Test 12 Literature Flashcards
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From what period was Beowulf?
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Anglo-Saxon Period
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Greatest Anglo-Saxon poem
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Beowulf
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Qualities from an epic
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Great national hero, Lofty language, supernatural elements, and the strugglr of good and evil.
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First type of Anglo-Saxon literature
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Poetry
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Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon literature
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Love of freedom, responsiveness to nature, strong religious belief, reverence in womanhood, and devotion to glory.
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Name of an Anglo-Saxon poet
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Scop
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Founder of English history
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Venerable Bede
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Profesional performer who recited poetry during Anglo-Saxon times
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Gleeman
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Metaphorical compound words or phrases
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Kenning
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“Let us follow”
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Beowulf
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Best known morality play
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Everyman
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Theme of Everyman
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Death comes to every man when it’s least expected
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The knight who beheaded the green knight
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Sir Gawain
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The love of money is the root of all evil
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The Pardoner’s Tales
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How many times Arthur told Sir Benevire to cast his sword to the lake?
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Three times
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Who wrote Cantebury Tales?
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Chaucer
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Pearl Poet
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Medieval Period
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Who wrote Morte Dartur
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Thomas Malory
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I’ll die for him tomorrow
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Bonny Barbara Allam
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The Fairie Queen
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Elizabithan Period
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How many years did Dr. Faustus bought with his soul?
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24 years
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Which poem compares a man’s life to a play?
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On the life of man
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Who wrote The Book of Martirs?
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John Foxe
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Who wrote Dr. Fastus?
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Christopher Marlowe
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Who is the greatest writer of all time?
William Shakespear
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Who wrote the first Essay?
Francis Bacon
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Reached its zenith during the Elizabithan period
Drama
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Speech between two characters
Dialogue
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Speech by one character
Soliloqui
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Arrangement of events
Plot
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Play that ends unhappily
Tragedy
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Play that ends happily
Comedy
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Love songs dealing with pastors
Pastoral
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Popular love song during the Elizabithan era
Madrigal
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14 line poem
Sonnet
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Come live with me and be my lover
Passionate Shepperd to his love
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England's greatest epic
Paradise Lost
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Man's need for rest
The Pulley
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Justifying the ways of God to man
Paradise Lost
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John Milton
Puritan era
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Complete thought with two rhyming lines
Couplet
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Unusual parallel to highly similar terms
Concede
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Robison Crusoe
Restoration in the 18th century
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Name of the person who helped invent the organ
Cecilia
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Who tried to persuade Crusoe to not go to the sea?
His dad
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Where did Robison sleep the first night in the island?
On a tree
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What event causes Crusoe to reflect his relationship with God
He got sick
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What was the name of Crusoe's pet?
Poll
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Name of the native islander who Crusoe saves?
Friday
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How tall was the average lilliputian?
Six inches
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What did the Houyhnhnms resemble?
Horses
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Name of the people who represented unkept humans
Yahoos
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Person who wrote the biography on the life of Samuel Johnson?
James Boswell
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Name of the person who wrote the Cotton Saturday Night
Robert burns
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Obscure humble people who like buried in a churchyard
Ellegy written in a country churchyard
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The element of times that are no more and the simplicity of rural life
The Desserted Village
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Represented purtity
The Lamb
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Represented evil
The Tiger
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Which poem of Robert Burns has the theme of the nostalgic reminising of past days
Auld Lang Syne
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Who wrote Robison Crusoe?
Daniel Defoe
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Who wrote Gulliver's Travels?
Johnatan Swift
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Who wrote Commentaries in the laws of England?
William Blackstone
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Known as the father of English hymnity
Isaac Watts
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Who wrote Amazing Grace?
John Newton
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Who wrote Ellegy written in a country churchyard?
Thomas Gray
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Known as Scotland's greatest poet
Robert Burn
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The arrangement of events
Plot
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Hero of the work
Protagonist
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Character who's normally in conflict with the protagonaist
Antagonist
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Physical background that gets switched
Setting
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The central idea that gives the work meaning
Theme
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Character who remains the same
Static character
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Character who often changes throughout the story
Dynamic character
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Ridicule of human falley with the purpose of correcting it
Satire
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Use of words that convey the opposite of the meaning usually with a humurous effect
Irony
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Melancholic poem which reflects on nature and death
Ellegy
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What can we reason but for what we know
An Essay on Man
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Where wealth accumulates and men decay
The Desserted Village
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The best laids skill of mice and man
To a Mouse
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Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
Romantic Age
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What English poet is being celebrated in the work London 1802?
John Milton
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The love which should bind together all created things
The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
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To whom does the Mariner tells his story?
The wedding guest
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What kind of bird follows the ship?
An Albatross
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What error does the ancient mariner does?
Shoots the Albatross
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What did the sailors do with the dead bird?
They put it around the neck of the ancient mariner
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Which work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is based on a dream describing China?
Kubla Khan
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Permanence in a world of change can be satisfied through art
Ode on a Grecian urn
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The first significant novel to deal with an entire family?
Pride and Prejudice
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What is the setting of the work Ivanhoe and Rebecca?
A castle
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Name of the gentleman that Mr. Bennet wants to match with his daughters
Mr. Bingley
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What is Mr. Bennet's favorite daughter?
Elizabeth
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Worlds supreme poet of nature
William Wordsworth
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Wordsworth helped start which movement?
Romantic movement
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Who invented the byronic hero?
George Gordon Lord
Byron
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Who wrote Ode to the west wind, the dirge and mutability?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Who wrote When I have Fears?
John Keats
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Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
Jane Austen
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Jane Austen is known for perfecting what type of novel?
Novel of manner
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False idea that the spirit of God dwells in nature and to comune with nature is to comune with God
Pantheism
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The substitution of a word or phrase for another term closely related
Metonymy
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Water water everywhere
Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
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If Winter comes can Spring be far behind
ode to the West Wind
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Beauty is truth, truth is beauty
Ode to a Grecian Urn
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Who was promised by the witches that he would be father of kings?
Banqoil
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Name as sucessor
Malcom
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Whose ghost does Macbeth sees?
Banqoil's
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What character sleepwalks as a result of her sin?
Lady Macbeth
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Who defeats Macbeth and beheads him?
Macduff
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Who was the author of Macbeth?
William Shakespear
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Who tells Christian to go to the Wicked Gate?
Evangelist
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Who of the two neighbors tries to stop Christian from going to the Wicked Gate?
Obstinate and Pliable
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Who Christian meet in the Valley of Humiliation that tries to convince him to stop following Christ ?
Apollion
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How does Christian defeats Apollion?
With a sword
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Only weapon Christian can use in the valley
Prayer
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Who becomes Christian's companion after the valley?
Faithful
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Who joins Christian after he escapes the town of vanity
Hopeful
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Who invites Christian to dig in the silver mine?
Deemus
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Name of the mountain range that the pilgrims come to
The Delectable mountains
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Name of the thing pilgrims must cross that represents death
A river
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Who is able to cross the river with the help of Vain, Hope, Fairyman?
Ignorance
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What happens when Ignorance gets to the gate?
They didn't let him in because he didn't have the scroll
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Who wrote the Pilgrim's Progress?
John Bunian
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Where was John when he wrote The Pilgrim's Progress?
In jail
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Why was John in jail?
Preached the word of God without a permit
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What represents the assurance of salvation?
The scroll
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Name if the city that represents Heaven
Celestial City
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Place that represents the system of the world which oposes Christianity
Vanity fair
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Place that represented the church
Palace Beautiful
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Do you see under Wicked Gate?
Evangelist
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A narrative in which the characters, places, and other items are symbols
Allegory
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Victorian Era
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Tennyson's friend who died
Arthur Henry Hallam
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Which story tells about a husband that goes to the sea and comes back several years later and his wife gets married with someone else?
Enoch Garden
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How long Enoch Garden was gone?
10 years
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Which character represented the flesh in Idyls of the King?
Guienevere
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Which character represented the spirit?
Arthur
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Who used the sin of Lancelot for evil purposes
Sir Mordred
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Name of King Arthur's sword
Excalibur
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Name of the person who was tasked to throw the sword to the lake
Sir Benevide
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How many times does King Arthur had to ask to throw the sword to the lake?
3 times
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What poem describes the moment that Jesus looks upon Peter when he denied him 3 times?
The Look
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Rosseti describes three enemies, what are they?
The flesh, the world, and the devil
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Who or what is the Hound in Heaven?
God
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Jack Worthing and Gwendolin
The Importance to be Earnest
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Individual that Mrs. Copperfield marries
Mr. Murdstone
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Name of David's nurse
Mrs. Peggotty
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What is the Convergance of the Twain about?
The Titanic
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Who or what is the subject of The Treasury of David?
Psalm 8
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Who wrote Idyls of the King?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Who wrote My Last Dutches?
Robert Browning
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Who wrote David Copperfield?
Charles Dickens
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Who was the Prince of preachers?
Charles Spurgeon
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The Victorian era was known as the great age of what literature?
Prose
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Tis better to have loved and have lost
In Memoriam
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Pygmalion
Twentieth century
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What professor did Eliza comes to to speak properly?
Professor Higgins
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The irony of fame and glory
To an Athlete Dying Young
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Who wrote The Second Coming?
William Yates
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Who was haunted by the memory of the death of his brother?
Arsat
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For what country did Von Bork was stealing Britishin formation for?
Germany
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Word means holding two contradictory beleifs
Double think
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Who wrote The Lagoon?
Conrad
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Who wrote His Last Bow?
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Who wrote The Railway Children?
E. Nesbit
