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Decks in this class (33)

A Cards
Dante alighieri the divine comedy,
Sherwood anderson 1876 1941,
Dover beach
7  cards
Sonnets
Italian sonnet petrarchan,
Italian sonnet example,
The english or shakespearian sonnet
7  cards
Literary Terms
Alexandrine,
Alliterative verse,
Apostrophe
67  cards
Quotes
The sea is calm to nightthe tide ...,
He disappeared in the dead of win...,
You were silly like us your gift ...
261  cards
Shakespeare
King henry iv,
Henry iv major characters,
King lear major characters
16  cards
Chaucer
Canetbury tales key ones,
Discuss the knights tale,
The millers tale explain
11  cards
Shakespeare
King henry iv,
King lear plot,
Macbeth plot
12  cards
B Cards
Honore de balzac,
Samuel beckett,
Aphra behn 1640 1689
26  cards
C Cards
Albert camus,
Albert camus caligula,
Albert camus the plague
34  cards
D Cards
Michael drayton,
John donne 1572 1631,
Paul laurence dunbar
13  cards
Bible Names
Book of genesis creation,
Genesis cain and abel,
Genesis noahs flood
12  cards
E Decks
George eliot 1819 1880,
Jonathan edwards,
T s eliot 1888 1965
14  cards
F Cards
The sound and the fury,
A rose for emily,
As i lay dying
13  cards
G Cards
She stoops to conquer,
Thomas gray,
John gower
6  cards
H Cards
Robert henryson,
Robert herrick,
To the virgins to make much of time
25  cards
I Cards
Eugene ionesco,
A dolls house,
Henrik ibsen
5  cards
J CArds
Judith,
Ben jonson 1572 1637,
Harriet jacobs
11  cards
K Cards
John keats 1795 1821,
Endymion,
Isabella or the pot of sweet basil
7  cards
L Cards
The wife s lament before 1072,
Richard lovelace,
The monk
11  cards
M Cards
The passionate shepherd to his love,
Doctor faustus,
To his coy mistress 1681
27  cards
N Cards
Julian of norwich 1342 1413,
John henry cardinal newman
2  cards
O Cards
Flannery oconnor 1925 1964,
A good man is hard to find,
The life you save may be your own
8  cards
P Cards
The republic,
An essay on criticism,
The dunciad
6  cards
R Cards
The nymphs reply to the shepherd,
John ruskin,
Samuel richardson 1689 1761
8  cards
S Cards
Carl sandburg 1876 1967,
Arms and the man,
Percy bysshe shelley 1792 1822
27  cards
T Cards
Leo tolstoy,
What is art,
War and peace
13  cards
V Cards
Aeneid,
Aeneid,
Candide
3  cards
W Cards
The duchess of malfi,
Death of a traveling salesman,
The picture of dorian gray
21  cards
Y Cards
William butler yeats
1  cards
Grammar
Auxiliary,
Gerund,
Imperative
12  cards
Criticisms
Lacanian criticism,
Marxist criticism,
New historicism
20  cards
Time Periods
400 1300ce,
1300 1500ce,
1500 1558
17  cards
Myth Characters
Hestia vesta,
Demeter ceres,
Persephone proserpine
5  cards

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