Abeka English Literature (12) Test 10 – Flashcards
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"The Ballad of East and West"
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set in a battle between India and Great Britain, this tells of Kamal who steels the English Colonel's horse
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"Ulysses"
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to inspire people to keep striving no matter what the end will be
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In Memoriam
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a prayer asking for greater faith in divine love and immortal life
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"The Toys"
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a father's love for his son/God's love
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"Dover Beach"
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reflection on the current age not being an age of faith but of sceptisism and unbelief
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"The Hound of Heaven"
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running from God and God's pursuit of us
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"Prospice"
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Christian faith in eternal life and being reunited with his wife in death
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"Crossing the Bar"
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the barrier between life and death, this poem is always placed at the end of all his works
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"The Three Enemies" author
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Christina Rossetti
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Christina Rossetti's biggest driving force
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her religious conviction
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What were the three enemies
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The world, the flesh, and the devil
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde came under the influence of
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Neopaganism
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Fourty 4 sonnets of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's love for Robert Browning
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probably the finest love poems in our language
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"Windhover"
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Gerard Manly Hopkins
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"Crossing the Bar"
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Alfred Lord Tennyson, requested to be at the end of all of his works on his death bed
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The Idylls of the King
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King Arthur- the spiritual power which can subdue the lower nature of man - Christ and the Soul, Guinevere- the flesh, the visible, and the material, Lancelot- righteous man
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"The Hound of Heaven"
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God
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Jack, Gwendolen, Lady Bracknell
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"Enoch Arden"
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Enoch Arden, Annie Lee, Philip Ray, Miriam Lane
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"The Nightingale and the Rose"
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(all animals and plants)
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"Danny Deever"
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Files-on-Parade, Colour Sergeant,
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"The Revenge"
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Sir Richard Grenville, Lord Thomas Howard,
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Idylls of the King
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King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot
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"The Sire de Maletroit's Door"
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Denis de Beaulieu,
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"The Look"
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Peter denying Jesus
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"Obedience"
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dialogue between the speaker and God
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"Invictus"
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independent spirit and courage in the face of hardship
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Oscar Wilde's satires
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the importance of being earnest
