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Final Exam Questions Part 1 Flashcards

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1
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Be able to write a short essay describing what you know about the history of the English Language.

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It is theorized that English is one of the many languages descended primarily from the Germanic branch of an ancient family of languages called Indo-European, spoken many centuries ago in Europe and parts of Western Asia. The Celts brought Celtic to England prior to the Anglo Saxons. The original Celtic language was radically shaped and molded into what we now call Old English by the successive conquests of Britain that occurred from the time of the originals Celts until 1066. The word England derives directly from the land of Angles- Angeland. The periods in which all of this happened is Old, Middle, and Modern Period.

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2
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What years did the Middle Ages occur?

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450-1485

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3
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What years did The Old English Period occur?

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450-1100

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4
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What years did The Middle English Period occur?

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1100-1485

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5
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What years did the Renaissance occur?

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1485-1688

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What year did the Tudor Period occur?

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1485-1603

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What year did the Stuart Period occur?

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1603-1688

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8
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What year did the Age of Revolution occur?

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1688-1832

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What years did the Neoclassical Period occur?

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1688-1789

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10
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What years did the Romantic Period occur?

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1789-1832

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11
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What years did the Age of Reform occur?

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1832-Present

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12
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What years did the Victorian Period occur?

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1832-1914

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13
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What years did the Modern Period occur?

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1914-Present

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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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15
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What three main beliefs of Scripture is the desists reject?

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  1. The deity of Christ
  2. Christ’s death and bodily resurrection
  3. Miracle of Scripture
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16
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What is the purpose of satire?

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To upbraid and to warn

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17
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What was Daniel Defoe’s most lasting contribution to the novel?

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Journalistic Realism

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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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Editorial

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19
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What is the purpose of Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”?

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To vex the world rather than to entertain it

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20
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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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21
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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

22
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The line “Thirther the household feathery people crowd” is an example of what?

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Periphrasis

23
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Over what issue did the Wesleys and Whitefield sharply disagree?

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Calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement

24
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According to John Wesley’s journal, he had a grasp of _____________ and enjoyed _____________ as well as ____________ reading.

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Greek
Secular
Sacred

25
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Name the hymns written by Charles Wesley listed in your notes/textbook.

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  1. “And can it be that I should gain”
  2. “Jesus, lover of my soul”
  3. “Soldiers of my Christ, arise”
  4. “Behold the man!”
  5. “The Beatific Sight”
26
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Which of Pope’s characteristics did Dryden lack, according to Samuel Johnson?

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Diligence

27
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What book did Boswell write as a result of traveling with Johnson?

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Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

28
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What is the verse form of “The Deserted Village”?

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Heroic couplets

29
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According to Boswell what trait of Johnson’s overshadows his shortcomings?

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Conversational abilities

30
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What romantic elements are found in “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”?

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  1. It’s description of rural landscape
  2. It’s idealization of humble
  3. It’s use of natural description to generate a mood
  4. It’s solitary meditation
31
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The common element in all areas of romantic thinking- political, philosophical, and artistic- is _______________ from _____________.

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Freedom from limits

32
Q

Robert Burns was known as the “____________-____________-____________”

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Heaven-taught-plowman

33
Q

Unitarianism evaluates an actions’ goodness or badness based on its production of what?

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Happiness

34
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List the elements that Christians would agree with romantics on.

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  1. Human reason has limitations (Christians recognize the fall of man and its consequences while the romantics reacted against the neoclassical emphasis on reason)
  2. Intuition has some validity (both agree with self realization- Christ measures his development according to his subjective self-evaluation)
  3. The individual has value
35
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Characteristics of romantic poetry include:

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  1. The poet himself as the primary subject
  2. A highly individual perspective
  3. An awe inspiring atmosphere
36
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What is ironic about Blake’s inclusion of a graveyard in his “Garden of Love”?

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The garden is supposedly dedicated to love. But it produces death. Also, Blake’s defiance of God law will bring him only misery

37
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What institutions of society does William Blake’s “London” condemn?

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  1. Religion
  2. Government
  3. Family
38
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What did Wordsworth credit as being the major formative influence on his writing?

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Nature

39
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In Wordsworth’s definition of the people process, what idea reflects the romantic dislike of control?

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The depiction of poetry’s “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”

40
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As result of his prose, Coleridge is known as the father of ____________ ________________ _____________.

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Modern Literary Criticism

41
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How do the sailors punish the Mariner in “the rime of the ancient mariner”

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By hanging the dead albatross around his neck

42
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What is the primary mood of Lamb’s essays?

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Nostalgic Daydreaming

43
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The Byronic Hero is characterized by what?

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Arrogance, anguish, solitude, self-will, and rebellion.

44
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What question, which is probably the most famous rhetorical question in English literature, expresses the theme of Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”?

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If Winter comes can spring be far behind?

45
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Section IV of “Ode to the west wind” reveals Shelley’s agreement with the romantic belief in what?

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The superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature

46
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Keats first unquestionable great poem was?

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“on First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer

47
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Name the three missionaries sent out by evangelicals in Victorian England and tell where they served.

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  1. Hudson Taylor-China
  2. William Carey- India
  3. David Livingston-Africa
48
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In “The Eve of St. Agnes” what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality?

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A storm

49
Q

____________ ___________ scholars has an even more devastating effect on the orthodox Christianity of the Victorian Period than did _________ ideas.

A

German Biblical Scholars

Darwins

50
Q

Rationalism can be defined as the ____________ of ___________ in all areas of _________.

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Rule
Reason
Life

51
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List the reasons that the 18th century became a great age of hymnody.

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  1. Isaac Watts’ great continuation to hymn writing influenced the growth of hymnody
  2. Hymns provided a response to the Neoclassical emphasized on rational control
  3. The Neoclassical qualities qualities imp to good writing were important to writing a good
52
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List the concocts true about the religious climate of nineteenth-century England.

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  1. The periods evangelicalism produced England’s greatest missionary effort
  2. Some of England’s finest hymns were produced
  3. Evangelicalism tempered England’s colonial effects with humanitarian concerns

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