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✍️The blood and thunder elements ment were introduced into English Drama
Thomas Kyd

✍️Shakespeare addressed his sonnets to a handsome young man called -
W.H. as well as to a Dark Lady.


✍️Tamburlaine the Great was first produced in -
1587-88.

The White Devil is based on the life of the celebrated Italian courtesan -
Vittoria.

✍️Who wrote Lyrical Ballads? - Wordsworth and Coleridge.

✍️The paths of glory lead but to the grave, in which poem do you find this line?
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

✍️Who wrote a poem on the death of Chaucer? -
Occleve in The Governail of Princes.


✍️Milton wrote Areopagittica -
to defend people's Freedom of Speech.

✍️Murder in the Cathedral deals with the martyrdom of -
Archbishop Thomas Becket.

✍️Who used the phrase still-vexed Bermoothes for the immortal pages of Hakluyt?

William Shakespeare.

✍️Between 1590 and 1593 the theatres were closed owing to - disturbances caused by the actors.

✍️The Play by Galsworthy that dramatizes Labour-Capital problem is -
Strife.

✍️Name the famous anthology published in 1557? -
Song and Sonnets or Tottel's Miscellany.

✍️Who was the first English poet to choose a German subject? - Alexander Barclay.

✍️Who called Milton the poetical son of Spenser? -
John Dryden.

✍️The Oxford Movement was basically a -
Religious Movement.

✍️The Revenge Tragedy and The Atheists Tragedy both the masterpieces of Cyril Tourneur are set in - Italy.

WHEN TO USE *ON*

Days of the week:

* on Monday
* on Tuesday
* on Wednesday
* on Thursday
* on Friday
* on Saturday
* on Sunday

Dates:

* on January 1st
* on March 8th
* on December 25th

Holidays:

* on Christmas
* on Thanksgiving
* on Easter

Surfaces:

* on the table
* on the floor
* on the ceiling
* on the wall

Objects:

* on the car
* on the bike
* on the phone
* on the computer

Additional examples

* on the weekend
* on vacation
* on the radio
* on TV
* on the internet


Prepositions with NOUNS

on:
on the table
on a journey
on the wall

in:
in a box
in the park
in the morning

at:
at the office
at the party
at the beach

by:
by the river
by my side
by car

to:
to the store
to a concert
to the beach

for:
for a cause
for dinner
for my birthday

with:
with a friend
with a pen
with joy

from:
from the airport
from a book
from the past

about:
about the topic
about a person
about the movie

over:
over the hill
over a bridge
over the limit


Fun Advanced English Vocabulary

Eye-catching
Extremely attractive or visually appealing

Heart-wrenching
Extremely sad or emotionally distressing

Mind-blowing
Extremely impressive or astonishing

Headstrong
Stubborn or determined

Nosey
Intrusive or excessively curious about others' affairs

Handmade
Created or crafted by hand, often indicating a higher level of quality or uniqueness

Footloose
Carefree or unattached, particularly in terms of personal or romantic relationships


Advanced English sentences

I'm tired - I'm exhausted
I'm hungry - I'm ravenous
I'm happy - I'm ecstatic
I don't know - I'm clueless
I'm a bit sick - I'm under the weather
I'll help you - I've got your back
Think carefully - Ponder meticulously
Do it yourself - Take the reins
Move quickly - Act swiftly
Don't disturb - Let sleeping dogs lie
She's very smart - She's a genius
I made a mistake - I committed a faux pas
Calm down - Keep a level head


Advanced idioms in English

1. It's raining cats and dogs - It's raining heavily.
Synonym: It's pouring

2. Break a leg - good luck (typically said to performers before a show)
Synonym: Knock 'em dead

3. The ball is in your court - It's your turn to take action or make a decision.
Synonym: The onus is on you

4. Hit the nail on the head - Accurately or precisely describe something
Synonym: Hit the mark

5. Steal someone's thunder - Take attention or credit away from someone.
Synonym: Upstage

Advanced vs Basic English words
1. Elaborate = explain in detail
2. Mitigate = reduce
3. Alleviate = ease
4. Aggravate = worsen
5. Elicit = draw out
6. Engender = create
7. Exacerbate = make worse
8. Facilitate = make easier
9. Implement = put into effect
10. Anticipate = expect
11. Persevere = continue despite difficulty
12. Repudiate = reject
13. Retract = take back
14. Scrutinize = examine closely
15. Terminate = end
16. Validate = confirm
17. Exemplify = illustrate
18. Encompass = include

[ English vs. Advanced English

1. Begin 🚀 - Initiate
2. Cease 🛑 - Terminate
3. Purchase 💸 - Acquire
4. Aid 🤝 - Support
5. Speak 🗣️ - Communicate
6. Completion 🎯 - Conclude
7. Notion 💡 - Concept
8. Obstacle ⚙️ - Challenge
9. Provide 🎁 - Supply
10. Attain 🏆 - Obtain
11. Scheme 📅 - Strategize
12. Chatty 💬 - Communicative
13. Notify 🗨️ - Inform
14. Finalize 🏁 - Complete

Matthew Arnold (1882-1888) composed Memorial Verses' in April 1850. In this poem he has paid tribute to – Goethe, Byron and Wordsworth. First stanza of this poem makes it clear–
Goethe in weimer sleeps, and Greece,
Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease,
But one such death remained to come;
The Last poetic voice is dumb
We stand today by Wordsworth's tomb.

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FIGURE OF SPEECH:

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1. Simile:
- Explanation: A simile is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
- Example: "Her eyes sparkled like diamonds."

2. Metaphor:
- Explanation: A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.
- Example: "Time is a thief."

3. Personification:
- Explanation: Personification is a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to non-human things.
- Example: "The trees danced in the wind."

4. Hyperbole:
- Explanation: Hyperbole is a figure of speech that involves exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
- Example: "I've told you a million times."

5. Alliteration:
- Explanation: Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.
- Example: "Sally sells seashells by the seashore."

6. Onomatopoeia:
- Explanation: Onomatopoeia is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
- Example: "Buzz," "crash," "bang."

7. Oxymoron:
- Explanation: An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
- Example: "Deafening silence," "jumbo shrimp."

8. Irony:
- Explanation: Irony is a figure of speech in which the intended meaning of words is opposite to their literal meaning.
- Example: "The fire station burned down."

9. Metonymy:
- Explanation: Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is replaced with another that is closely related to it.
- Example: Referring to the monarch as "the crown."

10. Synecdoche:
- Explanation: Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
- Example: Referring to a car as "wheels."

11. Litotes:
- Explanation: Litotes is a figure of speech that uses double negatives or understatement to emphasize a point.
- Example: "It's not uncommon," meaning "It's common."

12. Euphemism:
- Explanation: Euphemism is a figure of speech that replaces a harsh or unpleasant term with a more mild or indirect one.
- Example: "Passed away" instead of "died."

These are just a few examples of figures of speech commonly used in language and literature.

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*John Keats*

A few important works of Keats -

1. *Endymion* :
It is in *four books*. The story deals with Mr. Latmos (a prince) and Cynthia, (the moon goddess). The line, "A thing of beauty is joy forever" occurs in this poem.

2. *Hyperion*:
The theme is struggle between two gods Saturn and Hyperion with Apollo. It is in blank verse.

3. *Isabella or the Pot of Basil*:
The subject matter of *Isabella* is derived from a tale of Boccaccio. The poem deals a murder of a lady's love by her two cruel brothers. The lover is Lorenzo. The poem is in the spenserian stanza.

4. *Lamia*:
The source of the story is Burton's *Anatomy of Wit*. The story deals with Lamia, a witch who transforms Hermes from a serpent into beautiful girl. Corinthian Lucious and Appolonius are other characters in the poem. The work is in heroic couplet.

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Lit point on Samuel Daniel

☝️ Who wrote The Defence of Ryme? -
Samuel Daniel.

☝️Who wrote The Civil Wars? - Samuel Daniel.

☝️ Samuel Daniel's The Civil Wars Michael Drayton's The Baron's War
deal with the
War of the Rose

☝️Samuel Daniel 's  Delia is a ...
Sonnet sequence.

☝️Musophilus, or A Defense of All Learning  is a ?

verse between Musophilus – lover of the muses) and a courtier (Philocosmus – lover of the world).

☝️His The Defence of Ryme is a response to

Thomas Campion's Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602).

☝️His The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses is one of the first masques to be presented to the Stuart court.

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Eliot Part-2
☝️The epigraph of Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is taken from — Dante’s Inferno.

☝️Who said Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion? —
'T.S. Eliot.

☝️TS. Eliot in his essay Hamlet and His Problems gives his famous theory of -
Objective Correlative.

☝️The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins which was praised by T.S. Eliot is a-
Detective novel

☝️Which of Tennyson’s works was described by TS. Eliot as the most unapproachable of all his poems? - In Memoriam.

☝️In which play by Eliot is the protagonist pursued by the mythical Eumenides? -
The Family Reunion.

☝️What is a Classic? Is a great work of Literary Criticism written by — T.S. Eliot.

☝️Who wrote the classic book The Art of TS. Eliot? -
Helen Gardner.

☝️T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term Unreal City in the first and third section from
- Baudelaire.

☝️Who said The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice? - T.S. Eliot.

☝️Who calls Arnold a propagandist of literature and an overworked school- inspector? —
T.S. Eliot.

☝️Which poem of Eliot deals with the concept of time? -
Burnt Norton.

☝️To whom did T.S. Eliot dedicated his Prufrock and Other Observations? —
Jean Verdenal.

☝️Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred J. Prufrock can be considered a reaction against -
Georgian poetry.

☝️Which poet's skepticism was anticipated in the quality of Tennyson's faith? ~
T.S. Eliot.

☝️T.S. Eliot’s The Sacred Wood is - A Collection of Critical articles.

☝️The phrase dissociation of sensibility was used by Eliot in ~ The Metaphysical Poets.

☝️The longest section of Eliot's The Waste Land is -
The Fire Sermon

☝️The LoveSong of J Alfred Prufrock is Eliot’s first published poem.

☝️In the poem The Journey of the Magi Eliot gives us his interpretation of the birth at -
Bethlehem.

☝️In which part of The Waste Land does Eliot refer to St. Augustine's visit to Carthage?
The Fire Sermon.

☝️In which essay has Eliot presented the famous catalyst analogy? -
Tradition and the Individual Talent.

☝️Gerontion by Eliot was originally intended as the prologue to -
The Waste Land.

☝️Who created the character Sweeney an ape-necked symbol of unthinking modern materialism? ~ T.S. Eliot.

☝️Which is called Eliot’s conversion poem written after his conversion to Anglicanism?
Ash Wednesday

☝️Which poem by T.S. Eliot is centred on the symbol of fire? ~ Little Gidding.

☝️T.S. Eliot wrote a review of the anthology of Metaphysical Poetry edited by -
Grierson.

☝️Which of the Four Quartets does Eliot employ the symbol of children’s laughter?
— Burnt Norton.

☝️Which Eliotian character utters the question Do I eat a peach? - Prufrock.

☝️The Thirties and After that Stephen Spender wrote in 1978. _ is a critical study
of - T.S. Eliot.

☝️Which poem by TS. Eliot presents the thoughts of an old man in a dry month?
~ Gerontion.

☝️Who said, “Here I am. Twenty years largely wasted Trying to use words?” -
T.S. Eliot.

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WORD OF THE DAY

October 18, 2023
omnipotent

adjective | ahm-NIP-uh-tunt
What It Means
Omnipotent is a formal word describing someone or something as having complete or unlimited power.

// History is replete with examples that reveal the dangers of having an omnipotent ruler.

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Examples
"AI is not omnipotent (yet). AI-generated products may perpetuate gender, racial and cultural stereotypes or lead to product homogenization. Moreover, the product development cycle could lose the human element that provides diversity, authenticity and emotional connection to consumers. It’s also not yet apparent how copyright issues will be handled." — Pavel Podkorytov, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2023
Did you know?
The word omnipotent made its way into English through Anglo-French, but it ultimately comes from a combination of the Latin prefix omni-, meaning "all," and the word potens, meaning "potent." The omni- prefix has also given us similar words such as omniscient (meaning "all-knowing") and omnivorous (describing one that eats both plants and animals). Although omnipotent is most often used in general contexts to mean "having virtually unlimited authority or influence" (as in "an omnipotent ruler"), it was originally applied specifically to the power held by an almighty deity. The word has been used as an English adjective since the 14th century, and since the 16th century it has also been used as a noun referring to one who is omnipotent.

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