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| Big Brother is watching you |
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A warning that appears on posters thoughout Oceania, the fictional dictatorship in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
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| Written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century about a group of pilgrims who set out for Canterbury, England. Their host proposes a storytelling contents to make the journey interesting. |
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| Twentieth-century African-American author known for poems about the black experience in America. He was aleading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. |
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| The treacherous villain in the play Othello by Shakespeare. As advisor to Othello, Iago lies to his master and drives him to murder his wife. |
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| An essay by Jonathan Swift, referred to as the masterpiece of irony. Swift emphasizes the terrible poverty of Ireland by ironically proposing Irish parents sell their children as food. |
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| The English language from the fifth century until about 1150. Impossible to read now without training. |
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| A movement in literature and the fine arts, beginning in the early nineteenth century, that stressed personal emotion, free play of the imagination, and freedom from rules of form. |
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| Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? |
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| Words from Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is lamenting Romeo's name, alluding to the feud between their two families. |
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| Words from Hamlet, Hamlet says this in the graveyard as he meditates upon the skull of Yorick, a court jester he had known and liked as a child. |
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