English Literature Test 12 (Final Exam)
Theme
The central idea in a work
Couplet
Two 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 words or phrases used in Anglo-Saxon poetry
Satire
The ridicule of human folly
Protagonist
A hero in conflict with another character
Dialogue
Speeches between two 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 pentameter
Plot
The arrangement of events in a story
Pastoral
A classic love song dealing with shepherds and rustic life
Conceit
An elaborate comparison of two things which superficially have little in common
Soliloquy
A speech by one character alone
Nesbit
Who wrote “The Railway Children”
Doyle
Who wrote “His Last Bow”
Conrad
Who wrote “The Lagoon”
Robert Burns
Who was Scotland’s greatest poet
Paradise Lost
What is the greatest epic in English literature
Everyman
What is perhaps the best known morality play
Beowulf
What is the greatest Anglo-Saxon poem
Byron
Who created the Byronic hero
The Romantic Age
William Wordsworth
(time period)
(time period)
The Twentieth Century
Pygmalion
(time period)
(time period)
The Age of Puritans
Metaphysical conceit
(time period)
(time period)
The Elizabethan Period
The Faerie Queen
(time period)
(time period)
The Age of Puritans
John Milton
(time period)
(time period)
The Victorian Era
Age of prose
(time period)
(time period)
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Robinson Crusoe
(time period)
(time period)
The Romantic Age
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(time period)
(time period)
The Medieval Period
The Pearl Poet
(time period)
(time period)
The Anglo-Saxon Period
Scop
(time period)
(time period)
To an Athlete Dying Young
Irony of fame and glory
Paradise Lost
Justifying the ways of God to men
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 Task
The love which should bind together all created things
Arsat
Who is haunted by the memories of the death of his brother in “The Lagoon”
Doublethink
In “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, what is the term that means “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and excepting both of them?”
Germany
In “His Last Bow”, what country was Von Bork collecting information from?
Sealed roll
In “The Pilgrim’s Progress”, what symbolized assurance of salvation
Evangelist
Who directed Christian to the Wicked-Gate
Lady Macbeth
From “Macbeth, what character suffers from sleepwalking because of guilt?
Banquo
What character is told that his children will be kings
The drama
What literary genre reached its peak during the Elizabethan period
Poetry
What was the first literature of the Anglo-Saxons
Sickness
In “Robinson Crusoe”, what caused Crusoe to ask for God’s help
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
John Milton
Paradise Lost
John Keats
“When I Have Fears”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
John Newton
“Amazing Grace”
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
John Bunyan
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Robert Burns
“The Cotter’s Saturday Night”
Alfred,Lord Tennyson
Idylls of the King
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels
Percy Shelley
The Book of Martyrs
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
William Yeats
“The Second Coming”
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Robert Browning
“My Last Duchess”
Wordsworth
Considered the world’s supreme poet of nature
24
Doctor Faustus sales his soul to the devil for ______ earthly years of glory
Higgins
In Pygmalion, _____ teaches Eliza to speak correctly
Third
In Morte Darthur, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur into the lake the _____ time
Titanic
Thomas Hardy wrote “The Convergence of the Twain” about the _____
“Ode to the West Wind”
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
In Memoriam
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”
The Deserted Village
“I’ll fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey, where will accumulates, and men decay”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“Water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink”
“To a Mouse”
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, gang aft agley”