literature exam review Flashcards
greatest anglo saxon poem
beowulf
first type of anglo saxon literature was
poetry
known as the founder of english history
venerable bead
metaphorical compound word or phrases
kenning
“revenging the wrong, is more goodly than grieving, let us follow”
beowulf
probably the best known morality play
everyman
theme of the work “everyman”
death comes to every man when they least expect it
knight that beheaded the green knight
sir goine
works theme is the love of money is the root of all evil
pardoners tale, canterbury tales
wrote the canterbury tales
chaucer
pearl poets time period
medieval period
wrote morte darthur
mallory
“since my love died for me today, ill die for him tomorrow”
barney barbara allen
“the faerie queen” is in what time period
the elizabethan period
how many years of earthly power does faustus buy
24
poem compares mans life to a play of passion
on the life of man
wrote the book of martyrs
fox
wrote the play dr faustus
marlowe
wrote the first essays in english literature
bacon
literature genre reached its zenith during the elizabethan period
the drama
“come with live with me and be my love…”
passionate shepherd to his love
englands greatest epic
paradise lost
theme is mans need for rest
the pulley
theme is justifying the ways of God to men
paradise lost
milton was in what time period
puritan time period
robinson crusoe is what period
restoration and the eighteenth century period
who wrote the cotters saturday night
burns
poem represented purity by williams
the lamb
reminiscent of past days
auld lang syne
wrote robinson crusoe
defoe
wrote gullivers travels
swift
commentary on the laws of england
blackstone
wrote amazing grace
john newton
wrote ellegy written in a country churchyard
grey
“say first of god above or man below, what can we reason from what we know”
essay on man
…“where wealth accumulates and men decay”
deserted village
rime of the ancient mariner is from what period
romantic period
theme is the love which should bind together all created things
the rime of the ancient mariner
man who mrs bennet is eager to see match with one of her daughters
mr. bingly
supreme poet of nature
wordsworth
wordsworth started what movement
romantic movement
invented the byronic hero
george gorden, lord byron
who wrote when i hath fears
keats
who wrote ode to the west wind, mutability, a dirge
shelley
wrote pride and prejudice
jane austin
jane austin perfected the novel of
manners
“if winter comes can spring be far behind?”
ode to the west wind
“beauty is truth, truth beauty”
ode on a greecian urn
who was promised by the witches that his son would become king
banquo
successor name
malcom
whos ghost does macbeth see at the banquet table
banquos
who suffers sleepwalking as a consequence of her sins
lady macbeth
individual who tells christian to go to the wicket gate
evangelist
who does christian meet in the valley of humiliation
apolyon
how does christian defeat apolyon
with his sword
who becomes christians companion after passing through the valley of the shadow of death
faithful
who joins christian after escaping the town of vanity
hopeful
who invites christian to dig in the silver mine
demas
name of the mountain range after escaping doubting castle
delectable mountains
pilgrims must cross
a river
name who is able to cross the river with vain hope the ferry man
ignorance
who wrote the pilgrims progress
john bunyan
what represents assurance of salvation in pilgrims progress
sealed scroll
name of the city that represented heaven
celestial city
place that represented the church as a place of security for pilgrims
palace beautiful
“do you see yonder wicket gate”
evangelist
time period of alfred lord tennyson
victorian era
jack worthing and gwendolyn fairfax is from
the importance of being ernest
idyls of the king was written by
lord tennyson
wrote my last duchess
browning
pygmalion is from what age
twentieth century
what professor did eliza go to to speak properly
professor higgins
wrote the second coming
yeats
haunted by the death of his brother
arsat
wrote the lagoon
conrad
who wrote his last bow
doyle
who wrote the railway children
nesbit
