english final exam Flashcards by Maleea McKenzie

a play that ends happily; the events are trivial

comedy

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an elaborate comparison of two things which superficially have little in common

conceit

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two rhyming lines which express a complete thought

couplet

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the speeches between two or more characters in a play taken collectively

dialogue

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metaphorical compound words or phrases that refer to persons places or things

kenning

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a popular love song during the elizabethan age it consisted of five or six voice parts sung independantly without accompaniment and woven into an intricate pattern

madrigal

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the false idea that the spirit of god dwells in nature and that to commune with nature is to commune with god

pantheism

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a classical love song dealing with sheoerds and rustic life often presenting an idealized concept of rural life

pastoral

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the arrangment of events in story or play the sequence of related actions

plot

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a hero who is ussually in conflict with an opponent

protagonist

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greek poetry that combined criticism with wit or ironic humor to ridicule something

satire

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the physical background against which the events of a story take place

settng

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a speech by a lone character on the stage

soliloquy

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a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter with definite pattern of two basic varities english and italian

sonnet

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a play that ends unhappily

tragedy

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the central idea

theme

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anglosaxon period

scop
poetry

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medieval period

pearl poet

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elizabethan period

fairy queen
drama

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puritan age

milton
metaphysical conceit

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18th century/restoration

robison curuso

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romantic age

wordsworth
rime of the ancient mariner

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victorian period

age of pros

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20th century

pygmalion

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greatest epic

paradise lost

best known morality play

everyman

greatest anglosaxon poem

beowulf

world's supreme poet of nature

wordsworth

scotland's greatest poet

burns

canterbury tales

chaucer

paradise lost

milton

my last duchess

browning

pride and prejudice

austin

second coming

yeats

railway children

nesbit

the lagoon

conrad

when i have fears

keats

robison curuso

defoe

book of martyrs

foxe

his last bow

doyle

macbeth

shakespeare

gulivers travels

swift

amazing grace

newton

david copperfield

dickons

idols of the king

tennyson

pilgrim's progress

bunyan

cotter's saturday night

burns

byronic hero

byron

simple life

deserted village

describing simple peoples lives

elegy written in a country churchyard

beauty on a grecian urn

beauty in things

to justify god to man

paradise lost

drawing closer to god for rest

the pulley

the love that binds all created things

rime of the ancient mariner

things fade away

to an athlete dying young

In the lagoon what character is haunted by the death of his brother?

arsat

What character Macbeth suffers from sleepwalking?

lady macbeth

What character directed christian to the wicked gate?

evangelist

Von borck was collecting information from who?

germany

What character is told his children will be kings?

banque

Teaches Eliza to talk right?

professor higins

The convergence of the twain?

sinking of the titanic

What story is the sir bedivere casting sword into the lake-

morte author

Faust sells his soul for how many years?

24yrs

In Robinson crusoe why does he turn to God for help?

he gets sick

What object in pilgrim's progress shows assurance of salvation?

scroll

In the book 1984 what term had to do with holding two contradictory beliefs but believing both?

doublethink

spring coming

ode to the west wind

water water everywhere

rime of the ancient mariner

the best laid schemes of mice and men

to a mouse

ill fares the land where wealth accumulates and men decay

the desserted village

beauty is truth

ode to a grecian urn

tis better to love than to never have loved at all

in memoriam

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

connotation

the study if the origin of a word

etymology

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

hyperbole

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

metaphor

the state of being not or no longer needed or useful.

Redundancy

an overused phrase

Trite expressions

consists of a subject and verb

clause

short vowel sound

breve

long vowel sound

macron

one statement that does not follow the previous statement

non sequitur

pronoun before a gerund

possesive

subject of infinitive if it is a pronoun

objective case

what is it called when refering to a pronoun being singular or plural

number

to word for which a pronoun stands

antecedent

english final exam Flashcards

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