Abeka English Literature Test 3 – Flashcards
56 test answers
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answers 56question
Anglo-Saxon period
answer
Scop
Unlock the answer
question
Anglo-Saxon period
answer
Love of freedom, strong religious convictions
Unlock the answer
question
Medieval period
answer
"Bonny Barbara Allen"
Unlock the answer
question
Medieval period
answer
Romances such as King Arthur and Sir Gawain
Unlock the answer
question
Elizabethan period
answer
William Shakespeare
Unlock the answer
question
"Sonnet 18"
answer
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's-day?"
Unlock the answer
question
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
answer
"Come live with me, and be my love. And we will all the pleasures prove."
Unlock the answer
question
"Bonny Barbara Allan"
answer
"Since my love died for me to-day, I'll die for him to-morrow."
Unlock the answer
question
The Faerie Queen
answer
"Upon a great adventure he was bound, the greatest Gloriana to him gave."
Unlock the answer
question
Beowulf
answer
"Revenging a wrong is more goodly than grieving; Let us follow."
Unlock the answer
question
Banquo
answer
The ghost that haunted Macbeth at the banquet
Unlock the answer
question
Malcolm
answer
King Duncan names him to the throne after him
Unlock the answer
question
Sleepwalking
answer
The habit that Lady Macbeth develops as a result of her guilt
Unlock the answer
question
Macduff
answer
Kills Macbeth
Unlock the answer
question
Lust of power
answer
The tragic flaw of Macbeth which leads to his downfall
Unlock the answer
question
Macbeth
answer
"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
Unlock the answer
question
Lady Macbeth
answer
"A little water clears us of this deed."
Unlock the answer
question
Banquo
answer
"Thou hast it now, King, Cawdow, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised."
Unlock the answer
question
Lady Macbeth
answer
"Had he not resembled my father as he slept I had done it."
Unlock the answer
question
Macbeth
answer
"It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Unlock the answer
question
Macbeth
answer
"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
Unlock the answer
question
Lady Macduff
answer
"When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors."
Unlock the answer
question
Macbeth
answer
"Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Unlock the answer
question
Lady Macbeth
answer
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."
Unlock the answer
question
Donalbain
answer
"There's daggers in men's smiles."
Unlock the answer
question
Lady Macbeth
answer
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it."
Unlock the answer
question
Francis Bacon
answer
Who was the first essayist in English literature?
Unlock the answer
question
William Shakespeare
answer
Who is the greatest writer of all time?
Unlock the answer
question
Ben Johnson
answer
Who was England's first poet laureate
Unlock the answer
question
Drama
answer
Which literary genre reached its peak during the Elizabethan period?
Unlock the answer
question
Morality play
answer
What represented allegorically the battle which the vices and virtues wage for the possession of the human soul?
Unlock the answer
question
Medieval romance
answer
What is based primarily on the adventures of knights, Kings, or distressed ladies
Unlock the answer
question
Exemplum
answer
What is a short story or anecdote told the teacher lesson
Unlock the answer
question
The virtue of holiness
answer
In The Faerie Queen, what does the red cross knight represent?
Unlock the answer
question
Utopia
answer
What selection describes an imaginary ideal society?
Unlock the answer
question
"On the Life of Man"
answer
What selection is a comparison of man's life to a play of passion?
Unlock the answer
question
"A Hymn to God the Father"
answer
What selection shows the speakers response to God's chastening?
Unlock the answer
question
Beowulf
answer
What is the oldest surviving epic?
Unlock the answer
question
About a great national hero, written in the lofty language, contains supernatural elements, explores the struggle of good and evil.
answer
What are two of the four qualities of an epic?
Unlock the answer
question
"The Seafarer"
answer
What poem shows the irony of a seaman longing for the sea despite the hardship of the sea?
Unlock the answer
question
Everyman
answer
What selection teaches the important lesson that death comes for every man when least expected?
Unlock the answer
question
"The Pardoner's Tale"
answer
What selection teaches that the root of all evil is the love of money?
Unlock the answer
question
The Venerable Bede
answer
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Unlock the answer
question
Geoffrey Chaucer
answer
The Canterbury tales
Unlock the answer
question
Sir Walter Raleigh
answer
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Unlock the answer
question
Ben Johnson
answer
Song to Celia
Unlock the answer
question
The Pearl Poet
answer
Sir Gawain and the green Knight
Unlock the answer
question
Thomas Malory
answer
Morte Darthur
Unlock the answer
question
William Shakespeare
answer
Sonnet 116
Unlock the answer
question
Sir Thomas More
answer
Utopia
Unlock the answer
question
Christopher Marlowe
answer
Doctor Faustus
Unlock the answer
question
John Foxe
answer
The Book of Martyrs
Unlock the answer
