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"Who's Afraid of Virginia Edward Albee
Woolf?" Was written by
The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, The American Dream,
Edward Albee Tiny Alice, The Birthday Party, The Homecoming,
Betrayal,
Which was written by Agatha
Mary Ann Evans under the
nom de plume George
Eliot?
Mary Ann Evans (aka Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner,
George Eliot) wrote Romola, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda
Unknown authorship, oldest known epic poem written
Beowulf
in the Middle Ages
The Summoning of Everyman, a Christian morality play
Everyman
written during the Medieval period
The Canterbury Tales Written by Geoffrey Chaucer during the Middle Ages
The historical and social historical and social contexts of the Salem witch trials
context of Arthur Miller's and the fear of communists in the 1950s
play "The Crucible" is
informed by...
, Joseph McCarthy spearheaded prejudicial blacklisting
Red Scare of many Americans for suspected Communist
affiliation or activities
Shakespeare's King Lear is Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
in the same genre of play
and tragedy as
Animal Farm is in the same Brave New World (dystopian novels)
genre as
The Faerie Queen is the The Gift of the Magi
same allegorical epic
poem drama as
The Open window is the For the Union Dead
same genre as
Within the genre of An elegy
poetry, which subgenre is
typically a tripartite poem
written to mourn a death?
Poem of mourning divided into three parts: lament,
Elegy
praise of departed, and solace
long poem telling tales of heroic exploits and
Epic
adventures
A brief poem consisting of one or two lines to express
Epigram
some wise or witty observation
Epistolary poems written in the form of letters
What term would NOT be A paragraph, because it is used in prose, not poetry
used correctly regarding a
sonnet?
Sestet a flexible rhyme scheme
Five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and
Haiku
five in the third (three lines or verses)