paradise lost

Question 1

what does Milton write in his divorce tracts

Answer 1

“the souls union and commixture of intellectual delight”

Question 2

what is the address which opens a speech called

Answer 2

exordium

Question 3

what is an exordium

Answer 3

an addresss which opens a speech

Question 4

who is Delia

Answer 4

Dianna goddess of hunting

Question 5

what do roses represent

Answer 5

passion and transient beauty

Question 6

what does myrtle represent

Answer 6

temperance and restraint but also marriage and faithful love

Question 7

who is Pales

Answer 7

goddess of pasture

Question 8

who is Pomona

Answer 8

goddess of fruit

Question 9

who is Prosperina and what did she do

Answer 9

this is persephone and she was taken to the underworld and foolishly eats pomegranates which results in her having to stay in the underworld for half a year.

Question 10

in what book does satan enter the garden and Milton figures it as a rape

Answer 10

book 4

Question 11

what is asyndeton

Answer 11

the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence eg. “despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss”

Question 12

what are the two meanings of mindless

Answer 12

1. thoughtless 2. unprotected

Question 13

where does the word rapine come from

Answer 13

from the latin word and means an act of robbery

Question 14

what is a chaismum

Answer 14

self reflective phrase

Question 15

what is blazons

Answer 15

itemising each feature of a woman’s face in a worshipful tone

Question 16

what rhetorical device is satan using in “god therefore cannot hurt ye and be just”

Answer 16

logical fallacy

Question 17

what is the garland a symbol of

Answer 17

virginity and fertility

Question 18

what was the name of Milton’s pastoral elegy

Answer 18

Lycedias

Question 19

what is the line in the bible where Adam falls

Answer 19

“and Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression” - Timothy

Question 20

Samson and Delilah

Answer 20

they are biblical characters. Samsons lust overpowers him and his love for Delilah leads to his demise, as Delilah tricks him. The moral of this story is to not let women get in the way of a relationship with god, but also the story shows that if you repent for your sins redemption is possible.

Question 21

what does the word concupiscence mean

Answer 21

strong sexual desire or lust

Question 22

what was Milton’s pamphlet against censorship called

Answer 22

Areopagitica

Question 23

what is Arminianism

Answer 23

essentially you have to prove yourself to god as good etc… it is the opposite of Calvinism, which is what most puritans of the period would have believed in, which is that salvation depended on gods good will.

Question 24

peripeteia

Answer 24

loosely translated as irony. There is peripeteia in the fact that the fall has an unexpectedly happy ending

Question 25

harmartia

Answer 25

tragic flaw

Question 26

anagnorisis

Answer 26

discovery

Question 27

who sets out the terms of a classical tragedy

Answer 27

Aristotle

Question 28

idea of christian tragedy

Answer 28

catastrophes must be patiently endured through the help of gods grace, and one must just wait and hope for a reversal. Milton wants the reader to bring forth this reversal

Question 29

GCB

Answer 29

It becomes a moral imperative for each creature to know its place in the Chain of Being and fulfil its own function without striving to rise above its stations or debasing itself by behaviour proper to the lower links in the chain. For example, gluttony was considered a low and bestial instinct, and so being gluttonous was allowing these lower basal instincts to supersede his divine capacity for reason. (links to when Adam and Eve eat the apple).

Question 30

what did Saint Paul teach

Answer 30

that the husband should love his wife as Christ loved the church and he should cherish her as his own body - advice meant to protect and honour women.

Question 31

John Carey

Answer 31

“Milton’s efforts to encapsulate evil in Satan was not successful”

Question 32

Shelley

Answer 32

“excellent in spite of adversity and torture”

Question 33

Milner

Answer 33

“the central principles… of obedience and hierarchy”

“the main purpose of the poem is precisely the justification of the ways of god to men”

“meritocratic hierarchy is achieved”

Question 34

Gilbert

Answer 34

“the story of women’s secondness”