Free TCE English Literature Flashcard Review
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Who wrote 'Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever' and when?
William Shakespeare, 1609. This Shakespearean sonnet uses fever imagery to explore love's destructive power.
Who wrote 'To His Coy Mistress' and in what century?
Andrew Marvell, 17th century (1681). A Metaphysical poem using the carpe diem argument to persuade his lover.
Who wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and when?
Lord Byron, 1814. A Romantic poem celebrating female beauty as a synthesis of light and dark.
Who wrote 'Sonnet 43: How Do I Love Thee?' and in what era?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850 (Victorian era). A Petrarchan sonnet enumerating the ways love is measured.
Who wrote 'Woman to Man' and when?
Judith Wright, 1949. An Australian modernist poem using bodily and natural imagery to celebrate female creative power.
Who wrote the 'Yankunytjatjara Love Poems' and when?
Ali Cobby Eckermann, 2010. Contemporary First Nations poetry written in English with Yankunytjatjara language, exploring Stolen Generations trauma and Indigenous love.
Who wrote 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' and when?
John Donne, 1633. A Metaphysical poem comparing the parting lovers' souls to the legs of a compass.
Who wrote 'Ode to Autumn' and in what century?
John Keats, 1820 (Romantic era). A classical ode in three stanzas celebrating autumn as a season of harvest and mellow fruitfulness.
Who wrote 'When You Are Old' and when?
William Butler Yeats, 1893. A poem addressing an ageing beloved, reflecting on unrequited love and the passage of time.
Who wrote 'Daddy' and when?
Sylvia Plath, 1962. A confessional dramatic monologue written near the end of her life, using violent imagery to address her dead father.
Who wrote 'Father and Child: Barn Owl' and when?
Gwen Harwood, 1969. An Australian modernist poem exploring a childhood memory of witnessing death as a pathway to mortality awareness.
Who wrote 'These Days I Think of Aunty Doreen' and when?
Natalie Harkin, 2015. Contemporary Australian First Nations poetry about memory, loss and Indigenous community across generations.
Which six poems are in the 2026 Love set? Give poets only.
Shakespeare, Marvell, Byron, Barrett Browning, Wright, and Eckermann (six poets; students study one set of six).
Which six poems are in the 2026 Loss set? Give poets only.
Donne, Keats, Yeats, Plath, Harwood, and Harkin (six poets; students study one set of six).
Which Love-set poet lived in the Romantic era?
Byron (1814) and Barrett Browning (1850); Byron is the Romantic, Barrett Browning is Victorian.
Which Loss-set poet is Metaphysical?
John Donne (1633), known for the metaphysical conceit—an extended comparison between unlike things.
What form does Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 147' take?
Shakespearean or English sonnet: 14 lines of iambic pentameter in three quatrains and a couplet, with ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme.
What form does Barrett Browning's 'Sonnet 43' take?
Petrarchan or Italian sonnet: 14 lines in iambic pentameter, with an octave (ABBAABBA) and sestet (typically CDECDE).
What form does Keats's 'Ode to Autumn' take?
Classical ode in three stanzas of 11 lines each, using varied iambic pentameter and tetrameter, celebrating an elevated subject.
What poetic form is Plath's 'Daddy'?
A dramatic monologue written in free verse, using repetition and violent imagery to address the dead speaker's father.