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Semester One Flashcards

1
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How can the reader tell that “Beowulf” is a legendary story?

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The hero is described as someone greater than all other men

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In “Beowulf”, why does Beowulf sail with his chosen companions to Hrothgar’s kingdom?

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To help Hrothgar by destroying a monster

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What line from “Beowulf” contains an example of kenning?

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"’…I have come so far, / Oh shelterer of warriors and your people’s loved friends, / That this one favor you should not refuse me…’”

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From what fact can the reader infer that Beowulf is honorable?

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Beowulf refuses to use weapons because Grendel uses none

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What does this line from “Beowulf” mean?

‘The monster’s thoughts were as quick as his greed or his claws’

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He has intelligence

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At the end of the battle in “Beowulf”, the poet attributes Grendel’s defeat to what?

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God’s power

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Which of the following best summarizes the theme of “Beowulf”?

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Valor will triumph

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What statement would you include in a summary of the first section of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”?

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The Green Knight arrives at King Arthur’s court in the middle of a New Year’s Eve feast

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What events from “SGGK” conveys a sense of the supernatural?

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The Green Knight does not die from Sir Gawain’s blow

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What primary plot elements characteristic of medieval romances is missing from the excerpt from SGGK

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A damsel in distress

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In SGGK, why does Sir Gawain volunteer to fight the Green Knight?

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He wants to protect the honor of his King and fellow Knights

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What events in SGGK represent a deviation from the ideals of chivalry?

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Sir Gawain keeps the magic girdle

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What character could you leave out of a summary of SGGK?

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Guinevere

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Sir Gawain’s main internal conflict in SGGK involves his guilt over what?

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Violating the chivalric code

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What saying best paraphrases what the Green Knight says to Sir Gawain at the end of SGGK?

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Admit your mistakes and move on

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What is the central theme of Macbeth Act I?

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Betrayal

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“Macbeth” and other Elizabethan plays represented a radical shift in English drama because they were what?

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Not about religious themes

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Based upon the information in Act I of “Macbeth”, what appears to be Macbeth’s character flaw?

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A desire for power

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During the Elizabethan period, theater companies began to do what?

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Use permanent performance spaces

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What important role do the witches okay in Act I of “Macbeth”?

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They foreshadow events

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Based upon information in Act I of “Macbeth”, what can you infer about King Duncan?

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He places a high value on bravery and loyalty

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What of the following best describes Macbeth’s feelings about the possible assassination of King Duncan in Act I?

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Tortured ambivalence

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In Act I of “Macbeth”, why does Lady Macbeth think Macbeth has a poor chance of achieving power?

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He is not ruthless enough

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What is the central idea of “Macbeth” Act II?

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A murderer must live with his conscience

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For what of the following reasons did Shakespeare probably choose to write “Macbeth” in blank verse?

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To create an affect of natural speech

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In “Macbeth” Act II, Scene ii, Lady Macbeth’s purpose in drugging the servants is what?

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So that they will sleep through King Duncan’s murder

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What characterizes the line from “Macbeth”

‘This night’s great business into my dispatch’ as blank verse?

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It has ten syllables with the stress falling on every second syllable

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What symbol(s) in “Macbeth” Act II, Scene ii, signals that the murder has been accomplished?

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The owl’s scream and the crickets’ cries

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In “Macbeth” Act II, Macbeth declares he will ‘sleep no more’ because he believes what?

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His conscience will never let him rest

30
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In “Macbeth” Act II, what does Macbeth really mean when he indicates that the blood on his hands will redden all the seas?

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It is a comment on his profound guilt

31
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In ‘The Prologue’ to “The Canterbury Takes”, Chaucer uses pilgrimage primarily as a device to accomplish what?

A

Frame the stories told by individual characters

32
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The narrator in “The Canterbury Tales”, is portrayed as what?

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Naive and observant

33
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The narrator in “The Canterbury Tales”, says that he plans to ‘give account of all their words and dealings, / Using their very phrases as they fell.’ For which kind of characterization would an author provide such details?

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Indirect characterization

34
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What best describes Chaucer’s attitude toward the Nun in ‘The Canterbury Tales’?

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Amused tolerance

35
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In “Macbeth” Act III, to persuade the two murderers to agree to kill Banquo, Macbeth tells them what?

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That Banquo has been the cause of all their misery

36
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In “Macbeth”, Act III, Scene ii, what is the connotation of the word ‘scorpions’ in this line?
‘O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife’

A

Horrors

37
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Act III of “Macbeth” serves mainly to do what?

A

Expose Macbeth’s mounting troubles

38
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In “Macbeth” Act III, what is the cause of Macbeth’s irrational behavior at the banquet?

A

His guilty conscience

39
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When Macbeth says to Lady Macbeth in Act III, Scene iv, ‘We are yet but young in deed’ he means that they are what?

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New to the ways of crime

40
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In “Macbeth” Act III, Macbeth’s guilt causing him to imagine he sees Banquo’s ghost at the banquet is an example of what?

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Internal conflict

41
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By the end of Act III of “Macbeth”, how has Macbeth changed since the beginning of the play?

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He is now quick to use treachery to suit his ends

42
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A major purpose of Act IV of “Macbeth” is to foreshadow events related to what?

A

Macbeth’s downfall

43
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In Act IV of “Macbeth” when the witch says, ‘Something wicked this way comes,’ you know what?

A

Even the witches now consider Macbeth evil

44
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After visiting the witches in Act IV of “Macbeth”, why does Macbeth initially change his mind and decide not to have Macduff killed?

A

He knows Macduff has fled to England

45
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What best describes how Shakespeare portrays Macduff’s son in Act IV of “Macbeth”?

A

Questioning and courageous

46
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In “Macbeth”, Act IV, Scene iii, what finally convinces Malcolm that Macduff is loyal?

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Macduff’s noble despair for his country

47
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What is the main message of “Macbeth”, Act V, Scene i, which includes Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene?

A

A guilty conscience is not easily mended

48
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In “Macbeth”, Act V, Scene iii, what does Macbeth’s behavior toward the servant who comes to deliver a message ultimate,y show about Macbeth’s character?

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He has grown brutal

49
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In “Macbeth” when Macbeth reveals in Act V, Scene v, that he has grown impervious to fear and horror, he is underscoring the play’s theme of what?

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Destructiveness of blind ambition

50
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At what point in “Macbeth”, Act V, does first begin to realize that he has been tricked by the prophecies?

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When he learns that Birnam Wood is moving toward the castle

51
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In Act V of “Macbeth”, in what way does Macbeth revert to his former self?

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He fights with courage and skill

52
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What is the message of “Holy Sonnet 10”?

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Death can never triumph because faith grants eternal life

53
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Why can “Holy Sonnet 10” be considered a metaphysical conceit?

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An idea is debated by likening it to an arrogant but finally powerless tyrant

54
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Why is the seemingly contradictory phrase ‘Death, thou shalt die’ actually true within the context of “Holy Sonnet 10”?

A

After death, a Christian awakes to eternal life

55
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What pair of ideas are the subjects of John Donne’s “Song”?

A

Love and death

56
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In John Donne’s “Song”, the lines ‘Yesternight the sun went hence, / And yet is here today’ are an example of what?

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A paradox

57
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What is the theme of the excerpt from “Paradise Lost”?

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Good and evil

58
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Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost” expresses values of seventeenth-century Christian England in that it reflects a prevalent what?

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Heaven and Hell

59
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What line describes the style in which “Paradise Lost” is written?

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

60
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What is the main clause in the following lines from “Paradise Lost”?
‘And chiefly thou O Spirit, that dost prefer / Before all temples the upright heart and pure, / Instruct me, for thou know’st…’

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Instruct me

61
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The lines ‘With loss of Eden, till one greater Man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat’ from “Paradise Lost” allude to what?

A

Coming of Christ

62
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What best summarizes the predominant theme of “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”?

A

The renewing and uplifting power of nature

63
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Wordsworth’s image ‘…of some hermit’s cave, where by his fire / The hermit sits alone’ in “LCFWATA” could be said to reflect the Romantics’ rejection of the Neoclassical emphasis on ____.

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Society

64
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In “LCFMATA”, Wordsworth describes his second visit to the abbey as more what than the first.

A

Reflective

65
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“LCFMATA” is a poem that celebrates the power of what?

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Memory

66
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What lines in “LCFMATA” most directly express Wordsworth’s interest in the discovery of the mystical or the supernatural through nature?

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“…a sense sublime / Of something… / Whose dwelling is the light of setting Suns..”

67
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What sentence best describes the meaning of these words from “LCFMATA”?
‘I cannot paint / What then I was…

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I cannot describe what I was like when I was young

68
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“LCFMATA” is easy to recognize as a Romantic poem because it has what characteristic?

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Describes the narrator’s emotions about a landscape

69
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At the end of “The World Is Too Much With Us,” Wordsworth demonstrates by his example the Romantic belief in what?

A

Transforming power of mind

70
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What is Wordsworth’s main subject in “The World Is Too Much With Us”?

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The frenzied quest for wealth

71
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What sentence best describes how the Romantic ideal applies to these lines from “London, 1802”?
‘Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.’

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Romantics believed humanity was better in the last, before it turned away from nature

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