Midterm Exam Study Guide
Honors English 4/Peters
Day one: 75-point matching/multiple choice questions
Day two: 25-point timed essay on Romantic Movement poetry
Anglo-Saxon Period
Beowulf, Burton Raffel translation
Seafarer, Burton Raffel translation
Celts/Britons
Animism
Wyrd
Roman Britain
Book of Kells
Old English
Lexicon
Etymology
Exeter Book
Epic
Mead hall
Geats
Danes
Encomium
Epic hero
Comitatus
Interlacing
Kenning
Alliteration
Dissonance
Hyperbole
Caesura
Scop/bard
Elegy
Medieval Period
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Neville Coghill translation
The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (Neville Coghill translation)
Norman Conquest
Battle at Hastings
Feudalism
Domesday Book
Middle English
Vernacular
Chivalry
Courtly Love
Martyrdom
Canonization/Sainthood
Ballad
Pilgrimage
Fealty
Frame story
Heraldry
Tapestry
Illuminated manuscript
Humors
Penance
Physiognomy
Guild
Prologue
Purgatory
Relic
Tithe
Bubonic Plague
Satire
Exemplum
Medieval Romance
Iambic Pentameter
Elision
Father of English Poetry
Renaissance Period (Elizabethan Poetry)
Spenser’s Amoretti: sonnets #30 and #75
Donne’s Death Be Not Proud
Herrick’s To The Virgins
Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress
Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd
Raleigh’s The Nymph’s Reply
Shakespeare: Selected sonnets
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Spanish Armada
Renaissance
Humanism
Protestant Reformation
University
London Tower
Henry VIII
The Anglican Church
Martin Luther
Catherine of Aragon
Mary I
Anne Boelyn
Elizabeth I
Jane Seymour
Edward VI
The Virgin Queen
Mary Queen of Scots
Shakespearean Sonnet
Petrarchan Sonnet
Cavalier poem
Metaphysical poem
Pastoral poem
Apostrophe
Archaism
Antithesis
Allusion
Conceit
Enjambment
Extended metaphor
Euphemism
Euphony
Epigram
Hyperbole
Feminine/masculine
rhyme
Perfect/slant rhyme
Imagery
(auditory/visual/olfactory
gustatory/nostalgic/organ
ic/tactile)
Incremental repetition
Oxymoron
Paradox
Synecdoche
Turn
Understatement
Tone
Renaissance Period (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
The Tragedy of Macbeth,
William Shakespeare
Great Chain of Being
The Scottish Play
Primogeniture
Tragedy
Catharsis
Comic Relief
James I
Regicide
Divine Right
Hamartia
Foil
Soliloquy
Dramatic irony
Verbal irony
Foreshadowing
Equivocation
Inverted diction
Aside
Hubris
Bear-bating
The Romantic Movement
The Chimney Sweeper, William Blake
London, William Blake
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, William Wordsworth
I Wandered as Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth
The World is Too Much With Us, William Wordsworth
Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bright Star, John Keats
When We Two Parted, Lord Byron
Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Industrial Revolution
Imagination vs. Reason
Lake District
“Inward eye”
Ode
Epitaph
Poet Laureate
Stream of consciousness
Biographical details for each poet