Midterm Exam Review

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Midterm Exam Review

• Beowulf thru Metaphysical Poetry

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Which of the following are true of the
Anglo-Saxons?

• courageous
• cruel
• highly moral
• generous

• courageous
• cruel
• highly moral

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. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English
People was first composed in what language?

• Anglo-Saxon
• Celtic
• Latin
• Danish

• Latin

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What is a Scop?

• Warrior
• Leader
• Monster
• Poet

• Poet

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The following is an example of a kenning

• Candle of Heaven
• Ring Bestower
• Frogs Head
• Swan-Road

• Candle of Heaven

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Anglo Saxon Riddles are

• Metaphors

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The basic struggle illustrated in Beowulfs
battle with Grendel is

• Good vs Evil

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How does Beowulf kill Grendel?
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How many years of peril did Beowulfs defeat of
Grendel?

• 12 Years

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The characteristics which typify a hero from
Beowulfs time period

• Great strength
• Courageous
• Loyalty and allegiance
• Desire for fame

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What is chivalry?

• Generally began with King Arthur and his Knights
  and based on the ideals of honor, courage,
  courtesy and service to women.

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The religious shrine of St. Thomas Becket was the
destination of

• The Canterbury Tales pilgrims

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• Which social class is not represented in The
  Canterbury Tales ?
• Royalty
•  The theme of "The Pardoner's Tale is
• Greed/Avarice
•  

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• Sir Walter Raleigh was
• Soldier, statesman, poet (many written to Queen
  Elizabeth), and fought against Spanish.
• The King James version of the Bible was
  written-by a group of scholars
•  
• Ben Jonson's poem, "On My First Son," deals with
  the loss of his son.
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• What causes Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking?
• Guilt
• What political event occurs when the English
  invade Scotland?
• Scottish troops join them in Birnam Wood
• Although he learns Macduff is not of woman born
  Macbeth fights him because
• He will not live as a slave and be teased by
  Malcolm and his men.

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• In "The Pardoner'.s Tale," the three young men
  plot against
• Death
• (several of their friends recently dies)
•  
• 16. In "The Pardoner's Tale," when one of the
  young men goes to town to fetch wine for the
• others, the remaining two do what?
• Plan his murder (to get his share of the gold)

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• The following are true about Spenser's "Fairie
  Queene
• it is an allegory
• the Fairie Queene herself represents Queen
  Elizabeth
• it is one of the longest noteworthy poems in the
  English language
• it is written in blank verse

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• Metaphysical poetry focuses on all the following
  except
• law
• medicine
• philosophy
• religion

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• Identify 3 characteristics of John Donne's
  writings Italian sonnet form, religion, and
  death.
• The subject of the majority of Donne's poetry
  isDeath
• The leading Cavalier poet is considered to
  be Robert Herrick

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• The Romans were one of the many invaders of
  Britain. T/F
• The Bede scrupulously researched his subjects and
  interviewed eyewitnesses to events . T/F
• Humanism emphasized what two concepts?
• Human reason and common sense

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• What playwrights Mighty Line added emphasis to
  an actor's lines?
• Christopher Marlowe
• Blank verse had existed before him, but Marlowe
  made it far more powerful.

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• John Milton's purpose in, writing "Paradise Lost"
  was
• To justify the ways of God to man.
•  
• Essay comes from the word 'essais' meaning
• an attempt
•  In style, "Paradise Lost" combines biblical
  allusions with allusions to which of the
  following? Classical literature

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• In what form is "Paradise Lost" written?
• blank verse
• The element which The Pilgrim's Progress shares
  with "The Faerie Queene" is
• Its an allegory

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• The story of the prodigal son is an example of
  what type of literary work?
• Parable
• The story of the prodigal son says that one
  should do what?
• Be forgiving
• Psalm 23 utilizes a basic metaphor. That metaphor
  is
• Shepherd and his flock

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• What are three qualities that make the Bible a
  literary masterpiece?
• Simplicity, eloquence, directness, and clarity of
  prose
• Which of the following is distinguished as an
  essayist, a philosopher, and scientist?
• Francis Bacon

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• What is the key word in the text of I
  Corinthians?
• Charity 
• What do John Wycliffe and William Tyndalle have
  in common?
• Executed for translated the Bible

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• The most influential writer of the early 1600s
  was
• John Milton
• The majority of Puritanist were strongly against
  the divine right of Kings" view of whom?
• James I (16th and 17th Century)
• The word metaphysical means
• beyond the physical
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• The speaker is not afraid of death in "Death Be
  Not Proud" because
• his belief in Heaven
• What is the subject of "Meditation 17?
• Death

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• What was Ben Jonson attempting to do in the poem,
  "On My First Son?
• His son was lent to him
• Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee
  pay,
• Spare his son old age
• To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's
  rage,/And if no other misery, yet age !
• Rationalize loss of his son

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• What is the central concern of Marvell's poem,
  "To His Coy Mistress? 
• Carpe diem