English Literature Clep Prep – Flashcards
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Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett
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Three well-known 18th Century Novelists
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An anonymous narrative poem focusing on the climax of a particularly dramatic event and employing frequent repetition, conventional figures of speech, and sometimes a refrain. Altered and transmitted in a musical setting.
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Popular Ballad
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse. The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men"
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John Milton (1608-1674)
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'When that Aprill with his shoures soote The droughte of March hath perced to the roote"
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Alfred Tennyson's "Ulysses" and T.S. Eliot's "the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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Dramatic Monologues
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Usually sets up an analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world
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A Metaphysical Conceit
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"Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion Like gold to airy thinness beat"
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John Donne Exerpt
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King Duncan is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Macbeth. He is the father of two youthful sons (Malcolm and Donalbain), and the victim of a well-plotted regicide in a power grab by his trusted captain Macbeth.
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Duncan
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The first line of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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"Thou still unravished bride of quietness"
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T.S. Eliot, 1922
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"The Waste Land"
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1834
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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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William Blake, 1789
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"Songs of Innocence"
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Edmund Spencer, 1590
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"The Faerie Queene"
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Alexander Pope, 1712
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"The Rape of the Lock"
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The first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. It traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus. 1916
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"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
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The word's secular usage may owe some of its popularity to James Joyce, who expounded on its meaning in the fragment Stephen Hero and the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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Epiphany
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References to Greek mythology in Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews"
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Hesperus, Thetis, and Pheobus
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Common
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Vulgar
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Neoclassicism: of, relating to, or constituting a revival or adaptation of the classical especially in literature, music, art, or architecture
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The "Age of Johnson" was dominated by which style?
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Predominately Classical. The later half of the eighteenth century; dominated by Dr. Samuel Johnson. (d.1784) From that time the Classical spirit in English literature began to give place to the Romantic spirit.
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"The Age of Johnson"
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Began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published the famous Lyrical Ballads.
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The Romantic Age
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a couplet of rhyming iambic pentameters often forming a distinct rhetorical as well as metrical unit. Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century first made extensive use of it. Origin unknown.
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Heroic Couplets
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The name given to a line of verse that consists of five iambs (an iamb being one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed, such as "before")
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Iambic Pentameters
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Beowulf (975-1025), Hamlet (1599-1602), Paradise Lost (1667)
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Order of composition: "Hamlet, Beowulf, Paradise Lost"
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(esp. of a work of art) having a mournful quality.
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Elegiac
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John Milton. A Lament for a friend drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, also reveals personal concerns of Milton. 1637
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"Lycidas"
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John Donne. The intense relationship between the speaker and the lover leads the speaker to argue that they should be considered candidates for sainthood.
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"The Canonization"
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They were all written in the 18th century
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Common trait of "Pamela, Tom Jones, Tristram Shandy, and Moll Flanders"
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a humorous aunt who gets mixed up in the schemes and dreams of young lovers in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 comedy-of-manners "The Rivals". Often uses the incorrect word to express herself, thus coining the literary term malapropism.
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Miss Malaprop
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A novel that uses extensive parallels from classical Greek epic and adopts an anti-heroic modernity. James Joyce, 1918
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"Ulysses"
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A 20th century absurdist play in which the characters talk largely in circles, the actions are inconclusive, and the lines "nothing to be done" and "it'd pass the time" are repeated. Samuel Beckett, 1953.
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"Waiting for Godot"
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a personal crisis of faith
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Mill, Carlyle, and Tennyson all experienced and wrote about
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Novelist. Raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Known for stories about Africa and innovative novel "The Golden Notebook"
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Doris Lessing
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Literature that evokes a rural, simple, and idyllic life
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Pastoral
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Representing a non-human living thing, inanimate object, or idea as human, or attributing to it human traits and qualities, such as a physical body, emotions, desires, sensations, physical gestures and speech.
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Personification
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"By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon"
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William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
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Intended meaning is different from actual meaning
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Irony
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An episodic narrative, usually told from the first-person point of view and detailing the misadventures, escapades, and pranks of a roguish but likable hero of humble means who survives by his wits
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Picaresque Novel
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"Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good -- misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous."
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Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"
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William Blake, 1793. Not Athurian Legend
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"Visions of the Daughters of Albion"
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19th century term. Novels published in parts over several weeks or months.
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Serialized Novels
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Middling
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Mean
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Margery Kempe (c. 1373 - after 1438) is known for dictating The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language. This book chronicles, to some extent, her extensive pilgrimages to various holy sites in Europe and the Holy Land, as well as her mystical conversations with God. She is honoured in the Anglican Communion.
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"The Book of Margery Kempe"
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Wilfred Owen, 1917
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"Anthem for Doomed Youth"
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Rupert Brooke, 1914
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"The Soldier"
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Edith Sitwell, 1940
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"Still Falls the Rain"
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Brave New World, Aldous Huxley,1932, 1984, George Orwell, 1949, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962
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Dystopian Novels
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, 1798
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"Lyrical Ballads"
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Oliver Goldsmith, 1766
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"The Vicar of Wakefield"
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Aphra Behn, 1688
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"Oroonoko"
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Richard Sheridan, 1777
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"The School for Scandal"
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Samuel Johnson, 1755. Actual dictionary. Done with only clerical help; like a sir.
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"A Dictionary of the English Language"
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David Copperfield
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Uriah Heep
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The Old Curiosity Shoppe
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Little Nell
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Great Expectations
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Pip (Phillip Pirrip)
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Imagism
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Richard Aldington
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Post-Colonialism
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Linton Kwesi Johnson
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Romanticism
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William Blake
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(Italian for "sly fox"); a comedy first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play,
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Ben Jonson's "Volpone"
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Steeped in regional folklore as a child growing up in the Scottish Border Countries, he went on to become a poet, an editor of traditional ballads, and a novelist (wrote the first truly historical novels).
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Sir Walter Scott
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George Orwell, 1946
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"Politics and the English Language"
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"Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life" is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. 1874
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Dorothea Brooke is a character in
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Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" 1891
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"All art is quite useless"
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A concise statement of a principle, a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment
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Aphorism
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Published "Birthday Letters", a collection of poems inspired by his first marriage to Sylvia Plath. 1998
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Ted Hughes
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Lord Byron, William Morris, John Ruskin
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Associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Movement
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South Africa
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Nadine Gordimer was born
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Ireland (duh)
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Edna O'Brien was born
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Canada (eh)
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Alice Munro was born
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New Zealand
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Katherine Mansfield was born
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