English Literature Grade 12 Final Exam (Units 1-8)
Theme
The central idea which gives a work meaning
Plot
The arrangement of events in a story or play; the sequence of related actions.
Conceit
An elaborate comparison of two things which superficially have little in common.
Couplet
Two rhyming lines which express a complete thought.
Pastoral
A classic love song dealing with shepherds and rustic life, often presenting an idealized concept of rural life.
Madrigal
A popular love song during the Elizabethan Age consisting of voice parts woven together.
Sonnet
A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter
Kenning
Metaphorical, compound words or phrases used in Anglo-Saxon poetry
Satire
the ridicule of human folly
Pantheism
The false idea that the spirit of God dwells in nature and that to commune with nature is to commune with God.
Robert Burns
Scotland’s greatest poet
Joseph Conrad
Wrote ‘The Lagoon’
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wrote ‘His Last Bow’
E. Nesbit
Wrote ‘The Railway Children’
The Romantic Age
Time period of Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Victorian Era
Time period for Age of Prose
The Elizabethan Period
Time period for The Fairie Queen
The Medieval Period
Time period for Pearl Poet
The Twentieth Century
Time period for Pygmalion
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Time period for Robinson Crusoe
The Elizabethan Period
Time periods for Metaphysical Conceits
The Romantic Era
Time period for William Wordsworth
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.”
The Deserted Village
“Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey…”
To a Mouse
“The best laid schemes of mice and men…”
Ode on a Grecian Urn
“Beauty is truth, truth Beauty.”
In Memoriam
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Ode to the West Wood
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind.”
Drama
Reached pique during the Elizabethan Period
Lady Macbeth
Suffers from sleepwalking
Sealed roll
Assurance of Salvation
Doublethink
1984 term for holding two beliefs
Arsat
Haunted by his brother’s memory in The Lagoon
Evangelist
Directed Christian to the Wicket Gate
Banquo
Told that his children would be kings
Poetry
First Anglo-Saxon literature
Rime of the Antient Mariner
The love which should bind together all things
The Village
Simplicity of rural life
Pardoner’s Tale
The love of money is the root of all evil
Paradise Lost
Justify ways of God to men
To an Athlete Dying Young
Irony of fame and glory
Elegy in a Church Courtyard
A memorial to the people who lie barried
The Pulley
A man’s need for rest
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Permanence in a world of change satisfied through art
The Convergance of the Twain
Thomas Hardy about Titanic
24
Years of earthly glory
Wordsworth
World’s supreme poet of nature
Robert Browning
Wrote My Last Duchess
Jane Austen
Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Yeats
Wrote The Second Coming
Defoe
Wrote Robinson Crusoe
Foxe
Wrote Book of Martyrs
Swift
Wrote Guliver’s Travels
Tennyson
Wrote Idylls of the King
Charles Dickens
Wrote David Copperfield
Burns
Wrote Cotter’s Saturday Night
John Bunyan
Wrote Pilgrim’s Progress
John Newton
Wrote Amazing Grace
Shakespeare
Wrote Macbeth
Keats
Wrote Why I Have Fears
John Milton
Wrote Paradise Lost
Chaucer
Wrote Canterbury Tales
Paradise Lost
Greatest Epic English Literature
Everyman
Best known morality play