Vocab Verbs
Poets & poems
Characters
Historic Context
Stories & Poems
100

Which word means "to rest"?

to repose

(or to recuperate)

100

Who wrote "The Lamb" and "The Tiger"?

William Blake

100

Who returned to the banquet as a ghost?

Banquo

100

Who was the most famous British author of Gothic novels?

Mary Shelley

100

What was the label given to the people who made up 85% of the population of Oceania?

proles -- the proletariate

200

Which means to criticize?

to rebuke

(or to chastise or to upbraid)

200

Who wrote "On My First Son"?

Ben Jonson

200

Who was given the title the Thane of Cawdor?

Macbeth, Thane of Glamis

200

Queen Elizabeth frequented the playhouses of London. T/F

False, the plays went to the palace

200

Before murdering the king, what did Macbeth thought he saw?

a dagger before him

300

Which means to destroy?

to eradicate

(or to annihilate)

300

Who wrote "Ode to a Grecian Urn"?

John Keats

300

Who worked as a mechanic in the Ministry of Truth?

Julia

300

Whose epitaph was "His name was write in water"?

John Keats

300

What was the focus of the discussion between Winston and Charrington?

picture of St Clement, nursery rhyme of St Clement, glass paper weight, rentable room

400

Which means to inhibit progress?

to impede

400

Who wrote "My Last Duchess"?

Robert Browning

400

Who was the Scottish king's second son?

Donalbain

400

What did the weakness of English Kings do?

It enhanced the power of the prime minister(s)

400

What was the purpose of re-education in 1984?

Removal of free will -- reduction of humanity

500

Which mans to improve or make better?

to ameliorate

500

Who wrote Holy Sonnets?

John Donne

500

Who was an English nobleman and general?

Siward, Earl of Northumberland
500

__ was the dominant literary form during the Romantic Era. Important prose works appeared in the form of __ and __

Poetry, essays, novels

500

What were the 3 speaking apparitions or visions that the witches showed Macbeth when he sought them out?

A floating head in a helmet;  a bloody child;  a crowned child holding a tree

600

Which means to hold in high esteem or to affirm?

to aver

600

Who "Wrote to His Coy Mistress"?

Andrew Marvell

600

Who loved destroying language?

Syme

600

What caused the fire at the Globe?

spark from a canon fired during re-enactment of a battle

600

What does the speaker of "Ode to the West Wind" ask of the wind?

To scatter his thoughts and words to all mankind

700
Which word means to renounce or repudiate?

to abjure

700

Who wrote "The World is too Much With Us"?

William Wordsworth

700

Who was the actual author of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism"?

O'Brien

700

__ __ and __ __ redefined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful __ that takes its origin from __ recollected in __."

William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, feelings, emotion, tranquility 

700

Explain the importance of the quote: "To beguile the time, look like the time.  Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath."

Pretend to be nice and hospitable while hiding the fact you are plotting a murder