Midterm review
English 12 Honors, fall 2012
disclaimers
• Some of these slides are repetitive. Some of
them ask the same question but in slightly
different ways. Don’t be concerned about
that—just be grateful to have this review.
• Not all of these questions are on the test. And
there may be questions on the test that are
not on this review. However, if you study this
review, you will be well prepared for the
midterm.
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• “the devil a puritan that he is, or anything
constantly but a time-pleaser; an affectioned
ass…so crammed, as he thinks, with
excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that
all that look on him love him”
• Malvolio
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• “But o, how vile an idol proves this god. Thou
hast, ____, done good feature shame.”
• Whose name fills in the blank?
• Sebastian
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• Marries Maria
• Toby
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• “Well, I’ll put it on, and I will dissemble myself
in ‘t, and I would I were the first that ever
dissembled in such a gown.” (IV.2.4-6)
• Fool
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• “He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side, /
but in conclusion put strange speech upon
me”
• who is “he” ?
• Antonio
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• Marries Sebastian
• Olivia
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• is convinced by Toby that he will eventually
win the favor and grace of Olivia
• Andrew
This king united England by encouraging the use
of Old English as a common language
Alfred the Great
• This ended Anglo-Saxon rule of England in
1066
• Norman Conquest
• The signing of this limited the power of the
English king and gave more power to the
barons
• Magna Carta
This is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning “manprice,” or the price a tribe must pay for
murdering a warrior from another tribe
Wergild
• this is the rigid social system that governed
England in the early medieval era
• Feudalism
This conflict helped England develop a sense of
national identity
Hundred Years War
• In these places, written texts were copied and
preserved during the Anglo-Saxon and
Medieval eras
• Monasteries
• This is the Anglo-Saxon word for “fate”
• Wyrd
• This is the Anglo-Saxon word for a travelling
storyteller
• Scop
This is the word describing a group composed of
a warlord and his followers
Comitatus
This was the vernacular language in Anglo-Saxon
England
Old English
• Chaucer writes about this kind of trip in The
Canterbury Tales
• Pilgrimage
• This is the language of the church and known
by the educated elite in Anglo-Saxon and
medieval England
• Latin
• This is the language spoken by the ruling class
in medieval England
• French
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• who is “the lady” described in Act IV scene 3:
“…or else the lady’s mad. Yet if ‘twere so, she
could not sway her house, command her
followers…”
• Olivia
• This is the vernacular language in medieval
England
• Middle English
• The one hundred most commonly used words
in Modern English come from this language
• Old English
• Became the basis for English constitutional
law
• Magna Carta
This is a long poem telling the deeds of a hero
Epic
• This is a man who does great deeds and
represents the values of his people and
culture
• Epic hero
• A word or phrase used to characterize a
particular person, place, or thing
• Epithet
• A phrase used in Anglo-Saxon poetry to
describe a person, place, or thing
• Kenning
• This is a literary device which seems to be
contradictory but is actually true in the
context of the work of literature.
• Paradox
• This is a literary device directly comparing two
unlike things
• metaphor
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• says that “such as I am, all true lovers are,
unstaid and skittish in all motions else save in
the constant image of the creature that is
beloved”
• Orsino
• The manuscript for Beowulf was probably
written in one of these places
• monasteries
This author was born into a middle class family
but worked as a page in an upper class
household, thus allowing him to know about
both social classes.
Geoffrey Chaucer
• This is the plot structure used for The
Canterbury Tales and The Decameron.
• Frame narrative/story
• This is the language commonly spoken every
day by a large group of people
• Vernacular
• This Italian work is an important source for
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
• The Decameron
• This type of story became the most popular
work of literature in medieval England.
• Romance
This is the code of behavior for knights in
medieval England
Chivalry
• This word means “entertainment value” in
Middle English
• “solace”
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• writes a deceptive letter
• Maria
• This word means “lesson or moral” in Middle
English
• “sentence”
This pilgrim is on the pilgrimage to Canterbury
specifically to give thanks to God.
Knight
This pilgrim works with pharmacists to maximize
their profits.
Doctor
This religious pilgrim has the gift of gab and
loves to spend time with the wealthy people
in town, hearing their confessions for a fee.
Friar
• This pilgrim has beautiful manners and cares
very much about animal welfare.
• Nun
• This is a journey that is meant to show
religious devotion.
• Pilgrimage
• This pilgrim loves to travel and knows the
“remedies” for the pains of love.
Wife of Bath
• This man is one of Chaucer’s perfect pilgrims
and spends much time traveling around his
community, visiting people.
• Parson
• This pilgrim rides at the very end of the group
so that he can watch everybody else.
• Reeve
• This pilgrim accepts bribes from sinners and
allows them to continue sinning.
• Summoner
This pilgrim deceives people with false relics.
Pardoner
• Beowulf is an example of this kind of literary
character
• Epic hero
• This is the language spoken by William the
Conqueror and his nobles
• French
• This pilgrim carries a pillow case said to be a
piece of the Virgin Mary’s veil; sings an
offertory very well
• Pardoner
• This pilgrim has terrible sores on the face and
loves to eat garlic and onions; only speaks
Latin when drunk
• Summoner
• This pilgrim can sweet talk a poor widow out
of her last farthing, but prefers hanging out
with the rich people
• Friar
• “My mind is full of scorpions” is an example
of this literary device
• metaphor
• “Fair is foul, foul is fair” is an example of this
literary device
• paradox
• Chaucer wrote in this language
• Middle English
• In this story, young, wealthy Italians travel the
countryside to escape an outbreak of the
plague.
• The Decameron
• “the Almighty’s enemy,” “that shadow of
death,” “shepherd of evil,” and “guardian of
crime” are all examples from Beowulf of this
Anglo-Saxon literary device.
• kenning
• this document, signed in 1215, became the
basis for English constitutional government
• Magna Carta
Who’s the author?
• Utopia
• Thomas More
• his rule began in 871, and he united the Saxon
tribes of southern England and led them to
victory against the Danes
• Alfred the Great
• invasion of England that occurred in 1066
• Norman Conquest
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• rescues Viola from a duel
• Antonio
• This social system had the king at the top and
serfs at the bottom, with land-owning nobles
in the middle
• feudalism
• The Canterbury Tales was written in this
language
• Middle English
• language that the Beowulf manuscript is
written in
• Old English
• plot structure that creates a story within a
story
• Frame narrative
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• Dresses as a priest in Act IV
• Fool
True or false?
• Beowulf becomes king of the Danes.
• false
True or false?
• Hrothgar sends for Beowulf to help him defeat
Grendel.
• false
True or false?
• Beowulf’s first important battle is with the
dragon.
• false
True or false?
• Beowulf’s warriors all display great bravery in
the fight with the dragon.
• false
• Beowulf is king of the Geats.
• true
True or false?
• Beowulf says Wiglaf should be king after him.
• True
• wrote an important Italian work that
influenced Chaucer
• Giovanni Boccaccio
• has been to Jerusalem three times; is “skilled
in wandering by the way” and wears nice
clothing
• Wife of Bath
• “Children were afraid when he appeared.”
• Summoner
• practices what he preaches
• Parson
• his skinny appearance is an indicated that he
is tight-fisted with money and secretive in his
dealings with people
• Reeve
• has relationships with women, then finds
them husbands and pays the women to keep
it secret
• Friar
Who’s the author?
• “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
• Chaucer
• embezzles from his boss and is secretly
wealthy
• Reeve
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• is convinced by a letter that he has already
won the favor and grace of Olivia
• Malvolio
• his writing helped give legitimacy and
significance to Middle English
• Chaucer
• This is a humorous imitation of a literary work
that aims to point out the work’s
shortcomings.
• parody
Renaissance poetry
• This poem describes “dull sublunary lovers’
love” and a different, more “refined” type of
love
• “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
Renaissance poetry
• This poem describes its subject as “slave to
fate, chance, kings, and desperate men”
• “Death be not Proud”
Renaissance poetry
• The speaker in this poem describes a “civil
war” within himself in which “Despair” throws
darts at him.
• Come Sleep
Renaissance poetry
• The speaker in this poem promises to give a
woman beautiful gifts.
• The Passionate Shepherd
Renaissance poetry
• In this poem the speaker uses the simile of the
“usurped town” to describe himself.
• Batter My Heart
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• he “wear[s] not motley in [his] brain”
• Fool
Renaissance poetry
• This poem contains the most famous example
of a metaphysical conceit—the “stiff twin
compasses.”
• “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
Renaissance poetry
• This poem contains a simile comparing the
speaker’ situation to “the lark at break of day
arising.”
• When, in disgrace….. 29
Renaissance poetry
• The speaker mocks many of his
contemporaries’ love poems with a realistic
portrait of his lover.
• 130, My mistress’ eyes
Renaissance poetry
• The speaker in this poem describes his
unrequited love as a paradox that defies
natural laws.
• 30, My love is like to ice
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• loves to hear music, especially old love songs
• Orsino
Renaissance poetry
• In this poem the speaker is jealous of other
men who have more friends, talents, or power
than he does.
• 29, When in disgrace
Renaissance poetry
• This poem is full of paradoxical descriptions of
a person’s relationship with God.
• 14, Batter my heart
Renaissance poetry
• In this poem love is a mark, a star, and “not
Time’s fool.”
• 116, Let me not to the marriage…
Renaissance poetry
• The speaker of this poem expresses his
intention to immortalize his lover in poetry.
• 75, One day I wrote her name
Renaissance poetry
• This poem contains a simile comparing two
lovers’ souls to “gold to airy thinness beat.”
• “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• is “Epicurus’ very son,” famous for his
hospitality and his well-spread table
• Franklin
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• carries a pillow case said to be a piece of the
Virgin Mary’s veil; sings an offertory very well
• Pardoner
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• has beautiful manners and several small dogs;
strains to “counterfeit a courtly kind of grace”
• Nun
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• professional knowledge is grounded in
astronomy; loves gold; works with
apothecaries to maximize profits
• Doctor
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• has been to Jerusalem three times; is “skilled
in wandering by the way”
• Wife of Bath
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• has terrible sores on the face and loves to eat
garlic and onions; only speaks Latin when
drunk
• Summoner
Who’s the author?
• 10, “Death be not proud”
• John Donne
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• “he rode the hindmost of our cavalcade”
• Reeve
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• loves hunting; “was he to leave the world
upon the shelf?”
• Monk
Who’s the author?
• The Decameron
• Boccaccio
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• “Children were afraid when he appeared.”
• Summoner
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• practices what he preaches
• Parson
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• skinny; loves books more than anything; is
very single-minded and serious
• Clerk
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• knows remedies for the pains of love; believes
women should have power in relationships
• Wife of Bath
Chaucer’s pilgrims
• can sweet talk a poor widow out of her last
farthing, but prefers hanging out with the rich
people
• Friar
Who’s the author?
• “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love”
• Marlowe
Which character from Twelfth Night is
described?
• discovers that disguise is a “wickedness” but
decides not to try to “untie” the “knot”
created by the disguise
• Viola
Who’s the author?
• “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
• Raleigh
Who’s the author?
• 30, “My love is like to ice…”
• Spenser
Who’s the author?
• 29, “When, in disgrace with Fortune”
• Shakespeare
Who’s the author?
• 116, “Let me not to the marriage…”
• Shakespeare
Who’s the author?
• 14, “Batter my heart…”
• Donne
Who’s the author?
• “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
• Donne
Who’s the author?
• 39, “Come Sleep”
• Sidney
Who’s the author?
• 75, “One day I wrote her name…”
• Spenser
Who’s the author?
• 130, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the
sun…”
• Shakespeare