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Florence Nightingale is known as the ‘Lady with the Lamp’. She earned this title during the Crimean War for her habit of making rounds at night to check on wounded soldiers, carrying a lamp.
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A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity. It embodies sacred emotions and praise.
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The missing word is ‘question’. This completes the famous opening line of Hamlet's soliloquy in Shakespeare's play: “To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
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The missing word is ‘dream’. This is a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 speech, where he repeatedly used the phrase “I have a dream” to articulate his vision of racial equality.
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Both novels were written by Charles Dickens. ‘David Copperfield’ is a bildungsroman about the life of the title character, while ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ is a historical novel set during the French Revolution.
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Both ‘The Tempest’ and ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ are famous plays by William Shakespeare. They are known for their magical elements, sprites (Ariel, Puck), and exploration of illusion versus reality.
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This is the final line of Percy Bysshe Shelley's ‘Ode to the West Wind’. It is a powerful rhetorical question symbolizing hope, suggesting that after the death and decay of winter, rebirth (spring) is inevitable.
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Dr. Samuel Johnson published ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’ in 1755. While not the first ever, it was the first comprehensive and influential dictionary that set the standard for English lexicography.
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‘Animal Farm’ is a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell, published in 1945. It uses a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer to critique the Russian Revolution and Stalinism.
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An autobiography is a self-written account of a person's life. ‘Auto’ means self, ‘bio’ means life, and ‘graphy’ means writing. A biography is written by someone else.