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The Booker Prize is a prestigious literary award given annually for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
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William Faulkner was a celebrated American writer from Mississippi, known for his novels set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The other options listed are British authors.
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Longfellow's poem illustrates that actions (arrows) and words (songs) have lasting consequences. Cruel deeds and good deeds both affect others and can be found long after they are released.
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Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick" tells the story of Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for revenge against Moby Dick, a giant white sperm whale that had previously bitten off Ahab's leg.
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This line appears in Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark." The full stanza contrasts human restlessness and regret with the skylark's pure, unadulterated joy.
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While literature has many qualities, its defining feature is its 'Artistic quality.' It transcends mere information or reporting to provide an aesthetic, emotional, or intellectual experience.
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The Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) method is the current standard. It emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of study, focusing on using language for real communication.
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The "Comedy of Humours," popularized by Ben Jonson, is based on the ancient medical theory of the four bodily humours (blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile), which were thought to determine personality.
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The English word 'novel' is derived from the Italian word 'novella,' which in turn comes from the Latin 'novellus,' a diminutive of 'novus,' meaning 'new'.
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A competent teacher needs a holistic understanding: the structural rules of the language (grammar), how it is built (structure), and the cultural context of its speakers to teach effectively.