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Misc. World Lit Final
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
07/30/2009

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Who wrote "Bright Star"?
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John Keats
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Stress on the 2nd syllable
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Iambic
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Stress on the 1st syllable.
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Trochaic
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14 line poem
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Sonnet
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Type of poems that are short, personal, often deals with emotions
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Lyric poetry
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Shift in the end of a sonnet
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Volta
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First two quatrains set up a problem; third quatrain marks a shift; and is written in iambic pentameter
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Shakespearean sonnet
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Rhyming pattern of Shakespearean sonnets
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ABABCDCDEFEFGG
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Rhyming pattern of Petrarchan sonnet
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ABBAABBACDECDE
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Iambic pentameter has how many syllables and how many stresses?
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10 syllables, 5 stresses.
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Who wrote "If We Must Die"?
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Claude McKay
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4 stresses
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tetrameter
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Who wrote "Theme for English B"?
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Langston Hughes
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Short story with a moral that usually involves animals
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Fable
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Who wrote "We Real Cool"?
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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The Epic of Gilgamesh was translated by who?
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Benjamin R. Foster
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The Bhagavad Gita is an excerpt from what?
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Mahabarata
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Sanskrit originated where?
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Indus Valley
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Where was William Shakespeare born?
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Stratford on Avon
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Shakespearean language is characterized by these 3 things:
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alliteration, repitition, and puns
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Major themes of Hamlet(4):
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intrigue, reason, madness, hesitation
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Character is alone on state making a speech and revealing inner thoughts
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Soliloquy
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All boys subconsciously think about having sex with their mother and want to kill their father to replace him in his mother's bed
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Oedipal complex
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Why does Yu Tsun kill Dr. Stephen Albert?
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needs to alert Germans to bomb a city by the name of Albert so he kills this man to make front page of the news.
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Why do the boys assume that it is likely Yu Tsun is going to Dr. Stephen Albert's house when he gets off the train?
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Albert is a sinologist who studies Chinese culture and Yu Tsun is Chinese
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Why would Captain Richard Madden "an Irishman at the orders of the English" be accused of a certain lack of zealousness?
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he failed to seize and be thankful for the discovery, capture, and maybe even the death of 2 agents of the German empire b/c he actually caused the wound that killed Runeberg
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The location of the British artillery in The Garden of Forking Paths
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Albert, France
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The 2 men in The Garden of Forking Paths who are spying for countries they are not from.
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Yu Tsun and Captain Richard Madden
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What was the labyrinth in The Garden of Forking Paths?
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the Chinese novel by Ts'ui Pen
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Who wrote "Yellow Woman"?
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Leslie Marmon Silko
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Who wrote "In Camera"?
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Nawal El Saadwi
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Who wrote "Death Constant Beyond Love"?
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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What is a gyre?
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Spiral
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