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Quotable Quotes
Types of Poems
Poetic Pets
Latin to English
Johns
100
"He was quite exploded"
What is a quote from The Importance of Being Earnest?
100
The Passionate Sheperd to His Love
What is a pastoral poem?
100
A lover is compared to this animal in "Whoso List to Hunt"
What is a deer?
100
"Noli me tangere"
What is Latin for "don't touch me".
100
A metaphysical poet not recognized until after death. Wrote "Valediction, A Forbidding Mourning".
Who is John Donne?
200
"To build a hall that could hold his mighty band and reach higher toward heaven than anything"
What is a quote from Beowulf
200
Rape of the Lock
What is a mock epic?
200
This animal is heavily featured in pastoral poetry
What is a lamb?
200
"Dolce et decorum est Pro patria mori".
What is the Latin translation of "it is sweet and proper to die for one's country"?
200
Blind, puritan and exiled. Wrote "Paradise Lost".
Who is John Milton?
300
"Hail Horrors! Hail Infernal World!"
What is a quote from Paradise Lost?
300
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night
What is a villanelle?
300
This animal shows no discretion between different classes of people.
What is a louse?
300
"Amor vincet omnia".
What is the Latin translation of "love conquers all"?
300
Suggested a rather "Modest Proposal"
Who is Jonathan Swift?
400
"The still, sad music of humanity"
What is a quote from Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey?
400
Canterbury Tales
What is a frame story?
400
This animal appears at the beginning of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard".
What is an owl?
400
"Carpe Diem"
What is the Latin translation of "seize the day"?
400
Wrote two odes, one to an urn, one to a nightingale.
Who is John Keats?
500
"I shall but love thee better after death."
What is a quote from Sonnet 43?
500
Ode to the West Wind
What is a terza rima sonnet?
500
This animal has been known to "burn bright"
What is a tiger?
500
"In media res".
What is the Latin translation of "in the middle of the action"?
500
His dream served as the inspiration to "Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
Who is John Cruickshank?