Brit Lit Final Review

What is the main character's name in "A Harlot's Progress?"

Moll Hackabout

Whose funeral is described at the conclusion of the poem?

that of the youth "to Fortune and to Fame unknown"

What main characters does Montagu present in response to Swift?

the Doctor & Betty

Which of the following phrases is not found in Gray's Elegy?

"All Nature is but art, unknown to thee"

In "The Flea," which metaphor does Donne use to signify pregnancy?

"And pampered swells with one blood made of two" (line 8)

Thanks in part to greatly increased literacy rates, the eighteenth century was the first to sustain a large group of professional authors. Genteel writers could benefit from both patronage and the subscription system; writers at the lower end of the profession were employed on a piecework basis and were known by the name of the area of London they inhabited. What was the name of this area?

Grub Street

There are various techniques and devices for achieving the three rhetorical proofs. Which of the following excerpts from the "Golden Speech" best shows the technique of testatio, or using experience from one's own life to influence the audience?

"To be a king and wear a crown is more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it."

Sexual imagery abounds in this poem. Provide one example of a metaphor used to represent the male character. Be specific, and include line numbers for reference.

"Upon that fabulous Priapus, That potent god, as poets feign..(105-106)

Which of the following can be used to describe Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room"?

-mock-pastoral -satire -scatalogical humor

Place the plates in the appropriate order in the series.

1-The marriage contract 2-After the Marriage 3-The Scene with the Quack 4-The Countess's Levee 5-The Death of the Earl 6-The Death of the Countess

The literature of the Restoration and the eighteenth century divides into three shorter periods of approximately 40 years each. Which of the statements below most accurately describes these three periods?

1660-1700 (emphasis on neoclassicism and elegant, simple prose); 1700-1744 (emphasis on satire and wit); 1744-1785 (emphasis on the novel, nature poetry)

How many plates are included in Marriage a-la-mode?

6

What is the name of Strephon's love interest in Swift's poem?

Celia

The Restoration period's most characteristic drama, the "comedy of manners," was gradually replaced by "sentimental drama" in response to shifts in the audience's taste. Which of the following sentences best represents the difference between these two types of comedy?

Comedies of manners expose human follies to laughter; sentimental comedies provoke sympathetic tears for the characters' faults.

What is the first item Strephon lists as part of his "inventory"?

Dirty Smock

Which of these descriptions captures some of the distinctions between early and late eighteenth-century poetry?

Early eighteenth-century poetry was often witty, social, and satirical; late eighteenth-century poetry was often melancholy, reflective, and self-consciously archaic.

At the beginning of the Restoration period, there was a seismic shift in the social, political, and religious attitudes of the English. Which of the following statements best describes that shift?

England shifted from a republican Puritan commonwealth to an aristocratic Anglican monarchy.

Which of the following countries were united as Great Britain by the 1707 Act of Union?

England, Scot, and Wales

Behn's "The Disappointment" is a variation of which genre of poetry?

Imperfect Enjoyment

Why is the Restoration period called the Restoration?

It begins in 1660, the year in which the monarchy was restored to the English throne. & It marks the restoration and re-opening of English theatres and the restoration of the Church of England as the established church.

Why is the speech called the "Golden Speech"?

It was published with a note suggesting that it be set in letters of gold.

Who was Britain's first "prime" minister?

Robert Walpole

How does Montagu shift the action in Swift's poem to her advantage?

She shifts the action to her advantage by making the man in the poem seem to be overreacting and irrational.

Montagu's poem mentions "The Doctor" in the opening lines. Who is this referring to?

Swift

What action occurs in the audience at the point at which the queen remarks, "I shall yet trouble you with longer speech"?

The audience stands up.

Who writes, "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds"?

Virginia Woolf

The two new political parties that formed in Great Britain during this period were called

Whigs and Tories

What is an elegy?

a poem written as a lament for someone who has died

When Elizabeth says, "My heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good," the word "good" functions as

a pun, or play on words.

What is the initiating act of Marriage A-la-Mode?

an arranged marriage between two uninterested parties

Which of the following images, redolent of the "graveyard school of poetry" appear(s) in Gray's poem?

an owl & an ivy-covered tower

Which of the following is typical of this genre?

blaming the woman

How does Strephon leave the scene of the dressing room?

disgusted, turning to blaspheming the "ointments, daubs, and paints, and creams" used by women in search of beauty

What animal does Hogarth use in multiple plates in Marriage A-la-Mode to mirror the situation of the human characters?

dog

Which of the following best describes the setting at the beginning of Gray's poem?

dusk in the country

Choose the answer that lists the dominant modes and forms of literary expression popular during the Restoration and the eighteenth century.

essay; heroic couplet; satire; novel; poetry of nature and human nature

Identify the type of appeal -- logical, ethical, emotional -- used in this line: "I have ever used to set the Last Judgment Day before my eyes and so to rule as I shall be judged, to answer before a higher Judge."

ethical

Which of these is the best paraphrase of the line "The paths of glory lead but to the grave" (line 36)?

everyone dies, even the famous and glorious

Donne was born to a Church of England family but converted to Catholicism amid political pressure to do so.

false

Donne was widely published during his lifetime, choosing to print most of his works as his own printing press.

false

In "The Disappointment," the characters William and Constantia engage in a sexual encounter.

false

The encounter bewteen the two main characters results in an unwanted child.

false

When Gray writes, "Their lot . . . nor circumscribed alone / Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined," he is suggesting

rural seclusion limits knowledge and ambition, but it also limits crime.

What are the genders of the speaker and listener/audience in Donne's "The Indifferent"?

speaker: male audience: female

Name the dominant meter of the following quatrain: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing heard wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

iambic pentameter

Donne challenges the Petrarchan sonnet series of the 1590s in Songs and Sonnets through which of the following?

insistence on union of physical and spiritual love

What literary devices are audible in line 39, where Gray writes of the church's "long-drawn aisle"?

spondaic substitution in the meter & assonance

Identify the type of appeal -- logical, ethical, emotional -- used in this line: "And now if my kingly bounties have been abused and my grants turned to the hurts of my people, contrary to my will and meaning, or if any in authority under me have neglected or perverted what I have committed to them, I hope God will not lay their culps and offenses to my charge."

logical

What term does Hogarth assign to his multi-plate series such as A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode?

modern moral subjects

Which animals does Hogarth use in A Harlot's Progress to mirror the situation of the human characters?

monkey, goose, cat, horse

What group composed the audience for Queen Elizabeth I's "Golden Speech"?

parliment

Identify the type of appeal -- logical, ethical, emotional -- used in this line: "There is no jewel, be it of never so rich a price, which I set before this jewel¯I mean your loves."

pathetic

The Restoration and the eighteenth century saw an enormous upsurge of interest in natural philosophy, or what we now think of as science. Empiricism is best described as

the direct observation of experience, which infers that experience (including experimentation) is a reliable source of knowledge.

What is the "public sphere"?

the public venues where readers circulated and discussed matters of public interest & published commentary on matters of national interest

Who is the narrator of Gray's poem?

the youth described in the Epitaph

Hogarth's work deals primarily with life in the city of London.

true