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Lit Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sir Bedivere attempted to conceal a sword | Morte Darthur |
| "Shall I compare thee to a sumer's day?" | Shakespeare's Sonnets |
| the Thanes defend Heorot | Beawulf |
| a religious allegory | Everyman |
| A man sells his soul to the Devil | Doctor Faustus |
| "Fair is foul and foul is fair" | Macbeth |
| Bonny Barbara Allan | Ballads |
| Dr. Rowland Taylor is burned at the stake for preaching the gospel. | Book of Martyrs |
| an imaginary ideal society | Utopia |
| tells the story of Caedmon | Ecclesiastical History of the English People |
| During World War I, who was a pastor to troops stationed in the desert camps of Africa? | Oswald Chambers |
| What one overpowering idea shaped Keats's work? | beauty |
| "the Glories of the Desert Sky" pictures the sky over the country of what? | Egypt |
| Animal Farm is a brilliant satire on the failure of what? | Communism |
| what great English writer was a native of Poland who did not speak English until he was twenty-one years old? | Joseph Conrad |
| The literary genre which reached its peak during the Elizabethan period was the____? | drama |
| The Hidden Years at Nazareth, an acount of the probable work of Jesus during His teen years and early manhood was written by who? | G. Campbell Morgan |
| Romanticism was expressed almost entirely through what literary form? | poetry |
| The writer Joyce emplyed the "stream of ___" technique in FInnegan's Wake. | consciousness |
| The first literature of the Anglo-Saxons was what? | poetry |
| what writer calls his novels fables? | William Golding |
| THe first essayist in English literature was who? | Bacon |
| The great bulk of modern fiction is characterized by what? | secularism |
| The author of "the Lagoon" is who? | Joseph Conrad |
| On the whole, fiction in the twentieth century has been marked by an ignorance of what and a disillusionment with society. | Christianity |
| Eric Arthur Blair is the actual name of who? | George Orwell |
| Scotland's greatest poet was who? | Burns |
| The first great writer of science fiction was who? | H. G. Wells |
| "the Invisible Man" is one of the stories in the ___ mysery series. | Father Brown |
| Wordsworth and conleridge published Lyrical Ballads in what year? | 1798 |
| The short story appeared in England during what time period? | Victorian Era |
| WHat writer was called the greatest master of languages since Milton? | Joyce |
| Who is called the "Founder of English History"? | Bede |
| The man who has been called the "apostle to the Skeptics" is who? | C.S.Lewis |
| The influence of who is the hallmark of the English short story. | Freudian psychology |
| The "word's supreme poet of nature" was who? | Wordsworth |
| who first translated the Bible from Latin into English? | Wycliffe |
| the greatest epic in English literature is what? | Paradise Lost |
| The first "Utopia" of English literature was written by who? | More |
| Everyman is the best-known ____ play. | morality |
| "If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?" | Ode to the West WindBy- Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| "Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all" | In MemoriamBy- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| "the paths of glory lead but to the grave" | Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardBy- Thomas Gray |
| "The child is father of the Man" | My Heart Leaps UpBy- William Wordsworth |
| "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" | Ode on a Grecian UrnBy- John Keats |
| "Water, water, everywhere,/ Nor any drop to drink" | The Rime of the Ancient MarinerBy- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft a-gley" | To a MouseBy- Robert Burns |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| "Ode on a Grecian Urn" | John Keats |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| "Amazing Grace" | John Newton |
| Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan |
| "The Deserted Village" | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Pamela | Samuel Richardson |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Book of Martyrs | John Foxe |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| "The Second Coming" | William Butler Yeats |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| converstion on a play | dialogue |
| a sturggle between opposing forces | conflict |
| the main character | protagonist |
| the central idea in a work | theme |
| a fourteen-line poem | sonnet |
| a ridicule of human folly | satire |
| the arrangement of events in a story | plot |
| God seen as nature | pantheism |
| Anglo-Saxon metaphor | kenning |
| the physical background of a work | setting |
| a classic love song dealing with rural or rustic life | pastoral |
| two lines rhyming together | couplet |
| a type of Elizabethan song | madrigal |
| a play that ends happily | comedy |
| a speech by one character alone | soliloquy |
| An allegory that tells the journey a young man takes to rid himeslf of sin. | Pilgrim's Progress |
| A story based in part on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk | Robinson Crusoe |
| a man tells his story to a wedding party | Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Three young men go in search of death and finds it under a tree. | The pardoner's Tale/ Canterbury Tales |
| Tells a sad story of love and sacrifice | Nightingale and the Rose |
| Tennyson requested this poem always be placed at the end of his works. | Crossing the Bar |
| This work is the first significant novel to deal with an entire family | Pride and Prejudice |
| Greatest epic in English literature | Paradise Lost |
| Best known morality play | Everyman |
| Literary genre wich reached its peak during the Elizabethan period | drama |
| "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested" | Francis bacon |
| Stone walls so not a prison make,/ Nor iron bars a cage" | To Althea from PrisonBy- Richard Lovelace |
| "God moves in a mysterious way/ His wonders to perform" | Light Shining Out of Darknessby- William Cowper |
| "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may/ Old time is still a-flying" | Counsel to Girlsby- Robert Herrick |
| Who were the three leading British poets of the 20th century? | Yeats, Eliot, and Auden |
| Who is Englands most famous and best loved novelist? | Charles Dickens |
| the "worlds supreme poet of nature" | Wordsworth |
| Which literary period emphasized nature, country people, and simplicitry of expression? | Romantic Age |
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