English Literature Flashcards
(172 cards)
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Kennings
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Traditional unique figures of speech
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Elegy
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A lament of what was lost or someone lost
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Caesuric
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Characteristics of old English poetry
… filled with pauses
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2 types of old English poetry
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Heroic( Germanic pagan myth)
- Christian
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OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE
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Germanic Kennings Caesuric Alliteration Repetition Rapid narrative style Allegorical Exhorative a coutionary tale Didactic: intended to teach a story Sapiential: wisdom writing
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Book of Exeter
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.Old English . Deor's lament . The Wife's Lament . The Seafearer . The wanderer
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Venerable Bede
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. “The Father of English history”
. Translated the Caedmon Hymn in his book
. “The Ecclesiastical history of the British Nation”
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CAEDMON
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. Earliest English poet whose name is known
. Animal caretaker who became a monk
. CAEDMONS HYMN ( translated by Venerable Bede)
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CYNEWULF
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.old English
750-825
ELENE FATE OF THE APOSTLE THE ASCENSION (CHRIST II) JULIANA DREAM OF THE ROOD
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KING ALFRED THE GREAT
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“The father of English prose”
. THE ANGLO SAXON CHRONICLES
poems include
.THE BATTLE OF BRUNSANBURH
. THE BATTLE OF MALDON
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AELFRIC ( c.955-1020)
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Known for sermons and biblical translations
Old English prose
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WULFSTAN (d. 1023)
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A Bishop of London
53 sermons
WULF’S SERMON TO THE ENGLISH
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BEOWULF
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.Old English
.The oldest surviving epic poem
.8th - 11th century
.author unknown
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Geoffrey of Mammouth
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. history of the kings of England
.main character King Arthur
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MEDIEVAL ENGLISH
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. 13th/14th century
.Post Norman/French conquest
.English no longer used by the Aristocracy/ French instead
. English spoken by the middle/ lower classes
. Had the addition of other foreign languages
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JOHN WYCLIFFE
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THE WYCLIFFE BIBLE (1382-1385)
Medieval English
. Began the the Lollards movement that preached to people in their native.
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THE PEARL POET
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Allegorical
Middle English poet
Alliterative
Dream vision
THE PEARL ( poem)
PURITY
PATIENCE
SIR GWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
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WILLIAM LANGLAND
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Middle English
PIERS PLOWMAN
a dream vision quest for salvation
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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.Middle English
THE BOOK OF THE DUCHESS PARLIAMENT OF FOWLS TROILUS AND CRESIDA THE HOUSE OF FAME THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN THE CANTEBURY TALES
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REVIEW THE TALES
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REVIEW THE TALES
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SIR THOMAS MALORY
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Le Morse d’ Arthur
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When April’s gentle rains have pierced the drought
Of March right to the root, and bathed each sprout
Through every vein with liquid of such power
It brings forth the engendering of the flower;
When Zephyrus too with his sweet breath has blown 5
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Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
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Who is the father of English history ( the ecclesiastical history of the English people)
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Venerable bede
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FATES OF THE APOSTLES
JULIANA
ELENE
CHRIST II
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Cynewulf
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SIR THOMAS MORE
Utopia
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Sir Phillip Sidney
The countess of pembroke's Arcadia
. The Defence of Poesy
. Astrophel and Stella ( first true sonnet)
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Sir Walter Raleigh
The nymphs Reply to the Sheperd
.The Lie
.Farewell False Love
.Song of myself
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Euphues the Anotomy of Wit
John Wily
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Pandosto The Triumph of Time
A notable Discovery of Cosenage
Robert Greene
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The first picaresque novel
Unfortunate Traveler ( Thomas Nashe)
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.Novum Organum
.Advancement of Learning
. marriage and Single life
. On ambition
Father o empiriscm
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Francis Bacon
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The King James Bible
William Tyndale
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Brought sonnet to England
Sir Thomas wyatt
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First to to use blank verse in English
Henry Howard
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Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds,
Am now enforst a far unfitter taske,
For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;
Whose prayses having slept in silence long,
Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds
To blazon broad emongst her learned throng:
Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song.
Helpe then, O holy Virgin chiefe of nine,
Thy weaker Novice to performe thy will,
The Farrie queen ( Edmund Spenser)
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The Cavalier poets were also called and why
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A playful tone
The tribe of Ben
Supported King Charles
Opposed puritans
Carpe diem
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Who were the cavaliers
Robert Hedrick
Thomas Carew
Sir John Suckiling
Richard Lovelace
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" To The Virgins make much of Time"
Robert Herrick
" gather ye rosebuds while he may"
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Robert Herrick
To the virgins make much of Time
. carina's going a Maying
. upon Julia's Clothes
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"Ask me no more where Jove Bestows"
Thomas Carew
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Sir John Suckling
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"Why so Pale and Wan , Fair Lover"
"Song"
"I pray thee Send back my heart"
" Ballad upon a wedding"
" The constant Lover"
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"Lucasta going to the war"
Richard Lovelace
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Metaphysical poets characteristics
.mix of passion and religion
| . Use of conceits
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Who were the metaphysical poets
.John Donne
. George Hebert
. Richard crashaw
.henry Vaughan
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John Donne (1572-1631)
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" Go and Catch a Falling Star"
"The Indifferent"
"A valediction Forbidding Mourning"
"The Flea"
"Death Be not proud"
" The sun Rising"
"Love's Growth"
" The Canonization"
"A burnt ship"
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John Milton
Lycidas
Paradise Lost
When I consider How my light is Spent
Paradise Regained
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"To His Coy Mistress"
Andrew Marvell
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The first blank verse drama
| And first true English tragedy
Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex
Written by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton
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Interludes were
Secular plays
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First English use of the devise of girls dressing as boys
John Lyly's Galatea
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First romantic comedy
George Peele's The old wives Tale
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characters:
King Arthur
Belphoebe
Orgoglio
Redcrosse
Gloriana
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The Faerie Queen by Spenser
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Characters:
Bucking ham
Clarence
Dorset, Rivers, Gray
Anne
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Richard III
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Hotspur
Falstaff
Henry Percy
Owning Glyndwr
Prince Harry
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Henry the IV
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Antipholus of Syracuse
Antipholus of Ephesus
Dromio of Syracuse
Dromio of Ephesus
Adriana
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Comedy of errors
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Puck
Oberon
Tatiana
Lysander
Hernia
Egeus
Demetrius
Helen
Thesus
Hypolitta
Nick Bottom
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A midsummer night dream
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Katherine
Petruchio
Bianca
Baptista
Lucento
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Taming of The Shrew
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Brutus
Mark Anthony
Cassius
Portia
Calpurnia
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Julia's Caesar
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Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
The passionate shepherd to his love, by Christopher Marlowe
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Best known Middle English morality play
Allegorical "Everyman" (1470)
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Shylock
Portia
Antonio
Bassanio
Gratiano
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The Merchant of Venice
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Beatrice
Benedict
Claudio
Hero
Borachio
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Much ADO ABOUT NOTHING
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Rosalind
Orlando
Duke senior
Jacques
Celia
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AS YOU LIKE IT
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Viola
Orsino
Olivia
Sebastian
Malvolio
Feste
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Sir Toby belch
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Twelfth Night
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Prosperous
Miranda
Ariel
Caliban
Ferdinand
Alonso
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The Tempest
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Romeo
Juliet
Friar Lawrence
Mercutio
Paris
Lady Capulet
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Romeo and Juliet
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Claudius
Gertrude
Polonius
Horatio
Ophelia
Laertes
Rosencrantz and guildenstern
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Hamlet
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Christopher Marlowe
Dr Fautus
| The jew of malta
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun...
William shakespeare...Sonnet 130
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Ben Johnson ( "comedy of humours"
Every Man in his Humours
Volpone, the fox
The Alchemist
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Life is but a walking shadow... signifying nothing
Macbeth
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Thomas Carew
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( cavalier poet)
Know Celia
An elegie upon the death of the deane of pauls
Dr. John Donne
A rapture
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Desdemona
Iago
Cassio
Emilia
Roderigo
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Othello
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Goneril
Regan
Gloucester
Edgar
Kent
Albany
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King Lear
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Banquo
Duncan
Fleance
Donalbain and malcolm
Macduff
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Macbeth
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This writer is famous for a series of love letters written between 1647 and 1654
Dorothy Osborne to William Temple
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JOHN BUNYAN
Pilgrims Progress
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APHRA BEHN
Oroonoko
The Rover
Love letters between a nobleman and his sister
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JOHN DRYDEN
Named poet laureate
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GULLIVERS TRAVEL
Jonathan swift
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JONATHAN SWIFT
Gullivers travels
| A modest proposal
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ADDISON and Steele were
Essayists
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ANDREW MARVEL
His Coy Mistress
| The Definition of Love
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JOHN EVELYN AND SAMUEL PEPYS were
Diarists
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Alexander Pope's qoutes
" To Err is human, to forgive divine
"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread"
" Blessed is he who expects nothing or he shall never be dissapointed
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things,
I sing—This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due:
This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view:
Slight is the subject, but not so the praise,
If she inspire, and he approve my lays.
Rape of a Lock, Alexander Pope
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DANIEL DEFOE
Robinson crusoe
Moll flanders
A journal of the plague year
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The history of Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
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The life and Times of Tristam Shandy
Lawrence Sterne
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" The Dictionary of the English Language"
Samuel Johnson ( 1709-1784)
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JOHN GAY
The Beggars opera
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"She Stoops to Conquer"
Oliver Goldsmith
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William Blake
Chimney sweeper
Little Lamb
Little black boy
( From the Songs of Innocence)
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Auld Lang syne
Robert Burns
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Lyrical Ballads
Kubla Khan
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner( albatross on his neck)
Christabel
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LORD BYRON
Don Juan
| Manfred
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PERCY SHELLEY
Prometheus Unbound
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
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JOHN KEATS
Endymion ( a thing of beauty is a joy forever)
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to a Grecian Urn
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JANE AUSTEN
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
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Elinor
Marriane Dashwood
Edward Ferras
John williowby
Sense and sensibility
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Elizabeth Bennet
Fitzwilliam Darcy
Charles Bingley
George Wickam
Pride and Prejudice
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Emma Woodhouse
George Knightley
Harriet Smith
Mrs Weston
Emma
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Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy
| Ivanhoe
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JOHN STUART MILLS
"On Liberty"
"Utilitarian"
"...greatest good for the greatest number
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CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jane Eyre
| Shirley
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Edward Rochester
St John Rivers
Mrs Reed
Alice Fairfax
Blanche Ingram
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Jane Eyre
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EMILY BRONTE
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
108
CHARLES DICKENS
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OLIVER TWIST
DAVID COPPERFIELD
BLEAK HOUSE
HARD TIMES
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
VANITY FAIR
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GEORGE ELIOT ( MARY ANN EVANS)
SILAS MARINER
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LEWIS CARROLL
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
| THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
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THOMAS HARDY
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
| TESS OF THE D'UBERVILLES
112
OSCAR WILDE
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
| THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
THE BLESSED DMOZEL
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GEORGE HERBERT WELLS
TIME MACHINE
| THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
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VIRGINIA WOOLF
MRS DOLLOWAY
ORLANDO
A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
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D.H. LAWRENCE
LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER
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GEORGE ORWELL
ANIMAL FARM
| 1984
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SIR WILLIAM GOLDING
LORD OF THE FLIES
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EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER
A ROOM WITH A VIEW
HOWARD'S END
A PASSAGE TO INDIA
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A coming of age story is called
Bildungsroman
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Piers Plowman
William langland ( seeking salvation and a true christian life)
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Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds,
Am now enforst a far unfitter taske,
For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;
Whose prayses having slept in silence long,
Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds
To blazon broad emongst her learned throng:
Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song.
The faerie queen
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GEOFFREY MONMOUTH
HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN
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FIRST BLANK VERSE DRAMA
GORBODUC (by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton)
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LE MORTE ARTHUR
THOMAS MALORY
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First translation of the bible was done by
WILLIAM TYNDALE
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" Go catch a falling star"
Song by John Donne
128
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,
Or chide my palsy, or my gout,
My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune flout,
With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve,
Take you a course, get you a place,
Observe his honor, or his grace,
Or the king's real, or his stampèd face
Contemplate; what you will, approve,
So you will let me love.
The canonization by John Donne
129
Valpone
Everyman in his humors
The alchemist
BEN JONSON
130
" Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player...."
MACBETH
131
"My love is of a birth as rare..."
The definition of love by Andrew Marvell
132
Characters Arabella Fermor and Lord Petre are from
The rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
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Characters Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum are from
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
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"Elegy written in a Country Churchyard"
Thomas Gray
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"The School for Scandal"
Richard sheridan
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"A vindication of the rights of women"
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
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The Biography " The Life of Samuel Johnson"
James Boswell
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ANN RADCLIFFE
The pioneer of the gothic novel
" The mysteries of udolpho"
"The Castles of Athin and Dunbayne"
" Gaston de Blondeville"
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THE LAKE POETS
Wordsworth
Cooleridge
Southey
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" Her eyes were deeper than the depth of waters...."
The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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" A thing of beauty is a joy forever..."
ENDYMION by John Keats
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JOHN KEATS
" When I have fears that May Cease to be"
| " Endymion"
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" Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas
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" Because I would not stop for death"
EMILY DICKINSON
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CHRISTINA ROSETTI
Goblin market
Remember
In the Bleak Midwinter
The Prince's Progress
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CHARLES LAMB, THOMAS DEQUINCEY AND WILLIAM HAZLITT WERE
Personal essayists
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Victorian poet
SONNET FROM PORTUGUESE
AURORA LEIGH
THE SERAPHIM
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Goldilocks and the three bears
Robert Southey ( a Lake Poet)
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Becky sharp
Amelia sedley
Miss Barbara Pinkerton
George Osborne
VANITY FAIR ( William Thackeray)v
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William Hunt
John Everett Millais
Dante Rossetti
William Rosseti
Pre-Raphaelites
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Characters:
URIAH HEEP
JAMES STEERFORTH
EMILY
BETSEY TROTWOOD
DORA SPENLOW
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DAVID COPPERFIELD
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characters:
ESTHER SUMMERSON
RICHARD CARSTONE
SIR DEDLOCK
LADY DEDLOCK
MR. TULKINGHORN
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BLEAK HOUSE ( by Charles Dickens)
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MY LAST DUCHESS
SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER
THE LABORATORY
PORPHYRIA's LOVER
Robert Browning
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GEORGE ELIOT
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ADAM BEDE
THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
SILAS MARINER
MIDDLEMARCH
DANIEL DERONDA
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WILKIE COLLINS
The woman in white
THE MOONSTOONE
ARMADALE
NO NAME
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"When I am dead my dearest"
Christina Rosetti
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The subelements of a plot
1. Complication ( Rising Action): a series of relevant incidents that create suspense , interest or tension. It is the conflict between the main characters as it builds between the protagonist and the antagonist.
2. TURNING POINT/ CLIMAX: where the main character has reached his apex of good fortune in the story.
3. DENOUEMENT / FALLING ACTION: where things start to go down hill for the main character
4. RESOLUTION: the story satisfactorily ends either negatively or positively
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TERZA RIMA
Form of poetry which consists of tercets linked toghether with chain rhyme. Rhyme pattern must be aba, bcb, cdc ded
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VILLANELLE
Consist of 19 lines
Five tercets of aba plus
One quatrain at the end ( aaba)
They repeat entire lines: the first line of the first tercet becomes the third line of the second, fourth and sixth stanzas.
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" Do not go gentle into that good night"
Dylan Thomas
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JAMES JOYCE
Stream of consciousness writer
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
ULYSSES
DUBLINER
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Rhyme Royal
Created by Geoffrey Chaucer
| Consists of 7 lines
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SESTINA
Consist of 39 lines ( 6 sestets and 1 tercet)
| It reuses the same 6 words at the end of each stanza
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Lettering for rhyming scheme of a poem
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a = rhyme
A1= line
A = word
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BLANK VERSE
Has a set meter, usually iambic pentameter, but does not rhyme
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TYPES OF BLANK VERSE POETR
IAMBIC ( unstressed- s) / TROCHEE ( stressed - unstressed)
ANAPEST ( u/u/s)
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HEROIC COUPLETS
Rhyming iambic pentameter lines
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Ballad Meter
4 line stanzas with rhyming pattern abcb
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Alexandrine
A line of verse with 6 iambic feet used by Spenser
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Sprung Rhythm
Invented by George Manly Hopkins
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Popular Ballad
Is an anonymous narrative poem focusing on the climax of a particularly dramatic event and conventional figures of speech
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Italian vs english sonnet
A sonnet is a one stanza poem of fourteen lines, written in iambic pentameter
The difference is in the rhyming scheme:
Italian ( Petrarchan): abbaabba cdecde
English ( shakespearean): abab cdcdefef gg
