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English Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Old English | Roman empire left britain in 420 CE. Angles and Saxons conquered Britain 450 CE, bringing old english with them (a Germanic language. English is foreign to Englad! |
| Old english was spoken from | 500-1100 CE |
| Beowulf | was composed in old english |
| Old english survived native languages | Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Old English Poetry | is accentual and alliterative. Four accent line, medial caesura, two accents on each side. Any number of syllables. 2-4 alliterative words, stressed syllables tend to have alliteration |
| Old English was | anonymous and oral, accompanied by a harp |
| Junk by Richard Wilbur and The Seafarer are examples of what type of poetry (from when) | They are a type of old english poetry. No consistent syllables, has alliteration |
| Who was Beowulf written by | A Christian monk who combines anglosaxon values with Christian culture |
| Beowulf poem | Starts off boasting, in contrast Christianity "counters" violence. Will fight monster with his own hands. Hero attributes skills to God. Cane killed his brother in cane and able |
| Middle English Poetry was when | 1100-1500 CE |
| Chaucer wrote in | Middle english |
| Norman Conquest in 1066 transformed | Old English into Middle English |
| Norman Conquest | Normans spoke French and introduced French words into English vocabulary. |
| What were examples of French words Normans brought | mansion, recreation, marriage, vision, horrible, commence, education, vacation, question |
| Middle English Poetry | Under the influence of French and Italian poetry, English poets began using syllabic and accentual-syllabic meters and end rhyme. |
| Chaucer | (1340-1400) was first major English poet to practice accentual-syllabic verse |
| Chaucer: "Complaint to His Purse" | Iambic Pentameter with end rhyme. Commoners were the ones who spoke English |
| Middle English Poetry and style | Accentual-syllabic was a compromise between accentual meter of Old English poetry and syllabic meter of continental languages like French. |
| Middle English Poetry and Rhyme | poets used both alliteration and end rhyme, merging both old english and continental styles. Ending in (-ion) so its much easier to rhyme in French. Alliteration is easier in English |
| Modern English developed | around the Renaissance (1500 CE) |
| Renaissance and 17th Century | Britain still a backwater in 1500. Latin was lingua franca in Europe. Literacy uncommon in Britain and focused on Latin. English language restricted to British Isles |
| Renaissance and 17th Century Poetry and Defeat | Defeat of Spanish armada in 1588 led to growing international prestige of England and English language |
| Renaissance and 17th Century England | London was fastest growing city in Europe in late 1500s and 1600s. England gradually became leading colonial, manufacturing, and maritime power |
| Renaissance and the 17th Century Books | Publishers, not writers, made money from books. Writers needed wealthy patrons or a day job. Reading public was small and elite |
| Renaissance and the 17th Century Poetry | Poetry was the realm of aristocracy. Poetry was more respectable than prose. Female poets were rare. There was no freedom of the press. Lots of religious poetry, common themes of religious devotion and love |
| Poetry (17th century/Ren) form | meter and rhyme follows established forms. Iambic pentameter and heroic couplets dominate. (heroic-couplets in iambic pentameter with end rhyme). Mition added blank verse (iambic pent. no end rhyme. Sonnets (Italian) were popular |
| Examples of poetry from 17th century | The Author to Her Book (Anne Bradstreet)-end rhyme and Iambic. On my First Son (Ben Jonson)-end rhyme. Paradise Lost (John Milton)--blank verse |
| Why use heroic couplets in "The Author to Her Book" | extended metaphor-comparing her book to a child, the book has gone out into the world. Paired things, closely related so end rhyme and heroic couplets |
| Important Renaissance/17th Century Poets | Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare. Metaphysical poets (John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan) |
| Renaissance writers admired | complexity, intricacy, and linguistic ornamentation |
| Metaphysical poetry in Renaissance | complex ideas, aesthetic ingenuity. Conceit: extended, complex metaphor or elaborate comparison between two dissimilar things |
| Holy Sonnets | by John Donne. NOT Iambic. meter is irregular. Metaphysical poetry is roughly similar lines. Uses metaphor to describe his relationship with God |
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