Exam Review
The exam will consist of 50 multiple choice questions on the literature covered first semester as well as an essay. The questions are
over the items listed below. Macbeth will NOT be on the exam.
Things to Review
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Literary Term Packet
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Chain of Being PowerPoint
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Information from text listed below for each literary period
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Capitalization Packet
ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD (Review pages 17 – 18; 20)
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When was the Anglo-Saxon period, and what are the characteristics?
Define the following terms:
Caesura
Scop
Kenning (write an example)
What are the four epic conventions? (17)
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How does Beowulf fit the model of the epic hero? (17)
What were the themes of the Anglo-Saxon poetry? (60, 61)
What is an elegy?
What years covered the Medieval Period (Middle Ages) and what were the characteristics?
Define the following:
iambic pentameter
meter
ballad
rhyme scheme
CANTERBURY TALES (Pages 118-121)
Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?
What was the purpose of the journey (where were they going and why?
Why is Canterbury Tales considered a frame story?
What type of English was Canterbury Tales written in?
What time of year is listed in the prologue, and why is that important?
What is the game that is proposed, and who proposes it?
EVERYMAN (216)
What is a morality play and what was the purpose?
Why is Everyman considered an allegory?
What is the lesson that Everyman is conveying?
RENAISSANCE
When was the Renaissance Period and what were the characteristics?
What is humanism?
What was the cause of the Protestant reformation?
Define each of the types of poetry and match with the poems studied
carpe diem
pastoral
metaphysical poetry
What three characteristics do all sonnets have in common? (267)
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What are the three types of sonnets, and what is the general difference between the three? (267)
What is a turn in a sonnet?
Identify the author, the type of poem, and write a brief summary of each of the following poems:
Identify the following terms: (Chain of Being PowerPoint)
The four humors
Mutability
Correspondence
The three parts of the chain
The three elements
Ptolmaic view of the universe