British Literature: Unit 4 Test Review

British Literature: Unit 4 Test Review

by Mary Conway

Vocabulary to Know:

• ​semblance

• impediments

• hue

• hasting

• tempestuous

• heath

• defray

• myriad

• gall

Semblance

• ​outward appearance

Impediments

• ​obstacles

Hue

• ​shade or color

Multiple Choice

What word best matches this visual image example?

• Impediments

• Semblance

• Hue

Correct Answer: Semblance

• ​outward appearance

Hasting

• ​to move or act

Tempestuous

• relating to or resembling.

Heath

• ​barren, open country covered with small shrubs.

Multiple Choice

What word best matches this visual image example?

• Heath

• Tempestuous

• Hasting

Correct Answer: Heath

• ​barren, open country covered with small shrubs.

Defray

• ​pay a cost or expense

Myriad

• ​extremely large number

Gall

• ​bold behavior

Multiple Choice

What word best matches this visual image example?

• Gall

• Myriad

• Defray

Correct Answer: Myriad

• ​extremely large number

Read & Respond:

• ​The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd

• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

• Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29

• Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116

• Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130

• John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”

• ​John Donne’s Meditation 17

• Ben Jonson’s “On My First Son”

• Ben Jonson’s “Song: To Celia”

• John Milton’s “How Soon Hath Time”

• John Milton’s “When I consider How My Light Is Spent”

• John Milton’s Paradise Lost

• ​John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 10

​Theme

• A theme is the inferred stance taken on the central topic or message of a story.

​Theme

• Think love for example: love may be the topic, but learning to love yourself may be the theme.

​​The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

​BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

"Come live with me and be my love,

And we will all the pleasures prove,

That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,

Woods, or steepy mountain yields."

Open Ended

In the opening lines of "​​The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," What can you infer about the theme of the poem?

Drawing Conclusions

• Drawing conclusions refers to information that is implied or inferred.

Drawing Conclusions

• This means that the information is never clearly stated. Writers often tell you more than they say directly.

​​Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

​"For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings

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       That then I scorn to change my state with kings."

Open Ended

In the closing lines of "Sonnet 29," What can you best infer about the ending of the poem?

Open Ended