English Drills Flashcards

(51 cards)

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Form of letters

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Epistolary

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Printing Press

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Johannes Gutenberg

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3
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English essay

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Francis Bacon

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Greatest English Writer

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William Shakespeare

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Father of English Literature

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Father of horror

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Edgar Allan Poe

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7
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Father of Detective Stories

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Edgar Allan Poe

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8
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Foremost French Story writer

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Guy de Maupassant

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Mythical Geographer

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Homer

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10
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Greatest orator of the world

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Cicero

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Indian National Poet who received the first Nobel Prize

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Rabindranath Tagore

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12
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Shakespeare of India

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Kalidasa

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13
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Natural Law

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Tales

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Q&A (Art of Questioning)

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Socrates

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15
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“The Republic” author

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Plato

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16
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Father of biology and zoology

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Aristotle

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17
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Great Conqueror

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Alexander the Great

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18
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Gettysburg Address

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Abraham Lincoln

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19
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Dr. Zhivago (total totalitarianism)

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Boris Paternak

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20
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Scarlet letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Road Not Taken

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Oedipus Rex

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Paradise Lost

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The Little Prince

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Antoine be Saint Exupery

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Canterbury tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Kung-Fu-Tsu
Confucius
27
lliad and Odyssey
Homer
28
Anabel Lee and The Raven
E. A. Poe
29
The necklace
Guy de Maupassant
30
Ambition for power
Macbeth
31
opening statement of Hamlet
to be or not to be
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about mercy
Merchant of Venice
33
about love and war
Romeo and Juliet
34
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
35
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
36
Chronicles of Narnia
Carol S. Lewis
37
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
38
Rubaiyat
Omar Khayyam
39
"Grasping the pleasure while you can"
Rubaiyat
40
The Divide Comedy
Dante Alighieri
41
First epic
Gilgamesh
42
Egyptian system of writing
Hieroglyphics
43
Chinese system of writing
Calligraphy
44
Longest epic in India
Mahabharata
45
Medieval German epic
Nibelungenlied
46
Collection of Indian sacred hymns
Rig Veda
47
Collection of Indian sacred texts
Upanishads
48
Collection of Indian fables
Panchatantra
49
Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens
50
George Elliot
Mary Ann Evans
51
Robert Galbraith
Joanne Kathleen Rowling