English 1 Test 3 – Flashcards
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love and death
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What are the two subjects in Donne's "Song"?
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When we die, we do not cease to exist but instead achieve eternal life.
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In "Meditation 17," what is meant by the statement, "when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language?"
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to assure his beloved that distance will make their love grow stronger
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What is the speaker's motivation in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?
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A paradox
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Read the following lines from "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and choose the term that best describes them: "Our two souls therefore, which are one,/ Though I must go, endure not yet/ A breach, but an expansion."
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Believers die but awaken again to eternal life.
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What is the main idea of "Holy Sonnet 10"?
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a publisher
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What does "Meditation 17" compare God to?
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Human beings are necessarily involved with another.
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According to the argument Donne puts forth in "Meditation 17," how can one be affected by another's death?
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"Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind..."
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Which quotation states the main theme of "Meditation 17"?
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After death, a Christian awakes to eternal life.
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Why is the seemingly contradictory phrase "Death, thou shalt die" actually true within the context of "Holy Sonnet 10"?
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It implies that the lover is being kind and cruel at the same time.
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In Donne's Song, why is the phrase "unkindly kind" paradoxical?
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Comparing leaving a loved one to dying.
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In lines 1-8 of Donne's "Song," what is the speaker doing?
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Unlike physical love, spiritual love can withstand absence.
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Determine what the speaker saying in the following lines from "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning:" "Dull sublunary lovers' love/ (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit/ Absence, because it doth remove/ Those things which elemented it."
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Because fate, chance, kings, and desperate men control when Death comes.
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In "Holy Sonnet 10," why does the speaker refer to death as a slave?
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the speaker mourns the death of his son
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What is the main idea of "On My First Son"?
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His son
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In "On My First Son," what does the speaker describe as his best piece of poetry?
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His sin was in wanting too much for his son.
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In "On My First Son," what does the speaker mean when he says, "My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy"?
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He prefers a more natural woman to one who is always groomed.
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Determine what the speaker means in the following quote from "Still to Be Neat:" "Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; / Such sweet neglect more taketh me/ Than all th' adulteries of art."
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Perfect makeup and grooming cover flaws.
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Determine what the speaker means in the following quotation from "Still to Be Neat"? "Lady, is it to be presumed, /Though art's hid causes are not found/ All is not sweet, all is not sound."
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the pleasures of love
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What is the theme of "Song: To Celia"?
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To describe an effort to win a lover's affection.
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Why do you think Jonson wrote "Song: To Celia"?
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sieze the day
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What does carpe diem mean?
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Death is approaching quickly.
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Determine what the speaker means in the following quotation from "To His Coy Mistress:" "But at my back I always hear/ Time's winged chariot hurrying near."
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life
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Determine the meaning of the flower in these lines from "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time:" "And the same flower that smiles today/ Tomorrow will be dying."
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Frustration
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Determine the speaker's attitude in these lines from Sir John Suckling's "Song:" "If of herself she will not love, /Nothing can make her:/ The devil take her!"
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A young man who is in love
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Whom is the speaker addressing in Suckling's "Song"?
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Humorous
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In Suckling's "Song," what is the speaker's attitude toward his subject?
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People cannot change their fates.
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What is one of the main ideas of "Sonnet VII" ("How soon hath Time")?
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I may appear to be a man, but I am not yet mentally mature.
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Determine the meaning of these lines from "Sonnet VII" ("How soon hath Time"): "Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, / That I to manhood am arrived so near, /And inward ripeness doth much less appear."
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A person does not have to achieve great things to serve God.
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What is the best statement of the theme of "Sonnet XIX (When I consider how my light is spent)"?
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How to do his work as a blind person
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What problem does the speaker examine in "Sonnet XIX (when I consider how my light is spent)"?
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the conflict between good and evil
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What is the central theme of the excerpt from "Paradise Lost" that you read?
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He led a rebellion against God.
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How did Satan come to rule in Hell, according to Paradise Lost?
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The story begins in the middle of the action.
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Which characteristic of epic poetry is found in Paradise Lost?
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to raise a rebellion of angels
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In Paradise Lost, what does Satan vow to do as he sits in Hell?
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that it is all a dream
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Based on the opening line of the selection you read from "The Pilgrim's Progress," what can you infer about what follows?
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It represents obstacles in the path to Christian salvation.
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In "The Pilgrim's Progress," what is the allegorical significance of the Slough of Despond?
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the burden of sin or guilt on the soul
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In "The Pilgrim's Progress," Christian is carrying a burden. What does that burden symbolize?
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If it requires too much effort he is not interested.
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In "The Pilgrim's Progress," how would you describe Pliable's attitude toward salvation?
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the gates of heaven
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What does the Wicket Gate in "The Pilgrim's PRogress" symbolize?
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Pathways to salvation and grace.
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"The Pilgrim's Progress," when Help refers to "the steps," what does he mean?
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A church bell.
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What is a recurring symbol in "Meditation 17"?
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To urge his love to accept his proposal of marriage.
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What is the speaker in "To His Coy Mistress" trying to do?
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in their youth/ prime.
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When does the speaker in "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" believe is the best time to find love?
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For Beelzebub's perceived weakness.
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Why does Satan rebuke Beelzebub in "Paradise Lost"?
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For allegorical fashion
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Why do the characters in "The Pilgrim's Progress" have symbolic names?
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The plague and the Great Fire of London.
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The excerpt from Samuel Pepys's Diary is most valuable as a primary source of information about what?
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He is a doctor whose opinion is valued.
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What does the following quote say about the author's position in society: "Church being done, my Lord Bruncker, Sin J. Minnes, and I up to the vestry at the desire of the Justices of Peace, Sir Theo. Biddulph and Sir W. Boreman and Alderman Hooker, in order to the doing something for the keeping of the plague from growing..."
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The time from onset to death could be very short for some people.
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What does the following quote say about the plague: "... one of my own watermen, that carried me daily, fell sick as soon as he had landed me on Friday morning last, when I had been all night upon the water (and I believe he did get his infection that day at Brainford), and is now dead of the plague."
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Brick or stone, because they are not flammable.
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According to Charles II's "Declaration to London, 1666," what materials does Charles want people to use when they build houses?
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to prevent a fire from jumping across the street
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According to Charles II's "Declaration to London, 1666," why should the streets in the rebuilt city be wider than they were before?
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They give readers a first-hand look at conditions in London in 1666.
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What did both Pepys's Diary and the "Declaration to London, 1666" give to the public now?
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The narrator refers to himself as "I" and relates only what he sees and knows.
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What clues in A Journal of the Plague Year indicate that it is told from the first-person point of view?
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The plague caused a breakdown in orderly behavior.
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What is the main idea of the excerpt of A Journal of the Plague Year?
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He gives mortality statistics and measurements.
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How does Defoe make his account, A Journal of the Plague Year, seem realistic?
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Which end of the egg to break open.
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In "Gulliver's Travels," what are the Lilliputians quarreling about that leads to war?
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Religious wars
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In Gulliver's Travels, what is Swift satirizing when he writes about the Lilliputian wars?
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The inhumanity of modern warfare.
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What is the target of Swift's satire when he has Gulliver offer the king of Brobdingnag the technology to make gunpowder, and the king refuses?
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arguments over unimportant things
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What is Swift atirizing in the story of the dispute between the Big-endians and the Little-endians in Gulliver's Travels?
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People have many strengths and weaknesses.
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What is the main idea of the passage from An Essay on Man?
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A state between having great knowledge and knowing nothing
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Determine what Pope means by "middle state" in these lines from An Essay on Man: "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; / The proper study of mankind is man./ Places on this isthmus of a middle state, / A being darkly wise, and rudely great..."
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a high- level style
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Which of the following is a characteristic of a mock epic in The Rape of the Lock?
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To entertain and ridicule
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What was Pope's purpose in writing The Rape of the Lock?
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His dictionary may not be perfect, but no one else have even completed one.
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What is one of Johnson's themes in "The Preface"?
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to illustrate how to use the words
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Why does Johnson include quotations from famous writers in each entry of A Dictionary of the English Language?
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to learn why he wrote the dictionary
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What would be a good purpose for reading Johnson's "The Preface" to his dictionary?
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at a friend's house
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According to the Life of Samuel Johnson, where did Boswell first meet Johnson?
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his thinking abilities
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In the excerpt from the Life of Samuel Johnson, which of Johnson's personal qualities does Boswell praise the highest?
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Johnson often used satire and humor to disguise his true meaning.
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Boswell describes Johnson's conversational skill in the Life of Samuel Johnson. According to Boswell, why was it sometimes difficult to know exactly what Johnson thought about some issues?
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All lives, no matter how great or unknown, end in death.
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What is the main idea of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
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respect
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Which word best describes the speaker's attitude toward common people in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
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The speaker dies and is buried in the graveyard.
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What happens to the speaker at the end of the "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
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Power, beauty, wealth, and glory all end with death.
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Determine which answer best paraphrases these lines from "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:" "... the pomp of power, /and all beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, / Awaits alike the inevitable hour. /These paths of glory lead but to the grave. "
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wandering in the countryside after dark.
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What is the speaker doing in the opening lines of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
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thoughtful
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What is the mood of "A Nocturnal Reverie"?
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as a time for recovery and celebration
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How does the speaker in "A Nocturnal Reverie" describe night?
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It is a dreamlike poem about night.
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Why is "A Nocturnal Reverie" a good name for the poem?
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He has made philosophy popular with ordinary people.
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Determine what Addison means with these comments from "The Aims of The Spectator:" "I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea tables and in coffeehouses."
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A person who wants to learn bout the times in which they live.
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What kind of reader would buy The Spectator, according to "The Aims of The Spectator"?
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To explain his goal for the paper.
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What is Addison's purpose in writing "The Aims of The Spectator"?
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"That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble"
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Which line form "To a Mouse" contains dialect
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Your small house is also destroyed
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Determine the best translation of tis line of dialect from "To a Mouse:" "Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!"
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It would do us all good if we could see ourselves as others do.
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What is the main idea of "To a Louse"?
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God is Kind.
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What is the main philosophical idea of "The Lamb"?
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power
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What does the tiger symbolize in "The Tyger"?
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He cries
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How does the father react to the child's birth in "Infant Sorrow"?
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Another disaster within his city
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What was King Charles II trying to prevent?
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The British court.
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What is Gulliver's Travels a satirical commentary on?
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It symbolizes the fighting between the Catholics and the Protestants.
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What does the controversy between the Big-endians and Little-endiens symbolize?
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A mock epic
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What kind of an epic is The Rape of the Lock?
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Burns used Scottish dialect in his writing.
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What kind of dialect did Robert Burns use?
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Faster than the sun.
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The speaker in "Song" sates that he is what?
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That Death shouldn't be prideful, he will die, and that he is a slave.
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What does the speaker tall Death in "Holy Sonnet 10"?
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A compass
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What imagery is used to imagine two lovers in "A Valediction"?
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That Death is arrogant.
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Donne's speaker in "Holy Sonnet 10" thinks what of Death?
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Donne's beliefs concerning the connection between two bound souls.
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What is the main theme of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?
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Persuade readers that they are truly part of the "family of man."
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What is the basic aim of "Meditation 17" is to?
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The ringing church bell.
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What is the central image of "Meditation 17"?
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To not be distressed when he goes to war because it unnecessary
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What is the purpose in "Song" trying to convince his lover not to do?
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He is referring to the Christian belief that Death will ultimately be destroyed. And because he believes this, he doesn't fear Death.
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In "Holy Sonnet 10," why does the speaker say that Death will die?
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The modern English novel.
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The publication of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe in 1719 paved the way for what?
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he wrote a fictional account of London life.
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In A Journal of the Plague Year, Defoe did what?
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An older, judicious and wise person, who is analytical and well- informed.
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What is the narrator of A Journal of the Plague Year?
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The reactions of human beings in a time of great stress
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What does Defoe's narrator seem to be particularly interested in?
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It is distressed and sad.
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When mentioning the deaths of the people who have served him, what is Pepys' tone?
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that he has seem the effects of the fire firsthand.
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What does Pepys' account of the fire show?
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a) Streets need to be wider enough to prevent fire from spreading to other buildings b) houses need to be built of brick or stone c) those industries relying on fire in order to operate were to be located together
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What were the guideline's set forth by King Charles II?
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He wanted it to be thought through so as to avoid future crises.
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What was King Charles II considering when he wanted London's reconstructed?
