Abeka English Literature Test 12
theme
The central idea in a work
couplet
2 rhyming lines which express a complete thought
comedy
a play that ends happily
madrigal
a popular Elizabethan love song consisting of voice parts woven together
kenning
metaphorical compound word or phrases used in Anglo-Savon poetry
satire
the ridicule of human folly
protagonist
a hero in conflict with another character
dialogue
speeches between 2 or more characters in a play
setting
the physical background of a work
pantheism
God dwells in nature
sonnet
a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pantameter
plot
arrangement of events in a story
pastoral
classic love song dealing with shepherds and rustic life
conceit
an elaborate comparison of 2 things which superficially have little in common
soliloquy
a speech by one character
E. Nesbit
wrote the railway childern
Sir A. Conan Doyle
wrote His last Bow
Joseph Conrad
Wrote “The Lagoon
Robert Burns
Scotland’s greatest poet
Greatest epic in English Literature
Paradise lost
Everyman
best known morality play
Greatest Anglo-Saxon Poem
Beowulf
George Gordon, Lord Byron Created What
Byronic hero
Romantic age
William Wordsworth
twentieth century
Pygmalion
age of puritans
Metaphysical conceit
elizabethan period
The Faerie Queen
age of puritans
John Milton
victorian era
age of prose
restoration and the eighteenth century
Robinson Crusoe
romantic age
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
medieval period
the Pearl Poet
anglo-saxon period
scop
to an athlete dying young
irony of fame and glory
paradise lost
justifying the ways of God and man
elegy written in a country churchyard
memorial to the obscure, humble people who lie buried
the pardoner’s tale
the love of money is the root of all evil
the pulley
man’s need for rest
the deserted village
times of lament are no more and the simplicity of rural life
ode on a grecian urn
permanence in a world of change satisfied through art
the rime of the ancient mariner
the Love which should bind together all created things
who is haunted by the memory of the death of his brother in “the Lagoon”
arsat
in nineteen eighty-four, what is the term that means ” the power of holding 2 contradictory beliefs in ones mind simultaneously and accepting both of them
doublethink
for “His last Bow” in what country was Von Bork Collecting information from?
England
sealed roll symbolizes what? in ” Pilgrims Progress
assurance and salvation
who directed pilgrim to the wicket-gate?
Evangelist
in “Macbeth” who suffers from sleep walking due to guilt?
lady Mcbeth
Banquo was told his children would be
Kings
drama reached its peak during what period
Elizabethan
poetry was the first literature of the
Anglo-Saxons
sickness caused Crusoe to do what?
ask God for help
chaucer
The canterbury Tales
milton
paradise Lost
keats
When I have fears
shakespeare
Macbeth
newton
Amazing Grace
dickens
David Copperfield
bunyan
the Pilgrims Progress
burns
the Cotters Saturday Night
tennyson
Idylls of the King
swift
Gulliver’s Travels
foxe
The Book of martyrs
defoe
Robinson Crusoe
yeats
the Second Coming
austen
Pride and Prejudice
browning
My last Duchess
william wordworth is considered
supreme poet of nature
who sells his soul to the Devil for 24 earthly years
Dr. Faustus
In Pygmalion Professor who? teaches Eliza to speak
Higgins
In Morte Darthur, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur into the lake the what time
third
Thomas Hardy wrote ” The Convergence of the Twian” about what?
The Titanic
ode to the west wind
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all
Than never to have loved at all
In Memoriam
Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey,
where wealth accumulates, and men decay
where wealth accumulates, and men decay
The Deserted Village
ode on a grecian urn
Beauty is truth, truth is beauty
Water, water, every where Nor any drop to drink
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
to a mouse
The best laid schemes O’ mice an’ men, gang aft agley