British Literature

Question 1

Cavalier’s Moto.

Answer 1

Carpe Diem

Question 2

Henry Tutor becomes…

Answer 2

Henry VIII or “God-Like”

Question 3

Earnest author.

Answer 3

Oscar Wilde

Question 4

Repetition of the same vowel sound in words close to each other.

Answer 4

Assonance

Question 5

Head of Puritans.

Answer 5

Oliver Cromwell

Question 6

Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.

Answer 6

Epistrophe

Question 7

A concise and often witty statement of wisdom or opinion.

Answer 7

Aphorism

Question 8

Martyred under Henry II.

Answer 8

Thomas Beckett

Question 9

When an absent or nonexistent person or thing is address as if present and capable of understanding.

Answer 9

Apostrophe

Question 10

Highest ranked pilgrim.

Answer 10

Knight

Question 11

Nicknames for the Puritans.

Answer 11

Roundheads

Question 12

The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions.

Answer 12

Personification

Question 13

Swift’s BIG satire.

Answer 13

Gulliver’s Travels

Question 14

Defeated at the Waterloo.

Answer 14

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 15

Recording of the war (HUGE film strip).

Answer 15

Bayeux Tapestry

Question 16

Shakespeare’s Queen.

Answer 16

Elizabeth I

Question 17

Making something divine.

Answer 17

Canonization

Question 18

Implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words, not used in its literal sense.

Answer 18

Metaphor

Question 19

Elizabeth’s mother

Answer 19

Anne Boleyn

Question 20

First known settlers of England.

Answer 20

Celts

Question 21

Who invented the movable type printing press?

Answer 21

Gutenburg

Question 22

Formation of words whose sound in imitative of the sound of the noise or action designated.

Answer 22

Onomatopoeia

Question 23

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.

Answer 23

Anaphora

Question 24

An outcome that turns out differently than expected.

Answer 24

Situational Irony

Question 25

What writer could have been assassinated?

Answer 25

Christopher Marlow

Question 26

Richard I was also known as...

Answer 26

Lionheart

Question 27

When the audience knows something the characters don't.

Answer 27

Dramatic Irony

Question 28

The fate of Henry VIII's wives.

Answer 28

Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived

Question 29

A metaphor that continues through a stanza or a whole poem that sometimes uses multiple comparisons of unlike objects.

Answer 29

Extended Metaphor or Conceit

Question 30

ABABCDCDEFEFGG

Answer 30

Shakespearian Rhyme Scheme

Question 31

ABABBCBCCDCDEE

Answer 31

Spenserian Rhyme Scheme

Question 32

What is said is different than what is meant.

Answer 32

Verbal Irony

Question 33

Expression of something that is contrary to the intended meaning; the words say one thing but mean another.

Answer 33

Irony

Question 34

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales in English why?

Answer 34

He wanted to keep English alive

Question 35

Swift's juvenilian satire.

Answer 35

The Modest Proposal

Question 36

An explicit comparison between two things using "like" or "as".

Answer 36

Simile

Question 37

Renaissance lasted from...

Answer 37

15th to 16th almost till 17th Century

Question 38

Apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another.

Answer 38

Oxymoron

Question 39

Substitution of one word for another which it suggests.

Answer 39

Metonymy

Question 40

Saint Augustine brings ______ and converted Barbarians.

Answer 40

Christianity

Question 41

European cities were built on this major river.

Answer 41

The River Thames

Question 42

Exaggeration for emphasis or for the rhetorical effect.

Answer 42

Hyperbole

Question 43

Ruled during the Industrial Revolution.

Answer 43

Queen Victoria

Question 44

Number of lines in a sonnet.

Answer 44

14

Question 45

Wrote the dictionary of the English language.

Answer 45

Samuel Johnson

Question 46

Known as multifaceted or the Renaissance Man.

Answer 46

Ben Franklin

Question 47

______ is known as the First Archbishop of Canterbury.

Answer 47

Saint Augustine

Question 48

The Norman Conquest took place in...

Answer 48

1066

Question 49

Recorded histories and stories (Monk).

Answer 49

The Venerable Bede

Question 50

Who killed many Protestants?

Answer 50

"Bloody Mary"

Question 51

A lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.

Answer 51

Ode

Question 52

The Conqueror.

Answer 52

William I

Question 53

Ruled during the American Revolution.

Answer 53

George III

Question 54

Earliest period of English literature.

Answer 54

Old English

Question 55

The Canterbury Tales were written in...

Answer 55

Middle English

Question 56

Who wrote The Taddler and The Spectator?

Answer 56

Addison and Steele

Question 57

Who was found in a handbag?

Answer 57

Jack Worthington

Question 58

Scottish Poet.

Answer 58

Robert Burns

Question 59

Mariner killed the...

Answer 59

Albatross

Question 60

Created the Anglican Church.

Answer 60

Henry VIII