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1. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Polonius
Katherine
2. 'April is the cruellest month' (its first line); 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'; and (its last line) the mantra in the Sanskrit language 'Shantih shantih shantih.'
A frame story/narrative
The Waste Land
Polonius
Ivanhoe
3. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
The absurdity of life
Tamburlaine the Great
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Othello
4. This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character - a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela - encountering Native Americans - captives and mutineers before being rescued.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Piers Plowman
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
5. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Oliver Twist
The Alchemist
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Othello
6. Leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it - employs a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed - at least in part - for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of
The Book of Thel
Icarus
Othello
A frame story/narrative
7. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Valdes and Cornelius
The Tower
The Jew of Malta
Dante
8. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The love of travel
William Wordsworth
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
9. Book of poems
Christopher Marlowe
Sailing to Byzantium
Utopia
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
10. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Claudius
Shakespeare
William Blake
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
11. Written by Sir Walter Scott - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disliked by his father because he loves a girl and is friends with some of the Normans -there is a tournament - and Ivanhoe is injured and the daughter wants to take him to get help - -battles e
Great Expectations
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Piers Plowman
Ivanhoe
12. William Yeats wrote...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Pygmalion
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
13. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
William Wordsworth
Ivanhoe
The Book of Thel
14. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Percy Shelley
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
15. 'Money - money - money - and what money can make of life' - a rich man dies - the will says that John Harmon will get the estate if he marries a woman named Bella whom he has never met -
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Rape of the Lock
16. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Hamlet
Edmund Spenser
Valdes and Cornelius
17. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great
Adventure
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
18. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Oliver Twist
The Waste Land
Bells and Pomegranates.
Alexander Pope
19. 17th century authors
Icarus
Pride and Prejudice
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
20. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who - disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry - looks for distraction in foreign lands.
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21. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Graham Greene
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Gulliver
Edmund Spenser
22. The first of 4 stanzas discusses concerns about lost vision - the second of 4 stanzas describes how age causes man to lose sight of the divine - and the third of 3 stanzas is hopeful in that the memory of the divine allows us to sympathise with our f
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Jonathon Swift
23. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
William Blake
Rape of the Lock
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Jungle Book
24. If the daughters don't marry and the father dies - the girls and their mom will be left without a home. Main characters: Elizabeth Bennett and Darcy
Prometheus Unbound
Astrophel and Stella
Sonnet sequence
Pride and Prejudice
25. Is a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work - although generally - unlike the stanza - each sonnet so connected can also be read as a meaningful separate unit.
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Sonnet sequence
Odes
Valdes and Cornelius
26. The 'shrew' of the title
Katherine
Robert Browning
The Tower
Ode on a Grecian Urn
27. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Emma by Jane Austen
Astrophel and Stella
28. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Edmund Spenser
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Polonius
29. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
William Blake
30. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Christopher Marlowe
Macbeth
Odes
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
31. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Piers Plowman
Gulliver
John Milton
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
32. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Don Juan
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Rape of the Lock
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
33. Jane Austen wrote ...
John Bunyan
Jungle Book
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
34. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Shakespeare
Polonius
Dante
Joseph Conrad
35. Written by William Blake - the Lily - the Cloud - the Worm - the Clod of Clay...characters - asks the question 'why does the springtime of life inevitably fade so that all things must end?'
The Book of Thel
The love of travel
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The Knight's Tale
36. Written by Christopher Marlowe - story about a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge - allotted twenty-four years of life on Earth - during which time he will have Mephistophilis as his personal servant. Then - he must repay with ti
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
William Langland
Graham Greene
John Bunyan
37. The poem focuses on two scenes: one in which a lover eternally pursues a beloved without fulfilment - and another of villagers about to perform a sacrifice.
Emma by Jane Austen
Percy Shelley
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
38. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Ivanhoe
William Langland
Katherine
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
39. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Pulpit
Canterburry Tales
Claudius
A frame story/narrative
40. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Valdes and Cornelius
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
John Bunyan
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41. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Emma by Jane Austen
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Jonathon Swift
42. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Philip Sidney
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Odes
Wuthering Heights
43. Major italian poet - known as the 'Supreme Poet' - 'Father of the Italian Language' - Wrote Divine Comedy - a masterpiece of the world and very well known
William Langland
Dante
Piers Plowman
Rape of the Lock
44. Men and Women - a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes - all of which are monologues spoken by different narrators - some identified and some not - was written by...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Robert Browning
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
45. Heroine thinks she is good at matchmaking and thinks that she will never find love for herself - ends up with Knightley after a long time
Emma by Jane Austen
William Wordsworth
The Knight's Tale
Divine Comedy
46. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
George Elliot
Utopia
Shakespeare
47. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Rape of the Lock
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
48. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Christopher Marlowe
Icarus
Oliver Twist
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
49. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Piers Plowman
Alexander Pope
Polonius
Astrophel and Stella
50. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
William Blake
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
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