Abeka 12th Grade English Literature Semester/Midterm Exam Study Sheet – Flashcards
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"Come live with me, and be my love."
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Marlowe
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"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage."
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Lovelace
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"For if she be not for me, what care I for whom she be?"
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Wither
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"Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold."
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Milton
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"I could not love thee (deare) so much, lov'd I not honour more."
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Lovelace
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"Do you see yonder wicked-gate?"
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Bunyan
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"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
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Milton
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"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments."
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Shakespeare
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"Upon a great adventure he was bound, that greatest Gloriana to him gave."
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Spenser
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"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
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The Pearl Poet
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"Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
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The Venerable Bede
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"The Canterbury Tales"
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Chaucer
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"The Book of Martyrs"
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Foxe
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"Doctor Faustus"
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Marlowe
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"The Faerie Queen"
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Spenser
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"Morte Darthur"
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Mallory
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"Everyman"
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Author Unknown
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"Utopia"
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More
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"A Hymn to God the Father"
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Jonson
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"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
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Raleigh
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"The Burning Babe"
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Southwell
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"The Canterbury Tales"
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Medieval
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"Beowulf"
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Anglo-Saxon
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"Paradise Lost"
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Age of the Puritans
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Gleeman
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Anglo-Saxon
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Sonnet
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Elizabethan
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The English Bible
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Elizabethan
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William Shakespere
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Elizabethan
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Drama at its Zenith
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Elizabethan
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Metaphysical Poets
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Age of the Puritans
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"Get up and Bar the Door"
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Medieval
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Morality play
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Medieval
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Cavalier Poets
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Age of the Puritans
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John Donne
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Age of the Puritans
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Blank verse
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Elizabethan
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"Macbeth"
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Elizabethan
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Rhythm
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Regular recurrence of sounds
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Rhyme
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Correspondence of sounds
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Iambic foot
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The pattern of a line of poetry consisting of the first syllable unaccented and the second accented
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Allegory
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A narrative in which the characters, places, and other items are symbols
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Metaphysical Conceits
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Unusual comparisons in literature
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Tragedy
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A play that ends unhappily and deals with the universal questions of life
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Soliloquy
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A speech by one character alone on the stage
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Comedy
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A play that ends happily
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Couplets
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A complete thought expressed in two rhyming lines
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What represents assurance of salvation?
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Sealed roll
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What was the place built for the relief and security of the Lord's pilgrims called?
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Palace Beautiful
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What represents the world's system?
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Vanity Fair
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Who was killed in Vanity Fair?
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Faithful
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Who pulled Christian out of the slough?
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Helpful
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Who crawled over the wall?
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Hypocrisy & Formalist
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Who helped Christian through the gate?
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Goodwill
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Who directed Christian to the Wicked-gate?
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Evangelist
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Who went home after the slough?
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Pliable
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Who battles with Christian?
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Apollyon
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Who shows Christian the man in the iron cage?
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Interpreter
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What represented death?
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A river
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What represented Heaven?
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Zion
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What is the place which is the land before the river?
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Beulah
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Who locked Christian and Hopeful in his castle?
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Giant Despair
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Who was thrown into Hell from the gates of the Celestial City?
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Ignorance
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Who was Giant Despair's wife?
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Diffidence
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Who said, "Screw your courage to the sticking-place"?
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Lady Macbeth
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Who said, "There's daggers in men's smiles"?
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Donalbain
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Whose ghost did Macbeth see at the banquet?
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Banquo
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Who was murdered along with her children?
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Lady Macduff
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Who killed Macbeth?
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Macduff
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Who escaped while his father was being murdered?
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Fleance
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What are the two main types of drama?
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Tragedy and Comedy
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Which poets used striking comparisons known as conceits?
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Metaphysical Poets
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What is the greatest epic in English literature?
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"Paradise Lost"
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Who is the greatest sonnet writer in English literature?
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Shakespere
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From where did John Bunyan write "The Pilgrim's Progress"?
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Bedford jail
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Who was the greatest Metaphysical poet?
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John Donne
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Who was England's first poet laureate?
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Jonson
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What work's subject is the hour of death?
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"Everyman" by Author Unknown
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Which work has as its theme man's need for rest?
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"The Pulley" by Herbert
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What work is a comparison of man's life to a play of passion?
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"On the Life of Man" by Raleigh
