English Comp
In Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," which line from the poem reveals the duchess' perceived flaw?
"She had / A heart...too soon made glad"
The Victorian poem that most explicitly calls for social reform is...
"The Cry of the Children"
In Thomas Hardy's "The Man He Killed," which line is an example of verbal irony?
"Yes, quaint and curious war is!"
In the last stanza of Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," the urn offers which truth to the reader?
"beauty is truth, truth beauty"
Approximately when was the oldest existant copy of Beowulf written down?
1000 AD
Approximately how many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
150
Brave New world was first published in...
1932
In Act III of Macbeth, how many murderers attack Banquo?
3
How many times has the Wife of Bath been married?
5
How long does Beowulf rule as king of the Geats?
50 years
In Act III, Scene ii, what does Lady Macbeth mean when she states the following: Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content
All of her efforts were for nothing
Use the following passage to answer the question below. Lord of the Flies, Conclusion: Although Jack is excited about killing the pig, he is still experiencing some unease regarding what he has done. Which of the following line(s) best supports the above stated conclusion.
All of the Above
Feminism can be defined as a movement for what type of equality between men and women?
All of the above (Social, Political, Economic, Cultural
All of the following had an impact on the authors of the 20th century except _____.
All of the above impacted the authors of the 20th century.
Read the following poem and answer the question that follows. Floating Island BY DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Harmonious Powers with Nature work On sky, earth, river, lake, and sea: Sunshine and storm, whirlwind and breeze All in one duteous task agree. Once did I see a slip of earth, By throbbing waves long undermined, Loosed from its hold; ³how no one knew But all might see it float, obedient to the wind. Might see it, from the mossy shore Dissevered float upon the Lake, Float, with its crest of trees adorned On which the warbling birds their pastime take. Food, shelter, safety there they find There berries ripen, flowerets bloom; There insects live their lives ³and die: A peopled world it is; in size a tiny room. And thus through many seasons·space This little Island may survive But Nature, though we mark her not, Will take away ³may cease to give. Perchance when you are wandering forth Upon some vacant sunny day Without an object, hope, or fear, Thither your eyes may turn ³the Isle is passed away. Buried beneath the glittering Lake! Its place no longer to be found, Yet the lost fragments shall remain, To fertilize some other ground. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------When the speaker says, " But Nature, though we mark her not," (5th stanza) she most likely means:
Although we do not always notice or pay attention to Nature...
In Act IV of Macbeth, Macbeth gets new prophesies from three apparitions. What form does the first apparition take?
An armored head
Identify the character that says the following quote: "Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him."
Apparition raised from cauldron by the witches (Act 4, scene 1)
In Act IV of Macbeth, what prophecy does the bloody child give to Macbeth?
Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth.
Refer to the following poem and answer the question that follows. The Cry of the Children BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. Why do the children in this poem say, "It is good when it happens," say the children, "That we die before our time !"?
Because their lives are miserable and when they die they will find rest
"The Lord of the Flies" is another name for _______________.
Beelzebub
The process by which many sets of twins are created in the New State is called the _________.
Bokanovsky Process
Use the following passage to answer the questions below: Lord of the Flies, which of the following themes does Simon's dialogue best represent?
Breakdown of Civilization
Use the following passage to answer the questions below Lord of the Flies, The conch is most likely symbolic of which of the following?
Civilization and Rules and Order
What is the official motto or slogan of the World State?
Community - Identity - Stability
"Though [Grendel] lived / In Herot, when the night hid him, he never / Dared to touch king Hrothgar's glorious / Throne, protected by God." This quote suggests that Grendel respects which of the following concepts?
Divine rule (kings were appointed by God)
Which of the following Romantic writers never saw any work published while he / she was alive?
Dorothy Wordsworth
In Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," the Duke of Ferrara is best characterized as:
Egotistical and dangerous
One English monarch that supported the cultural achievements of the Renaissance was _____.
Elizabeth I
After Duncan is killed, his two sons flee the country. Where do they go?
England and Ireland
Romanticism was largely a reaction against:
Enlightenment values
What are the lowest members of the society called?
Epsilons
What pagan element is found in the Wife of Bath's Tale?
Fairies
T/F: The Knight in the Wife of Bath's Tale is a good example of a true and virtuous knight.
False
Which character fits best into the society of Brave New World?
Fanny Crowne
Sonnet 15 When I consider every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment, That this huge stage presents nothing but shows Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; When I perceive that men as plants increase, Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky, Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, And wear their brave state out of memory; Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you most rich in youth before my sight, Where wasteful Time debates with Decay, To change your day of youth to sullied night; And all in war with Time for love of you, As he takes from you, I engraft you new. ____________________________________________________ Based on this poem, which of the following would make a better title?
Forever New
Which of the following is NOT a goal of leisure sports in the World State?
Foster interaction between the different social classes
Huxley implements which elements in Brave New World to intentionally convey order and chaos?
Fragmented narration and Free indirect address
In Act III of Macbeth, What does the audience learn Macduff plans to do in order to save Scotland?
Get Malcolm and help from England
In Act I of Macbeth, the three witches predict that Macbeth will have the titles of:
Glamis, Cawdor and King
Shakespeare was one of the founders of the ___________ Theater
Globe
Read the following section of Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Pied Beauty": All things counter, original, spare, strange... He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. ---------- In these lines, the speaker finds beauty in the idea that:
God is eternal but creates things that change
What trophy does Beowulf hang in Hrothgar's Hall?
Grendel's arm
In Act V, Scene iii, which themes best reflects Macbeth's words below: I have lived long enough. My way of life 25Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have, but, in their stead, Curses,
Guilt and Regret
Read the following passage from Golding's Lord of the Flies and answer the question that follows. Immediately after this encounter with the Lord of the Flies, what does Simon do?
He climbs the mountain and discovers that the Beast is actually just a dead pilot.
Use the following passage to answer the question below: Lord of the Flies, Which of the following can the reader most likely infer regarding Ralph from this passage?
He has reached the breaking point between being civilized and savage.
Use the following passage to answer the questions below: Lord of the Flies, Based on the passage above, what can we most likely infer about Simon?
He is more reflective than his peers regarding the danger the group is facing.
Of Piggy, author William Golding wrote, "He was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemd to grow." What does this suggest on a symbolic level?
He is not becoming uncivilized like the rest of the boys.
Refer to the following poem when answering the question below. The Man He Killed BY THOMAS HARDY. How does the speaker of this poem most likely feel about his experiences in war?
He is not certain of the reasons why he killed the man.
Read the following passage from Huxley's Brave New World and answer the question that follows. ´But I don·t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." What does this quote reveal about John the Savage?
He wants a life that is more substantial than what the World State has to offer.
What issue makes Helmholtz Watson unhappy?
He wants to do more with his life.
According to our course textbook, Richard Tillinghast stated that _____________s poetry serves as a 'powerful tonic' against the disillusionment and alienation expressed by many contemporary writers."
Heaney
Which historical figure do the people of the society worship?
Henry Ford
In Sonnet 18, when the speaker says, "Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade / When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st." he is saying that his love will live forever. How is this possible?
Her memory will live on in the poem.
Which progressive Victorian poet most likely influenced the development of free verse poetry in the early 20th century?
Hopkins
Refer to the following poem and answer the question that follows. The Cry of the Children BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. This poem expresses Realist ideas because it reveals:
How the children who worked in the mines really suffered
The king of Herot is:
Hrothgar
To whom does this kenning refer: "ring giver"
Hrothgar
Which movement asserted the unlimited potential of humanity and the individual over authoritarian rule?
Humanism
By the end of the novel, John Savage reaches the conclusion that...
Humanity has given up too much for comfort.
The narrative structure of Brave New World is surprising in that...
Huxley changes the protagonist half-way through.
Shakespeare's sonnets are generally composed in:
Iambic Pentameter
Which themes were heavily explored in Romantic works:
Imagination, Truth, Beauty and Mortality
Which of the following historical / social forces gave rise to Romanticism?
Industrialization
And so I dare to hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, Wherever nature led: more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.³I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, not any interest Unborrowed from the eye.³That time is past, _________________________________________ The above lines from Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" express what Wordsworth felt when he visited this place as a youth. We can best describe this experience as ________.
Innocent and joyous
In Golding's Lord of the Flies, what is ironic about how the boys are rescued?
It is Jack's fire, and not Ralph's, that get's the ship's attention
What reason is given for why Bernard is so strange?
It is said that he had alcohol in his blood surrogate.
Use the following passage to answer the questions below Lord of the Flies, How is the following line an example of irony? We·ll have rules!" he [Jack] cried excitedly. ´Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks 'em--"
Jack ends up being the first one to break a rule.
Gerard Manley Hopkins's role as a / an _________ greatly influenced his poetry.
Jesuit priest
In Blakes, The Lamb, the speaker compares the lamb to...
Jesus
Which of the following pilgrims would most likely have taken offense to the Wife of Bath's Tale?
Knight
Identify the character that says the following quote: "That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold: What hath quenched them hath given me fire."
Lady Macbeth
Identify the character that says the following quote: "The night has been unruly: where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death, And prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth Was feverous and did shake."
Lennox
Read the following poem and answer the question that follows. As Kingfishers Catch Fire BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS. Which of the following would be the best articulation of the theme of this poem?
Life is beautiful.
22 Sonnet 15 When I consider every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment, That this huge stage presents nothing but shows Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; When I perceive that men as plants increase, Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky, Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, And wear their brave state out of memory; Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you most rich in youth before my sight, Where wasteful Time debates with Decay, To change your day of youth to sullied night; And all in war with Time for love of you, As he takes from you, I engraft you new. ____________________________________________________ Which of the following is LEAST likeley to be a theme of this poem?
Life is meaningless
The following lines are drawn from which poem: "And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man: A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. "
Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. 4 O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. 8 Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. 12 If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd. The main idea of this poem is that:
Love is constant, unchanging, eternal.
Identify the character that says the following quote: "Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner You greet with present grace and great prediction Of noble having and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not. If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate."
Macbeth
Identify the character that says the following quote: "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."
Macbeth
In Act I of Macbeth, what do the lines below reveal about Macbeth? And Fortune, on his damnèd quarrel smiling, Showed like a rebel·s *****. But all·s too weak; For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name), Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like Valor·s minion, carved out his passage Till he faced the slave; Which ne·er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseamed him from the nave to th·chops, And fixed his head upon our battlements.
Macbeth is a heroic warrior
In Act I of Macbeth, what do the lines below reveal about Macbeth? He·s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked newborn babe Striding the blast, or heaven·s cherubin horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o·erleaps itself And falls on th·other³
Macbeth is conflicted about killing King Duncan.
Identify the character that says the following quote: "Then yield thee, coward, And live to be the show and gaze o' the time: We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, Painted on a pole, and underwrit, 'Here may you see the tyrant.'"
Macduff
In Act V of Macbeth, Who fulfills the prophesy and kills Macbeth?
Macduff
In Act IV of Macbeth, whose murder is shown on stage to the potential horror of the audience?
Macduff's young son
the Tyger Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp! When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? __________________________________ Which of the following choices is the Tyger LEAST likely to be a symbol for?
Man's natural state of innocence
Read the following passage and answer the question below. from Le Morte d·Arthur So [Arthur and Merlin] rode till they came to a lake, the which was a fair water and broad, and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. Lo! said Merlin, yonder is that sword that I spake of. With that they saw a damosel going upon the lake. What damosel is that? said Arthur. That is the Lady of the Lake, said Merlin; and within that lake is a rock, and therein is as fair a place as any on earth, and richly beseen; and this damosel will come to you anon, and then speak ye fair to her that she will give you that sword. Anon withal came the damosel unto Arthur, and saluted him, and he her again. Damosel, said Arthur, what sword is that, that yonder the arm holdeth above the water? I would it were mine, for I have no sword. Sir Arthur, king, said the damosel, that sword is mine, and if ye will give me a gift when I ask it you, ye shall have it. By my faith, said Arthur, I will give you what gift ye will ask. Well! said the damosel, go ye into yonder barge, and row yourself to the sword, and take it and the scabbard with you, and I will ask my gift when I see my time. So Sir Arthur and Merlin alit and tied their horses to two trees, and so they went into the ship, and when they came to the sword that the hand held, Sir Arthur took it up by the handles, and took it with him, and the arm and the hand went under the water. ___________________________________________________ This passage is an example of ________________________.
Medieval romantic literature
Read the following passage from Huxley's Brave New World and answer the question that follows. ´Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can·t.µBy the end of the novel, which character would most likely agree with this statement?
Mustapha Mond
Read the following passage and answer the question below. from The Creation of Adam and Eve GOD: In paradise shall ye sam won; Of earthly thing get ye no need. Ill and good both shall ye con; I shall you learn your life to lead. ADAM: Ah, Lord since we shall do no thing But lof thee for thy great goodness, We shall obey to thy bidding, And fulfil it both more and less. EVE: His sign since he has on us set Before all other thing, certain, Him for to lof we shall not let, And worship him with might and main. GOD: At heaven and earth first I began, And six days wrought ere I would rest; My work is ended now at man: All likes me well, but this the best. ___________________________________________________ This passage is an example of a Medieval ________________________.
Mystery Play
During the Victorian Age, ________________ emerged as a literary movement that tended toward extreme pessimism, suggesting that fate was predetermined and meaningless. We are controleld by our environment.
Naturalism
Brave New World is narrated from the point of view of...
None of the above
Refer to the following poem when answering the question below. My Last Duchess BY ROBERT BROWNING. One major theme of this poem is controlling one's environment. Which line below best expresses this theme of control?
Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity
Tennyson's Ulysses continues the story of:
Odysseus
Choose the correct subtitle for Coleridge's poem, "Kubla Khan."
Or, a vision in a dream. A fragment.
Which of the following poems expresses themes of political radicalism?
Ozymandias
Which of the following was not a possible cause of death for the Duchess Lucrezia de Medici:
Poisoned by her children.
The _________ Reformation was a reaction against church corruption and Roman authority.
Protestant
At the end of Golding's Lord of the Flies, the naval officer asks, "Who's boss here?". Who answers, "I am"?
Ralph
Use the following passage to answer the question - Lord of the Flies, "He [Ralph] jumped down from the terrace. The sand was thick over his black shoes and the heat hit him." This passage is most likely symbolic of which of the following:
Ralph is letting go of civilization
During the Victorian Age, ________________ emerged as a literary reaction to Romanticism.
Realism
The Anglo-Saxon Period began after the ______________ relinquish control of Britain.
Romans
Which modernist writer said the following: "Be true to your own solitude, true, true to your own secret knowledgeµ
Seamus Heaney
The phrase ´brave new worldµoriginates from...
Shakespeare's The Tempest
In Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," where is the Duchess who is the subject of the poem?
She is dead
Complete the thesis with the correct title and author: _____________ _________________complicates modern notions of leadership through the empowerment of a traveller, suggesting our continually unravelling role as mortals.
Shelley's "Ozymandias"
Use the following passage to answer the questions below Lord of the Flies, How would one best describe the syntax structure of this passage?
Short, choppy sentences
Read the following passage from Golding's Lord of the Flies and answer the question that follows. When the Lord of the Flies says that he is the Beast, why does Simon reply, "Pig's head on a stick"?
Simon is trying to reassure himself that the Lord of the Flies is literally just a pig's head on a stick.
Read the following passage to answer the question below: L ord of the Flies, The reenactment of killing the pig most closely foreshadows for which of the following events?
Simon's death
As he lay dying, Beowulf asks his loyal friend to bring him ______________.
Some Treasure
Which choice is a core value of the society of Brave New World?
Stability
Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer·s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer·s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature·s changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow·st; Nor shall death brag thou wander·st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow·st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ____________________________________________ The meaning of line 4 can best be described as:
Summer passes too quickly
Although the epic Beowulf was composed in Brittania, its setting is actually in ___________.
Sweden and Denmark
Which modernist author was born in the United States, later becoming a British subject who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1948.
T. S. Eliot
Which modernist writer said the following: ´The experience of a poem is the experience both of a moment and of a lifetime.
T.S. Eliot
In Anglo-Saxon culture, a _______ was a warrior who protected the king and was rewarded with money & possessions.
Thane
"He'd fix up many a marriage, giving each / Of his young wome what he could afford her...Sweetly he heard his penitents at shrift / With pleasant absolution for a gift." Which character does this quote describe?
The Friar
Which character seduces women despite his religious affiliation?
The Friar
Read the following passage from Golding's Lord of the Flies and answer the question that follows. When the Lord of the Flies says, "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?" This most likely represents the idea that _____________________.
The Lord of the Flies represents the destructive aspects of human nature and is the real cause of all suffering.
"With locks as curly as if they had been pressed. / He was some twenty yeras of age, I guessed...He could make songs and poems and recite, / Knew how to joust and dance, to draw and write." Which character does this quote describe?
The Squire
Which topic is LEAST important regarding the historical context of Brave New World?
The aftermath of World War II
Which event triggers the following quote: Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle. Life·s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
The death of Lady Macbeth
Use the following passage to answer the question - Lord of the Flies, "He [Ralph] jumped down from the terrace. The sand was thick over his black shoes and the heat hit him." What event does the foreshadowing in this passage most likely predict?
The deaths of some of the young boys including Piggy and Simon.
Why does Mustapha Mond think it is a reward to be sent to an island?
The free-thinking individuals are there.
Which of the following is a sacred symbol in Brave New World?
The letter T
Read the following poem and answer the question that follows. Floating Island BY DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Harmonious Powers with Nature work On sky, earth, river, lake, and sea: Sunshine and storm, whirlwind and breeze All in one duteous task agree. Once did I see a slip of earth, By throbbing waves long undermined, Loosed from its hold; ³how no one knew But all might see it float, obedient to the wind. Might see it, from the mossy shore Dissevered float upon the Lake, Float, with its crest of trees adorned On which the warbling birds their pastime take. Food, shelter, safety there they find There berries ripen, flowerets bloom; There insects live their lives ³and die: A peopled world it is; in size a tiny room. And thus through many seasons·space This little Island may survive But Nature, though we mark her not, Will take away ³may cease to give. Perchance when you are wandering forth Upon some vacant sunny day Without an object, hope, or fear, Thither your eyes may turn ³the Isle is passed away. Buried beneath the glittering Lake! Its place no longer to be found, Yet the lost fragments shall remain, To fertilize some other ground. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------What is the situation described in this poem?
The speaker is remembering a floating island that she once saw.
The term Utopia was coined in 1516 by...
Thomas More
A format that may be used to craft a thesis statement is:
Title, Author, Conflict, Theme
What is one of the basic values of the code of chivalry?
To be protective of widows and orphans
Use the following passage to answer the questions below: Lord of the Flies, What is the most likely reason the author does not identify some of the speakers in this passage?
To diminish the boys individuality.
Use the following passage to answer the questions below Lord of the Flies, What is the most likely reason for Golding's style of syntax in this passage?
To establish the urgency and excitement regarding the situation in which they find themselves.
Read the following section of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses": It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard and sleep and feed, and know not me. ______________________________________ What is the speaker's purpose in this stanza?
To state his reasons for wanting to leave home
Why are the children of the society conditioned to enjoy nature?
Trick question! They are conditioned to dislike nature,
Which choice is NOT an accurate genre for Brave New World?
Utopian Novel
What question must the Knight answer?
What is the thing that women most desire?
Which of the following is NOT true about the Victorian Age?
Which of the following is NOT true about the Victorian Age?
Read the following poem and then answer the question below. Dulce et Decorum Est BY WILFRED OWEN. This poem was inspired by ______________.
Wilfred Owen's actual experiences in World War I
In A Room of Ones Own, why does Woolf state the following: "it would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare"
Woolf makes the claim that women were not afforded the same opportunities as men.
Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. 4 O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. 8 Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. 12 If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd. Lines 7 - 8 of this poem are describing _______________________:
a constant star that guides sailors
At the end of the Wife of Bath's Tale, the old crone turns into __________.
a lovely young woman
Utopia is best defined as...
a perfect society
The primary audience of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" was most likely:
a person who is familiar with the English coastline
Refer to the following poem when answering the question below. Pied Beauty BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Glory be to God for dappled things - For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches·wings; Landscape plotted and pieced - fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. _____________________________________________ This poem most closely resembles _____.
a prayer
Read the following passage and answer the question below. from The Battle of Maldon The strife was stern, warriors were steadfast, Bold in battle; fighters fell Weary with wounds. Death covered earth. Oswold and Ealdwald all the while, Both the brothers, marshalled their men; Bade friend and kinsmen endure in combat And never weaken, but wield the sword. Byrhtwold encouraged them, brandishing buckler, Aged companion shaking ash-spear; Stout were the words he spoke to his men: ´Heart must be braver, courage the bolder, ___________________________________________________ The use of the word "buckler" in this passage refers to ___________________.
a small shield
Read the following poem and answer the question that follows. As Kingfishers Catch Fire BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS. This poem is an example of :
a sonnet
Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. 4 O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. 8 Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. 12 If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd. The ryhme scheme of this poem is _______________________:
abab cdcd efef gg
Golding's Lord of the Flies, most likely takes place when?
after World War II
Golding's Lord of the Flies serves as a/an _____________ to convey ideas around leadership, civilization, control and culture.
allegory
Mustapha Mond occasionally includes Bible verses in his speech. This is an example of...
allusion
Who provides the true answer to the knight's question?
an old women
During the Renaissance, there was a renewed interest in science, art, and learning from ___________.
ancient Greece and Rome
In Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," he directly speaks to the urn itself. This poetic strategy is called:
apostrophe
William Golding's experience __________________ most likely shaped his writing of Lord of the Flies.
as a rocket launcher for the Royal Navy
A character's side comments, heard by the audience but not by other characters on stage is called:
aside
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! _____________________________________________ In these lines, keats is contemplating a Grecian urn. Why does the speaker say, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter"?
because they play the music of the soul
Seamus Heaney was well known for his translation of __________.
beowulf
In Sonnet 18 (below) , the volta can most likely be found_______. Shall I compare thee to a summer·s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer·s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature·s changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow·st; Nor shall death brag thou wander·st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow·st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
between lines 8 and 9
Sonnet 15 When I consider every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment, That this huge stage presents nothing but shows Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; When I perceive that men as plants increase, Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky, Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, And wear their brave state out of memory; Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you most rich in youth before my sight, Where wasteful Time debates with Decay, To change your day of youth to sullied night; And all in war with Time for love of you, As he takes from you, I engraft you new. ____________________________________________________ The position of the volta in this poem is most likely found:
between lines 8 and 9
Refer to the following poem when answering the question below. The Man He Killed BY THOMAS HARDY. The speaker thinks that if he met the man he killed at a bar he might have ______________.
bought him a drink
TS Eliot was considered the spokesperson of modernist writers because his writing ____.
captured the apathy and coldness of the 20th century
During the Victorian Age, the concept of social Darwinism suggested that:
certain people become powerful in society because they are best adapted
When Samneric tell Ralph that Jack has a stick sharpened at both ends, this means that Jack intends to _______________.
cut off Ralph's head
Read the following poem and answer the questions below. Preludes BY T. S. ELIOT. The influence of Eliot's _______________ can be found in the last section (IV).
deep spirituality
Sonnet 29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men·s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man·s art and that man·s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven·s gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. In the beginning of this poem, the speaker's mood can be described as:
depressed
During the Victorian Age, realist authors used their work to ________________________.
develop sympathy for the lower classes
The exploration of binaries in William Blake's "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" is an example of:
dichotomous thinking
William Blake's "The Lamb & The Tyger" both ask the reader to consider _____.
difficult existential questions like who made us
In "Preludes," the author describes the landscape as _____.
dirty and vacant
Read the following poem and then answer the question below. Dulce et Decorum Est BY WILFRED OWEN. One major theme of this poem is __________.
disillusionment
Refer to the following poem when answering the question below. My Last Duchess BY ROBERT BROWNING. This poem is an example of _______________.
dramatic monologue
In Act II of Macbeth, the Porter serves to provide the play with:
dramatic relief
The Victorian Age is so named because it took place______________________.
during the reign of Queen Victoria
Much of Keats poetry was fueled by his fear of:
dying young
In Act III, Scene i, the phrase "fruitless crown" most closely means: Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren scepter in my grip, 65Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.
empty title
One main message of Golding's Lord of the Flies, is that without _________ civilization has no hope.
established order
An author's appeal to credibility is called...
ethos
The three rhetorical appeals are...
ethos, pathos, logos
Read the following poem and then answer the question below. Dreamers BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON. The soldiers in this poem are said to dream about_______________.
everyday things from their civilian lives
In Golding's Lord of the Flies, what is the first thing the boys decide to do?
explore the island
Huxley writes, ´THE MESA was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust.µThis is an example of...
figurative language
The excerpt below from Brave New World BEST demonstrates which literary element? ... Bernard would parade a carping unorthodoxy. He was politely listened to. But behind his back people shook their heads. ´That young man will come to a bad end,µthey said, prophesying the more confidently in that they themselves would in due course personally see to it that the end was bad. ...
foreshadowing
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said³´Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. ____________________________________ How many personas / speakers are there in this poem?
four
Read the following section of Thomas Hardy's "The Man He Killed": He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, Off-hand like--just as I--Was out of work--had sold his traps³--No other reason why. ---------In these lines, the speaker realizes that:
he and the man he killed were probably more similar than different
Dorothy Wordsworth's "Floating Island" might be influenced by:
he loss of her parents
One change in the British Empire that took place during the Modern Age is that _______.
he size of the empire began to shrink due to independence movements and war.
Under what condition does the old woman agree to give the knight the answer he seeks in "The Wife of Bath's Tale"?
he will marry her
Beowulf defeats Grendel using:
his bare hands
For thou art with me here upon the banks Of this fair river; thou my dearest Friend, My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once, _________________________________ In the previous lines of Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," the speaker is addressing _______________.
his sister
Read the following poem and then answer the question below. Dreamers BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON. The mood of this poem can best be described as _____________.
hopeless
Refer to the following poem when answering the question below. The Man He Killed BY THOMAS HARDY. This poem is a good example of Naturalism because it portrays ________________________.
human beings caught up in forces beyond their control
Golding's Lord of the Flies relies heavily on which literary device?
imagery
In Brave New World, Huxley's employment of word choice to help you visualize the events is called...
imagery
The excerpt below from Brave New World BEST demonstrates which literary element? ... sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer·s afternoon. The bulging flanks of row on receding row and tier above tier of bottles glinted with innumerable rubies, and among the rubies moved the dim red spectres of men and women with purple eyes and all the symptoms of lupus. The hum and rattle of machinery faintly stirred the air.
imagery
The Romantics believed that __________ could be a source of deep truth.
imagination
Blake used his poetry to express his concerns about the effects of __________ on society.
industrialization
The Victorian Age was a time marked by ________________________.
innovation and change which unsettled many people
Gerard Manley Hopkins's believed that everything was characterized by an intricate and unique design - a kind of spiritual fingerprint that he called:
inscape
Use the following passage to answer the question below. Lord of the Flies, Which of the following words best describes the tone of this passage?
intense, excited
The excerpt below from Brave New World BEST relates to the literary element of... Helmholtz only laughed. ´I feel,µhe said, after a silence, ´as though I were just beginning to have something to write about. As though I were beginning to be able to use that power I feel I·ve got inside me²that extra, latent power. Something seems to be coming to me.µIn spite of all his troubles, he seemed ... profoundly happy.
internal conflict
The poem "The Man He Killed" most closely explores which literary element:
internal conflict
Inscape in poetry can be characterized as:
irregular rhythms, incomplete syntax and echoing devices.
In "Follower," the speaker realizes that he ______.
isn't a good farmer
Refer to the poem below and answer the question that follows. Pied Beauty BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS. One way that this poem is similar to poetry of the Romantic Period, is _______________________.
it takes imagery from nature
Read the following section of Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Pied Beauty": Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim ----------- In these lines, the speaker uses the literary device of ______.
juxtaposition
The figurative expressions: "bone-house" and "whale-road" are examples of:
kenning
Identify the character that says the following quote: "No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death, And with his former title greet Macbeth."
king Duncan
2 Read the following passage and answer the question below. from The Battle of Maldon Mood the stouter as our strength grows less! Here on the ground my good lord lies Gory with wounds. Always will he regret it Who now from this battle thinks to turn back. I am old in years; I will never yield, But here at the last beside my lord, By the leader I love I think to lie." ___________________________________This passage reflects the Anglo-Saxon ideal of ________________________.
loyalty to one's king, even if it means death.
Sonnet 29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men·s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man·s art and that man·s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven·s gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. The speaker of this poem is jealous of others that are _____________________.
more handsome, talented and popular than he
For the Romantics, true enlightenment came not from isolating oneself in bookish studies, but rather from _______.
nature
Much like Romantic writing, Haiku generally describes
nature (as a symbol for thematic ideas)
British Romantic writers found inspiration primarily in:
nature and distant cultures
In Act II of Macbeth, after the king is murdered, Lennox and Ross report that:
nature is in disarray
The Victorian poet Robert Browning
never remarried after his wife passed away.
A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter is called:
ode
In his youth, Coleridge was prescribed and became addicted to_______.
opium
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." This quote, the final line of Ulysses, demonstrates the Victorian ideal of:
optimism
The Lamb Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Gave thee life & bid thee feed. By the stream & o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing wooly bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice! Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Little Lamb I'll tell thee, Little Lamb I'll tell thee! He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child: I a child & thou a lamb, We are called by his name. Little Lamb God bless thee. Little Lamb God bless thee. ______________________________________ This poem makes use of which literary device?
parallelism
"To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour." Which idea is most prominent in Blake's work (above):
perspective
Which character from Lord of the Flies says the following: "Now I only got one eye, Jack. Just you wait!"
piggy
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said³´Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. ____________________________________ One truth Shelley was trying to express with this poem is:
power and glory will pass away
Use the following passage to answer the questions below: Lord of the Flies, Using knowledge of Piggy's character and the context of the passage, what is the most likely denotation of the word d ecorum in the following sentences? "That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum. Simon went on."
proper behavior, speech
After WWII, the British government took a more active role in _____________.
providing people with basic services
What crime is committed in the Wife of Bath's tale?
rape
Coleridge composed Kubla Khan from a dream he had after taking opium and __________.
reading a book about exotic cultures
Refer to the following poem when answering the question below. Pied Beauty BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS. Hopkins was inspired to write this poems because of his _____.
religious faith
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! more happy, happy love! For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. _____________________________________________ What literary device does Keats use in these lines?
repetition
In Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," he asks a series of questions meant to spark contemplation and not necessarily to get a definitive answer. This strategy is called:
rhetorical question
Which choice is NOT a coping mechanism (a way to deal with emotions) used by citizens of the civilized society?
self-abuse
Which theme subject is NOT explored in Brave New World?
sexism
Refer to the following poem when answering the question below. My Last Duchess BY ROBERT BROWNING. Based on this poem, what is one complaint the Duke would have against his last duchess?
she was too nice to everyone!
Read the following passage to answer the question below: Lord of the Flies, Which of the following lines is the best use of diction to portray the violence that is present in this passage?
so then the circle could close in and beat and beat--
An extended speech delivered by a character alone on stage is called:
soliloquy
Read the following poem and then answer the question below. Dreamers BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON. The form of this poem is _____________.
sonnet
Shelley's "Ozymandias" follows the form of a _____________.
sonnet
Which choice is NOT an aspect of imagery?
source materials
A ______________ character is a stereotypical fictional person or type of person in a work of art such as a novel, play, or a film who audiences recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition.
stock
Use the following passage to answer the question - Lord of the Flies, "He [Ralph] jumped down from the terrace. The sand was thick over his black shoes and the heat hit him." Which of the following lines is most likely an example of foreshadowing?
stood there among the skull-like coconuts
Virginia Woolf was a pioneer for her implementation of _____________________ as a narrative device.
stream of consciousness
In "Follower," the author describes his father as _____ the beginning of the poem.
strong like a full sail
The Host proposes a contest of Tale telling on the pilgrimage. What will the winner recieve?
supper paid by all
Consider Wiglaf's speech to the clan after Beowulf's death: "And death / Would be better for them all , and for you, than the kind / Of life you can lead, branded with disrace!" Through Wiglaf's words, what message is the scop emphasizing to his listeners?
that cowardice is a shameful quality in their culture
In Sonnet 18 (below) , when the speaker says, "And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature·s changing course untrimm'd" he most likely means: Shall I compare thee to a summer·s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer·s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature·s changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow·st; Nor shall death brag thou wander·st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow·st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
that everything fair will remain beautiful forever
Refer to the following poem when answering the question below. Ulysses ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. What does the first stanza of this poem suggest about Ulysses?
that he is disatisfied with his place as king and wants more from life
Refer to the following poem when answering the question below. Ulysses ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. What does the third stanza of this poem suggest about Ulysses's future?
that he will undertake an adventure from which he may not return
James I commissioned an English translation of ________________.
the Bible
The Romantic Period was preceded by which British literary period?
the Enlightenment / Age of Reason
In Blakes, The Tiger, the speaker compares the tiger to...
the Lamb
In Golding's Lord of the Flies, who says, "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go?"
the Lord of the Flies
In Golding's Lord of the Flies, who says, "We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something?"
the Naval Officer
What story does Grendel hear that enrages him?
the ancient beginnings of us all
38 Read the following poem and answer the question that follows. Floating Island BY DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Harmonious Powers with Nature work On sky, earth, river, lake, and sea: Sunshine and storm, whirlwind and breeze All in one duteous task agree. Once did I see a slip of earth, By throbbing waves long undermined, Loosed from its hold; ³how no one knew But all might see it float, obedient to the wind. Might see it, from the mossy shore Dissevered float upon the Lake, Float, with its crest of trees adorned On which the warbling birds their pastime take. Food, shelter, safety there they find There berries ripen, flowerets bloom; There insects live their lives ³and die: A peopled world it is; in size a tiny room. And thus through many seasons·space This little Island may survive But Nature, though we mark her not, Will take away ³may cease to give. Perchance when you are wandering forth Upon some vacant sunny day Without an object, hope, or fear, Thither your eyes may turn ³the Isle is passed away. Buried beneath the glittering Lake! Its place no longer to be found, Yet the lost fragments shall remain, To fertilize some other ground. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------One major theme that this poem touches on is:
the cycle of life
In Golding's Lord of the Flies, who does not end up being taken by the sea?
the littlun with the mulberry birthmark
In Act I of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth fears that her husband is to full of:
the milk of human kindness
One issue raised by "My Last Duchess" is
the objectification of women.
What brings the naval officer to the island?
the smoke from the island burning as a result of tribal warfare
Read the following section of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach": The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withrdawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. ______________________________________ In this stanza, what is the significance of the "Sea of Faith?"
the speaker laments the loss of religious faith during a time of progress in science and industry
What happens to people when they die in the World State?
they are cremated
In Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Pied Beauty," what is the similaritiy between "skies of couple-color" and "rose-moles all in a stipple upon trout"?
they are multicolored
At the end of Golding's Lord of the Flies, when the boys realize they are rescued, how do they react?
they begin to sob
One thing Blake suggests is common to both the Tiger and the Lamb is:
they both were made by God
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! more happy, happy love! For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. _____________________________________________ In these lines Keats admires the lovers on the Grecian Urn because________________.
they will never grow old and die
Refer to the following poem when answering the question below. Dover Beach MATTHEW ARNOLD. This poem reflects the sense, held by some of the Victorian Age, that __________________.
things were changing, and not for the better
Which choice accurately describes the narration of Brave New World?
third-person, omniscient
Sonnet 29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men·s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man·s art and that man·s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven·s gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. What brings the speaker out of his "outcast state?"
thoughts of his beloved
Read the following section of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach": The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ______________________________________ The rhetorical purpose of these lines is most likely:
to establish setting and mood
Refer to the following poem when answering the question below. Dover Beach MATTHEW ARNOLD. Many critics believe that Arnold wrote this poem ___________________
to his new wife, while on their honeymoon
In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses," what is the speaker's ultimate goal?
to sail beyond the sunset
The disillusionment that resulted from World War I left many British writers with the opinion that _______________________________.
traditional ideas of military heroism and national honor were worthless concepts.
Read the following poem and answer the question that follows. As Kingfishers Catch Fire BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS. This poem is an example of Victorian Age Realism in that it: This poem is an example of Victorian Age Realism in that it: This poem is an example of Victorian Age Realism in that it:
tries to show how things really are
In "Follower," the author describes his father as _____ at the end of the poem.
trying to keep up with the son
Since its first written copy, how many different versions of Beowulf have been created / translated?
unknown; versions are still being created
Sassoon's own experiences during World War I convinced him that____________________.
war only resulted in senseless slaughter.
Read the following passage and answer the question below. from The Battle of Maldon The strife was stern, warriors were steadfast, Bold in battle; fighters fell Weary with wounds. Death covered earth. Oswold and Ealdwald all the while, Both the brothers, marshalled their men; Bade friend and kinsmen endure in combat And never weaken, but wield the sword. Byrhtwold encouraged them, brandishing buckler, Aged companion shaking ash-spear; Stout were the words he spoke to his men: ´Heart must be braver, courage the bolder, ___________________________________________________ This passage reflects the Anglo-Saxon reverence for the _____________ class of society.
warrior
The work of Gerard Manley Hopkins
was celebrated for the first time nearly 30 years after his death.
In Act V of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is seen to be sleepwalking. What does it appear she is doing while she sleep walks?
washing her hands
Identify the character that says the following quote: ´Fair is foul, and foul is fair. / Hover through the fog and filthy air."
weird Sisters
Kubla Khan BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e·er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher·s flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean; And ·mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight ·twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. ______________________________________________________ The second section of this poem describes a place that is ____________________.
wild, chaotic, destructive
One major political change in Britain during the Modern Age occurred when ________.
women earned the right to vote.
The powerful force of fate in Beowulf is called:
wyrd
Sonnet 15 When I consider every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment, That this huge stage presents nothing but shows Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; When I perceive that men as plants increase, Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky, Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, And wear their brave state out of memory; Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you most rich in youth before my sight, Where wasteful Time debates with Decay, To change your day of youth to sullied night; And all in war with Time for love of you, As he takes from you, I engraft you new. ____________________________________________________ Does this poem follow the traditional Shakespearean ryhme scheme?
yes, because it is abab cdcd, efef, gg
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! _____________________________________________ In these lines, keats is contemplating a Grecian urn. What is he describing in this pasage?
young lovers