Test 12 American Literature Flashcards
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What is the greatest Anglo-Saxon poem and the oldest dramatic epic
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Beowulf
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Qualities of an epic
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Hero
Lofty language
Supernatural elements
Struggle of good and evil
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What was ironic in the poem “The Seafarer”?
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That he didn’t really like the sea but he still went to sea
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According to the work “Bookworm” what does the worm do?
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Destroys the great works of man
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The work “Honey-Mead “ talks about what?
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Alcoholic drink
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From which work we get the facts about modern english history
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“Ecclesiastical History of the English People”
Venerable Bede
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Time period of Beowulf
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Anglo-Saxon
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The first type of Anglo-Saxon literature was what type of literature?
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Poetry
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Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon literature
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1.Love of freedom
2.Responsiveness to nature
3.Strong religious convictions;belief in Wyrd or Fate
4.Reverence to womanhood
5.Devotion to glory
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Term for an Anglo-Saxon poet
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Scop
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Who is known as the founder of the English history?
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Venerable Bede
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Term for the professional performer who sang or recite poetry during Anglo-Saxon times?
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Gleeman
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Term for metaphorical compound words or phrases
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Kenning
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From where is this quotation from?
“Revenging and wrong is more than… let us follow”
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Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon
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Best known morality play
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Everyman
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Theme of the work “Everyman”
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Death comes to every man when least expected
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Name of the knight who beheaded the greenknight
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Sir Gawain
The pearl poet
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What work have the theme that, the love of money is the root of all evil
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The Pardoner’s Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer
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How many times did Arthur had to tell Sir Guinevere to cast his sword into the lake before he finally did it?
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3 times
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Who wrote “The Canterbury Tales”?
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Time period of The Pearl Poet
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Medieval period
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Who wrote “Morte Darthur”?
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Thomas Malory
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Where is from this quotation
“Since my love died for me today i’ll die for him tomorrow”
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Bonny Barbara Allan
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Time period of “The Faerie Queen”
Edmund Spenser
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Elizabethian period
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For how many years of earthly glory and power did Doctor Faustus purchase with his soul?
24 years
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What poem compares man's life with a play of passion?
"On the Life of Man"
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Who wrote "The Book of Martyrs"?
John Foxe
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Who wrote "Doctor Faustus"?
Christopher Marlowe
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Consider the gratest English writer of all time
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote the first essays in English literature?
Francis Bacon
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What literary genre reach to scene during the elizabethian period?
Drama
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Speaches between two or more characters, or the speaches of everyone collectively?
Dialogue
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Speech for one character on the stage
Soliloquy
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Arrangement of events in a play
Plot
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Play that ends unhappily
Tragedy
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Play that ends happily
Comedy
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Classical love song dealing with sheperds and rustic life
Pastoral
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Popular love song during the elizabethian age
Madrigal
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14 line poem written in iambic pentameter
Sonnet
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# Where is this from
"Come live with me and be my love,..."
"The Passionate Sheperd to His Love"
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England's greatest epic
Paradise Lost
| John Milton
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Work with the theme of man need for rest
"The Pulley"
| George Hebert
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Which work has the theme of justifing the ways of God to men?
Paradise Lost
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Time period of John Milton
Puritain
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Complete tought expressed in two rhyming lines
Couplet
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Unusual parallel between highly to similar elements
Conceit
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Time period of the Conceit
Puritain
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Robinson Crusoe time period
| Daniel Defoe
Restoration on the 18th century
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What was the name of the person that helped invent the organ and had a song for her celebrating the **music**
"A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687"
| John Dryden
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Who tried to pursuade Robinson Crusoe to not go to sea
His dad
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What event cause Robinson reflect on his relationship with God
He became sick
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Name of Crusoe's pet parrot
Poll
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Name of the native that Crusoe rescuted and converted
Friday
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According to "Gulliver's Travels" how long was a lilliputian?
| Jonathan Swift
6 inches
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What does the Houyhnhnms resemble on?
Horses
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Name of the people that represent unkept humans
Yahoos
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Person that worte the biography on "The Life of Samuel Johnson"?
James Boswell
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Who wrote "The Cotter's Saturday Night"?
Robert Burns
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What work had this theme:
Upscared humble people who are buried on a churchyard
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
| Thomas Gray
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What work has this theme:
The lament of times that are no more; the simplicity of rural life
The Deserted Village
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Of William Blake poems, which one represented purity?
The lamb
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Which Blake poem represents evil?
The Tyger
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What poem by _Robert Burns_ has the theme of a nostalgic missing of past days
Auld Lang Syne
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Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
Daniel Dafoe
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Who wrote "Gulliver's Travels"?
Jonathan Swift
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Who wrote "Commentaries on the Laws of England"?
William Blackstone
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Who is known as the father of English Hymnody?
Isaac Watts
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Who wrote "Amazing Grace"?
John Newton
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Who wrote "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
Thomas Gray
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Who is known as Scottland's gratest poet?
Robert Burns
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Hero of the work
Protagonist
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Character in conflict with the protagonist
Antagonist
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Physical background were the story takes place
Setting
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Central idea that gives the work meaning
Theme
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Character that remains essencially the same throghout the story
Static Character
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Character that usually changes during the story
Dynamic character
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Ridicule of human folly or vice , with the purpose of correcting it
Satire
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Use of words for the opposite litteral meaning usually with a humorous effect
Irony
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Melancolic poem that reflect on nature and death
Elegy
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# What work?
"Say first from God above or man below, what can we reason..."
"An Essay on Man"
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# What work?
"Ill fair is the land that...and may to came"
Deserted Village
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“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men,
Gang aft agley”
To a Mouse
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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is from what time period?
Romantic Age
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English poet celebrated in the poem "London 1802"
John Milton
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Work with the theme:
The love that binds together all living things
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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To who does the Ancient Mariner tells the story?
To a wedding guest
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What kind of bird followed the boat in the Ancient Mariner
An albatross
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What error did the Ancient Mariner made concerning with the albatross?
He kill it
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What did the Sailors made with the death bird in the Ancient Mariner
They put it around his neck
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Which one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge works is based on a dream describing China
Kubla Khan
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What work has this theme:
Permanence in a world of change can be satisfied through art
Ode on a Grecian Urn
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FIrst significant novel to deal with an entire family
Pride and Prejudice
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What is the setting for the work Ivanhoe and Rebecca
A castle in medieval england
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In "Pride and Pejudice" what is the name of the elegible young man that Mr. Bennet is so eager to see match with one of her daughters.
Mr. Bingley
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Which one of Mr. Bennets daughters is his favorite
Elizabeth
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The world supreme poet of nature
William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth started what movement?
The Romantic Movement
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Who invented the byronic hero?
George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Who wrote "When I have fears"?
John Keats
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Who wrote "Ode to the West Wind", "Mutability", and "A Dirge"
Percy Byshee Shelley
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Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"
Jane Austen
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Jane Austen perfected what kind of novel?
Novel of Manners
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The idea that the spirit of God dwells in nature, and that the communion of nature is communion with God.
Pantheism
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Substitution of a word or phrase for another terms closely associated with it
Metonymy
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# Work
"Water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink"
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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# Work
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
Ode to the West Wind
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# Work
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty’- that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
Ode to a Grecian Urn
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Who was promised by the witches that his son will become king?
Banquo
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Which one of Duncan sons was named as his successor
Malcom
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Who's ghost did Macbeth see at the table
Banquo
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What character sleep walks as a result of her sin
Lady Macbeth
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Who kills Macbeth
Macduff
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Author of Macbeth
William Shakespeare
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The individual in "The Pylgrims Progress" who tells Christian to go through the wicked gate
Evangelist
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The two people who runned after Christian in an attempt to stop him of going through the wicked gate
Obstinate and Pliable
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Individual who Christian met at the valley of humillation and this person tries to stop him from believing in Christ
Apollyon
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How does Christian defeat Apollyon?
With his sword
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Only weapon that Christian can use in the valley?
Prayer
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Who become Christian companion after he passess through the valley of the shadow of death?
Faithful
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Who joins Christian after he scaped from the town of vanity?
Hopeful
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Who is the individual who invites Christian to dig in the silver mine
Demas
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name of the mountain range that they came after scaping from the castle?
Delectable mountains
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Name of the thing that the Pylgrims must pass in order to get to the celestial city
River
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The person that passed the river with the hope of vainhope
Ignorance
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What happened when ignorance came to the gate?
They would not let him in because he didn't had and scroll
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Who wrote Pylgrims Progress?
John Bunyan
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Why did Bunyan was in prision?
For preaching the word of God
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What represents assurance of salvation in Pilgrims Progress?
The scroll
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Name of the city that represented heaven
Celestial city
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Place that represents the system of the world
Vanity fair
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Place that represented the church
Palace Beautiful
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# Who say it?
"Do you see yonder the wicked gate..."
Evangelist
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Time period of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Victorian
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Tennyson friend who wrote "In Memoriam" conmemorating the death of his friend
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Name of the story in which a husband goes to the sea and when he came back found that his wife was married with another person
Enoch Arden
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How long did Enoch Arden was gone when he came back
10 years
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In the work "Idylls of the King" which character represented the flesh
Guinevere
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Which character represented the spirit in "Idylls of the King"?
Arthur
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Who used the sin of Lancelot and Guinevere to disrupt the table
Sir Modred
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What is the name of king Arthur sword?
Excallibur
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Person who is task to throw excallibur into the lake
Sir Bedivere
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How many times did Arthur ask Bedivere to throw the sword before he finally throws it
3 times
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What work describes the moment when Jesus look at Peter after he denied Him 3 times?
The look
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Christina Rossetti described 3 enemies, what were the three enemies?
Flesh, world, and devil
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Who or what is the hound of heaven in the poem "The Hound of Heave"?
God
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Jack Worthing and Gwendolen Fairfax, what work are they from?
The Importance of Being Earnest
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Name of the individual that Mrs. Copperfield married in the work "David Copperfield"?
Mr.Murdstone
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What was the name of David's nurse in "David Copperfield?
Peggotty
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The point of "The Convergence of the Twain" its about what?
The Titanic
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Who or what is the subject in "The Treasury of David"?
Psalm 8
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Who wrote "Idylls of the King"?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Who wrote "My Last Duchess"
Robert Browning
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Who wrote "David Copperfield"?
Charles Dickens
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Prince of preachers who wrote "Treasury of David"
Charles H. Spurgeon
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The Victorian Era was known as the great age of what kind of literature?
Age of prose
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# What work is this from?
"Tis better than love in loss, than never to love at all"
In Memoriam
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Time period of "Pygmalion"
| Bernard Shaw
The Tweentieth Century
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Professor that Eliza comes to learn how to speak properly
Professor Higgins
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What work has the theme of the irony of fame and glory
"To an Athlete Dying Young
| A.E. Housman
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Who wrote "The Second Coming"?
William Butler Yeats
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Who is haunted by the memory of the death of his brother whom he abandoned to his enemies
Arsat
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For what country did Von Bork collected British information?
Germany
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In the time of Oceania what word of newspeak means holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them?
Doublethink
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Who wrote "The Lagoon"
Joseph Conrad
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Who wrote "His Last Bow"?
Sir. A Conan Doyle
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Who wrote "The Railway Children"?
E. Nesbit
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Who wrote "The Screwtape Letters"?
C.S. Lewis
