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British Lit 2nd semester final
review for vocab and questions for final.
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Literature
12th Grade
05/26/2009

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plethora

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 overabundance

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nefarious

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villainous

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Genteel or Gentility
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Being related to the upper class
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Decorum
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dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc (good)
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Exemplar
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An ideal model or example.
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Benevolence
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Means much good for others. As such, it is a form of love.
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Trite
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Overused ideas
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Dubious
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Doubtful.
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What is Romanticism?
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Poetry about nature and love!
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True/False in Demon lover Mrs. Drover is shocked about the contents of the letter?
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TRUE B DAT :) aha
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What is the first person point of view?
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Narrator is a charachter in the work of literature. Uses "I".
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Who wrote "Paradise Lost"?
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John Milton.
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Who were the Lilliputians?
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Little people who lived on Lilliput, only 6" tall.
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What is the theme of "Paradise Lost"?
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Good vs. Evil
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Who wrote "Mediation 17"?
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John Donne.
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In "Mediation 17" what sound was made when someone died?
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Bells
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In "To his coy mistress", the speaker is whom?
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The soldier.
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In "Gullivers travels", why are the Lilliputians and Blefuscuans at war??
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They disagree on what end an egg should be broken on.
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In "Demon Lover", what does Mrs. Drover not remember about the writer of the letter?
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His face.
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In "Holy Sonnet 10" the author says that death should be what?
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Death shall not be proud, but respected.
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What does the speaker say is flying in "To the virgins, to make much of time"?
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TIME NIGGA!! AHA
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"Carpe diem" means?
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Seize the time.
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What is situational irony?
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What a reader expects and what acutally happens.
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Who wrote "To his Coy mistress"?

 

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Andrew Marvell
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In third person ominisceient point of view..
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The narrator is all knowing.
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Why do the Lilliputians accept Gulliver?
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He's big and he can protect them and they can use him to their advantadge.
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In "The TYGER" what does the poet ask?
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WHO created YOU?!!
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What is a shakespearen sonnet?
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THREE quatrains, and ONE final couplet. Total of 4 lines!
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In the novel frankenstien, who is it that attacks the monster?
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FELIX
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What is a hyperbole?
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An extreme exaggeration.
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In "The last duchess" the duke is talking to whom?
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The agent trying to get a marriage.
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Who were the CAVALIER poets?
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Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, and Richard Lovelace.
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Who eat their eggs from the big end?
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The Bigenders.
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Who were the writers or the ROMANTIC period?
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Tenneson, blake, wordsworth, kolridege, klublickhan, and lord byron.
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In the modest proposal the writer proposes what?
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He proposes that by eating babies it will elimniate poverty.
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What is Satire?
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Making a subject that is serious and not funny, funny. Two types heration (funny) and juvinallian. (dark humor)
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Frankstien was written by?
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Mary Shelley
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What is the climax in "Demon Lover"?
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When she realizes the taxi driver is her ex fiance.
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What is suspense?
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Tension or excitement the author builds up to keep readers intrested.
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Paradox
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A form of irony in which a statement seems to contradict itself.
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Assonance
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The repetition of a vowel sound in two or more stressed syllables that do not end with the same consonant.
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Consonance
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The repeitition of consonant sounds within and at the end of words.
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How was John Keats different from his contemporaraies?
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He did not agree with the social and political terms.
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What are the problems of Irish society that concerened Swift in "A Modest Proposal"
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Overpopulation, starvation, and poverty.
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What was the main purpose of swift writing "A Modest Proposal"?
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To come up with a soultion to poverty.
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what is personification?
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Giving a nonhuman thing human qualities.
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What is a sonnet?
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A 14 line poem written in iambic panamter.
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How does the queen of Brobdingnab feel about gulliver?
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She loves to talk to him, and he is very entertaining.
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What is the setting for Frankenstein?
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Geneva washington, artic, germany, and switzerland.
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Ozymandias
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A sonnet about a pharaoh of ancient Egypt.
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What was Victor Frankenstien concerned with on his wedding night?
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He beleives the monster is going to kill him, but the monster kills his new wife elizabeth instead.
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Anathema?
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Is something cursed.
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What type of charachter is the monster in Frankenstein?
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STATIC
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What is modernism?
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Stories written between 1901-1950
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THIRD person point of view?
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Narrator is outside of the story.
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What is third person LIMITED point of view?
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one charachter in story.
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Why did the drover family have to leave there home?
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WW2 they had to ecscape the blitz?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The father of transcendentalism.
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Naturalism
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an EXTREME form of realism, depiction of life objectivley and precievely without idealizing.
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Mood
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The feelings created by a poem.
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Inference
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Conclusion of a process; Completion of an idea.
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The theme of the sun in rubiyat
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Day turning to night
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Victor frankenstein is a ______ charachter?
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dynamic.
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The monster in frankenstien compares his feelings to an?
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Ancient Mariener.
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A medical student wanting to be a doctor would be a ___-____ goal?
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LONG term.  
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Diction
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The writers choice of words/style of writing.
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Iambic Pentameter
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A metrical line of FIVE FEEEEEET, each with TWOOOOO syllables, one STRESSSSSSSSSED and one UNNNNNNNNNstressed!!
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The poems in the rubaiyat are written in what form?
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Quatrains.
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What two elements contribute to an authors writing style?
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Diction and tone.
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Tone
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Writers attitude toward the story.
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The roundheads were?
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nickname given to the Puritan supporters of Parliament during the English Civil War.
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What is imagery?
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Words and phrases that create images for reader in their minds.
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VERBAL irony
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when writer writes one thing but means another.
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FOOT in poetry?
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A unit of meter.
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Ulysses was a major charachter in what epic poem?
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The odyssesy. (homer) 
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Essay
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A brief work of non-fiction that offers an oppion of a subject.
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Love is compared to what in poem 99?
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LIFE.
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In the rubaiyat each poem has a theme that concerns?
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love or time.  (carpe diem)
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What does candide's admiration for the baron of pangloss indicate?
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He wants to be like him.
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Horation satire.
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Lighter more amusing.
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Juvinallian statire.
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Dark humor.
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In poem 69 the checkerboard is compared to?
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Night & day.
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Robert Herrick was a?
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Cavalier poet.
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Physchological realism is?
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is a work of prose fiction which places more than the usual amount of emphasis on interior characterization, and on the motives, circumstances, and internal action which springs from, and develops, external action. The psychological novel is not content to state what happens but goes on to explain the motivation of this action.
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Refrain in poetry?
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A repeated part of a poem.
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jane austen and scott were?
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victorian era writers.
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God plays with humans as if they are game peices in ?
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yes
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The lady of shalott is based on?
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The Arthurian legends (king arthur)
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John donne
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a metaphyscial poet
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Beelzebub was?
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Satans right hand man.
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Alliteration
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The repeating of the same letter (or sound) at the beginning of words.
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tone of paradise lost is?
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serious!
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the cavallier poets theme was?
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carpe diem "sezie the day"
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Repitition
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repition of  a word.
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In the "Parable of the prodigal son" what do the father and son symbolize?
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  1. Father = God
  2. Young son= wayward sinner
  3. old son=faithful follwers should be allowed back.
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Frenetic
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Wildly excited or active
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Demon lover is an ex of what genere of writing?
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Ancient.
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Superfluous
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more than needed; extra
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Bacons three purposes of study were?
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delight, ornamet, and ability.
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"Death be not proud, though some have called thee so" is from what work of lit?
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To his coy mistress.
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Apaorism
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a concise statement containing a subjective truth or observation cleverly and pithily written.
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Who were the metaphyscial poets?
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Samuel Johnson, Andrew Marvell,
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What is a frame story?
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The frame story leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it
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The lady of shallot tone is
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dynamic and differnt, goes from warm to cold.
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"Ask not for whom the bells tolls, it tolls for thee"
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John donne's mediation 17.
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Frankenstien is a ____ story?
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FRAME
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victors brother is killed by monster he is informed by a?
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letter
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metaphor
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a direct comparison to two unlike things.
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Ramesses the 2nd was?
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The pharoh depicted in the poem Ozymadias.
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Ostentatious
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Characterized by or given to ostentation
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Italian sonnet
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The Italian sonnet is divided into two sections by two different groups of rhyming sounds. The first 8 lines is called the octave and rhymes a b b a a b b a

The remaining 6 lines is called the sestet and can have either two or three rhyming sounds, arranged in a variety of ways:

c d c d c d
c d d c d c
c d e c d e
c d e c e d
c d c e d c

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The battlefield is compared to a new love in?
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Lucasta going to the wars, which uses personifcation.
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octave
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relationship is a natural phenomenon which has been referred to as the 'basic miracle of music"
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elizabethan sonnet
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a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
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what is a sestet?
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 is the name given to the second division of an Italian sonnet
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Onomotopeia
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words that sound as they are written. boom, click, tweet, slurp.
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An allusion is?
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is a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication.
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queen victoria ruled for?
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63 years.
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Dramatic monolouge
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is a piece of spoken verse within plays that are often linked to key themes of the play or offer great insight into the feelings of the speaker.
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reforms passed in victorian era.
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abortion rule, and no child under 9 eligable to work.
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My last duchess is what type of poem?
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a poem in the form of dramatic monlouge.
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eccentrity
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odd behavior.
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EVE is the?
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mother of mankind according to milton.
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