Flashcards and recall.

Try this with English Literature

1. Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
2. Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
3. Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.

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Recall topics

• Who wrote 'Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever' and when?
• Who wrote 'To His Coy Mistress' and in what century?
• Who wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and when?
• Who wrote 'Sonnet 43: How Do I Love Thee?' and in what era?
• Who wrote 'Woman to Man' and when?
• Who wrote the 'Yankunytjatjara Love Poems' and when?
• Who wrote 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' and when?
• Who wrote 'Ode to Autumn' and in what century?
• Who wrote 'When You Are Old' and when?
• Who wrote 'Daddy' and when?
• Who wrote 'Father and Child: Barn Owl' and when?
• Who wrote 'These Days I Think of Aunty Doreen' and when?
• Which six poems are in the 2026 Love set? Give poets only.
• Which six poems are in the 2026 Loss set? Give poets only.
• Which Love-set poet lived in the Romantic era?
• Which Loss-set poet is Metaphysical?
• What form does Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 147' take?
• What form does Barrett Browning's 'Sonnet 43' take?
• What form does Keats's 'Ode to Autumn' take?
• What poetic form is Plath's 'Daddy'?
• What is iambic pentameter?
• What is a volta in a sonnet?
• What is the carpe diem argument?
• What is the metaphysical conceit?
• What is free verse?
• What is confessional poetry?
• What literary period does Metaphysical poetry belong to?
• What literary period is Romanticism?
• What literary period is the Victorian era?
• What literary period is Modernism?
• What was the Stolen Generations in Australian history?
• What is a caesura in poetry?
• What is alliteration?
• What is assonance?
• What is personification?
• What is a metaphor?
• What is a simile?
• What is imagery?
• What is symbolism in poetry?
• What is a dramatic monologue?