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To toll me back from thee to my sole self!

Which word?

No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of hours!

For what wears out the life of mortal men?

 ‘Tis that repeated shocks, again, again,

Exhaust the energy of strongest souls

And numb the elastic powers …

The roman a clef (French for “novel with a key”) uses contemporary historical figures as its chief characters. They are of course given fictional names. One example is Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point.

She was a worthy woman al hir lyve,

Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde fyve,

In the ‘Prologue’ Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as:

1. crude and vulgar
2. outspoken and boastfully licentious

3. a witness to masculine oppression

________ the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from th’ Ethereal Sky,

With hideous ruin and combustion down

To bottomless perdition, there to dwell

In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who durst defy th’ Omnipotent to Arms.

(Paradise Lost, I.44-49.)

List – I (Authors)                                List – II (Poems)

1. Ted Hughes                                      1. “The Otter”
2. Seamus Heaney                               2. “Snake”

iii. W.H. Auden                                  3. “Ghost Crabs”

4. D.H. Lawrence                              4. “Prevent the Dog from Barking with a Juicy Bone.”

Codes:

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His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot;

Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.

“The story and the novel, the idea and the form, are the needle and thread, and I never heard of a guild of tailors who recommended the use of the thread without the needle, or the needle without the thread.”

Metaphor is so widespread that it is often used as an umbrella term to include other figures of speech such as metonyms which can be technically distinguished from it in its narrower usage.

Along the shore of silver streaming Thames;

Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems,

Was painted all with variable flowers,…

Fit to deck maidens’ bowers

And crown their paramours

Against their bridal day, which is not long;

Sweet Thames! run softly till I end my song.

(Spenser’s Prothalamion)

It is unimaginable that all the following events happened in one year:

1. Arthur Evans discovered the first European civilization; his excavations in Crete revealed a culture that was far older than either Attic Greece or Ancient Rome.
2. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published the Oxford Book of English Verse.
3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train at Gare d’ Orsay, Paris.
4. Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory.
5. Hugo de Vries identified what would later come to be called genes.
6. Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams.
7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain.

Robert Graves’s “In Broken Images” ends thus:

He in a new confusion of his understanding;

I in a new understanding of my confusion.

William Wordsworth’s statement of purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads carries the following phrase. (Complete the phrase correctly).

List – I (Novels)                                                                      List – II (Last lines)

1. Lord Jim                                                                               1. ‘It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.’
2. To the Lighthouse                                                               2. ‘April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead…’

iii. A Passage to India                                                             3. ‘He feels it himself and says often that he is “preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave,...”, while he waves his hands sadly at his butterflies.’

4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man                           4. ‘ “No not yet,” and the sky said, “No, not there”.’

Codes:

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1. This rhythm causes ideas to spring in our minds – hence Sprung Rhythm.
2. In Sprung Rhythm the feet are of equal length.
3. A foot may have one to four syllables in Sprung Rhythm.
4. Its metre is derived from the metre of Anglo-Saxon poetry which was based on accent and linked by alliteration.

The Elizabethan Settlement established during the reign of Elizabeth I

III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be part of the Anglican church.

One English poet addressing another:

Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;

Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the sea:

Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,

So didst thou travel on life’s common way,

In cheerful godliness….

1. The Fire Sermon
2. Death by Water
3. A Game of Chess
4. What the Thunder Said
5. The Burial of the Dead

Steeling herself to the murder, Lady Macbeth calls on ______ to “unsex me here”. (Macbeth I.5.39)

You will find the following lines in an English poem:

Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side

Shouldst rubies find; I by the side

Of Humber would complain.

Teach me half the gladness

That thy brain must know,

Such harmonious madness

From my lips would flow

List – I (Novel)                                               List – II (Major symbol)

1. Dombey and Son                                         1. fog
2. The Return of the Native                            2. train

iii. Bleak House                                               3. heath

4. Tess                                                            4. mist

Codes:

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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice starts with the famous statement: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a life.”

As we get to read the novel this statement seems to be made from the point of view of:

III. Mr Bennet