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100
The author known for developing the Italian Sonnet
Who is Petrarch?
100
The main character's actual name in The Importance of Being Earnest
What is Jack Worthing?
100
The regular repetition of sound
What is rhythm?
100
A belief in a highly impersonal God who left the world to govern itself based on reason
What is deism?
100
The first type of literature in the Anglo/Saxon Era
What is poetry?
200
The author known for developing the dramatic essay
Who is Robert Browning?
200
The reason for Arsat's great guilt in "The Lagoon"
What is "letting his brother die"?
200
The ridicule of human folly with the purpose of correcting it
What is satire?
200
The belief that nature is a part of God
What is Pantheism?
200
The literature that reached its height in the Elizabethan era
What is drama?
300
Scottland's greatest author
Who is Robert Burns?
300
A domestic dispute between a married couple that leads to a bet on who will speak first
What is "Get Up and Bar the Door"?
300
A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet?
300
The four essential parts to a novel are these
What are plot, theme, characters, and setting?
300
The literary form that reached its lowest point during the Puritan Era
What is drama?
400
The author known for developing the historic novel
Who is Sir Walter Scott?
400
One of the greatest stories of self-sacrifice in English Literature
What is "Enoch Arden"?
400
An unusual comparison between two highly dissimilar elements
What is a metaphysical conceit?
400
The official title of the court poet (Tennyson was one)
What is poet laureate?
400
The most popular type of literature in the Victorian era
What is the novel?
500
England's preeminent poet of nature
Who is William Wordsworth?
500
The irony of fame and glory
What is "To an Athlete Dying Young"?
500
Expresses the author's mood toward his subject matter
What is tone/mood?
500
The oldest surviving epic in English Literature
What is Beowulf?
500
The three types of novels developed during the Victorian Era
What are Gothic, Historic, and Novel of Manners?