Review for English Literature

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"If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"

This is a famous line of Shakespeare's piece of writing titled _______________.

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The Merchant of Venice

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It is a narrative poem meant to be sung. It is characterized by repetition and often by a repeated refrain (a recurrent phrase or series of phrases).

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Ballad

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It uses conceits or farfetched similes and metaphors to startle the reader into an awareness of the relationships among things ordinarily not associated.

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Metaphysical Poetry

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It is a story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects and characters take on symbolic meanings external to the narrative.

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Allegory

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He is very much known for his The Essays during the 17th Century. He was hailed as the Father of Inductive Reasoning and Father of the English Essay.

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Francis Bacon

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Edmund Spenser composed this elaborate allegory in honor of the Queen of Fairyland. Queen of Fairyland is also known as ___________________________.

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Queen Elizabeth I

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He published an exposition of the rules of the classical school in the form of a poem An Essay on Criticism.

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Alexander Pope

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What do we call a long narrative poem written about the exploits of a supernatural hero?

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Epic

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In the ________________________________, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge declared that “poetry should express, in genuine language, experience as filtered through personal emotion and imagination; the truest experience was to be found in nature.”

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Preface to Lyrical Ballads

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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."

This quote is from Bacon's literary piece titled _______________.

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Of Studies