Seniors: Unit 3 Study Guide – Flashcards
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In "On My First Son," what is the "best piece of poetry" referred to in the lines "...say here doth lie / Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry"?
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Jonson's son
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A lyric is characterized by what?
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brevity, musical quality, and personal subject
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What epitaph can be considered epigrammatic?
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...her doth lie / Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry
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The them of "Song: To Celia" is the
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sensuous pleasures of love
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Compare and contrast the elements of mood in Jonson's poems.
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"On MY First Son" is mournful and grief-stricken. "Still to Be Neat" is lighthearted and mirthful. "Song" To Celia" is romantic and fervent.
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What word best describes the speaker's view of Celia in "Song; To Celia"?
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idealistic
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What is not true of epigrams?
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They never rhyme
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What is the thirst that the speaker refers to in the following line from "Song: to Celia"? "The thirst that from the south doth rise..."
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His desire for his lady's love.
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Compare and contrast the elements of tone and style in Jonson's poems.
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"On My First Son" is grief and loss and the style is personal and intimate. "Still to Be Neat" is chastising and witty and the style is impersonal. "Song" To Celia" is amorous and the style is formal.
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"Still to Be Neat" can be considered a lyric because it does what?
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expresses the speaker's personal thoughts and feelings
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What is expressed in these lines "Thus, though we cannot make our sun/ Stand still, yet we will make him run"
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carpe diem theme
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In "To His Coy Mistress" to what does Marvell allude in the line "Time's winged chariot hurrying near"?
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the approach of death
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In "To His Coy Mistress," the lines "The grave's a fine and private place, / But none I think do there embrace" are an expression of which attitude toward death?
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acceptance of death's inevitability but disbelief in love's pleasures there
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What is the theme of Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"?
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Youth is fleeting, so act before it is too late
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Which lines from "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" best expresses the carpe diem theme?
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Then do not coy, but use your time . . .
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The rosebuds in the first line of "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" are a symbol of what?
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the joys of youth
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What does the flower symbolize in these lines from "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"? "And this same flower that smiles today / Tomorrow will be dying."
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the length of human life
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What is the theme of Sir John Suckling's "Song"?
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Don't waste your time on an unrequited love.
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How does the presentation of the carpe diem theme in "To His Coy Mistress" compare to its presentation in "Song"?
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In "To His Coy Mistress", the speaker is persuading his beloved to embrace the idea of carpe diem so that he no longer must wait for her. In "Song," the speaker embraces the idea of carpe diem himself by giving up on his beloved after he has become frustrated with waiting for her.
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What lines from "Song" are the best expression of carpe diem?
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"Quit, quit, for shame; this will not move, / This cannot take her."
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What word best expresses the speaker's attitude in these lines from "Song"?
If of herself she will not love,
Nothing can make her:
The devil take her!
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impatience
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When Marvell calls his mistress "coy," what does he mean?
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that she is slow to make a commitment
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In the excerpt from Paradise Lost, Milton begins with what kind of literary device?
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An invocation to the Muse
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Lines 1-3 of Paradise Lost talk about what biblical occurrence and give the poem direction.
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Of man's first disobedience (fall of Adam and Eve) and how they ate from the tree of knowledge.
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Which words best describe Satan, as he is depicted in Milton's Paradise Lost?
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proud and defiant
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What do these lines from Paradise Lost reveal about Milton's vision of Hell?
The dismal situation waste and wild:
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,
As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible ...
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He sees it as a dark and fiery place.
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How would you describe the narrator's reaction to his first sight of Satan in Dante's "Canto XXXIV" from Inferno?
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fearful
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What is unusual about the setting of the ninth circle in Dante's Inferno?
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It is icy.
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In Dante's Inferno, how are Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius punished for their sins?
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The three heads of Satan constantly chew on their bodies.
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In Dante's Inferno, how do the narrator and his guide get back to Earth?
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They climb on Satan's leg, as if on a staircase.
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Which of the following statements could not be applied to both Milton's Paradise Lost and Dante's Inferno?
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The narrator is led by a guide.
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What best expresses the difference between Milton's Satan and Dante's Lucifer?
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Milton's Satan seems heroic, and Dante's Lucifer seems pathetic.
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In the story of how the dispute arose between the Big-Endians and the Little-Endians, the chief objects of Swift's satire are what?
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triviality and pettiness
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The Lilliputian wars are a satire on what?
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religious conflict
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What do both Gulliver's pocket perspective-glass and his spectacles most likely symbolize in this excerpt from "A Voyage to Lilliput"?
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increased insight
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After Gulliver brings the enemy ships to the Lilliputian prince, the prince's request prompts Gulliver to make the generalization that all rulers are what?
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greedy
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In "A Voyage to Lilliput," what is Swift implying when he quotes the Lilliputian official's description of Blefuscu as "the other great empire of the universe"?
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that Britain has a narrow view of the world
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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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the inhumanity of modern warfare
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7. After relating the king of Brobdingnag's criticism of the English, Gulliver says, "And it would be hard indeed if so remote a prince's notion of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind." Whom or what might Swift be satirizing in this line?
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the blindness of cultivated Europeans to their own flaws
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What is Swift's main purpose in the opening paragraphs of "A Modest Proposal"?
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to describe the misery and extent of poverty in Ireland
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Why does Swift use terms such as breeders, males, and females when referring to the poor of Ireland in "A Modest Proposal"?
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to imply that they are considered less than human
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Which of these statements from "A Modest Proposal" is an example of understatement?
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I can think of no one objection ... against this proposal, unless it should be urged that the number of people will be thereby much lessened in the kingdom.
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Which term best describes this statement from "A Modest Proposal"?
... the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own ... and help to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown.
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sarcasm
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What evidence does Swift give to prove that he will not benefit from "A Modest Proposal"?
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His children are too old, and his wife is past child-bearing age
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What is Swift's main purpose in his essay "A Modest Proposal"?
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He wants to force the government to help the poor in Ireland
