FINAL Flashcards
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The Middle Ages:
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450-1485
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The Old English Period:
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450-1100
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The Middle English Period:
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1100-1485
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The Renaissance:
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1485-1688
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The Tudor Period:
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1485-1603
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The Stuart Period:
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1603-1688
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The Age of Revolution:
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1688-1832
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The Neoclassical Priod
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1688-1789
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The Romantic Period:
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1789-1832
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The Age of Reform:
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1832-Present
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The Victorian Period:
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1832-1914
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The Modern Period:
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1914-Present
13
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Rationalism can be defined as the _________ of _________ in all areas of ___________.
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Rule/reason/life
14
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How did England’s domination of the seas help advance the industrial revolution?
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By crowding out the French, Dutch, and Spanish from valuable markets and sources of raw materials
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What three main beliefs of scripture did the deists reject?
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The Deity of Christ
Christ death and bodily Resurrection
Miracles of Scripture
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What is the purpose of satire?
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To upbraid and to warn.
17
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What was Daniel Defoe’s most lasting contribution to the novel?
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Journalistic Realism
18
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The essays found in Addison and Steele’s “The Tatler and The Spectator” are much like our present-day _____________.
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Editorials
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What is the purpose of Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”?
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Was to vex the world rather than to entertain it
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What fundamental question does “An Essay on Man” seek to answer?
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“Why does evil exist?”
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List the reasons that the eighteenth century became a great age hymnody.
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Hymns provided a response to the neoclassical emphasis on rational control
The neoclassical qualities important to good writing were important to writing a good hymn
Issac watts hymnody
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What creature is used as an example in illustrating the truth taught in Watts’ “Against Idleness and Mischief”?
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A bee
23
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The line “Thither the household feathery people crowd” is an example of what?
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Periphrasis
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Over what issue did the Wesleys and Whitefield Sharply disagree?
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About the Calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement
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According to John Wesley's journal, he had a grasp of ___________ and enjoyed _____________ as well as ____________ reading.
Greek
Secular
Sacred
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Name the hymns written by Charles Wesley listed in your notes/textbook.
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"And Can It Be That I Should Gain"
"Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
"Soldiers of Christ, Arise"
"Behold the Man!"
"The Beatific Sight"
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Which of Pope's characteristics did Dryden lack, according to Samuel Johnson?
Diligence
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What book did Boswell write as a result of traveling with Johnson?
"Journal of a tour to the Hebrides"
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What is the verse form of "The Deserted Village"?
Heroic couplets
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According to Boswell, what trait of Johnson's overshadows his shortcomings?
His disdain for the Bible
| Conversation.....
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What romantic elements are found in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
Its description of rural landscape
Its idealization of humble life
Its use of natural description to generate a mood
Its solitary meditation
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The common element in all areas of romantic thinking- political, philosophical, and artistic- is _____________ from _____________.
Freedom
| Limits
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Robert Burns was known as the "_________-__________-__________."
Heaven- taught plowman
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Unitarianism evaluates an actions' goodness or badness based on its production of what?
Its production of happiness
35
List the elements that Christians would agree with romantics on:
Human reason has limitations (Chrisitans recognize the fall of man and its consequences while the romantics reacted against the neoclassical emphasis on reason)
Intuition has some validity (both agree with self realization- Christian measures his development according to Christ-likeness, the romantic measures his personal development according to his subjective self-evaluation.)
The individual has value
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Characteristics of romantic poetry include:
The poet himself as the primary subject
A highly individual perspective
An awe inspiring atmosphere
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What is ironic about Blake's inclusion of a graveyard in his "Garden of Love"?
garden is supposedly dedicated to love, but it produces death
Also, Blake's defiance of God's law will bring him only misery
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What institutions of society does William Blake's "London" condemn?
Religion
Government
Family
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What did Wordsworth credit as being the major formative influence on his writing?
Nature
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In Wordsworth's definition of the poetic process, what idea reflects the romantic dislike of control?
The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
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As a result of his prose, Coleridge is known as the father of _____________ _____________ ____________.
Modern Literary Criticism
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How do the sailors punish the Mariner in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
By hanging the dead albatross around his neck
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What is the primary mood of Lamb's essay's?
Nostalgic daydreaming
44
The Byronic hero is characterized by what?
Remorse and repentance
45
What question, which is probably the most famous rhetorical question in English literature, expresses the theme of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"?
"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
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Section IV of "Ode to the West Wind" reveals Shelley's agreement with the romantic belief in what?
The superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature
47
What was the purpose of "Gulliver's Travels"?
To vex the world rather than to entertain
48
Keats first unquestionably great poem was:
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
49
Name the three missionaries sent out by evangelicals in Victorian England and tell where they served.
William Carey- India
Hudson Taylor- China
David Livington- Africa
50
In "The Eve of St. Agnes", what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality?
A storm
51
List the concepts true about the religious climate of nineteenth-century England.
- Some of Engladns finest hymns wre produced
- Evangelicalism tempored England's colonial efforts with Humanitarian concerns
- Concerns for social goals wre displacing the mission of the church
- Evangelicalism produced England's greatest missionary effect
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_________ ___________ scholars had an even more devastating effect on the orthodox Christianity of the Victorian period than did ____________ ideas.
German Biblical/Darwin's
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List the two areas in which Thomas Carlyle had his greatest impact on Victorian England.
Religious thought
| Social Criticism
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What did Newman firmly oppose?
All attempts to separate formal religion from public life, especially schools
55
Tennyson's poetry was deepened and enriched by what?
The death of his best friend
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Who is the "Pilot" in Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"?
The divine and unseen who is always guiding us
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Who was the late --- Victorian writer who had the most influence on modern literature?
Matthew Arnold
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What new poetic genre did Robert Browning create?
Dramatic monologue
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What most affected Christina Rossetti's writing?
Seventeenth-century Anglican devotional poets
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Most of Lewis Carroll's poems in the Alice books are best described as ____________.
Parodies
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What is Hardy's attitude toward peasantry?
Noble rustics or contended pagans
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Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" reflects what aspects?
The lingering pain of rejecting Christianity and the futility of trying to purge the miraculous from Christianity
Hopelessness for finding a replacement for the Christian faith
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Hopkin's "sprung rhythm" which is based on natural speech rhythms instead of syllable divisions, is like the rhythm pattern of what earlier type of poetry?
Old English Poetry
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List the true statements about A.E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying young".
The youth is praised for dying
Keeps his honor even in death
Demonstrates that fame dies more quickly than beauty does
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In "The Kingdom of God", Thompson says modern man cannot see angels because:
Man's UN redeemed nature prevents him from seeing
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Kipling's "The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin" was said to be what form of literature?
Tract
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In Kipling's story, according to the doctor, what caused McGoggin's conversion?
Overwork
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Who as founder of modern psychology helped foster the existentialist philosophy?
Sigmund Freud
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Name the philosophy that maintains the strongest influence on writers of the modern period.
Rationalism
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What is the intellectual position most characteristic of the modern period?
Existentialism
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The typical modern poem relies on what?
Rhythm
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According to the modern writer, what is fatal to art?
Didacticism
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The moon imagery in Yeat's "Adam's Curse" foreshadows what?
The disillusionment at the end of the poem
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Yeat's believed that answers for life were found in what?
Art
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Joyce's "Ulysses" uses which method of development.
Stream of consciousness
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In Joyce's "Araby", why is the boy prevented from leaving for the bazaar?
His uncle was late
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Lawrence particularly despises the bourgeois' love for what?
Sports
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What does Virginia Woolf intend the road to symbolize in "Three Pictures"?
Life
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In Woolf's "Three Pictures", what is the narrator's response to the first picture?
Satisfaction
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In "Feuille D' Album" what does Ian purchase in his effort to meet the girl?
Eggs
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What does the "tall tree" symbolize in MacNeice's "The Truisms"?
The final maturing of the son
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In Katherine Mansfield's stories, what literary element is of supreme importance?
Atmosphere takes precedence over plot
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Why can't the mother comfort the father in Robert Grave's "Coronation Address"?
She does not take into account her husband's feelings toward the matriarchy
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Theme: Any beautiful, fine accomplishment requires diligent work
"Adam's Curse"
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Theme: Life is tragically absurd and illusions give only false comfort
"Three Pictures"
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Theme: "Tis not too late to see a newer world."
"Ulysses"
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Theme: All earthly vanity and ambition will eventually fall prey to time.
"Ozymandias"
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Theme: Determination in meeting the challenges of death
"Prospoce"
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Theme: The loss of religion's validity
"Araby"
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Theme: The remarkable power of God
"Wesley's journal"
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Theme: The superiority of Nature to books as a moral guide
"The Tables Turned"
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Theme:To "vindicate the ways of God to man"
"Essay on Man"
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Author: "Essay on Criticism"
Alexander Pope
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Author: "Coronation Address"
Robert Graves
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Author: "I wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
William Wordsworth
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Author: "Winter"
James Thomson
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Author: "When I was One and Twenty"
A.E. Housman
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Author: "The Deserted Village"
Oliver Goldsmith
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Author: " The Tyger"
William Blake
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Author: "A Red, Red Rose"
Robert Burns
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Auhtor: Complied and edited the Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson
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Author: Called "the English Chekhov"
Katherine Mansfield
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Author: Upon becoming a Jesuit priest, burned all his poetry
Gerald Manley Hopkins
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Author: Took part in a romantic elopement
Robert Browning
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Author: Nationalist poet who often wrote in dialect
Robert Burns
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Author: After trying to reform Anglicanism, converted to Catholicism
John Henry Newman
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Author: Showed great talent, but died of tuberculosis at 26
John Keats
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Author: Poet laureate
John Dryden
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Author: Wrote satirical travel literature
Jonathan Swift
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Theme: Spiritual fulfillment comes through achieving unity with all of God's creation
Rhine of the ancient mariner
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Be able to write a short essay describing what you know about the history of the English language
Old English literature reacted primarily against the external threat to society while Middle English sought to remedy the internal threat to society. During the fourteenth century the English language took on both French and Latin additions. It had many influences that shaped it into what it is in current day. Mother of languages. Original Keltic to the Old English. French became choice until Canterbury Tales. Gutenberg press old, middle, modern.
