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| Who wrote "A Modest Proposal"? |
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| What did Alexander Pope write? |
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| What did Mary Wollstonecraft write? |
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| "A Vidication of the Rights of Women" |
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| "When I Have Fears" and "Ode to a Nightingale" were written by who? |
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| "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by who? |
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| William Wordsworth wrote what two poems? |
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| "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" and "The World is Too Much with Us" |
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| William Blake wrote what three poems? |
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| "The Tyger", "The Lamb", and "A Poison Tree" |
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| Lord Tennyson wrote what two poems? |
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| "The Lady of Shallot" and "Ulysses" |
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| Who wrote "My Last Duchess"? |
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| Who wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young"? |
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| "The Hollow Men" was written by whom? |
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| George Orwell wrote what? |
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| Who wrote the novel, "Frankenstein"? |
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| Who wrote the novel, "Lord of the Flies"? |
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| Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
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| A pause or break with in a line of poetry, usually indicated by the natural rhythm of the language. |
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| All the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to a word. |
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| The repetition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds. |
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| The literal, dictionary definition of a word. |
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| A poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost. |
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| The basic unit of a verse meter. |
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| Rhyme between words with in a line. |
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| A generally regular pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables in poetry. |
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| A figure of speech in which something closely related to a thing or suggested by it is substituted for the thing itself. |
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| An eight-line stanza or poem or the first eight lines of an Italian, or Petrarch sonnet. |
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| The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
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| An eight-line stanza in an iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of abababcc |
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| A four-line stanza poem or a group of four lines unified by a rhyme scheme. |
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| A six-line stanza poem or the last six lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet. |
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| Nine line quatrain with rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc. |
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| Figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. |
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| Triplet, or stanza of three lines. Each line ends with same rhyme. |
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| An interlocking, three line stanza form with the rhyme scheme aba, bcb, cdc, ded and so on. |
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| Attitude a writer takes towards the reader, subject, or character |
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| Three quatrains and couplet. Rhyme schem: abab bcbc cdcd ee. |
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| Three quatrains and concluding couplet. Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg. |
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| Two parts= octave rhyme scheme (abbabba) and sestet rhyme scheme (cdecde or cdcded). |
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| Satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. |
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| Formal satire in which the speaker attacks vice and error with contempt and indignation. |
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| The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. |
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| A quality of speech or writing that combines verbal cleverness with keen perception especially of the inconguous. |
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| The imitation of a work of literature, art, or music for amusement or instruction. |
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| A contrast or dicrepancy between expectation and reality. |
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| A contrast of ideas expressed in a grammaticallyy balanced statement. |
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| Elaboratly extended comparisons relating heroic events to simple, everyday events. |
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| A statement person, place, event or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, mythology, sports, school, or popular culture. |
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| A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses or to two others of which it semantically suits only one. |
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| Repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another. |
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| Repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another. |
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| Story in which the characters, settings, and events are abstract and stand for moral concepts. |
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| A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles. |
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| What is the literal purpose of "A Modest Proposal"? |
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| To create a way to make the poor children of Ireland less of a burden to their children. |
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| What is the figurative purpose of "A Modest Proposal"? |
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* point out the negligence of the government of Ireland to solve the poor problem there
* Point out the potency of English control
* point out how hypocritical the wealthy are |
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| What is the conflict in "The Rape of the Lock"? |
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| The Baron has cut one of Belinda's locks of hair. |
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| What is the purpose of Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"? |
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| To poke fun at the frivolous and ridiculous nature of the upper class and the incident similiar to this that actually happened. |
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| What type of satire is "A Modest Proposal"? |
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| What type of satire is "The Rape of the Lock"? |
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| What is the name of the syphl that tries to warn Belinda about the Baron's deeds? |
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| What does Mary Wollenstone literally argue for in "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"? |
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| For women to become more "masculine". |
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| What does "A Vindication for the Rights of Women" actually ask for? What is it's goal? |
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| To gain equal and quality education for women. |
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| What type of satire is used in "A Vindication for the Rights of Women"? |
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