midterm review english 12 honors, fall 2012. disclaimers some of these slides are repetitive. some...

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


• “But o, how vile an idol proves this god. Thou hast, ____, done good feature shame.”

• Whose name fills in the blank?

• Sebastian


• Marries Maria

• Toby


• “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


• “He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side, / but in conclusion put strange speech upon me”

• who is “he” ?

• Antonio


• Marries Sebastian

• Olivia


• 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 “man-price,” 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


• 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


• 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”


• 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


• 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


• 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


• 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


• 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.”


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


• 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.”


Chaucer’s pilgrims

• is “Epicurus’ very son,” famous for his hospitality and his well-spread table

• Franklin


• carries a pillow case said to be a piece of the Virgin Mary’s veil; sings an offertory very well

• Pardoner


• has beautiful manners and several small dogs; strains to “counterfeit a courtly kind of grace”

• Nun


• professional knowledge is grounded in astronomy; loves gold; works with apothecaries to maximize profits

• Doctor


• has been to Jerusalem three times; is “skilled in wandering by the way”

• Wife of Bath


• 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


• “he rode the hindmost of our cavalcade”

• Reeve


• loves hunting; “was he to leave the world upon the shelf?”

• Monk

Who’s the author?

• The Decameron

• Boccaccio


• “Children were afraid when he appeared.”

• Summoner


• practices what he preaches

• Parson


• skinny; loves books more than anything; is very single-minded and serious

• Clerk


• knows remedies for the pains of love; believes women should have power in relationships

• Wife of Bath


• 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


• 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?


• 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

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