Characters
Who killed Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Hamlet
Who wrote Paradise Lost
John Milton
What kind of comparison is this: “Preston is sweet like a melon”
Simile
What type of play is Hamlet?
Tragedy
What did Una represent in Faierie Queene?
The one true Protestant Church
Who is the eldest of Paul’s squad in all Quiet on the Western Front.
Katczinsky, or Kat
Where was the author of all quiet on the western front born
Germany
What is an allusion and give an example from something we have read?
Reference to an outside work. Ex: Bible in Paradise lost
“In the beginning was the deed”, where is this from And the author
Faust, Goethe
What kind of honor did Horatio represent from Hamlet?
Medieval honor
Who are the tiny people that Gulliver encounters on his trip.
Lilliputs
Which author wrote about unrequited love for Laura?
Francesco Petrarch
What are the three types of Irony?
Situational, Dramatic, and Verbal irony
What is one Gothic element from Frankenstein?
Ex: Death, disillusionment, supernatural, mystery, human emotion
The Cavalier were Royalists, while the Roundheads were _____________?
Parliamentarians
Order the Baskerville family inheritance: Charles Baskerville, Hugo Baskerville, Henry Baskerville, Mr. Stapleton, and Rodger Baskerville
Hugo, Sir Charles, Henry, Rodger, Stapleton
Who wrote “A Married State”
Katherine Philips
What is a conceit?
A metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines
What is the metaphor in “batter my heart, three person‘d God”?
Donne compares his heart to a city, and wants it to be usurped by God the same way a city is conquered.
Order the following literary periods: Neoclassical, English Renaissance, Enlightenment, Victorian, Romanticism
English Renaissance, Neoclassical, Enlightenment, Romanticism, Victorian Period
Who is Satan’s second in command, another demon in Pandemonium. (All in paradise lost)
Beezelbub
Who were the big 6?
Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Blake
What are the 6 types of imagery?
Visual (sight), auditory (hearing), Olfactory (smell), Kinesthetic (movement), gustatory (taste), tactile imagery (feel)
What was Yeats’ main takeaway from ”The Second Coming”?
There is an endless cycle of history in that the world is about to collapse and have a new rise of chaos and destruction.
What’s are three things that Gulliver’s Travels critiques?
English government, travel journals, reason, philosophers, religious differences