Test 5: A Bestiary & Guadeamus Igitur

Question 1

striking with firm blows

Answer 1

smiting

Question 2

a form of extended metaphor in which objects and persons in a narrative, either in prose or verse, are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative

Answer 2

allegory

Question 3

before

Answer 3

ere

Question 4

“Let us therefore rejoice”

Answer 4

“Gaudeamus igitur”

Question 5

heavily loaded

Answer 5

laden

Question 6

shortness of time

Answer 6

brevity

Question 7

a characteristic distinctive of a particular person, animal, or place

Answer 7

peculiarity

Question 8

inconstancy; changeability in loyalty or affections

Answer 8

fickleness

Question 9

to prosper; to grow; to thrive

Answer 9

flourish

Question 10

one hostile or indifferent to art and culture

Answer 10

Philistine

Question 11

an ancient text containing beast-tales

Answer 11

Physiologus

Question 12

the arrangement of ideas in a poem or work of fiction

Answer 12

structure

Question 13

dutiful; obedient

Answer 13

duteous

Question 14

to succeed in persuading someone to do something

Answer 14

induce

Question 15

by chance

Answer 15

haply

Question 16

the male and female mates show great and continual affection for one another for their lifetimes

Answer 16

the turtledoe

Question 17

stress and sadness, haters, the devil, and the anti-cultural Philistine

Answer 17

a shift in the poem to this

Question 18

mariners think this is an island

Answer 18

whale’s back

Question 19

whom the poem extols

Answer 19

the university, professors, students, the commonwealth, etc.

Question 20

lives 500 years; sacrifices itself in flames and is rebon

Answer 20

the Phoenix

Question 21

“Perish cares that pule and pine!

Perish envious blamers!”

Answer 21

anaphora

Question 22

“Gaudeamus Igitur,” stanza 1 paraphrase

Answer 22

Live and be glad because youth and old age will pass us, and we will all end up in the ground.

Question 23

what has characterized folklore as far back as there is record

Answer 23

an interest in the habit of animals

Question 24

“Death comes like a whirlwind strong.”

Answer 24

simile that bolsters the main point of stanza 3

Question 25

how the medieval Christian churchman (cleric) made use of the beast-tales

Answer 25

added allegory and/ or a signification (or moral) to the tales