FINAL: questions Flashcards
The Middle Ages
450-1485
The Old English Period
450-1100
The Middle English Period
1100-1485
The Renaissance
1485-1688
The Tudor Period
1485-1603
The Stuart Period
1603-1688
The Age of Revolution
1688-1832
The Neoclassical Period
1688-1789
The Romantic Period
1789-1832
The Age of Reform
1832-present
The Victorian Period
1832-1914
The Modern Period
1914-present
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 three main beliefs of scripture did the deists reject?
deity of Christ
Christ’s death and bodily resurrection
miracles of scripture
rationalism can be defined as the _____ of ____ in all areas of _____.
rule, reason, life
What is the purpose of satire?
To upbraid and to warn
What was Daniel Defoe’s most lasting contribution to the novel?
journalistic realism
The essays found in Addison and Steele’s “The Tatler and The Spectator” are much like our present-day…..
editorials
What is the purpose of Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”?
to vex the world rather than to entertain it.
What fundamental question does “An east on man” seek to answer?
why does evil exist?
List the reasons that the eighteenth century became a great age of hymnody
- 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
- Isaac Watts’ great contributions to hymn writing influenced the growth of hymnody
What creature is used as an example in illustrating the truth against Watts’ “against idleness and mischief”?
bee
the line “tither the household feathery people crowd” is an example of what?
periphrasis
over what issue did the Wesley and Whitefield sharply disagree?
the calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement
according to John Wesley’s journal, he had a grasp of ________ and enjoyed ______ as well as _____ reading.
Greek
secular
sacred
name the hymns written by Charles Wesley listed in your notes/textbook.
- and can it be that i should gain
- Jesus, lover of my soul
- soldiers of Christ, arise
- behold the man!
- the beatific sight
which of pope’s characteristics did Dryden lack, according to Samuel Johnson?
diligence
what book did Boswell write as result of traveling with Johnson?
“Journal of a Tour to the Herbides”
what is the verse form of “the deserted village?”
heroic couplets
According to Boswell, what trait of Johnson’s overshadows his shortcomings?
his conversational abilities
what romantic elements are found in “elegy written in a country churchyard”?
- description of a rural landscape
- idealization of a humble life
- its use of natural description to generate a mood
- its solitary meditation
the common element in all areas of romantic thinking- political, philosophical, and artistic- is _____ from _____
freedom from limits
Robert Burns was known as the?
“heaven-taught-plowman”
Utilitarianism evaluates an action’s goodness or badness based on its production of what?
its production of happiness
list the elements that christians would agree with romantics on:
- human reason has limitations
- intuition has some validity
- the individual has value
Characteristics of romantic poetry include:
- the poet himself as the primary subject
- a high individual perspective
- an awe inspiring atmosphere
what is ironic about Blake’s inclusion of a graveyard in his “garden of love”?
the garden is supposedly dedicated to love, but it produces death
what institutions of society does William Blake’s “London” condemn?
- religion
- government
- family
What did Wordsworth credit as being the major formative influence on his writing?
nature
In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process, what idea reflects the romantic dislike of control?
the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
As a result of his prose, Coleridge is known as the father of..
modern literary criticism
How do the sailors punish the Mariner in “The rime of the ancient mariner”?
By hanging the dead albatross around his neck.
What is the primary mood of Lamb’s essays?
nostalgic daydreaming
The byronic hero is characterized by what?
arrogance, anguish, sullenness, solitude, self-will, rebellion
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?
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
What was the purpose Gulliver’s Travels?
to vex the world rather than to entertain it
Keats first unquestionably great poem was:
“on first looking to Chapman’s Homer”
name three missionaries sent out by evangelicals in Victorian England and tell where they served.
William Carey: India
Hudson Taylor: China
David Livingston: Africa
in “the eve of st. agnes,” what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality?
a storm
List the concepts true about the religious climate of the nineteenth-century England.
- The periods evangelicalism produced England’s greater missionary effort.
- Some of England’s finest hymns were produced.
- Evangelicalism tempered England’s colonial efforts with humanitarian concerns.
______ ______ scholars had an even more devastating effect on the orthodox Christianity of the Victorian period than did ____ ideas.
German biblical, Darwin
List the two areas in which Thomas Carlyle had his greatest impact on Victorian England.
religious thought and social criticism
What did Newman firmly oppose?
all attempts to separate formal religion from public life, especially schools
Who is the “Pilot” in Tennyson’s “crossing the bar”?
the divine and unseen who is always guiding us
who was the late- Victorian writer who had the most influence on modern literature?
Matthew Arnold
What new poetic genre did Browning create?
dramatic monologue
What most affected Christina Rosetti’s writing?
seventeenth-century Anglican devotional poets
Most of Lewis Carroll’s poems in the Alice books are best described as…
parodies
What is Hardy’s attitude toward peasantry?
noble rustics or contented pagans
Thomas Hardy’s “the darkling thrush” reflects what aspects?
the lingering pain or rejecting christianity and the futility of trying to purge the miraculous from christianity
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
List the true statements about A.E. Housman’s “to an athlete dying young”
- youth is praised for dying young and keeps his honor even in death
- fame dies more quickly than beauty does
In “the kingdom of God”, Thompson says modern man cannot see angels because:
man’s redeemed nature prevents him from seeing them
Kipling’s “the conversion of Aurelian McGoggin” was said to be what form of literature?
tract
In Kipling’s story, according to the doctor, what caused McGoggin’s conversion?
overwork
Who as a founder of Modern Psychology helped foster the existentialist philosophy?
Sigmund Freud
Name the philosophy that maintains the strongest influence on writers of the modern period.
rationalism
What is the intellectual position most characteristic of the modern period?
existentialism
The typical modern poem relies on what?
rhythm
According to the modern writer, what is fatal to art?
didacticism
the moon imagery in Yeat’s “adam’s curse” foreshadows what?
disillusionment at the end of the poem
Yeats believed that answers for life were found in what?
art
Joyce’s Ulysses uses which method of development?
stream of consciousness
In Joyce’s “Araby”, why is the boy prevented from leaving for the bazaar?
his uncle was late
Lawrence particularly despises the bourgeois’ love of what?
sports
what does Virginia Woolf intend the road to symbolize in “three pictures”?
life
In Woolf’s “three pictures”, what is the narrator’s response to the first picture?
satisfaction
In “Feuille D’Album” what does Ian purchase in his effort to meet the girl?
an egg
what does the “tall tree” symbolize in MacNeice’s “the truisms”?
final maturing of the son
In katherine mansfield’s stories, what literary element is of supreme importance?
atmosphere takes precedence over plot
Why can’t the mother comfort the father in Robert Grave’s “coronation address”?
she doesn’t take into account her husband’s feelings toward the matriarchy
life is tragically absurd and illusions give only false comfort
“three pictures”
Spiritual fulfillment comes through achieving unity of with all of God’s creation
“the rime of the ancient mariner”
“tis not too late to seek a newer world”
“Ulysses”
all earthly vanity and ambition will eventually fall prey to time
“Ozymandias”
determination in meeting the challenges of death
“prospice”
the loss of a religion’s validity
“araby”
the remarkable power of God
“wesley’s journal”
The superiority of nature to books as a moral guide
“the tables turned”
to “vindicate the ways of God to man”
“essay on man”
any beautiful, fine accomplishment requires diligent work
“Adam’s curse”
“Essay on Criticism”
Alexander Pope
“Coronation Address”
Robert Graves
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
William Wordsworth
“Winter”
James Thomson
“When I Was One and Twenty”
A.E. Housman
“The Deserted Village”
Oliver Goldsmith
“The Tyger”
William Blake
“A Red, Red Rose”
Robert Burns
Compiled and edited the “Dictionary of the English Language”
Samuel Johnson
Called the “English Chekhov”
Katherine Mansfield
Upon becoming a Jesuit priest, burned all his poetry
Gerald Manley Hopkins
Took part in a romantic elopement
Robert Browning
Nationalist poet who often wrote in dialect
Robert Burns
After trying to reform Anglicanism, converted to Catholicism
John Henry Newman
Showed great talent, but died at tuberculosis at 26
John Keats
Poet Laureate
John Dryden
Wrote satirical travel literature
Jonathan Swift
