Midterm Exam Review
Honors English 4/Peters
Group #1
Answer each of the following questions; be sure to provide necessary details to fully answer the question.
1. Explain how the Elizabethan Chain of Being is incorporated into Shakespeare’s Globe Theater
staging of The Tragedy of Macbeth.
2.
How does Shelley’s Ozymandias exemplify dramatic irony in its plot, style and message?
3. How does Macduff serve as a foil for Macbeth?
4. How does Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales serve as a satire of the values and practices of the Catholic
Church in medieval England? What characters/characterizations does he employ?
5. Delineate the paradox of Spenser’s Amoretti Sonnet #30.
6. List and describe the main characters/conflicts of Beowulf. Why is Beowulf described as an epic hero?
Midterm Exam Review
Honors English 4/Peters
Group #1
Answer each of the following questions; be sure to provide necessary details to fully answer the question.
1. Explain how the Elizabethan Chain of Being is incorporated into Shakespeare’s Globe Theater
staging of The Tragedy of Macbeth.
2.
How does Shelley’s Ozymandias exemplify dramatic irony in its plot, style and message?
3. How does Macduff serve as a foil for Macbeth?
4. How does Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales serve as a satire of the values and practices of the Catholic
Church in medieval England? What characters/characterizations does he employ?
5. Delineate the paradox of Spenser’s Amoretti Sonnet #30.
6. List and describe the main characters/conflicts of Beowulf. Why is Beowulf described as an epic hero?
Midterm Exam Review
Honors English 4/Peters
Group #2
1. Why is the Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer considered an elegy?
2. What is the difference between an aside and a soliloquy?
3. List two architectural motifs that evince the values of the people from either the Anglo-Saxon,
Medieval, and/or Renaissance periods.
4. Why is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight considered a medieval romance?
5. Delineate brief biographical detail and the Romantic philosophy for each of the six poets of the
Romantic Movement.
6. What factors caused feudalism to end in the Middle Ages? How did this demise of the hierarchal
system affect the economic landscape of England?
Midterm Exam Review
Honors English 4/Peters
Group #2
1. Why is the Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer considered an elegy?
2. What is the difference between an aside and a soliloquy?
3. List two architectural motifs that evince the values of the people from either the Anglo-Saxon,
Medieval, and/or Renaissance periods.
4. Why is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight considered a medieval romance?
5. Delineate brief biographical detail and the Romantic philosophy for each of the six poets of the
Romantic Movement.
6. What factors caused feudalism to end in the Middle Ages? How did this demise of the hierarchal
system affect the economic landscape of England?
Midterm Exam Review
Honors English 4/Peters
Group #3
1. Why is The Passionate Shepherd To His Love* considered to be a pastoral poem?
2. Explain an example of the theme of comitatus in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.
3. Delineate the dramatic irony of Shakespeare’s sonnet 130.
4. How is Spenser’s Sonnet #30 an example of a Petrarchan sonnet, in both form and content?
5. What is the distinction between an epic hero and a tragic hero? Provide a literary example of each
from our class readings.
6. Why is the Renaissance poem To His Coy Mistress considered to be a Cavalier poem?
7. What thoughts/ideas regarding pride, honor and sacrifice do the Seafarer and Beowulf share? How do
they differ?
Midterm Exam Review
Honors English 4/Peters
Group #3
1. Why is The Passionate Shepherd To His Love* considered to be a pastoral poem?
2. Explain an example of the theme of comitatus in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.
3.
Delineate the dramatic irony of Shakespeare’s sonnet 130.
4.
How is Spenser’s Sonnet #30 an example of a Petrarchan sonnet, in both form and content?
5. What is the distinction between an epic hero and a tragic hero? Provide a literary example of each
from our class readings.
6. Why is the Renaissance poem To His Coy Mistress considered to be a Cavalier poem?
7. What thoughts/ideas regarding pride, honor and sacrifice do the Seafarer and Beowulf share? How do
they differ?