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1. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Joseph Conrad
Odes
2. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Graham Greene
Jungle Book
Philip Sidney
Sir Walter Scott
3. 18th Century Irish Satirist
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Pygmalion
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Jonathon Swift
4. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Don Juan
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Idylls of the King
5. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Othello
Hamlet
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The Alchemist
6. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Langland
Astrophel and Stella
George Elliot
Valdes and Cornelius
7. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Astrophel and Stella
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Christopher Marlowe
Joseph Conrad
8. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
John Bunyan
The Renaissance 1485-1660
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
The absurdity of life
9. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Ode to a Nightingale
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A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
10. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Wuthering Heights
Odes
Dante
11. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
John Bunyan
Divine Comedy
12. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Joseph Conrad
Piers Plowman
The Renaissance 1485-1660
13. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Edmund Spenser
T.S. Elliot
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Percy Shelley
14. 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?'
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
The Book of Thel
15. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Great Expectations
The absurdity of life
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Valdes and Cornelius
16. Criseyde becomes the object of affection for Troilus (a man who had scoffed at love) - There is an exchange of prisoners between the Trojans and the Greeks. Criseyde has to escape - but promises she will return to Troilus in 10 days. Who wrote this s
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
T.S. Elliot
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
17. Written by Emily Bronte - the name of a farmhouse - the all-encompassing and passionate - yet thwarted - love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.
Don Juan
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Wuthering Heights
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
18. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
William Langland
The Waste Land
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Don Juan
19. '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 -
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Alexander Pope
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
20. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Don Juan
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
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21. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Claudius
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
John Keats
22. Deals with man's relationship with time - the universe - and the divine - only through realizing Christ's sacrifice for mankind is an individual capable of being saved.
Dante
The Jew of Malta
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
23. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Divine Comedy
Valdes and Cornelius
The Alchemist
Ode to a Nightingale
24. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Odes
Polonius
25. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Philip Sidney
Percy Shelley
26. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
William Langland
The Book of Thel
Shakespeare
Graham Greene
27. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Dante
Oliver Twist
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The Knight's Tale
28. 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
William Blake
John Bunyan
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
29. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Edmund Spenser
Piers Plowman
The Tower
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
30. 19th Century authors
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
William Wordsworth
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Pilgrim's Progress
31. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
The love of travel
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Jungle Book
32. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
A frame story/narrative
Pilgrim's Progress
Utopia
33. Modern English authors
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Pilgrim's Progress
The Jew of Malta
34. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
T.S. Elliot
35. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
John Keats
Paradise Lost
Graham Greene
36. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
The love of travel
Paradise Lost
Pulpit
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
37. Wrote 'Troilus and Criseyde' - 'The Knight's Tale' - 'Canterbury Tales' - known as the 'Father of English Literature' - considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages - first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey
Emma by Jane Austen
George Elliot
Chaucer
Polonius
38. 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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39. 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
Piers Plowman
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Pride and Prejudice
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
40. Works by Charles Dickens
Gulliver
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Graham Greene
Prometheus Unbound
41. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Claudius
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Canterburry Tales
Pride and Prejudice
42. 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.
Edmund Spenser
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Ode on a Grecian Urn
'Spenserian stanza'
43. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
T.S. Elliot
The absurdity of life
John Bunyan
44. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Polonius
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
45. A poem
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Piers Plowman
T.S. Elliot
46. Sent to a boarding school - walks to find his only relative - his aunt - marries Agnes and has a child whom he names after Aunt Betsy
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The Book of Thel
47. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Jonathon Swift
Hamlet
William Wordsworth
48. Written by Christopher Marlowe - Barabas is the protagonist - who uses his daughter (Abigail) to make others mad - and when she finds out - she joins a nunnery. She is then poisoned.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Jew of Malta
Mary Shelley
49. This story is made up of 108 sonnets and 11 songs - 'aster' (star) Greek 'Stella' (star) Latin - 'Phil' (lover) - Thus Astrophel is the star lover - and Stella is his star.
Claudius
Astrophel and Stella
Graham Greene
Wuthering Heights
50. 18th Century authors
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The Jew of Malta
The absurdity of life
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