Abeka 12th Grade English Literature Semester/Midterm Exam Study Sheet
“Come live with me, and be my love.”
Marlowe
“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.”
Lovelace
“For if she be not for me, what care I for whom she be?”
Wither
“Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.”
Milton
“I could not love thee (deare) so much, lov’d I not honour more.”
Lovelace
“Do you see yonder wicked-gate?”
Bunyan
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
Milton
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”
Shakespeare
“Upon a great adventure he was bound, that greatest Gloriana to him gave.”
Spenser
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
The Pearl Poet
“Ecclesiastical History of the English People”
The Venerable Bede
“The Canterbury Tales”
Chaucer
“The Book of Martyrs”
Foxe
“Doctor Faustus”
Marlowe
“The Faerie Queen”
Spenser
“Morte Darthur”
Mallory
“Everyman”
Author Unknown
“Utopia”
More
“A Hymn to God the Father”
Jonson
“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
Raleigh
“The Burning Babe”
Southwell
“The Canterbury Tales”
Medieval
“Beowulf”
Anglo-Saxon
“Paradise Lost”
Age of the Puritans
Gleeman
Anglo-Saxon
Sonnet
Elizabethan
The English Bible
Elizabethan
William Shakespere
Elizabethan
Drama at its Zenith
Elizabethan
Metaphysical Poets
Age of the Puritans
“Get up and Bar the Door”
Medieval
Morality play
Medieval
Cavalier Poets
Age of the Puritans
John Donne
Age of the Puritans
Blank verse
Elizabethan
“Macbeth”
Elizabethan
Rhythm
Regular recurrence of sounds
Rhyme
Correspondence of sounds
Iambic foot
The pattern of a line of poetry consisting of the first syllable unaccented and the second accented
Allegory
A narrative in which the characters, places, and other items are symbols
Metaphysical Conceits
Unusual comparisons in literature
Tragedy
A play that ends unhappily and deals with the universal questions of life
Soliloquy
A speech by one character alone on the stage
Blank verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Comedy
A play that ends happily
Couplets
A complete thought expressed in two rhyming lines
What represents assurance of salvation?
Sealed roll
What was the place built for the relief and security of the Lord’s pilgrims called?
Palace Beautiful
What represents the world’s system?
Vanity Fair
Who was killed in Vanity Fair?
Faithful
Who pulled Christian out of the slough?
Helpful
Who crawled over the wall?
Hypocrisy & Formalist
Who helped Christian through the gate?
Goodwill
Who directed Christian to the Wicked-gate?
Evangelist
Who went home after the slough?
Pliable
Who battles with Christian?
Apollyon
Who shows Christian the man in the iron cage?
Interpreter
What represented death?
A river
What represented Heaven?
Zion
What is the place which is the land before the river?
Beulah
Who locked Christian and Hopeful in his castle?
Giant Despair
Who was thrown into Hell from the gates of the Celestial City?
Ignorance
Who was Giant Despair’s wife?
Diffidence
Who said, “Screw your courage to the sticking-place”?
Lady Macbeth
Who said, “There’s daggers in men’s smiles”?
Donalbain
Whose ghost did Macbeth see at the banquet?
Banquo
Who was murdered along with her children?
Lady Macduff
Who killed Macbeth?
Macduff
Who escaped while his father was being murdered?
Fleance
What are the two main types of drama?
Tragedy and Comedy
Which poets used striking comparisons known as conceits?
Metaphysical Poets
What is the greatest epic in English literature?
“Paradise Lost”
Who is the greatest sonnet writer in English literature?
Shakespere
From where did John Bunyan write “The Pilgrim’s Progress”?
Bedford jail
Who was the greatest Metaphysical poet?
John Donne
Who was England’s first poet laureate?
Jonson
What work’s subject is the hour of death?
“Everyman” by Author Unknown
Which work has as its theme man’s need for rest?
“The Pulley” by Herbert
What work is a comparison of man’s life to a play of passion?
“On the Life of Man” by Raleigh