AP Lit. Exam (12/20)
What year marks the death of Elizabeth I and the beginning of the Stuart period?
1603
Literature composed during the reign of Charles I, likeswise a Stuart monarch, is cometimes designated as what kind of literature?
Caroline
The followers of Johnson became known as what kind of poets because of their worldly themes and their attachment to the royalist cause?
Cavalier
The crowning achievement in nonfiction prose during the reign of James I was the King James Version of the Bible, sometimes referred to as the what version?
Authorized
Who said, "Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us ... to betray us in deepest consequence." in Macbeth?
Banquo
"Though I am young, and cannot tell either what Death or Love is well, yet I have heard they both bear darts." Which author wrote this?
Ben Jonson
This poet's work is noticeably less metaphorical than that of his contemporaries.
Ben Jonson
Who said, " There's daggers in men's smiles." in Macbeth?
Donalbain
"Have I no harvest but a thorn?" Which author wrote this?
George Herbert
This country parson is described as the writer of the finest devotional poetry in the English language
George Herbert
Literature composed during the reign of James I, a Stuart king, is sometimes designated what kind of literature?
Jacobean
This writer is described by some as the father of the English novel
John Bunyan
"This is my play's last scene ... my pilgrimage's last mile." Which author wrote this?
John Donne
The poetry of this Anglican preacher often contains memento mori images.
John Donne
"I thence invoke thy aid to my adventurous song ... while it pursues things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme." Which author wrote this?
John Milton
This poet is described as the most learned of the major English poets.
John Milton
Who said, "His flight was madness. When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors." in Macbeth?
Lady MacDuff
Who said, "Where our desire is got without content; 'tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy." in Macbeth?
Lady Macbeth
Who said: "Art thou afeared to be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art in desire? Wouldst though ... live a coward?" in Macbeth?
Lady Macbeth
Who said, "Fit to govern? No, not live ... These evil thou repeat'st upon thyself hath banished me from Scotland." in Macbeth?
MacDuff
Who said, "False face must hide what the false heart doth know." in Macbeth?
Macbeth
Who said, "Is this a dagger which I see before me..?" in Macbeth?
Macbeth
Who said, "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, for in my way it lies." in Macbeth?
Macbeth
Who said, "There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled hath nature that in time will venom breed." in Macbeth?
Macbeth
Who said, "By the grace of Grace, we will perform in measure, time and place." in Macbeth?
Malcom
What were the followers of Donne called because of their intellectual ingenuity and compilation.
Metaphysical
British Literary periods in chronological order.
Old English, Middle English, Tudor, Stuart, Neoclassical, Romantic, Victorian, Modern, Post Modern
What does Turbulent, Natural events symbolize in Macbeth?
Social disorder
Shakespeare's Macbeth negatively reinforces the master theme of English Renaissance literature that _______________ to a God-ordained hierarchical arrangement is essential to human happiness.
Submission
What does Ill-fitting clothing symbolize in Macbeth?
Violation of order and degree
Macbeth could be described as _____________________ since it warns of the pitfalls of political opportunism and moral pragmatism.
admonitory
The Pilgrim's Progress is ________ because the writer uses abstractions to personify people and to identify geographical locations.
allegorical
Because of his blindess, Milton was forced to resort to the use of an _______________________, defined as "one employed to write from dictation."
amanuensis
Begining in Act I, Scene 5, Lady Maceth makes clear her concern regarding her husband's _______, a term synonymous with indecisiveness.
ambivalence
Paradise Lost is a combination of biblical and _________________ (fictitious) materal, the latter being necessary to accommodate a narrative of epic length.
apocryphal
Banquo's soliloquy at the beginning of Act III qualifies as ___________ since he speaks to Macbeth who is not actually present.
apostrophe
The Pilgrim's Progress is ________________________ because the writer uses his past to universalize the common experience of every believer.
autobiographical
The theme of transcience in the poetry of Johnson's followers produced neo-pagan lyrics expressing the commonly known Latin sentiment...
carpe diem
What does Somnambulism symbolize in Macbeth?
certainty of damnation in hell
In Paradise Lost, Satan says to Eve, "God therefore cannot hurt ye, and by just." When he does this, he is attacking God's....
character
The banquet in Act III, Scene 4 is ironic in that it serves as the _____________ of Macbeth's reign and the beginning of its demise.
climax
The opening scene of the play foreshadows the coming _____________ that will briefly envelope the Scottish kingdom, signaled by a witch's use of the term hurly burly and the disorderly natural phenomena that surround the scene.
confusion
Finally, the man in the dream is described as weeping, trembling, and being in great distress, descriptive words that may be intended to describe _______ of sin.
conviction
The style of Paradise Lost by Milton could be described as highly figurative, heavily allusive, and syntactically...
convoluted
When Christian looks at the _______, the burden falls off his back.
cross
Incredibly, Christian and Faithful are accused of "____________ the men of [Vanity Fair], an act that can be defined as "frustrating the hopes or aims of someone."
deluding
Macbeth demonstrates the compatibility of the _________________ and the artistic.
didactic
After Christian's encounter with Worldly Wiseman, Evangelist reminded Christian that he must "enter in at the strait gate." The word *strait* means both narrow and...
difficult
Macbeth and his wife parallel Satan in his initial relationship with God in which he sought to usurp God's divine order because he was ____________ with where God had sovreignly placed him.
discontent
Duncan closes Act I, Scene 2 by saying, "What [Cawdor] hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won," perhaps an example of _________ since Macbeth assumes both Cawdor's title and his rebellious character.
double entendre
The title of George Herbert's poem The Collar serves as what literary device because it speaks of both his clerical collar as an Anglican priest and the restraints associated with his pastoral ministry.
double entendre
The reader witnesses a bit of _________________ irony when Macbeth reprimands Malcom and Donalbain for "not confessing *their* cruel parricide."
dramatic
Because of the play's rapid development and because the portrayal of some scenes might be thought distasteful, Shakespeare resorts to the technique of ______________ whereby certain acts are omitted and left to implication.
elision
What does an Eclipse symbolize in Macbeth?
envelopment of light by darkness
"My race ... quickly run." What does this phrase show?
ephemerality of life
In Act IV, Scene 1, the prophecy of the second apparition that "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth" is marked by ______ since Macduff who *will* do Macbeth harm was born by cesarean section.
equivocation
"My ever waking part shall see that face whose fear Already shakes my every joint." What does this phrase show?
eternality of the soul
The Pilgrim's Progress is _______________ because it integrates supernatural elements into the narrative.
fantastical
Not surprisingly, the word __________ appears in this play more than any other Shakespearean work.
fear
The poem, The Altar, by George Herbet is called what kind of peom becuase it is written in the shape of what it describes.
hieroglyphic
Ambition becomes Macbeth's ______________________, that flaw in his character coupled with pride that leads to his tragic downfall.
hubris
What does Sleep symbolize in Macbeth?
innocence
Hecate chides the three weird sisters for ________________, which is rather ironic since Satan himself, the leader of the underworld, committed the same act when he sought to arrogate (usurp) the throne of God.
insubordination
After Duncans' murder, Macbeth comments, "Had I but died an hour before ..., I had lived a blessed time." His words are _______, since in his attempt to deceive he is actually speaking the truth.
ironic
The Pilgrim's Progress is _________ because the pilgrimage is being compared to one's spiritual life on earth.
metaphorical
At the end of Act II, Scene 2, Macduff is heard knocking repeatedly. On the abstract level, he symbolizes Doom, for he will later prove to be Macbeth's _____________________.
nemesis
At the end of Sonnet 14, Donne employs a _______________________ idea that is both explicit and implicit throughout the NT when he writes, "Imprison me, for I, except You enthrall me, never shall be free."
paradoxical
The Pilgrim's Progress is __________________ because the narrative illustrates how fiction can contain more truth than non-fiction.
paradoxical
The Pilgrims' Progress internalizes the epic, celebrating prudence as spiritual discernment and inner _______________ as fortitude.
patience
"My race idly ... run." What does this phrase show?
personal compunction
What is John milton described as becuase he aggressively engages in refuting controversial matters of doctrine. A closely related term would be apologist.
polemicist
Lady Macbeth counsels ______________ when she says to her husband, "Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it."
pretense
At the beginning of Act II, Scene 3, the porter speaks in ___________, perhaps to show him inferior to the nobility who speak in a more elevated poetic style.
prose
List the seven things characteristic of the novel that are likewise characteristic of The Pilgrim's Progress.
prose fiction, reflective of human experience, has plot, has conflict, has protagonist, has antagonist, and has character development
When Macbeth speaks of Banquo as having "a wisdom that doth guide his valor," we observe the re-emergence of the OEV of fortitude and ________________.
prudence
In A Hymn to God the Father, Donne closes each of the poem's three stanzas with subtle use of a ________________, a device that conveys homonymic double meaning.
pun
In Act II, Scene 3, Macbeth affirms, "The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, _________," a quality Renaissance humanists exalted over passion.
reason
In Sonnet 14, Donne metaphorically refers to __________ as God's "viceroy," reflecting his Biblical understanding that this flawed human attribute should be subordinate to objective truth.
reason
Macbeth powerfully personifies the Renaissance _______ who shows reckless disregard for divinely prescribed limits, flouting both the laws of man and the will of God.
rebel
Macbeth reinforces the way in which the sin of ingratitude expresses itself in _____________________.
rebellion
Macbeth apostrophizes to Duncan at the end of Act II, Scene 1, saying, "[The bell] ... summons thee to heaven or to hell." Some scholars believe the word "or" should read "me", since it was believed that _______________ doomed the perpetrator irrevocably to hell.
regicide.
In Act I, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth calls upon the spirit world to "stop up the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visitings of nature shake [her] fell purpose." The phrase "compunctious visitings" speaks of anything that would cause a sense of ____________________.
regret
Bunyan goes on to describe the man in his dream as having "his face from his own house," a phrase in which may imply that the process of ________ has begun.
repentance
In actual history, Banquo was an accomplice in Duncan's murder, but since King James I was believed to be a descendant of Banquo, Shakespeare practices a bit of historical ____________________ in order to please the king of England.
revisionism
The Pilgrim's Progress is ______________ because it ridicules the London of Charles II and in microcosmic fashion the world at large.
satirical
Bunyan writes at the beginning of Book One the followign words: "I saw a man clothed with rags." The word *rags* is a metaphor for...
self-righteousness
In Paradise Lost, Satan asks Eve the following: "Will God incense His ire for such a petty trespass?" In doing so, he is trying to distort God's view of...
sin
The man in the dream is described as having "a great burden upon his back." This burden is metaphorical for the man's...
sin
In Act II, Scene 4, Macbeth twice reproves Banquo for not attending the feast, who twice appears in a ghostly form, qualifying these occurrences as ___________ irony.
situational
"Impute me righteous, thus purged of evil." What does this phrase show?
soteriological allusion
"Here heavens appoint my pilgrimage's last mile." What does this phrase show?
sovreignty of God
"For thus I leave the wrold, the flesh, and the devil." What does this phrase show?
spiritual antagonism
What does a Barren scepter symbolize in Macbeth?
sterility
In the final line of The Collar by Herbert, the tone suddenly shifts from anger and frustration to one of complete...
submission
For Christian and Faithful, the Vanity Fair experiences is analogous to the _____ of Christ in the wilderness.
temptation
What does a Scorpion symbolize in Macbeth?
treachery
What does Dawn symbolize in Macbeth?
truth coming to light
What does a Nightgown symbolize in Macbeth?
violation of domestic peace
In Paradise Lost, Eve proclaims, "The serpent wise, or not restrained as we, or not obeying, hath eaten of the fruit." He statement inverts the Biblical definition of....
wisdom
In Paradise Lost, Eve says to the tree of knowledge of good and evil, "Great are thy virtues ... and worthy to be admired." He words and actions show that Satan has successfully redirected the focus of her...
worship
