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Lit Exam

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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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