodden weed” and the “dales” of paradise
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
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“My Last Duchess”
Robert Browning
116
Porphyria’s Lover
Robert Browning
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“Caliban upon Setebos”
Robert Browning
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“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”
Robert Browning
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Described Fra Pandolf’s painting of a woman whose heart was “too soon made glad”
Robert Browning
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Has a satire of Calvinism subtitled “Natural Theology in the Island”
Robert Browning
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Mr Enfield
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Inspector Newcomen
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Gabriel Utterson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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This poem ends with a description of a bronze statue by Claus of Innsbruck, depicting Neptune riding a seahorse
“My Last Duchess”
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In a poem from this collection, the speaker claims to be made of “elements and an angelic sprite”
The Holy Sonnets
126
Robert Walton
Frankenstein
127
“The Dead”
James Joyce
128
Gabriel Conroy
“The Dead”
129
The tenor Bartell D’Arcy sings “The Lass of Aughrim” in this story
“The Dead”
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Miss Ivors
“The Dead”
131
Guests begin to sing “For they are jolly good fellows” in this story
“The Dead”
132
Misses Morkin
“The Dead”
133
Michael Furey (who is dead)
“The Dead”
134
The protagonist of this novel is taken aboard the Covenant under orders from his uncle Ebenezer
Kidnapped
135
The Island of Doctor Moreau
HG Wells
136
Edward Prendick
The Island of Doctor Moreau
137
The Dumb Waiter
Harold Pinter
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The hitmen Ben and Gus
The Dumbwaiter
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The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter
140
Stanley Webber
The Birthday Party
141
Stanley Webber
The Birthday Party
142
The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope
143
Clarissa gives the Baron a pair of scissors
The Rape of the Lock
144
Cave of Spleen
The Rape of the Lock
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The gnome Umbriel
The Rape of the Lock
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“twelve vast French Romances”
The Rape of the Lock
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“What mighty contests rise from trivial things”
The Rape of the Lock
148
Jack Worthing
The Importance of Being Earnest
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Algernon Moncrieff
The Importance of Being Earnest
150
Miss Prism
The Importance of Being Earnest
151
Gwendolen Fairfax
The Importance of Being Earnest
152
A servant prepares cucumber sandwiches which are eaten before the guests arrive in this play
The Importance of Being Earnest
153
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding
154
The Female Husband
Henry Fielding
155
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding
156
Bilfil
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
157
Shamela
Henry Fielding
158
Sophia Western
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
159
“Goblin Market”
Christina Rossetti
160
“Pied Beauty”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
161
“The Wreck of Deutschland”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
162
“To Autumn”
John Keats
163
“The Narrow Way”
Anne Bronte
164
“The Three Guides”
Anne Bronte
165
The tenant of Wildfell Hill
Anne Bronte
166
“uffish thought”
“The Jabberwocky”
167
“Agony in Eight Fits”
Lewis Carroll
168
“The Hunting of the Snark”
Lewis Carroll
169
“To a Skylark”
Percy Shelley
170
“The Lark Ascending”
George Meredith
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“Returning, We Hear the Larks”
Isaac Rosenberg
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“Joy—joy—strange joy” and “heights of night”
“Returning, we hear the larks”
