Abeka English literature final – Flashcards
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The central idea in a work
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Theme
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Two rhyming lines which express a complete thought
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Couplet
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A play that ends happily
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Comedy
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A play that ends unhappily
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Tragedy
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A popular Elizabethan love song consisting of voice parts woven together
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Madrigal
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Metaphorical, compound words or phrases used in Anglo Saxon poetry
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Kenning
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The ridicule of human folly
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Satire
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A hero in conflict with another character
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Protagonist
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The opponent or force in conflict with another character
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Antagonist
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Speeches between two of more characters in a play
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Dialogue
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The physical background of a work
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Setting
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God dwells in nature
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Pantheism
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A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter
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Sonnet
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The arrangement of events in a story
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Plot
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A classic love song dealing with shepherds and rustic life
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Pastoral
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An elaborate comparison of two things which superficially have little in common
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Conceit
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A speech by one character alone
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Soliloquy
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Who wrote "his last bow"
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Who wrote "the lagoon"
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Joseph conrad
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Who was Scotland's greatest poet
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Robert burns
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What is the greatest epic in English literature
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Paradise lost
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What is perhaps the best known morality play
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Every man
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What is the greatest Anglo Saxon poem
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Beowulf
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Who created the Byronic hero
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Lord Byron
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William Wordsworth
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Romantic age
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Pygmalion
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Twentieth century
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Metaphysical conceit
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Age of puritans
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The faerie queen
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Elizabethan period
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John milton
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Age of puritans
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Age of prose
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Victorian era
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Robinson crusoe
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Restoration and the eighteenth century
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The rime of the ancient mariner
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Romantic age
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The pearl poet
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Medieval period
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Scope
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Anglo Saxon period
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Irony of fame and glory
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To an athlete dying young
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Justifying the way of God to men
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Paradise lost
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Memorial to the obscure humble people who lie buried
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Elegy written in a country churchyard
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The love of money is the root of all evil
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The pardoner's tale
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Man's need for rest
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The pulley
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Times of lament are no more and the simplicity of rural life
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The deserted village
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Permanence in a world of change satisfied through art
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Ode on a Grecian urn
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The love which should bind together all created things
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The rime of the ancient mariner
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Who is haunted by the memory of the death of his brother in "the lagoon"
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Arsat
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In 1984 what is the term that means, "the power of holding 2 contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them"
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Doublethinking
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In "his last bow" what country was Von Bork collecting info. From
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England
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In "the pilgrims progress" what symbolized assurance of salvation
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Sealed roll
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Who directed Christian to the wicket gate
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Evangelist
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From "macbeth" what character suffers from sleepwalking because of guilt
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Lady Macbeth
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What character is told that his children will be kings
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Banquo
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What literary genre reached its peak during the Elizabethan period
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Drama
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What was the first literature of the Anglo saxons
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Poetry
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In Robinson Crusoe what caused Crusoe to ask for god's help
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Sickness
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The Canterbury tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Paradise lost
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John Milton
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When I have fears
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John Keats
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Macbeth
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William Shakespeare
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Amazing grace
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John Newton
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David copperfield
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Charles Dickens
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The pilgrims progress
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John Bunyan
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The cotter's saturday night
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Robert Burns
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Idylls of the king
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Gulliver's travels
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Johnathon Swift
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The book of martyrs
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John Foxe
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Robinson crusoe
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Daniel Defoe
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The second coming
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William Butler Yeats
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Pride and prejudice
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Jane Austen
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My last duchess
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Robert Browning
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samuel Taylor coleridge is considered the worlds supreme poet of nature
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William wordsworth
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Doctor Faustus sells his soul to the devil for *twenty four* earthly years of glory
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True
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In Pygmalion, professor *pickering* teaches Eliza to speak correctly
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Jonathon Higgins
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In more darther, sir bedinere threw Excalibur into the lake the *third* time
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True
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Thomas hardy wrote "the convergence of the train" about the *titanic*
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True
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If winter comes, can spring be far behind
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Ode to the west wind
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This better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
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In memoriam
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I'll fares the land to hast'ning ills a prey where wealth accumulates and men decay
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The deserted village
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Beauty is truth truth beauty
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Ode on a Grecian urn
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Water, water, every where nor any drop to drink
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The rime of the ancient mariner
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, gang aft agley
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To a mouse
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Bella Fleace Gave a party
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Evelyn Waugh
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Crime stop
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The faculty of stopping short at the threshold of any dangerous thought.
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black white
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To say that black is white, is contradiction of the plain facts.
