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1. Explores new thoughts on death by comparing/contrasting the mortal human with the immortal nightingale - ends with accepting the idea that pleasure must end and that death in not escapable
John Bunyan
The Alchemist
Ode to a Nightingale
Shakespeare


2. 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
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Astrophel and Stella


3. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Ode to a Nightingale
John Bunyan
Sailing to Byzantium
Prometheus Unbound


4. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Shakespeare
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Alexander Pope


5. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
The love of travel
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Macbeth


6. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)

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7. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
The Waste Land
T.S. Elliot
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus


8. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Dante
Icarus
Edmund Spenser



9. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
The Knight's Tale
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world


10. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Jungle Book
Claudius
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens


11. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Graham Greene
Achilles
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist


12. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Shakespeare
A frame story/narrative


13. 18th Century Irish Satirist
William Wordsworth
Hamlet
Jonathon Swift
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world


14. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Rape of the Lock
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Pulpit


15. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Alchemist
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray


16. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Astrophel and Stella
Icarus
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Claudius


17. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
Chaucer
The Alchemist
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)


18. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Jungle Book
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The absurdity of life
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens


19. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Piers Plowman
Mary Shelley
T.S. Elliot
Claudius


20. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Great Expectations
Pride and Prejudice
Most difficult - but most masterly satire


21. 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
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Ivanhoe
Pulpit
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world


22. 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.
The Book of Thel
Mary Shelley
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe


23. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
The absurdity of life
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Katherine
Bells and Pomegranates.


24. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
William Wordsworth
John Bunyan
Astrophel and Stella


25. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Jungle Book
John Milton
Don Juan
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus


26. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
John Keats
Canterburry Tales
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The Jew of Malta


27. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Adventure
Shakespeare
The Knight's Tale
John Milton


28. William Yeats wrote...

Ivanhoe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Ode to a Nightingale


29. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Odes
Sir Walter Scott
Oliver Twist
Wuthering Heights


30. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Oliver Twist
Dante
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Prometheus Unbound


31. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Hamlet
William Blake
Divine Comedy
Sir Walter Scott


32. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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33. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Idylls of the King
Gulliver
Oliver Twist
Christopher Marlowe


34. 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...
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Robert Browning
Samuel Coleridge
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)


35. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
George Elliot
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Ode to a Nightingale
Prometheus Unbound


36. What is it called when each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. what story is written this way?

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37. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
T.S. Elliot
Alexander Pope
Shakespeare
Great Expectations


38. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Great Expectations
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
William Wordsworth
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics


39. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Ode on a Grecian Urn

Gulliver


40. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Gulliver
Emma by Jane Austen
Chaucer
Divine Comedy


41. Modern English authors
Utopia
A frame story/narrative
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice


42. The founder of gothic literature - Wrote The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Gaston de Blondeville - The Italian - The Mysteries of Udolpho - The Romance of the Forest and A Sicilian Romance.
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ann Radcliffe
John Milton
William Langland


43. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Chaucer
Tamburlaine the Great
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Knight's Tale


44. 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.
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Astrophel and Stella
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Pilgrim's Progress


45. Works by Jonathon Swift

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46. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Joseph Conrad
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)


47. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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48. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Joseph Conrad
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Gulliver


49. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
The Jew of Malta
Claudius
Bells and Pomegranates.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics


50. 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.
Adventure
Sonnet sequence
Oliver Twist
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe