English Final

Question 1

The Rover

Answer 1

Aphra Behn

Question 2

The Dream of the Rood

Answer 2

Unknown
Christ’s cross
Hero and his Thanes

Question 3

The General Prologue

Answer 3

Geoffery Chaucer

Narrator introducing cast

Question 4

The Miller’s Tale

Answer 4

Geoffery Chaucer
Nicholas - Gets the girl but gets burned
Alison - Flirty wife (of carpenter) Loves Nicholas
Absolon - In love with Alison; gets scorned
Carpenter - Fool

Question 5

Whoso list to hunt

Answer 5

Thomas Wyatt

She cannot be mind so you are wasting your time

Question 6

Amoretti 1

Answer 6

Sonnet by Edmund Spenser

This book is to please her “seeke her to please alone, / Whom if ye please, I care for other none.”

Question 7

Amoretti 75

Answer 7

Sonnet by Edmund Spenser
“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”
You shall live by fame - Art transcends time
“Our love shall live and later life renew”

Question 8

Astrophil and Stella 1

Answer 8

Sonnet by Sir Philip Sidney
The more I study, the worse I obtain
“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, / that the dear She might take some pleasure of my pain”
“Fool,” said my Muse to me, “look in thy heart and write”

Question 9

Astrophil and Stella 2

Answer 9

Sonnet by Sir Philip Sidney
Denies love at first sight
“I call it praise to suffer tyranny”

Question 10

Astrophil and Stella 72

Answer 10

Sonnet by Sir Philip Sidney
Venus - Goddess of Love
Dian - Goddess of Chastisy
“Desire, though thou my old companion art”

Question 11

Astrophil and Stella 108

Answer 11

Sonnet by Sir Philip Sidney
Lead melts into “boiling breast” (furnace)
“That in my woes for thee thou art my joy, / And in my joys for thee my only annoy”

Question 12

Sonnet 1

Answer 12

William Shakespeare
“From fairest creatures we desire increase”
Procreation - People will die, and you’ll make it worse by not procreating

Question 13

Sonnet 18

Answer 13

William Shakespeare
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Art is long, life is short
“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee”

Question 14

Sonnet 55

Answer 14

William Shakespeare
“Not marble nor the gilded monuments / Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme”
Art transcends time

Question 15

Sonnet 73

Answer 15

William Shakespeare
Metaphor - Getting on in life
Aging Autumn, addresses length of day, shortening time frame
Make the most of the time we have
“This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong, / To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.”

Question 16

Sonnet 130

Answer 16

William Shakespeare
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
Undercutting Petrarchan conventions

Question 17

The Sun Rising

Answer 17

John Donne
“Busy old fool, unruly sun”
Aggressive tone
Lady is readily available - Lovers are together and unashamed
Love is timeless, we are not going to pay attention to you
Why do you think you’re so important?

Question 18

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

Answer 18

John Donne
Bidding Farewell “As virtuous men pass mildly away”
Speaker has to go on a voyage and leave the reader behind
Our love is more refined than “Dull sublunary lovers’ love”
We can handle separation because we are better than “earthly lovers”
Metaphysical conceit - Compasses

Question 19

Holy Sonnet 1

Answer 19

John Donne
“Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?”
“Thy grace may wing me to prevent his art, / And thou like adamant draw mine iron heart.”

Question 20

Holy Sonnet 10

Answer 20

John Donne

Paradox - “Death, thou shalt die”

Question 21

Holy Sonnet 14

Answer 21

John Donne
Commanding God
"Batter my heart, three-personed God"
Hammer into shape (blacksmith)
Pride is the misuse of reason
"Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me"

Question 22

Meditation 17

Answer 22

John Donne
Devotion
“Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill as that he knows not it tolls for him”
If people understand the bell, something that affects each of us, we will be closer to God
Use of metaphysical conceit to demonstrate human connectedness - “No man is an island”

Question 23

On My First Daughter

Answer 23

Ben Jonson
“Here lies, to each her parents’ ruth, / Mary, the daughter of their youth; / Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due, / It makes the father less to rue”
(Died at 6 Months)

Question 24

On My First Son

Answer 24

Ben Jonson
“Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy”
(Died at 7 Years)

Question 25

Paradise Lost Book 1

Answer 25

John Milton
Satan and Devils lie vanquished in the fiery lake
Beëlzebub complains
Satan gives speech
They build a meeting hall (council)

Question 26

Paradise Lost Book 2

Answer 26

John Milton
In Hell’s council planning course of action
Satan goes on a journey - meets Sin + Death

Question 27

Paradise Lost Book 4

Answer 27

John Milton

Paradise (Satan enters)

Question 28

Paradise Lost Book 9

Answer 28

John Milton

THE FALL

Question 29

An Essay On Criticism

Answer 29

Alexander Pope
Is it worse to lack skill in writing/judging poetry? (Judging)
You need to know your limits
Human Nature - Holds nature to a very high standard
“Nature” includes the ancients (Homer in particular)
Rules come from classical antiquity
Look beyond yourself
Develop Proper perspective
PRIDE
Broaden perspective
Do not condemn the whole for a part
Decorum - Language muse match subject
You’ll never find perfection, don’t be too extreme

Question 30

Gulliver’s Travels (Part 1)

Answer 30

Jonathan Swift
Liliputians are creatures of Pride
Political acrobatics - Walking the tightrope
Satirizing political activity “leaping + creeping”
Political difference in fashion statement
Gulliver has a ridiculous concern for propriety
Court –> Ridiculous intrigue (satire)