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Who wrote My Last Duchess?
Robert Browning
Which real-life "Duchess" was MLD based on?
Lucrezia de Medici
"I gave commands; Then all __ stopped together."
smiles
"That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were ___."
alive
Why does the Duke have his wife killed?
He is jealous of her heart "too soon made glad"
What do we call a break in a line?
a caesura
How old is the Duke's title?
"nine-hundred-years-old"
What does "chartered" mean?
Legally owned and controlled
What had happened to make London so crowded and full of poverty in Blake's era?
the industrial revolution
"And mark in every face I meet / Marks of __, marks of __."
weakness, woe
Give an example of oxymoron from Blake's London
youthful harlot / marriage hearse
how many syllables in a line of iambic pentameter?
10 - 5 x iambs
"mind-forged manacles" - name 2 devices used in this phrase
alliteration, metaphor
"Two ___ and ___ legs of stone"
vast, trunkless
what is the term for a repeated sentence structure / phrase?
anaphora
"My name is Ozymandias, __ of ___: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and ___!"
king, kings, despair
