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Final Exam Flashcards

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Renaissance

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The rebirth of classical learning

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English Reformation

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The English Church’s break away from Roman Catholicism

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In the address to the troops at Tilbury about to fight the Spanish Armada, Queen Elizabeth says, “I know I have the body of a weak ad feeble woman, but I have the stomach of..

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A King

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What does the word “this” refer to in this shakespearean sonnet? “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,/ So long lives this, and gives this to thee,”

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The sonnet itself

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The moral virtue represented in book one of the Faerie Queen is

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Holiness

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In the prefatory letter to the Faerie Queen, Spenser explains that the title character allegorizes glory in general but in particular, what historical figure?

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Queen Elizabeth

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Rhyme Scheme for Shakespearean Sonnet

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abab abab cdcd ee

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Why doesn’t the lion eat Una?

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Because she is beautiful and innocent and he wants to protect her.

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At the beginning of the Tempest, why are the passengers at sea when their ship encounters a tempest?

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They’re returning from a wedding in Tunis, North Africa

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Why was Prospero’s brother Antonio able to usurp his dukedom?

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Prospero was too busy seeking knowledge in books

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Who says, “This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother”

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Caliban

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What does Ariel want most of all?

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freedom

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Besides Ferdinand, which one of the visitors to the island does prosper praise for his goodness?

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gonzalo

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Who says “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world/ that has such people in’t!”

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Miranda

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Having read The Tempest, do you agree with the world view “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world/ that has such people in’t!”

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I do not agree with this statement because once on the island, most of the passengers from the ship have bad intentions and are power hungry

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Which Character do you find the most interesting in the Tempest?

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Ariel because he wants freedom more than anything but enjoys his job and is eager to get more “assignments” from Prospero

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In his epilogue, what does prospero ask his audience to do?

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Applaud

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In writing paradise lost in blank verse, Milton was using the standard verse-form of what earlier poet that we have read?

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Shakespeare

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Blank Verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter, used by Shakespeare

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When the poet in paradise lost says, “I may assert Eternal Providence,/ and justify the ways of God to men,” he means that his task is to to explain:

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Why God allows evil and sorrow into the world

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What was the sin that caused Satan’s fall from Heaven?

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Pride

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Satan is described as “Vaunting aloud but rack’d with deep___”

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despair

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What does the council of fallen angels at Pandemonium decide is the best strategy to be revenged on God?

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Hurt God through setting God against his favored race of mankind

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According to this poem, of what tree are Adam and Eve forbidden to eat?

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The tree of knowledge of good and evil

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From your reading of paradise lost, how do you think Milton felt about women?

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It seems that milton did not like women. The scene with Adam and Eve demonstrates this because Eve tries to tempt Adam to eat the apple, eventually causing the fall of man

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Identify two ways in which Paradise Lost has characteristics of an epic poem

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It begins in media reis and it features a descent to the underworld

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When in book nine do Adam and Eve have sex?

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After they’ve eaten from the tree

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What reason is given for war between lilliput and blefuscu?

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They can’t agree on which end people should break their eggs

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How does Gulliver break the law in Lilliput so that he has to run away?

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He pees on the palace

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Of all the strange types of creatures he meets, which does Gulliver admire the most?

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The Houyhnhnms

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Satire

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A work that makes fun of something else by calling people’s attention and forcing them to question the original idea that is being satirized. It is used in Gulliver’s Travels

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Yahoos

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The human-like creatures who live on the island with the Houhnhnms. Gulliver is considered a Yahoo

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Master Bates

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Crude Humor and puns such as this were used in Gulliver’s travels and popular among the scribelus club.

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Pope’s Essay on Criticism says that the critic’s first guide should be able to follow what?

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nature

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The verse-form of Johnson’s Vanity of Human Wishes is:

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Heroic Couplets

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Heroic Couplet

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a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.

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In act one of The Beggar’s Opera, what has Polly Peachum done to make her parents upset?

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Married Macheath

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How does Lucy plan to get revenge on Polly in The Beggar’s Opera?

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Poison her

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Is Macheath a hero? Compare him to another hero

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I don’t believe he is a hero because he does things like rob people. It’s interesting to compare him with Satan in Paradise Lost. Both Characters could be framed as heroes but they are still doing very unheroic things when you look at their actions in context

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Newgate

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The prison in The Beggar’s Opera where Machete is sent. You get sent there before execution

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Peachum

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Mr. Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera. he gets money for selling out criminals and selling their stolen goods

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The South Sea Bubble

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an investment scandal in the 1700s that caused everyone to lose their money. The Beggar’s opera is relevant to the South Sea Bubble because it took place during this time and many people were poor

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The Ancients

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classic poets like Homer. We should look at them as auctoritee

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Ballads

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Songs for poor people- topics included current events and romances

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Cardinal Wolsey

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an example of someone who went down hill in Pope’s Essay on criticism

46
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Where does fantomina first get the idea of pretending to be a prostitute?

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At a playhouse (theatre)

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Fantomina calls her final disguise incognita because

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she doesn’t let Beaplausir see her properly

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The verse-form of Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village” is

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heroic couplets

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Which adjectives could be used to describe “The Deserted Village” and “Elegy in a Churchyard”?

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Melancholic, nostalgic, reflective

50
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In your opinion, does Fantomina get what she deserves? Compare her with another figure who gets poetic justice.

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Yes. She made the decision to have the affairs all by herself and it seems fair that she should have to deal with the consequences alone too. She can be compared to Eve in paradise lost because she also made a mistake and had to deal with consequences however she also brought down others with her.

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Widow Bloomer

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the second to last disguise assumed by fantomina. The widow has an elaborate story about trying to get her husband’s money back

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Beaplausir

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the object of fantomina’s desire throughout the novella. He has affairs with each of her characters and is the father of her child

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Novella

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short novel

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A village called Auburn

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The deserted Village

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omniscent narrator

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knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters in the story. Fantomina has an omniscient narrator

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