ENGLISH IV REVIEW
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ENGLISH IV REVIEW SHEET
Turn this in filled out and receive up to 10 pts. on your mid-term. All the questions will come from this list and will be multiple-choice or matching. Searching out these questions will provide you not only with extra points, but the answers to all questions that will appear on the test. The sheet must be turned in before the test. The test will have 50 questions and is worth 10% of your grade.
Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Periods
What was the name of the Roman missionary who established a monastery in Canterbury?
Which military expedition’s aim was to wrestle Jerusalem from Muslim control?
Which literary form was dominant during this time period?
During this time period what did people have a markedly strong belief in?
Who was crowned king in 1066?
What do you call a long narrative poem that celebrates a hero’s deeds?
Beowulf
In Beowulf, what is the name of Hrothgar’s great mead-hall?
How many men does Beowulf bring with him?
From whom is Grendel descended?
How long does Beowulf reign as King of the Geats?
Who helps Beowulf against the dragon?
The Canterbury Tales
Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury?
For which social classes did Chaucer write?
What was Chaucer’s profession?
At what time of year does the pilgrimage take place?
How many Canterbury Tales are there?
How many tales did Chaucer originally envision each pilgrim telling?
Geoffrey Chaucer died in October, 1400. Where is he buried?
Who are the three men searching for in the Pardoner’s Tale?
What does “The Pardoner’s Tale” mainly warn against?
What is the Wife of Bath’s Prologue about?
According to the Wife of Bath, what do women most desire?
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
During whose reign does the poem take place?
Where is Gawain supposed to find the Green Knight?
What is the Green Knight’s real name?
How much time does Gawain have to locate the Green Knight?
Why does Gawain refuse the lady’s advances?
What is the name of the court where Gawain first meets the Green Knight?
What is Gawain’s relationship to King Arthur?
Why does Gawain take the lady’s green girdle?
Renaissance (minus Shakespeare’s plays and life)
Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard introduced what form of literature to England?
Why did Henry VIII divorce Catherine, his wife of eighteen years?
Which wife of Henry VIII was the mother of Elizabeth I?
Marlowe’s “The Passionate Sheppard to His Love” is a famous example of what kind of poetry?
Which romantic epic did Edmund Spenser dedicate to Elizabeth I?
Who wrote, “Come live with me and be my love”?
Which literary figure died in a bar fight at the age of 29?
How many lines are in a sonnet?
Which sonnet form has an octave and sestet?
Which sonnet compares ice and fire?
How many people could the original Globe Theater hold?
How was the first Globe Theater destroyed?
The current Globe Theater opened in 1997 to which play?
How many scholars and clergymen worked on the King James Bible?
In the King James Bible, which passage deals with the element of time?
In the “Parable of the Prodigal Son”, why does the son return home?
In metaphysical poetry what is meant by a paradox?
Who did John Donne write, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” to?
In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” to what does the poem compare the speaker and his love?
Who wrote, “To His Coy Mistress”?
The Cavalier poets supported the monarch and advocated carpe diem. What does carpe diem mean?
Which poet lost his sight at the age of forty-three?
What do you call a literary writing that tells a surface story, but has a secondary meaning that is meant to convey some form of teaching or moral lesson?
Which poem is considered the first epic poem of the English language?
This writer was jailed for twelve years for violating the religious restrictions of the Church of England?
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
What is the real reason for a quest?
When O’Brien ‘s character falls through the road, which piece of literature is he comparing his story to?
What is the title of the musical based on Romeo and Juliet?
In literature, what does myth mean?
Which Victorian novelist is credited with the line, “It was a dark and stormy night”?
Which stratum of society does Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher deal with?
Which Hemingway character is seen as a Christ figure?
What is it called when a writer writes about sex and means strictly sex?
When characters go south, what does that generally mean?
In The Wasteland, which month is called the cruelest?
