Final Flashcards
A story within a literal and an implied level of meaning may suggest actual persons, places, events and situations or a set of ideas
Allegory
The repetition of similar consonant sounds within the beginning of a group of neighboring words or lines.
Alliteration
A reference within a work of literature to something outside it.
Allusion
The villain in the story
Antagonist
A brief statement, often witty, that expresses a principle, truth, or observation about life.
Aphorism
The addressing of nonpersonal object as if it were able to reply.
Apostrophe
A short, simple narrative poem.
Ballad
A nonfiction account in which the author tells the true events that makeup the life of a real individual other than himself.
Biography
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
Major pauses within lines
Caesura
Drama that ends happily
Comedy
A striking and often elaborate comparison carried out in considerable detail
Conceit
The opposition of two or more chapters or forces
Conflict
A pair of rhymed lines
Couplet
Regional variations within this same language as spoken in different areas of a country
Dialect
A poem consisting of a speech by a character addressing an audience at a critical moment in his life
Dramatic monologue
Originally any poem of solemn meditation
Elegy
A poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next with no punctuation at the end of the first verse line.
Enjambment
Long, stylized narrative poems celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero of legend.
Epic
A metaphor that is developed beyond a single sentence or comparison
Extended metaphor
An artful deviation from literal speech or normal word order.
Figurative Language
A short tale, usually anonymous, passed along by word-of-mouth.
Folktale
A literary device that supplies clues that hint at later plot developments
Foreshadowing
A literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story
Frame Story
The use of language to convey meaning other than what is stated or a contradiction in what is expected to happen and what actually happens
Irony
A form of poetic imagery commonly found in Anglo-Saxon. A metaphorical phrase or compound word that is used to indirectly name a person, place, or thing.
Kenning
A brief poem expressing the personal views of a single speaker on a particular topic
Lyrical poetry
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Meter
The stated or implied equivalence of two things
Metaphor
Gives human characteristics to objects, ideas, abstractions, or animals
Personification
The main character of a story
Protagonist
Attempt in fiction to create an illusion of actuality by the use of seemingly random detail or by the inclusion of the ordinary or unpleasant in life
Realism
A reaction against the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism
Romanticism
Corrective ridicule of some object of scorn usually outside of the literature itself
Satire
A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature
Theme
The rule of reason in all areas of life
Rationalism
Evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of happiness
Utilitarianism
A reverence for a tradition as a source of authority or values in religion, morality, or art
Traditionalism
The preference for an uncivilized life, either for the simple, rustic life of an earlier era or for the “natural” existence of present day tribal communities
Primitivism
A movement originating among the German disciples of Immanuel Kant that sought a higher religious view than Christianity and a higher artistic ideal than neoclassicism
Transcendentalism
Is the intellectual position most characteristic of the modern period
Existentialism
Pluralism
An attitude which favors a multiplicity of viewpoints, and assumes that no single view is universally valid.
Instruction in literature
Didacticism
Rationalism can be defined
The rule of reason in all areas of life.
What was Defoe’s most lasting contribution to the novel?
Journalistic realism
What fundamental question does An Essay on Man seek to answer?
Why does evil exist?
Which of Pope’s characteristics did Dryden lack?
Diligence
Utilitarianism evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of
Happiness
Christians would agree with romantics on all of the following points except that
Freedom from limitations is needed.
Characteristics of romantic poetry include which of the following
The poet as the primary subject
A highly individual perspective
An awe-inspiring atmosphere
(All of the above)
Wordsworth credited which of the following as being the major formative influence on his writings.
Nature
The primary mood Lamb’s essays is
Nostalgic daydreaming
A Byronic hero is characterized by all of the following except
Remorse and repentance
Section IV of “Ode to the West Wind” reveals Shelley’s agreement with the romantic belief in
The superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature
Tennyson’s poetry was deepened and enriched by
The death of his best friend
All of the following statements about the religious climate of nineteenth-century England are correct except
Optimism increases as the century wore on and England began to achieve its promise
In Tennyson’s In Memoriam, all of the following ideas are mirrored except
A stoic resignation to accept the loss of faith and its subsequent despair
Most of Lewis Carroll’s poems in the Alice books are best described as
Parodies
“The Darkling Thrush” reflects all of the following except the
Consoling power of man’s ability to rise about the past
All the following are true statements about A.E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” except
Though dead, the boy will know bitterness when his record is broken.
According to the doctor, what was the cause of McGoggin’s conversion?
Overwork
How did England’s domination of the seas help advance the industrial revolution?
By crowding out the French, Dutch, and Spanish from valuable markets and sources of raw materials
What is the purpose of satire?
To upbraid and to warn
Over what issue did the Wesleys and Whitefield sharply disagree?
The Calvinist doctrine of limited atonement
In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process, what idea reflects the romantic dislike of control?
The depiction of poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”
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”?
Name at least two missionaries sent out by evangelicals in Victorian England and tell the places in which they served
William Carey in India
Hudson Taylor in China
David Livingston in Africa
List the two areas in which Carlyle had his greatest impact on Victorian England
Religious Thought and Social Criticism
What was Hardy’s attitude toward the peasantry?
“Noble” rustics or contended pagans
“The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin” was said to be what form of literature?
Tract
(True or False) Swift stated that the purpose of Gulliver’s Travels was to entertain
False
(True or False) According to John Wesley’s Journal, he had a grasp of Greek and enjoyed secular as well as sacred reading
True
(True or False) The common element in all areas of romantic thinking— political, philosophical, and artistic—- is freedom from limits
True
(True or False) German Biblical scholars had an even more devastating effect on orthodox Christianity of the Victorian period than did Darwin’s ideas
True
The typical modern poem relies on
Rhythm
The founder of modern psychology who helped foster the existentialist philosophy
Freud
According to the modern writer, _________ is fatal to art.
Didacticism
The Middle Age
450-1485
The Old English Period
450 to 1100
The Middle English Period
1100 to 1485
The Renaissance
1485-1688
The Tudor Period
1485 to 1603
The Stuart Period
1603 to 1688
The Age of Revolution
1688-1832
The Neoclassical Period
1688 to 1789
The Romantic Period
1789 to 1832
The Age of Reform
1832- Present
The Victorian Period
1832 to 1914
The Modern Period
1914 to Present
Discuss pluralism and its impact on the modern culture.
Do in advanced
Sea-stream and sea-flood are examples of
A kenning
How does Beowulf arm himself for this crucial battle against Grendel’s mother?
He usesGrendel as a hostage to pacify his mother
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in
London
Who is the host of the Tabard Inn?
Harry Bailey
Chaucer characterized his pilgrims how?
Vividly with frank descriptions and often satirical
What did the writers of the Middle English period declare to be the primary remedy for the ills of society
A return to the ideals of the past
Which decree officially divorced England from the Roman Catholic Church?
Act of Supremacy
Elizabeth’s religious policy is best described as
Moderate
Who produced the first complete Bible in Enlgish?
Miles Coverdale
The greatest English literature was written for what purpose?
The moral improvement of mankind
In what year did restoration take place?
1660
A nationalist poet who wrote in dialect “A Red, Red Rose”
Robert Burns
Poet laureate
John Dryden
Complied and edited the dictionary of the English language
Samuel Johnson
After trying to reform Anglicanism, he converted to Catholicism
John Henry Newman
Wrote Satirical Travel Literature
Jonathan Swift
Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope
I wandered lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
Stephen’s sister
Gertrude
Stephen’s son who was hanged
Absalom
Champion of the native cause; he was murdered
Arthur
Reverend who sent for Stephen and helps in Johannesburg
Msimangu
Donates milk, a church, and other goods to help the native cause
James
Stephan rented a room from her in Johannesburg
Lithebe
Main character of the novel; looks for his brother, sister, and son
Stephan
Stephan’s brother, a politician
John
The word for “pastor” or “reverend”
Umfundisi
