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| Sir Bedivere attempted to conceal a sword | Morte Darthur
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| "Shall I compare thee to a sumer's day?" | Shakespeare's Sonnets
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| the Thanes defend Heorot | Beawulf
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| a religious allegory | Everyman
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| A man sells his soul to the Devil | Doctor Faustus
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| "Fair is foul and foul is fair" | Macbeth
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| Bonny Barbara Allan | Ballads
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| Dr. Rowland Taylor is burned at the stake for preaching the gospel. | Book of Martyrs
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| an imaginary ideal society | Utopia
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| tells the story of Caedmon | Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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| During World War I, who was a pastor to troops stationed in the desert camps of Africa? | Oswald Chambers
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| What one overpowering idea shaped Keats's work? | beauty
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| "the Glories of the Desert Sky" pictures the sky over the country of what? | Egypt
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| Animal Farm is a brilliant satire on the failure of what? | Communism
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| what great English writer was a native of Poland who did not speak English until he was twenty-one years old? | Joseph Conrad
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| The literary genre which reached its peak during the Elizabethan period was the____? | drama
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| The Hidden Years at Nazareth, an acount of the probable work of Jesus during His teen years and early manhood was written by who? | G. Campbell Morgan
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| Romanticism was expressed almost entirely through what literary form? | poetry
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| The writer Joyce emplyed the "stream of ___" technique in FInnegan's Wake. | consciousness
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| The first literature of the Anglo-Saxons was what? | poetry
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| what writer calls his novels fables? | William Golding
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| THe first essayist in English literature was who? | Bacon
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| The great bulk of modern fiction is characterized by what? | secularism
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| The author of "the Lagoon" is who? | Joseph Conrad
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| On the whole, fiction in the twentieth century has been marked by an ignorance of what and a disillusionment with society. | Christianity
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| Eric Arthur Blair is the actual name of who? | George Orwell
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| Scotland's greatest poet was who? | Burns
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| The first great writer of science fiction was who? | H. G. Wells
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| "the Invisible Man" is one of the stories in the ___ mysery series. | Father Brown
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| Wordsworth and conleridge published Lyrical Ballads in what year? | 1798
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| The short story appeared in England during what time period? | Victorian Era
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| WHat writer was called the greatest master of languages since Milton? | Joyce
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| Who is called the "Founder of English History"? | Bede
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| The man who has been called the "apostle to the Skeptics" is who? | C.S.Lewis
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| The influence of who is the hallmark of the English short story. | Freudian psychology
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| The "word's supreme poet of nature" was who? | Wordsworth
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| who first translated the Bible from Latin into English? | Wycliffe
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| the greatest epic in English literature is what? | Paradise Lost
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| The first "Utopia" of English literature was written by who? | More
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| Everyman is the best-known ____ play. | morality
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| "If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?" | Ode to the West WindBy- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| "Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all" | In MemoriamBy- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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| "the paths of glory lead but to the grave" | Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardBy- Thomas Gray
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| "The child is father of the Man" | My Heart Leaps UpBy- William Wordsworth
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| "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" | Ode on a Grecian UrnBy- John Keats
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| "Water, water, everywhere,/ Nor any drop to drink" | The Rime of the Ancient MarinerBy- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft a-gley" | To a MouseBy- Robert Burns
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| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer
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| Paradise Lost | John Milton
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| "Ode on a Grecian Urn" | John Keats
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| Hamlet | William Shakespeare
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| "Amazing Grace" | John Newton
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| Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan
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| "The Deserted Village" | Oliver Goldsmith
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| Pamela | Samuel Richardson
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| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift
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| Book of Martyrs | John Foxe
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| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe
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| "The Second Coming" | William Butler Yeats
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| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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| converstion on a play | dialogue
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| a sturggle between opposing forces | conflict
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| the main character | protagonist
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| the central idea in a work | theme
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| a fourteen-line poem | sonnet
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| a ridicule of human folly | satire
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| the arrangement of events in a story | plot
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| God seen as nature | pantheism
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| Anglo-Saxon metaphor | kenning
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| the physical background of a work | setting
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| a classic love song dealing with rural or rustic life | pastoral
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| two lines rhyming together | couplet
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| a type of Elizabethan song | madrigal
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| a play that ends happily | comedy
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| a speech by one character alone | soliloquy
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| An allegory that tells the journey a young man takes to rid himeslf of sin. | Pilgrim's Progress
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| A story based in part on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk | Robinson Crusoe
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| a man tells his story to a wedding party | Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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| Three young men go in search of death and finds it under a tree. | The pardoner's Tale/ Canterbury Tales
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| Tells a sad story of love and sacrifice | Nightingale and the Rose
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| Tennyson requested this poem always be placed at the end of his works. | Crossing the Bar
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| This work is the first significant novel to deal with an entire family | Pride and Prejudice
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| Greatest epic in English literature | Paradise Lost
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| Best known morality play | Everyman
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| Literary genre wich reached its peak during the Elizabethan period | drama
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| "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested" | Francis bacon
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| Stone walls so not a prison make,/ Nor iron bars a cage" | To Althea from PrisonBy- Richard Lovelace
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| "God moves in a mysterious way/ His wonders to perform" | Light Shining Out of Darknessby- William Cowper
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| "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may/ Old time is still a-flying" | Counsel to Girlsby- Robert Herrick
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| Who were the three leading British poets of the 20th century? | Yeats, Eliot, and Auden
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| Who is Englands most famous and best loved novelist? | Charles Dickens
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| the "worlds supreme poet of nature" | Wordsworth
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| Which literary period emphasized nature, country people, and simplicitry of expression? | Romantic Age
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