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| 5759580162 | Unknown Author | author of Beowulf | 0 | |
| 5759584101 | Beowulf (Character) | Geat from Southern Sweden who sailed from Denmark to help King Hrothgar fight Grendel | 1 | |
| 5759591111 | Grendel | born of Cain, half-human/half-demon animal that terrorizes King Hrothgar and his men; defeated by Beowulf by having his arm torn off | 2 | |
| 5759603844 | Grendel's Mother | the mother of Grendel who fights Beowulf and is defeated by him; lives in the lake where Grendel crawled into to die | 3 | |
| 5759636538 | King Hrothgar | the King of the Danes who is terrorized by Grendel | 4 | |
| 5759658722 | Herot | the drinking hall that Grendel attacks in the night | 5 | |
| 5759674525 | Danish Watchman | guard that allows Beowulf and his men to enter the country | 6 | |
| 5759682332 | Edgetho | Beowulf's father | 7 | |
| 5759690227 | Higlac | Beowulf's relative | 8 | |
| 5759714684 | Wiglaf | one of Beowulf's men who is the only one to turn back and fight when the rest of his men run away whilst Beowulf is fighting the dragon | 9 | |
| 5759759778 | Beowulf (Plot) | Beowulf sails to help King Hrothgar defeat Grendel, a monster who terrorizes the people, and goes on a rampage of killing Grendel, his mother, and dies trying to defeat a dragon guarding a tower | 10 | |
| 5759755847 | Geoffrey Chaucer | Author of The Canterbury Tales | 11 | |
| 5759791623 | The Canterbury Tales (Plot) | a group of pilgrims is going to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Beckett. Along the way, they meet an innkeeper who agrees to travel with them as a judge for a game he creates. He says that everyone on the pilgrimage is allowed to tell two stories and he will pick the best one at the end of the journey, and whoever wins will have a feast hosted by the other people on the journey. | 12 | |
| 5759879019 | The Pardoner's Tale (Plot) | three men set out on a quest to defeat death, and come across crap loads of money, to which they agree to split. They send one man out to buy food and drink and the other two plot to murder him when he returns. In the end, all three men die by their own attempts at murdering the others. | 13 | |
| 5759901891 | The Wife of Bath's Tale (Plot) | A rapist is sentenced to find out what women really want in one year or he shall be killed. He travels all over, but every women he asks gives him a different answer. On the day of his execution, he meets an old witch in the woods who gives him the answer, which saves his life. However, to receive this answer from the woman, he has to marry her if he lives. After marrying her, she asks if he would rather her be young and unfaithful or old and faithful. He asks her what she wants, and she becomes a young and faithful wife. | 14 | |
| 5759959367 | William Shakespeare | Author of Hamlet | 15 | |
| 5759960807 | Hamlet (Character) | the protagonist of the play; is visited by the ghost of his father and told the truth about his murder. The ghost of his father tells him to kill his uncle. Throughout the play, he struggles with whether or not he should kill his mother. His family believes he is crazy and he ends up dying by a poisoned sword in the end. | 16 | |
| 5759983996 | Ghost of Hamlet's Father (King Hamlet) | is killed by his brother, Claudius, while he is asleep in the garden by poison in his ear. He visits Hamlet and tells him to kill his Uncle and leave his mother alone. | 17 | |
| 5760073046 | Fortinbras | is trying to steal back land that Hamlet's father won in battle. At the end of the play he ends up ruling in Denmark | 18 | |
| 5760083149 | Ophelia | Hamlet's love interest, daughter of Polonius and sister of Laertes; ends up going crazy and drowning, although it is unknown if she drowned herself or if she was murdered | 19 | |
| 5760091239 | Claudius | Hamlet's uncle who killed his father. He takes over Elsinore and marries Hamlet's mother. He plots to kill Hamlet because of his madness; he ends up being poisoned by his own poisoned cup and stabbed by poisoned sword | 20 | |
| 5760100423 | Queen Gertrude | Hamlet's mother who marries his uncle VERY soon after her husband's death, has a strange relationship with her son as well. She is killed by drinking of the cup which Claudius poisoned. | 21 | |
| 5760115899 | Horatio | Hamlet's best friend. Almost killed himself, but Hamlet instructed him not to so he could tell his story. | 22 | |
| 5760123163 | Polonius | father of Laertes and Ophelia, advisor to the King. Claudius and he plot to kill Hamlet. Is stabbed through an arras by Hamlet because he was snooping on Hamlet and Queen Gertrude's conversation. | 23 | |
| 5760146168 | Laertes | Son of Polonius, leaves at the beginning of the play to return to school, but comes back to Elsinore to avenge his father's death. Is killed when dueling against Hamlet and their swords are switched and he is stabbed by the one that is poisoned. | 24 | |
| 5760160674 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | old friends of Hamlet that Claudius and Gertrude have try and get Hamlet to stop acting crazy. They travel with him to England where Claudius sends Hamlet to be murdered. Hamlet switches the letter they are taking to the King of England with one he wrote. The two are murdered and Hamlet returns to Elsinore. | 25 | |
| 5760186389 | Yorick | the old court jester who Hamlet speaks to before Ophelia's burial | 26 | |
| 5760199851 | Bill Shakespeare | Author of Macbeth | 27 | |
| 5760259501 | Macbeth (Character) | main character of the play who is given a prophecy that affects all of his decisions throughout the entire play. He goes slightly crazy and is beheaded by Macduff. All of the prophecies he was given came true | 28 | |
| 5760267503 | Banquo | good friend of Macbeth who is also given a prophecy: that his sons will rule as kings. He is killed my murderers who were sent by Macbeth | 29 | |
| 5760307330 | Witches | three women with beards who give Macbeth and Banquo prophecies | 30 | |
| 5760313993 | King Duncan | friend of Macbeth's who grants him the Thane of Cawdor. He is stabbed to death by Macbeth. | 31 | |
| 5760331652 | Lady Macbeth | Macbeth's wife who pushes him to murder all those in the way of him becoming and staying king. She goes crazy with the murders and kills herself just before the end of the play. | 32 | |
| 5760343977 | Malcolm and Donalbain | sons of Duncan; after hearing of his death, they flee the country and are then assumed to be guilty of his death. | 33 | |
| 5760356722 | Fleance | Banquo's son who escapes the murderers that Macbeth sent. Takes the throne of Scotland after Macbeth is killed. | 34 | |
| 5760364109 | Hecate | goddess of witchcraft | 35 | |
| 5760366453 | Macduff | friend of Macbeth who realizes his insanity and beheads him | 36 | |
| 5760373783 | Lady Macduff | is left by her husband when he goes to prepare for war and is murdered by Macbeth's men | 37 | |
| 5760429115 | John Donne | Author of "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning," "Meditation 17," and "Death Be Not Proud" | 38 | |
| 5760437544 | Alexander Pope | Author of "An Essay on Man" | 39 | |
| 5760442044 | Jonathon Swift | Author of "A Modest Proposal" | 40 | |
| 5760443118 | Robert Burns | Author of "Auld Lang Syne" | 41 | |
| 5760446896 | William Blake | Author of "The Chimney Sweeper" from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" | 42 | |
| 5760457614 | George Gordon/Lord Byron | Author of "She Walks in Beauty" | 43 | |
| 5760460244 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Author of "Ozymandias" | 44 | |
| 5760463903 | John Keats | Author of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" | 45 | |
| 5760465772 | Robert Herrick | Author of "To the Virgins, to make much of Time" | 46 | |
| 5760470668 | Lewis Carroll | Author of "Jabberwocky" | 47 | |
| 5760472115 | A.E. Hoursman | Author of "To an Athlete Dying Young" | 48 | |
| 5760481567 | Conceit | poet compares two unlike things in a long, extended comparison | 49 | |
| 5760485587 | Literary Paradox | images or descriptions that appear to be contradictory, but reveal deeper truth | 50 | |
| 5760492050 | Metaphysical Poet | 17th century poet who used a less formal tone, simpler word choice and wrote about love, death, and man's relationship with God | 51 | |
| 5760514168 | Satire | often humorous, written to actually make a serious point | 52 | |
| 5760521651 | Romantic Writers | wrote about the beauty of untamed nature, genius of individual artist's emotion and depiction of human feelings | 53 | |
| 5760694696 | A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (Plot) | the poem is arguing how the speaker and their partner's love is superior because their love doesn't depend on physical things like other people's might. | 54 | |
| 5760760779 | Meditation 17 (Plot) | the poem tells of how all men are united and that no one is left alone. We are all united and anything that happens to one effects the others. | 55 | |
| 5760804104 | Death Be Not Proud (Plot) | Death shouldn't be proud because it is not all powerful because people may be taken from earth but they live forever in heaven. All men die, no one is spared, but we all join again in heaven, and even death shall die. | 56 | |
| 5760817177 | An Essay on Man (Plot) | Humanity is always caught in between two things such as decisions and what we are, but we are all destined for the same thing and we will all make mistakes despite our superiority in the circle of life. | 57 | |
| 5760844107 | A Modest Proposal(Plot) | Satire used to show how ridiculous some of the ideas for solving child poverty were at the time. Proposes that people have children and then sell them to the rich to feast on that way there would be an abundance of food, wealth for the poor, and fewer starving children on the streets of Ireland. | 58 | |
| 5760854446 | Auld Lang Syne (Plot) | An old drinking song about the good old days and how we shouldn't forget them | 59 | |
| 5760870073 | The Chimney Sweeper(Plot) | Songs of Innocence: the boys walked through the streets crying "weep" hoping to get a job cleaning chimneys, which became like black coffins to them. All they dream of is being clean. They hope to die because they know they will be happy in heaven. Songs of Experience: the boys' parents make them walk through the streets to make money for them. The parents claim they make them work because of their religion. | 60 | |
| 5760928000 | The Tyger(Plot) | the poems asks what kind of person could build such a creature and describes the brutal process through which it was made. | 61 | |
| 5760937897 | The Lamb(Plot) | the poems asks the lamb if it knows what gentle hand made it and describes it's beauty and innocence | 62 | |
| 5760944413 | She Walks in Beauty(Plot) | the poem compares the woman to the beautiful surroundings she walks through as if she is those surroundings | 63 | |
| 5760946910 | Byronic Heroes | dramatic, handsome men who live short, fast, lives of excitement and passion. They tend to be dark and brooding bad boys | 64 | |
| 5760960144 | Ozymandius(Plot) | a poem about a fake statue built for a fake person and asks the question of what will and won't last forever, no matter how powerful | 65 | |
| 5760967537 | Ode on a Grecian Urn(Plot) | the poem depicts three different scenes: the first of a man chasing after a woman and being told to never give up, the second of a man playing a flute under a tree that cannot shed its leaves, and the third of a man leading a cow to be sacrificed | 66 | |
| 5760985612 | To the Virgins, to make much of Time(Plot) | Gather what you can in your time, but do not rush it. Do not rush your time. Time is more powerful than anything, the sun is a lamp that helps us see and it can't defeat time | 67 | |
| 5761000107 | Jabberwocky(Plot) | a poem that uses made up words to send a message about a made up creature | 68 | |
| 5761007941 | To an Athlete Dying Young(Plot) | a poem about a talented athlete that died too young, even though he was in his prime | 69 |
