Unit 2 Review _ Brit Lit

Read the third quatrain of Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 130.”

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

In order to follow the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet correctly, what must follow this quatrain?

• a sestet

• an octave

• a fourth quatrain

• a rhyming couplet

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Read the first quatrain of "Amoretti III: The Sovereign Beauty” by Edmund Spenser.

The sovereign beauty which I do admire,

Witness the world how worthy to be praised:

The light whereof hath kindled heavenly fire

In my frail spirit, by her from baseness raised;

Which line from the quatrain best summarizes its central idea?

• The sovereign beauty which I do admire,

• Witness the world how worthy to be praised:

• The light whereof hath kindled heavenly fire

• In my frail spirit, by her from baseness raised;

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Anita was instructed to summarize Elizabethan Women. In order to do so, she should make sure the language she uses in her summary is

• amusing.

• biased.

• descriptive.

• objective.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Read the passage from Everyman.

EVERYMAN. Alack! shall we thus depart indeed?

Our Lady, help, without any more comfort,

Lo, Fellowship forsaketh me in my most need . . .

In the passage, the author develops the character of Everyman through...

• what he says.

• what he thinks.

• how other characters react to him.

• how he feels about other characters.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Utopia can be considered a ________ because the author uses humor, irony, and exaggeration in the story to criticize his society.

• characterization

• frame

• prologue

• satire

Read the lines from "Sonnet 292” by Petrarch.

The eyes I spoke of once in words that burn,

The arms and hands and feet and lovely face

That took me from myself for such a space

Of time and marked me out from other men;

The waving hair of unmixed gold that shone,

The smile that flashed with the angelic rays

That used to make this earth a paradise,

Are now a little dust, all feeling gone;

The best summary of the central idea is that the speaker is...

• loved a beautiful woman who has died.

• thinks constantly about a beautiful woman.

• was scorned by a woman who is too beautiful for him.

• abandoned his friends to spend time with a beautiful woman

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

If Kaya wanted to analyze the development of the central ideas in The Farewell Speech, which questions should she ask herself? Check all that apply.

• What are the central ideas of the text?

• Which central ideas interact or connect?

• Which central ideas are the most interesting?

• How does the author advance the central ideas?

• Which central ideas show a particular bias?

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

In The Farewell Speech, Queen Elizabeth’s use of first-person point of view to...

• helps her to appear to be impartial and objective.

• prevents her from addressing the audience directly.

• allows her to share her personal thoughts and ideas.

• makes it seem as though she’s observing from the outside

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Read the excerpt from "Morte d'Arthur" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

On one side lay the Ocean, and on one

Lay a great water, and the moon was full.

Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere:

What does the imagery in this excerpt best help readers envision?

• the chapel in the field

• King Arthur

• the vastness of the environment

• Sir Bedivere

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

Which passage from Ivanhoe contains an example of chivalry?

• Morning arose in unclouded splendour, and ere the sun was much above the horizon, the idlest or the most eager of the spectators appeared on the common, moving to the lists as to a general centre . . .

• The Saxon, indeed, had remonstrated strongly with his friend upon the injudicious choice he had made of his party; but he had only received that sort of answer usually given by those who are more obstinate in following their own course, than strong in justifying it.

• . . . Athelstane, confident of his strength, and to whom his flatterers, at least, ascribed great skill in arms, had determined not only to deprive the Disinherited Knight of his powerful succour, but, if an opportunity should occur, to make him feel the weight of his battle-axe.

• De Bracy, and other knights attached to Prince John, in obedience to a hint from him, had joined the party of the challengers, John being desirous to secure, if possible, the victory to that side.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9