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ENGLISH REVIEWER 9. Who is the author of ‘The Great Gatsby’?

a. Charles Dickens
Authors and Books/Works b. Ernest Hemingway
1. Who is the author of the book 'Nineteen c. J. D. Salinger
Eighty Four' - 1984? d. F. Scot Fitzgerald - answer
a. Thomas Hardy
b. Emile Zola 10. Who is the author of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’?
c. George Orwell a. Alexander Dumas
d. Walter Scott b. Henry Fielding
c. Jonathan Swift - answer
2. Who wrote ‘War and Peace’? d. James Fennimore Cooper
a. Leo Tolstoy - answer
b. Charles Dickens 11. Who is the author of ‘Sense and Sensibility’?
c. William Shakespeare a. Jane Austen - answer
d. William Wordsworth b. Emile Bronte
c. Charlotte Bronte
3. ‘The Gathering Storm’ is written by which d. E. M. Foster
author?
a. Winston Churchill - answer 12. Who is the author of ‘Robinson Crusoe’?
b. George Washington a. William Shakespeare
c. Voltaire b. Mark Twain
d. Romain Rolland c. James Fennimore Cooper
d. Daniel Defoe - answer
4. Who is the author of the famous book ‘Anna
Karenina’? 13. Who is the author of ‘Portrait of a Lady’?
a. Boris Pasternak a. Henry James - answer
b. Victor Hugo b. Alice Walker
c. Lewis Carroll c. Umberto Eco
d. Leo Tolstoy - answer d. Tennessee William

5. Who is the author of ‘Wuthering Heights’? 14. Who is the author of ‘Alice in Wonderland’?
a. Emily Bronte - answer a. Alice Walker
b. Margaret Mitchell b. Jonathan Swift
c. Harriet Beecher Stowe c. Lewis Carroll - answer
d. Jane Austin d. Jane Austen

6. Who is the author of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’? 15. Who is the author of ‘Jane Eyre’?
a. J. R. R. Tolkien a. Charlotte Bronte - answer
b. John Steinbeck - answer b. Emile Bronte
c. Ernest Hemingway c. Alice Walker
d. Umberto Eco d. Jane Austen

7. Who is the author of ‘Les Miserables’? 16. Who is the author of ‘Lord of the Flies’?
a. William Shakespeare a. William Golding - answer
b. Victor Hugo - answer b. John Milton
c. Alexander Dumas c. J. R. R. Tolkien
d. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly d. F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. Who is the author of ‘Brave New World’? 17. Who is the author of ‘From Here to Eternity’?
a. George Orwell a. Mark Twain
b. James Joyce b. James Jones - answer
c. Aldous Huxley - answer c. Leo Tolstoy
d. Jules Verne d. Lewis Carroll
18. Who is the author of ‘The Sound and The 6. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘Do Not
Fury’? Go Gentle Into That Good Night’?
a. Toni Morison a. Dylan Thomas - answer
b. Charles Dickens b. Robert Frost
c. William Faulkner - answer c. E. E. Cummings
d. Tennessee Williams d. Maya Angelou

19. Who is the author of ‘Little Women’? 7. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘Anyone
a. Jane Austen Lived in a Pretty How Town’?
b. Sylvia Nasar a. T. S. Eliot
c. Edith Wharton b. W. H. Auden
d. Louisa Mary Alcott - answer c. E. E. Cummings - answer
d. Langston Hughes
20. Who is the author of ‘A Room with a View’?
a. Emile Bronte 8. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘O
b. Oscar Wilde Captain! My Captain!’?
c. Charlotte Bronte a. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
d. E. M. Foster - answer b. Walt Whitman - answer
c. Lewis Carroll
Poems and Poets d. Alfred Lord Tennyson
1. Which poet wrote the following famous poem
‘Ode to Nightingale’? 9. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘Ode to
a. William Wordsworth Autumn’?
b. Alfred Lord Tennyson a. John Keats - answer
c. Percy Bysshe Shelley b. Lord Byron
d. John Keats - answer c. William Wordsworth
d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2. Which poet wrote this famous poem
‘Ozymandias’? 10. Which poet wrote this famous poem
a. John Keats ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’?
b. Robert Burns a. William Butler Yeats
c. Walter Scott b. T. S. Eliot
d. Percy Bysshe Shelley – answer c. Pablo Neruda
d. Robert Frost – answer
3. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘Death Be
Not Proud’? 11. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘My
a. John Donne - answer Heart Leaps Up’?
b. Andrew Marvell a. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c. William Shakespeare b. William Wordsworth - answer
d. John Milton c. John Keats
d. Walter Scott
4. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘The Lady
of the Lake’? 12. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘Alone’?
a. John Keats a. Matthew Arnold
b. William Wordsworth b. Edgar Allan Poe - answer
c. Walter Scott - answer c. Alfred Lord Tennyson
d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge d. John Keats

5. Which poet wrote this famous poem 13. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘On His
‘Jabberwocky’? Blindness’?
a. Edgar Allan Poe a. Andrew Marvell
b. Walt Whitman b. John Milton - answer
c. T. S. Eliot c. William Shakespeare
d. Lewis Carroll - answer d. John Donne
14. Which poet wrote this famous poem Characters from Shakespeare’s Plays
‘Leisure’?
a. T. S. Eliot 1. This is a character from which play by William
b. William Henry Davies - answer Shakespeare? Fool
c. Robert Frost a. The Tempest
d. Joyce Kilmer b. King Lear – answer
c. Midsummer Night’s Dream
15. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘Sacred d. Romeo and Juliet
Emily’?
a. Gertrude Stein - answer 2. This is a character from which play by William
b. Wilfred Owen Shakespeare? Frederick
c. Robert Frost a. As You Like It - answer
d. Pablo Neruda b. Titus Andronicus
c. Twelfth Night
16. Which poet wrote this famous poem d. King Lear
‘Crossing the Bar’?
a. William Ernest Henley 3. This is a character from which play by William
b. Emily Dickinson Shakespeare? Helena
c. Lewis Carroll a. Hamlet
d. Alfred Lord Tennyson - answer b. Macbeth
c. All’s Well That Ends Well – answer
17. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘The d. Merry Wives of Windsor
Second Coming’?
a. Joyce Kilmer 4. This is a character from which play by William
b. William Butler Yeats - answer Shakespeare? Miranda
c. Ogden Nash a. Hamlet
d. Robert Frost b. Julius Caesar
c. Much Ado About Nothing
18. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘The d. The Tempest – answer
Sun Rising’?
a. John Donne - answer 5. This is a character from which play by William
b. Robert Herrick Shakespeare? Beatrice
c. Andrew Marvell a. Merry Wives of Windsor
d. Robert Burns b. Hamlet
c. Macbeth
19. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘To His d. Much Ado About Nothing – answer
Coy Mistress’?
a. John Donne 6. This is a character from which play by William
b. William Shakespeare Shakespeare? Macduff
c. Andrew Marvell - answer a. Macbeth – answer
d. John Milton b. Hamlet
c. The Tempest
20. Which poet wrote this famous poem ‘Trees’? d. Julius Caesar
a. Joyce Kilmer - answer
b. Gertrude Stein 7. This is a character from which play by William
c. Ogden Nash Shakespeare? Shylock
d. Robert Frost a. Hamlet
b. Merchant of Venice – answer
c. Much Ado About Nothing
d. Macbeth
8. This is a character from which play by William d. Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare? Duncan
a. Taming of the Shrew 16. This is a character from which play by William
b. Macbeth – answer Shakespeare? Adriana
c. The Tempest a. King John
d. Twelfth Night b. Winter’s Tale
c. Comedy of Errors - answer
9. This is a character from which play by William d. Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare? Banquo
a. Winter’s Tale 17. This is a character from which play by William
b. As You Like It Shakespeare? Junius Brutus
c. Macbeth – answer a. Cymbeline
d. Merchant of Venice b. Coriolanus - answer
c. Troilus and Cressida
10. This is a character from which play by William d. Henry VIII
Shakespeare? Isabella
a. Taming of the Shrew 18. This is a character from which play by William
b. Titus Andronicus Shakespeare? Regan
c. All’s Well That Ends Well a. Measure for Measure
d. Measure for Measure – answer b. All’s Well That Ends Well
c. Love’s Labour’s Lost
11. This is a character from which play by William d. King Lear - answer
Shakespeare? Julia
a. Twelfth Night 19. This is a character from which play by William
b. Two Gentlemen of Verona – answer Shakespeare? Rosaline
c. Antony and Cleopatra a. King Lear
d. Henry IV b. All’s Well That Ends Well
c. Taming of the Shrew
12. This is a character from which play by William d. Love’s Labour’s Lost - answer
Shakespeare? Lucio
a. Measure for Measure – answer 20. This is a character from which play by William
b. Twelfth Night Shakespeare? Hortensio
c. Much Ado About Nothing a. King Lear
d. Richard III b. Love’s Labour’s Lost
c. Taming of the Shrew - answer
13. This is a character from which play by William d. Measure for Measure
Shakespeare? Cassio
a. Merchant of Venice
b. Othello – answer Rapid Fire Round
c. Henry IV Set I – Team 1
d. Measure for Measure 1. Who wrote the poem ‘The Rainbow’? William
Wordsworth
14. This is a character from which play by William 2. Who is the Indian writer in English whose
Shakespeare? Falstaff autobiography is ‘My Story’? Kamaladas
a. Two Gentlemen of Verona 3. Which is the theatre in London, which is now a
b. Henry IV – answer museum and is associated with Shakespeare?
c. All’s Well That Ends Well The Globe
d. Titus Andronicus 4. What is the name of the tiger in ‘Jungle Book’?
Sher Khan
15. This is a character from which play by William 5. What is a 14 line poem with carefully
Shakespeare? Malcolm patterned rhyme scheme? Sonnet
a. Troilus and Cressida 6. Who is the famous author whose pen name is
b. Pericles, Prince of Tyre O. Henry? William Sydney Porter
c. Macbeth – answer
7. Which Indian author wrote the English novel 8. Who is the famous writer whose pen name is
called ‘Untouchable’? Mulk Raj Anand J. K. Rowling? Joanne Rowling
8. What is the name of the book that Adolf Hitler 9. Who wrote: "My name is Ozymandias, King of
wrote about his own life? Mein Kamph Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and
9. In which work do you read: "Beauty is truth, despair!"? Percy Bysshe Shelley
truth beauty."? Ode on a Grecian Urn 10. In which work do you read: "My candle burns
10. Who wrote: "That's my last Duchess painted at both ends / It will not last the night"? First Fig
on the wall / looking as if she were alive."?
Robert Browning Set IV– Team 4
1. Who wrote ‘The Golden Gate’? Vikram Seth
Set II– Team 2 2. Whose autobiography is ‘Wings of Fire’? A P J
1. Who wrote ‘Paradise Lost’? John Milton Abdul Kalam
2. Miles to go before I sleep – To which poem 3. Satyajit Ray’s film, ‘Shatranj KeKhiladi’, is
does this line belong to? Stopping by the woods based on a novel by whom? Munshi Premchand
on a snowy evening 4. Name the collection of stories written by
3. The film ‘Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa’ starring Jaya Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English at the end of
Bachchan and Anupam Kher is based on a novel the 14th century? Canterbury Tales
by which Indian author? Mahashweta Devi 5. Who is the mythological character who fell in
4. Who wrote the original Panchatantra? Vishnu love with his own reflection? Narcissus
Sharma 6. What is the poem written to celebrate a
5. What is the name given to a lengthy, narrative wedding called? Epithalamium
poem, containing the details of heroic deeds? 7. Who is the famous writer whose pen name is
Epic George Eliot? Mary Ann Evans
6. Who wrote the famous book - 'We the 8. In which work do you read: "My name is
people'? Nani Palkhiwala Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye
7. What is the famous writer whose pen name is mighty, and despair!"? Ozymandias
Saki? H. H. Munroe 9. Who wrote: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's
8. Who wrote: "'Hope' is the thing with best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to
feathers/that perches in the soul"? Emily read."? Groucho Marks
Dickinson 10. In which work do you read: "I wake to sleep
9. In which work do you read: "That's my last and take my sleeping slow."? The Waking
Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she
were alive."? My Last Duchess Set V– Team 5
10. In which work do you read: "I have measured 1. Who is regarded as the father of English
out my life with coffee spoons."? Lovesong of J. Poetry? Geoffrey Chaucer
Alfred Prufrock 2. Who is the writer of popular book series ‘Harry
Potter’? J.K. Rowling
Set III– Team 3 3. For which text (or book) was Rabindra Nath
1. Who is the author of the famous short story Tagore awarded with the Nobel Prize for
‘Last Leaf’? O. Henry literature? Geetanjali
2. Name the semi-autobiographical novel by E. R. 4. Who is the author of the book 'Forbidden
Braithwaite. To Sir, With Love Verses'? Abu Nuwas
3. Who wrote ‘Sur Sagar’? Sant Kavi Surdas 5. Among the four Vedas, which is the oldest
4. The White Tiger is the debut novel by a one? Rig Veda
famous Indian author. Who is this author? 6. Which is the world’s longest epic?
Arvind Adiga Mahabharat
5. Which is the largest library in the world? 7. Which is the book that is translated into the
Library of congress, Washington DC highest number of languages? The Bible
6. Who is the famous mythological character 8. Which is the third oldest surviving university in
who is believed to have stolen fire from Zeus? the world? Oxford University
Prometheus 9. Who wrote: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."?
7. What is the name given to a play with a sad John Keats
ending? Tragedy 10. Who wrote: "I have measured out my life
with coffee spoons."? T. S. Eliot
= written on his tomb when he dies “ O
ENGLISH LITERATURE Rare Ben Jonson”
ANGLO SAXONS PERIOD
Volpone – best play in English literature :
The Seaferer
about the fox named Volpone
Beowulf
Song / to Celia
a) Grendel –ate 30 warriors a
The Noble Nature
night
FRANCIS BACON
b) 12 years of terror
= the wisest, brightest, meanest of
c) Killed by Beowulf
mankind
GEOFFREY CHAUCER = “father of English = first essayist in English literature
literature”
Of Studies : some foods are to tastes,
The Nun’s Priest’s tale of Chanticleer and
some to be swallowed and some to be digested…
Pertelote JOHN MILTON
The Pardoner’s tale
= 1652, he became blind
Canterbury tales (29 pilgrims each telling their
On his blindness
stories : 24 completed Lycidas (poem)
SIR THOMAS MALORY
Paradise Lost – the noblest, grandest
Le Morte d’ Arthur (The death of Arthur)
poem in English Literature
- HIC IACET ARTHURUS, REX SAMUEL PEPYS
QUONDAM REX QUE
Pepys’s Diary (1825)
FUTURUS
JOHN DRYDEN
- Here lies Arthur, King once, = Poet
and King that will be
Antony and Cleopatra
EDMUND SPENSER = “the poet’s poet”
All for Love
The Faerie Queene
= Father of English Prose
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE = “Kit”
The hind and the panther
= known for tragic dramas
- Represents the roman
Tamburlaine
church as a “milk-white”
Dr. Faustus
hind
The Passionate shepherd to his love
ALEXANDER POPE
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Dunciad – epic of Dunces
= “history of the world”
Essay on man – he wrote at the age of 12
The nymphs reply to the shepherd
Pastorals – 16
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – ANNE HATHAWAY
An essay of Criticism – 23
= 18 years old when married The rape of the lock – 24
= 52 years old when he died : April 23
The translation of the Greek’s : ILIAD
Merchant of Venice (Shylock and
= AGE of the POPE
Antonio)
JONATHAN SWIFT
Sonnets: Poems of 14 lines
Gullivers travel
Sonnet 18 = poems of praise, love and despair
- Gulliver : Liliput
Sonnet 116 THOMAS GRAY
Sonnet 29 = Immortalization of love and beauty
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard – 9
BEN JONSON
years in writing
= next to Shakespeare for being the
dramatist in the Elizabeth age
= his followers call themselves “ Sons of
Ben”
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE
*The Child is the father of the man* =
one of his famous line EDGAR ALLAN POE
= called “ The nature’s high priest” and The cask of Ammontillado
“Pioneer” The Raven
= Lyrical Ballads = everyday “natural” life El Dorado
The Solitary Reaper = defined poetry as the rhythmic
She was a phantom of delight = the lyrics creation of beauty
of the poem characterizes the poet’s wife Mary ROBERT FROST
Hutchinson Mending Wall
= at the age of 73 he was made the “Poet LINDSAY
Laureate” The congo
ROBERT BROWNING and ELIZABETH BARRETT WILLIAN FAULKNER
BROWNING = famous literary couples in English The tall men
literature Sanctuary
The Barretts of Wimpole Street = popular JONATHAN EDWARDS
modern play Freedom of the Will
RB : Memorabilia THOMAS PAINE
The last Duchess Common Sense
LEWIS CAROLL BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Alice in Wonderland The Autobiography
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON KALIVALA
Treasure Island Epic of Finland
JOHN DONNE VIRGIL
Song Aenid (Greece)
GEORGE HERBERT SAMUEL CLEMENCE –MARK TWAIN (pen name)
Virtue The prince and the pauper
WILLIAM BLAKE SYDNEY PORTER –O. HENRY (penname)
The lamb – from songs of Innocence GEORGE ELIOT – MARY ANN EVANS (pen name)
The Tyger – from songs of experience Scylla’s Mariner
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON = baron WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
Crossing the Bar Invivtus : *I am the captain of my soul*
GEORGE ORWELL ALEXANDRE DUMAS
= was the pen name chosen by Eric The Three Musketeers
Arthur Blain MARGARET MITCHELL
Shooting an Elephant Gone with the Wind
CHARLES DICKENS BRAM STOKER
Pickwick Paper Dracula
David Copperfield JOYCE KILNUR
The trees
RAPLH WALTER EMERSON
Rodora : *If eyes is made for seeing…*
SARAH TEASDALE
Barter
HENRY
Psalm of Life
POETRY 8. Aurora – Goddess of Dawn
a) Poem – rhymed 9. Hebe – Goddess of Youth
b) Blank Verse – unrhymed 10. Aeoulian – Aeolus (based)
c) Free Verse – no definite pattern 11. ISHTAR – Babylonian goddess of beauty
12. ISIS – Egyptian goddess of beauty
EPICS
1. Luciad –Portugal PHOBIAS
2. Gilgamesh – Babylonian 1. Myso – dirt
3. Elcid – Spain 2. Claustro – close places
4. Beowulf – England 3. Agora – open places
5. Song of Roland –France 4. Irithro – blushing
6. Divine Comedy – Italy (Inferno, 5. Nicto – dark night
Purgatoryo, Paradiso) 6. Pyro – fire
7. Shanamah – Persia (Verdausi) 7. Zoo – Animal
8. Micro –Small object
9. Patho – Diseases
QUOTATIONS 10. Triskaideka – 13
1. A thing of beauty is a joy forever … 11. Alto – high places
= John Keats 12. Sangre – Blood
ODE TO NIGHTINGALE 13. Cito – eating
2. For the love of money is the root of all
evil … MONETARY UNITS
= Bible, New Testaments 1. Taka- Bangladesh
3. Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can not 2. Yen – Japan
heal= Thomas Moore 3. Won –Korea
4. Life is what we make it OTHER WORKS AND AUTHORS
= Anonymous 1. Casino Royale – Ian flemming
OTHER TERMS 2. Swiss family Robinson – Johann Rudolf
1. Elegy – songs for the dead Wyss
2. Quazimodo – hunchback in the Nortrodame 3. Pilgrim’s Progress –John Bunyan
3. Paranoid – highly suspicious 4. The little prince –Antoine de St. Exupery
4. Mortimer Mouse – Mickey Mouse 5. The Wonderful wizard of Oz –Lyman
5. Psalms – Song for the church Frank Baum
6. Ante-meridium – A.M. 6. Oliver twist – Charles Dickens
7. Post Meridium – P.M. 7. Alice adventure in wonderland – Lewis
8. Satire – plays about real life Caroll
9. Folk-play – local… 8. The prince – Noccolo Machiavelli
9. Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
MYTHOLOGY 10. The ugly duckling – Hans Christiaan
1. Narcissus – fell in love with himself Anderson
2. Cupid – lover of psyche 11. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
3. Penelope – wife of Odysseus 12. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher
4. Calypso – nymph who fell in love with Stowe
Odysseus 13. The Cask of Amontillado –Edgar Allan
5. PYRAMUS –THISBE Poe
6. PYGMALION – GALATEA 14. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austin
7. Selene – Goddess of the Sky 15. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flawked
QUIZ BEE QUESTIONS: 18. Give a synonym for confess:- Admit
19. The past participle of bite – Bitten
1.“I have completed my work.” What is 20. Complete the simile – As merry as
the tense used in this sentence? _______________- a bird
Present Perfect Tense
2. Sometimes, words are added to 21. What is the young one of a deer
sentences to convey or express called? – fawn
emotions. What are such words called? - 22. What is the collective noun for a
Interjections group of bees? – swarm
3. What is a gerund? – The –ing form of a 23. What is the name given to a word
verb used instead of a noun? - Pronoun
4. My elder brother came there. Pick out 24. Name the fictional character who
the adjective from this sentence:- elder was carved from a piece of pine:-
5. Sometimes in poems or stories, the Pinocchio
writers attribute human traits to non- 25. What is the name given to a lengthy,
living things. What is this figure of narrative poem, containing the details of
speech called? heroic deeds- Epic
Personification 26. What do you call a person who loves
6.What is the detailed description of the mankind? - Philanthropist
life history of a person, written by the 27. What is the antonym for renowned? -
same person called ? Notorious
Autobiography 28. Give a synonym for brittle:- -
7. What is the name given to the study of weak/feeble
speech sounds or spoken language? 29. What is the past participle of swim? -
Phonetics Swum
8. What do you call a person who sees 30. What is the young one of a duck
the darker side of things? Pessimist called ? Duckling
9. What is the antonym for flexible? Rigid
10. Give a synonym for generous:- kind, 31. What is the collective noun for a
good-hearted group of elephants?- herd
32. What is the name given to the nouns
11.What is the past participle of hide? - that we can only think of? – Abstract
Hidden Nouns
12.Complete this simile – As cool as 33. What is the name given to a play with
_______________ a cucumber a sad ending? - Tragedy
13.What is the young one of a bear 34. What do you call a person who sees
called? - cub the brighter side of things? - Optimist
14.What is the collective noun for a 35. What is the antonym for production?
group of ants? – colony - destruction
15.What is the name given to a noun 36. Give a synonym for decorate:- adorn
that is the name of some particular 37. The past participle of freeze - frozen
person or place? – Proper Noun 38. Complete the simile As gloomy
16. What do you call a person who as______________________ night
collects stamps? – Philatelist 39. What is the Young one of an eagle
17. What is the antonym for prohibit? - called? - eaglet
Permit 40. What is the collective noun for a
group of robbers? –gang
41. What is the name given to a noun
that we can see, feel or taste? –
Concrete Nouns
42. Who is the mythological character
who fell in love with his own reflection?
– Narcissus
43. Which is the only word in English
which will be pronounced the same,
even when the last four letters are
removed?
Queue
44. In English, there are just 4 words
which begin with ‘dw’. The first one is
dwarf, the second one is dwell, the third
one is dwindle. Which is the fourth one?
Dweeb - A boring person
45. Which is the longest word in English
without a vowel? – Rhythm

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