The Only lyrical ballad by keats |
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la belle dame sans merci |
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he left his first wife for a woman who was also a writer |
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shelley |
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he died at 25 from TB |
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keats |
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he was anotorious ladies man and this poem is semi-autobioggraphical |
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Don Juan. Byron. |
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He was neo-classical in style and ultimately romantic in subject |
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keats |
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what is the speaker jealous of in "ode to a nightingale"? |
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keats |
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The nightengale inspires the speaker to do what? |
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write poetry |
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his political beliefs made him an outcast |
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shelley |
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his non-titled name is george gordon |
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Lord Byron |
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Childe Harold's Pilgramage made him famous |
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Byron |
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The theme of Don Juan |
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Carpe Diem |
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The pom written in ottava rima |
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Don juan |
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His first wife committed suicide in Hyde Park, London |
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shelley |
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The point of view in "KUbla Khan" changes from _____to ____. |
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3rd to 1st |
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"And 'mid this tumult Kubla Heard from far/ Ancestral voices prophesying war!" What literary term is present? |
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Slant Rhyme |
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"the Anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, the guide, the guaridan of my heart, and soul of all my moral being" what does the mean? |
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The general splendor of nature
snesory imagery
visceral experiences |
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"Tintern Abbey" is a ____ poem what the Wye River Valley in Wales, which stands for____, has meant to the speaker |
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Lyric/ Romantic thoughts |
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The opening and closing quatrins of "the tyger" are in |
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apostrophe |
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the question blake poses for the reader in the tyger is |
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How can god create a negative animal |
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blake's poem the lamb, poses a question but also answers it. the answer to who is your creator is |
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christ, the redeemer |
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though the morning was cold, tom was happy and warm, so if all do their duty they need not fear harm. Lit. terms? |
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slant rhyme/ theme |
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"then down a green plain leaping, laughing, they run, and wash in a river, and shine in the sun." Lit terms? |
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pun
symbolism |
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"here, under this dark sycamore, and view these plots of cottage ground" |
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Wordsworth
Tintern Abbey |
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That time is past and all it's aching joys are now no more. |
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Wordsworth
Tintern Abbey |
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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of throughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity" |
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tintern abbey
wordsworth |
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But Oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!" |
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Kubla khan
coleridge |
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were all of them locked up in coffins of black |
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chimney sweeper
blake |
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it was a miracle of rare device a sunny please dome with caves of ice |
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kubla khan
coleridge |
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are those her ribs through which the sun did peer as through a grate? |
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Ancient Mariner
coleridge |
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so twice five miles of fertile ground |
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kubla khan
coleridge |
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his life was not romantic or poetic because he was happily married |
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Blake |
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He placed a higher appreciation on the visual arts |
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Blake |
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A good amount of his writings is cryptic and needs explanation |
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Blake |
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The point of view of "The Chimney Sweeper" |
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1st Person |
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The tone of "The Tyger" |
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Aggressive |
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He was the premiere lyrical poet of his day |
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Wordsworth |
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He fathered a child out of wedlock with a French woman |
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Wordsworth |
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His writing partner and confidant was Coleridge |
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Wordsworth |
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He believed that nature made him a better person and God's vision could be seen in nature |
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Wordsworth |
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He was an opium addict and this can be seen in his exotic poetry |
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Coleridge |
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"Tintern Abbey's" rhyme scheme or rhythmic form |
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Blank Verse |
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The tone is "Strange Fits of Passion Have I known" goes from hopeful to |
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Tragic |
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The symbol of the _________ represents the decline of the lover's tryst in "Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known" |
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Moon |
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He never married and is buried next to his mother |
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Wordsworth |
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A long lyric about a serious subject |
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Lyrical Ballad |
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Gulliver can best be described as a |
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simple, honest observer |
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How does gulliver plan to free himself from the Lillipution's bonds |
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He plans to behave gently and submissively to gain the Lillipution's trust |
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The Lilliputian candidate who jumps highest on a rope without falling |
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qualifies for a vacant position in a high office of the court |
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a heroic couplet contists of two |
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rhymed lines of imabic pentameter |
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At the end of "A Voyage to Lilliput", Reldresal implies that the Emperor |
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hopes that Gulliver will help to defend Lilliput against an attack from foreigners |
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Which of the following items best describes how Swift satirizes the difference between political parties in Lilliput? |
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Swift mocks the petty differences between the political parties |
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Swift writes satire in an attempt |
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to improve human conduct |
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Swift describes several groups experiencing absurd conflicts. He does this to |
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make readers more aware of the absurd conflicts in their environments |
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Irony can be defined as |
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A pointed contrast between reality and expectations |
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Which of the following statements is the best example of situational irony |
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The Lilliputian, believing that Gulliver understands him, makes a long speech, but Gulliver does not understand a word |
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Gullivers travels, judging from this excerpt alone, can best be termed a |
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merciless, devastating satire of humanity |
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Gulliver has difficulty coping with the flies in Brobdingnag because |
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they leave excrement on his food and sting him |
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The Queen asks Gulliver |
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if other English persons are as cowardly as he |
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Which of the following statements best describes the King's treatment of Gulliver |
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He treats Gulliver gently but mocks the politics of his country |
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Which of the following statements is true? |
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Gulliver's initial revulsionto the Brobdingnagians' immense bulk eventually vanishes. |
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Swift's principal target is |
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the vices of legislators |
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PART ONE:In this selection, Swift's views are presented by |
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The King of Brobdingnag |
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Satire can be defined as: |
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a kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice or folly in order to bring about social reform |
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Which of the following statements is the best example of satire in Part 2 |
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The King claims that vice and ignorance are the qualifications for an English legislator |
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The purpose of A Modest Proposal is to satirize |
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English policy in Ireland |
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The narrator of A Modest Proposal assumes the role of |
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an ecoonomic planner acting for the benefit of England (over the Irish) |
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The narrator claims that landlords will benefit from his proposal because they will be able to |
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sell excess children |
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Which of the following items is not an advantage anticipated by the narrator |
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will decrease the number of marriages |
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The narrator claims to have no personal motive behind his proposal because |
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his child is too old to be sold and his wife is too old to have more children |
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Swift's diction in A Modest Proposal creates a tone that is |
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frivolous |
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"Satire's my weapon, but i'm too discreet to run amuck and tilt at all i meet" is an example of: |
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a closed herioc couplet. |
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What does pope say about learning? |
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a small amount of learning is a dangerous thing. |
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pope recommends forgiveness b/c it |
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helps one rise aboce being merely human |
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"be thou the first rue merit to befirend; his praise is lostm who stays till all commend" advises the reader to: |
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avoid waiting for others' praise before praising something of merit. |
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Which of the following statements best describes Pope's attitude toward satire? |
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he uses satire, but refrains from being overly aggrassive. |
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which of the following statements best describes what pope is trying to accomplish in his herioc couplets? |
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he wants to give useful advice in a manner that is pleasing. |
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In An Essay on Man poper recommends that people |
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examine themselves |
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Antithesis can be defined as: |
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a contrst of ideas expressed in a grammatically balanced statement |
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example of an antithesis? |
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people who are forewarned are sometimes forearmed. |
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The rape of the Lock refers to: |
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theft of a lock of Belinda's hair |
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During the fight between belinda and the baron:
A Rape of the Lock |
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Belinda throws snuff at the baron |
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what happens to the lock?
Rape of the lock |
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it rises into stars |
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Pope's point in The Rape of the lock is summarized in the line: |
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"What mighty contests rise from trivial things" |
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A mock epic parodies an epic by treating a: |
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trivial subject in a lofty manner. |
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which character is on a spiritual journey in Divine Comedy? |
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Dante |
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Who is the first person narrator in Divine Comedy |
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dante |
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wirgil tells dante that the most important quality for a person to behold it? |
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fortitude |
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betrayers are cast into what circle of hell? |
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ninth |
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The opening lines of Milton's Paradise Lost contains the poet's reasons for concentrating first on satan: |
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Seduced Adam and Eve |
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Which of the following quotations from "the fall of satan" does not make refernce to the atmosphere of hell? |
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"As far as angels ken" |
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in "the fall of satan" milton does not explore which themes? |
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adam and eve are not responsible for their actions. |
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levels of hell in order? |
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1. Sins of flesh
2. sins of anger
3. sins against reason
4. betrayers |
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in "the rime of the Ancient Mariener" a ghost is driven by what two things? |
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grim reaper and a living dead woman. |
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Which writers are of "second generation" romantic poets? |
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keats, shelley, gordon, byron |
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The speaker's feeling about his tears in "Tears, Idle Tears" can best be described as: |
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confused and passionate |
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At the end of the poem "Tears, Idle tears" it is clear that the speaker believes memories: |
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are like death in life |
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In the poem "Tears, Idle Tears" the word idle can best be defined as |
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without worth or value |
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of the following images, those that dominate the second and thrid stanzas are pathetic fallacies:
"Tears, Idle Tears" |
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sunrise and sunset |
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The mirror literally shows the Lady of Shalott: |
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her tapestry and shadowy images of the world outside. |
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What describes camelot? |
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it is the real outside world. |
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The image that best foresadows the ending of the poem is: |
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"the mirror cracking from side-to-sode" |
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The flowers that the narrator mentions in "Lady of Shalott" are: |
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oppose the gray walls and towers
surround her island
represtent death |
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In "Ulysses" the poetic form that Tennyson takes is a: |
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dramatic monologue |
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The first audience in "Ulysses" is____. The narrator critiques what two persons in this section? |
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himself/ subjects and wife. |
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The place where Ulysses hope he will sail to and once again meet with his friend Achilles is: |
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The Happy Isles |
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Robert Browning takes as his narrator a mentally ill kill in what two poems? |
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My Last Duchess
Porphyria's Lover |
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"My last duchess" is based on what formal occasion? |
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A nobleman's employee making dowry arrangements with a widower. |
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The Duke is angered by the fact the the young Duchess:
"My last duchess" |
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smiled freely at others |
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From the Duke's statement that no one pulls back the curtain from the portait except him, the reader can infer that the Duke: |
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likes to control his possessions and feels women are possessions. |
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"And Moving through a mirror clear that hang before her all the year shadows of the world appear" |
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Tennyson
Lady of Shalott. |
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"She has a heart- how shall i say?-too soon made glad, too easily impressed; she lived what e'er she looked on, and her looks want everywhere." |
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browning
my last duchess |
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"so careful of the type? but no from scrpaed cliff and quarried stone she cries "a thousand types are gone" |
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tennyson
in memorium |
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"matched with are aged wife, i mete and dole unequal laws unto a savage race" |
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tennyson
Ulysses |
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"woman is the lesser man, and all their passions matched with mine are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine" |
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Tennyson
Locksley |
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"For when the morning flush of passion and the first embrace had died between them, tho' he loved her none the less" |
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tennyson
lucretus |
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"And I said, 'My cousin Amy, speak and speak the truth to me, trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee.' |
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Tennyson
Lockesly Hall |
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"are God and Nature then at strife" |
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tennyson
In Memorium |
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"deep as first love, and wilofe with all regret; o death in life, the days that are no more!" |
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Tennyson
tears idle tears |
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and i linger on the shore, and the individual withers, and the world is more and more" |
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tennyson
locksley hall |
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"tears from the depth of some divine despair rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes" |
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Tears, Idle Tears
Tennyson |
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"On Wither side by the rive lie long fields of barley and of rye" |
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Lady of Shalott
Tennyson |
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"Or at the casement seen her stand? or is she known in all the land" |
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Lady of Shalott
Tennyson |
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"The gemmy bridle glittered free, like to some brach of stars we see" |
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Lady of Shalott
Tennyson |
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"She left the web, she left the loom, she made three paces through the room" |
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Lady of Shalott
Tennyson |
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"And they crossed themselves for fear, all the knights at camelot" |
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Lady of Shalott
Tennyson |
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"She cries, "A Thousand types are gone; I care for nothing, all shall go." |
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In Memorium
Tennyson |
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"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." |
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Ulysses
Tennyson |
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"come, my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world." |
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Ulysses
Tennyson |
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"How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use." |
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Ulysses
Tennyson |
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Who wrote In Memorium? |
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Tennyson about Arthor Henry Halem. |
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