12th Grade Lit (Brit) Midterm

Is the repetition of an idea in different words with the same grammatical form.

• periphrastic epithet

• variation

• expression

• kenning

A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national hero is known as an

• genres

• didactic

• epic

• examination

In the Elizabethan age of heroes, one of the most widely admired figures of the flesh-and-blood variety was

• Daniel Defoe

• James Boswell

• Robert Burns

• Sir Philip Sidney

The Stuart Period

• 450-1100

• 1603-1688

• 1485-1603

• 1789-1832

In this poem the central figure is a pilgrim from life.

• The Pilgrimage

• Divine Poems

• The Pilgrim's Progress

• Parable of the Wicked Mammon

Baxter’s first book and the one for which he became best known.

• The Wife of Usher’s Well

• The Rambler

• The Saints’ Everlasting Rest

• Paradise Lost

This prayer for restoration of fellowship associates spiritual and poetic disorder.

• Sermons

• Redemption

• Virtue

• Denial

The writer of the finest devotional poetry in English was a country parson but, like the later Donne, a man of fervent piety.

• George Herbert

• John Wycliffe

• Sir Thomas More

• William Tyndale

The most learned of the major English poets was born in London in 1608 when Shakespeare was still writing plays and the King James revisers had just begun their work.

• William Wordsworth

• John Milton

• James Thomson

• Isaac Watts

On My First Son

• Sir Francis Bacon

• John Foxe

• Ben Jonson

• George Herbert