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What are the characteristics of the Satire? Juvenalian/Horatian?

Humor/irony/exaggeration.

Horatian: gentle, plateful, witty purpose to entertain. Juvenalian: harsh, angry, pessimistic, purpose to provoke

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Which poem takes place on a cold night by the ocean? Who wrote it?

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

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“Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven”

Paradise Lost

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Who is the demon who offers a deal to Faust?

Mephistopheles (Mephisto)

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What is the old man’s name in Up?

Carl Fredrickson

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What is verbal irony?

What is where a character says something but means the opposite.

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Which poem highlights the sorrows of kids working in the industrial world? Who Was it by?

Cry of the Children by ElizaBeth Barrett Browning.

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“To die, to sleep:/ To sleep perchance to dream— Ay, there’s the rub:/. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come”

Hamlet (To be or not to be soliloquy)

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Who sent letters to Mrs. Saville in Frankenstein?

Robert Walton

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What is Wolverine’s full name?

James (Logan) Howlett

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What is tone vs. mood?

Tone: author's attitude

Mood: atmosphere/feeling created by the reader

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Which poem relates forests to love?

Darwinism by Mary Frances Robinson

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“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t”

Hamlet

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Who had a telescope in The Hound of Baskervilles, and was a doctor/scientist who is obsessed with lawsuits?

Dr. Frankland

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Double points if Stanley is not on your team.

Double points if Stanley is not on your team.

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What is galvanism?

Scientific theory of animal electricity, mentioned by Mary Shelley in Frankenstein

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Which poem talks about how white people are superior? Who was it by?

The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling

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“Every bean must be heard as well as seen”

All Quiet on the Western Front

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Who gets killed from shrapnel in the back of the head?

Stanislaus Katczinsky (Kat)

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What poem has “pheu pneumonia, ti prosderkesthe m ommasin tekna”?

The Cry of the Children

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What is sprezzatura?

What is studied nonchalance, effortless elegance

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Who was indirectly referenced in Dover Beach?

Sophocles

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“The beauty of the dream vanished”

Frankenstein

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What was the name of Victor Frankenstein’s father?

Alphonse Frankenstein

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Water is discharged from a horizontal pipe at the rate of 4.0E-3 m3/s. The pressure is 1.2E5 Pa at a place where the cross sectional area of the pipe is 1.0E-3 m2. What must be the cross sectional area of a constriction so that the pressure there is reduced to 1.0E5 Pa (Both pressures are absolute pressures).

5.34E-4 m2

(instant win)