Midterm

Question 1

“On Mary”

Answer 1

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 2

“To the Queen”

Answer 2

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 3

“King Lear”

Answer 3

William Shakespeare

Question 4

“Utopia”

Answer 4

Sir Thomas More

Question 5

“The New Atlantis” and “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms”

Answer 5

Francis Bacon

Question 6

“The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus”

Answer 6

Christopher Marlowe

Question 7

if you know the good, you will do it

Answer 7

Socrates

Question 8

morality is irrelevant, power is good

Answer 8

Machiavelli

Question 9

rationalism

Answer 9

doctrine that reason alone is the source of knowledge

Question 10

empiricism

Answer 10

knowledge is derived from one’s sense-based experience

Question 11

Leviathan

Answer 11

Thomas Hobbes

Question 12

An Essay on Government

Answer 12

John Locke

Question 13

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 13

people are naturally good

Question 14

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

Answer 14

Sonnet 18

William Shakespeare

Question 15

“When I consider how my light is spent”

Answer 15

sonnet 19

John Milton

Question 16

“This is my play’s last scene, here heavens appoint”

Answer 16

sonnett 6

John Donne

Question 17

“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee”

Answer 17

sonnet 10

John Donne

Question 18

“Abomination”

Answer 18

Isabella Whitney

Question 19

“The Manner of Her Will”

Answer 19

Isabelle Whitney

Question 20

“The Flea”

Answer 20

John Donne

Question 21

“A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning”

Answer 21

John Donne

Question 22

“The Pulley”

Answer 22

George Herbert

Question 23

“The Retreat”

Answer 23

Henry Vaughan

Question 24

“To His Coy Mistress”

Answer 24

Andrew Marvell

Question 25

“The Mower Against Gardens”

Answer 25

Andrew Marvell

Question 26

elegy

Answer 26

funeral poem

Question 27

panegyric

Answer 27

public speech/text praising someone/something

Question 28

New Men

Answer 28

move up in society based on knowledge and skill not birth

Question 29

Machiavelli

Answer 29

FEAR

Question 30

prose

Answer 30

poetry without verse

Question 31

vernacular

Answer 31

common language of everyday people

Question 32

humanism

Answer 32

movement from medieval education back to classical education

Question 33

Four Idols

Answer 33

tribe, cave, marketplace, theater

Francis Bacon

Question 34

blank verse

Answer 34

metered and unrhymed poetry

Question 35

psychomachia

Answer 35

internal struggle addressed in literature

Question 36

allegory

Answer 36

story/poem/picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning

Question 37

“blank slate”

Answer 37

tabular rasa

Question 38

sonnet

Answer 38

14 line poem with formal rhyme scheme: has octave and sestet

Question 39

octave

Answer 39

opening 8 lines of sonnet

Question 40

sestet

Answer 40

closing 6 lines of sonnet

Question 41

volta

Answer 41

“turn” between octave and sestet

often begins with “But”

Question 42

vanity

Answer 42

we think we deserve pleasure but life is suffering

Question 43

metaphysical poetry

Answer 43

highly intellectual poetry marked by paradox, imagery, complex/subtle thoughts

Question 44

antithesis

Answer 44

two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve contrasting effect

Question 45

conceit

Answer 45

opposite of what is expected by the reader/audience

often technological

Question 46

alienation effect

Answer 46

leads audience to be consciously critical observers instead of being lost passively in characters