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SALTEnglishLitTest6
Preparation for English Lit Semester Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Whose ghost did Macbeth see at the banquet? | Banquo |
| Who was murdered with her children? | Lady Macduff |
| Who said, "But screw your courage to the sticking place." | Lady Macbeth |
| Who told Macbeth that Lady Macbeth had died? | Seyton |
| Who killed Macbeth? | Macduff |
| Who wrote it? "do you see yonder wicket gate?" | John Bunyan |
| Who wrote it? "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." | Francis Bacon |
| Who wrote it? "Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, / Guilty of dust and sin." | George Herbert |
| Who wrote it? "Death, thou shalt die!" | John Donne |
| Who wrote it? "When I consider how my light is spent, / Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide" | John Milton |
| Who wrote it? "I could not love thee, dear, so much / Loved I not honor more." | Richard Lovelace |
| AUTHOR? Ecclesiastical History of the English People | the Venerable Bede |
| AUTHOR? Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | the Pearl Poet |
| AUTHOR? The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| AUTHOR? "A Hymn to God the Father" | Ben Jonson |
| AUTHOR? The Faerie Queene | Edmund Spenser |
| AUTHOR? Piers Plowman | William Langland |
| AUTHOR? Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe |
| AUTHOR? "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| AUTHOR? Utopia | Thomas More |
| AUTHOR? Morte Darthur | Thomas Malory |
| What time period? The Canterbury Tales | Medieval |
| What time period? Cavalier Poets | Puritan |
| What time period? morality play | Medieval |
| What time period? Metaphysical poets | Puritan |
| What time period? English national epic poem | Anglo-Saxon |
| What time period? sonnet | Elizabethan |
| What time period? feudalism | Medieval |
| What time period? drama at its high point | Elizabethan |
| What time period? the Commonwealth | Puritan |
| What time period? blank verse | Elizabethan |
| What time period? Paradise Lost | Puritan |
| What time period? morality play | Puritans |
| What time period? William Shakespeare | Elizabethan |
| What time period? King James Bible | Elizabethan |
| Who is the greatest sonnet writer in English literature? | Shakespeare |
| In a play, a speech by one character alone on the stage is called _?_. | soliloquy |
| The regular recurrence of sounds is _?_. | rhythm |
| Unrhymed iambic pentameter is commonly known as _?_. | blank verse |
| The greatest epic in English literature is _?_. | Paradise Lost |
| Drama has traditionally been divided into two types: comedy and _?_. | tragedy |
| The _?_ foot is made up of two syllables, the first one unaccented and the second one accented. | iambic |
| The correspondence of sounds is _?_. | rhyme |
| "A narrative in which the characters, places, and other items are symbols" is the description of a(n) _?_. | allegory |
| The Metaphysical poets used striking comparisons known as Metaphysical _?_. | conceits |
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