Abeka English Literature Final
The central idea in a work
Theme
Two rhyming lines which express a complete thought
Couplet
A play that ends happily
Comedy
A play that ends unhappily
Tragedy
A popular Elizabethan love song consisting of voice parts woven together
Madrigal
Metaphorical, compound words or phrases used in Anglo Saxon poetry
Kenning
The ridicule of human folly
Satire
A hero in conflict with another character
Protagonist
The opponent or force in conflict with another character
Antagonist
Speeches between two of more characters in a play
Dialogue
The physical background of a work
Setting
God dwells in nature
Pantheism
A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter
Sonnet
The arrangement of events in a story
Plot
A classic love song dealing with shepherds and rustic life
Pastoral
An elaborate comparison of two things which superficially have little in common
Conceit
A speech by one character alone
Soliloquy
Who wrote “the railway children”
Nesbit
Who wrote “his last bow”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Who wrote “the lagoon”
Joseph conrad
Who was Scotland’s greatest poet
Robert burns
What is the greatest epic in English literature
Paradise lost
What is perhaps the best known morality play
Every man
What is the greatest Anglo Saxon poem
Beowulf
Who created the Byronic hero
George Gordon Lord Byron
William Wordsworth (period)
Romantic age
Pygmalion (period)
Twentieth century
Metaphysical conceit (period)
Age of puritans
The faerie queen (period)
Elizabethan period
John milton (period)
Age of puritans
Age of prose (period)
Victorian era
Robinson crusoe (period)
Restoration and the eighteenth century
The rime of the ancient mariner (period)
Romantic age
The pearl poet (period)
Medieval period
Scope (period)
Anglo Saxon period
Irony of fame and glory
To an athlete dying young
Justifying the way of God to men
Paradise lost
Memorial to the obscure humble people who lie buried
Elegy written in a country churchyard
The love of money is the root of all evil
The pardoner’s tale
Man’s need for rest
The pulley
Times of lament are no more and the simplicity of rural life
The deserted village
Permanence in a world of change satisfied through art
Ode on a Grecian urn
The love which should bind together all created things
The rime of the ancient mariner
Who is haunted by the memory of the death of his brother in “the lagoon”
Arsat
In 1984 what is the term that means, “the power of holding 2 contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them”
Doublethinking
In “his last bow” what country was Von Bork collecting info. From
England
In “the pilgrims progress” what symbolized assurance of salvation
Sealed roll
Who directed Christian to the wicket gate
Evangelist
From “Macbeth” what character suffers from sleepwalking because of guilt
Lady Macbeth
What character is told that his children will be kings
Banquo
What literary genre reached its peak during the Elizabethan period
Drama
What was the first literature of the Anglo saxons
Poetry
In Robinson Crusoe what caused Crusoe to ask for god’s help
Sickness
The Canterbury tales (author)
Chaucer
Paradise lost (author)
Milton
When I have fears (author)
Keats
Macbeth (author)
Shakespeare
Amazing grace (author)
Newton
David Copperfield (author)
Dickens
The pilgrims progress (author)
Bunyan
The cotter’s saturday night (author)
Burns
Idylls of the king (author)
Tennyson
Gulliver’s travels (author)
Swift
The book of martyrs (author)
Foxe
Robinson crusoe (author)
Defoe
The second coming (author)
Yeats
Pride and prejudice (author)
Austen
My last duchess (author)
Browning
*samuel Taylor coleridge* is considered the worlds supreme poet of nature
William wordsworth
Doctor Faustus sells his soul to the devil for *twenty four* earthly years of glory
True
In Pygmalion, professor *pickering* teaches Eliza to speak correctly
Higgins
In morte d’arther, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur into the lake the *third* time
True
Thomas hardy wrote “the convergence of the twain” about the *titanic*
True
If winter comes, can spring be far behind
Ode to the west wind
This better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
In memoriam
I’ll fares the land to hast’ning ills a prey where wealth accumulates and men decay
The deserted village
Beauty is truth truth beauty
Ode on a Grecian urn
Water, water, every where nor any drop to drink
The rime of the ancient mariner
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, gang aft agley
To a mouse