Abeka English Literature Test 3 – Flashcards
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Medieval period
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Mystery play
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Anglo-Saxon period
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"Bookworm"
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Elizabethan period
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Spenserian stanza
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Medieval period
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The Pearl Poet
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Anglo-Saxon period
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Scop
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Anglo-Saxon period
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Love of freedom, strong religious convictions
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Medieval period
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"Bonny Barbara Allen"
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Medieval period
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Romances such as King Arthur and Sir Gawain
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Elizabethan period
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William Shakespeare
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"Sonnet 18"
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"Shall I compare thee to a summer's-day?"
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"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
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"Come live with me, and be my love. And we will all the pleasures prove."
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"Bonny Barbara Allan"
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"Since my love died for me to-day, I'll die for him to-morrow."
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The Faerie Queen
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"Upon a great adventure he was bound, the greatest Gloriana to him gave."
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Beowulf
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"Revenging a wrong is more goodly than grieving; Let us follow."
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Banquo
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The ghost that haunted Macbeth at the banquet
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Malcolm
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King Duncan names him to the throne after him
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Sleepwalking
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The habit that Lady Macbeth develops as a result of her guilt
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Macduff
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Kills Macbeth
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Lust of power
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The tragic flaw of Macbeth which leads to his downfall
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Macbeth
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"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
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Lady Macbeth
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"A little water clears us of this deed."
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Banquo
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"Thou hast it now, King, Cawdow, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised."
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Lady Macbeth
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"Had he not resembled my father as he slept I had done it."
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Macbeth
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"It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
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Macbeth
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"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
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Lady Macduff
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"When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors."
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Macbeth
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"Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
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Lady Macbeth
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"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."
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Donalbain
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"There's daggers in men's smiles."
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Lady Macbeth
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"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it."
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Francis Bacon
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Who was the first essayist in English literature?
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William Shakespeare
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Who is the greatest writer of all time?
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Ben Johnson
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Who was England's first poet laureate
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Drama
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Which literary genre reached its peak during the Elizabethan period?
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Morality play
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What represented allegorically the battle which the vices and virtues wage for the possession of the human soul?
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Medieval romance
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What is based primarily on the adventures of knights, Kings, or distressed ladies
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Exemplum
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What is a short story or anecdote told the teacher lesson
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The virtue of holiness
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In The Faerie Queen, what does the red cross knight represent?
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Utopia
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What selection describes an imaginary ideal society?
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"On the Life of Man"
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What selection is a comparison of man's life to a play of passion?
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"A Hymn to God the Father"
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What selection shows the speakers response to God's chastening?
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Beowulf
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What is the oldest surviving epic?
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About a great national hero, written in the lofty language, contains supernatural elements, explores the struggle of good and evil.
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What are two of the four qualities of an epic?
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"The Seafarer"
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What poem shows the irony of a seaman longing for the sea despite the hardship of the sea?
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Everyman
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What selection teaches the important lesson that death comes for every man when least expected?
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"The Pardoner's Tale"
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What selection teaches that the root of all evil is the love of money?
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The Venerable Bede
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury tales
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
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Ben Johnson
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Song to Celia
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The Pearl Poet
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Sir Gawain and the green Knight
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Thomas Malory
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Morte Darthur
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William Shakespeare
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Sonnet 116
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Sir Thomas More
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Utopia
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Christopher Marlowe
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Doctor Faustus
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John Foxe
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The Book of Martyrs
