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1. Is a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work - although generally - unlike the stanza - each sonnet so connected can also be read as a meaningful separate unit.

2. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

3. Written by Sir Walter Scott - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disliked by his father because he loves a girl and is friends with some of the Normans -there is a tournament - and Ivanhoe is injured and the daughter wants to take him to get help - -battles e

4. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge

5. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems

6. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.

7. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes

8. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers

9. A poem

10. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?

11. Pen name for Mary Anne Evans - one of the leading writers of the Victorian era - went by a male name so that she would be taken seriously. Wrote The Mill on the Floss (1860) - Silas Marner (1861) - Middlemarch (1871-72) - and Daniel Deronda (1876)

12. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain

13. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth

14. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy

15. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost

16. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors

17. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?

18. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...

19. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?

20. Leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it - employs a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed - at least in part - for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of

21. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who

22. Written by Christopher Marlowe - Barabas is the protagonist - who uses his daughter (Abigail) to make others mad - and when she finds out - she joins a nunnery. She is then poisoned.

23. 18th Century Irish Satirist

24. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?

25. Sent to a boarding school - walks to find his only relative - his aunt - marries Agnes and has a child whom he names after Aunt Betsy