ENG 3331 Midterm Review

Ignorant makes it into the Celestial City at the end of Pilgrim's Progress

"O, I have ta'en / Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp / Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel."

What is Aemelia Lanyer's argument?

Let none admire / That riches grow in Hell; that soil may best / Deserve the precious bane.

The man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on, crying "Life! Life! Eternal Life!"

What is Pulter's "The Wish" about?

Then he took him by the hand, and led him into a very large Parlour that was full of dust.

What's the meter?

Busy old fool, unruly sun, / Why dost thou thus . . .

for, I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree/ Giving to Adam what she held most dear/ Was simply good

"O dear father, / It is thy business that I go about"

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not / So long as we can say, "This is the worst."

Dr. Calloway will give partial credit for partially correct answers.

Whose fault is the fall in Paradise Lost?

Which female author did we NOT read this term?

Prayer, the church's banquet, angels' age, / God's breath in man returning to his birth;

as I pulled it came and so I penned/It down until it came at last to be/For length and breadth the bigness which you see

The questions on the exam will be true/false or multiple choice, just like this Quiz.

I made him just and right, / Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

This flea is you and I, and this / Our marriage bed and marriage temple is;

That be from thee far, / That far be from thee

Can it be sin to know? / Can it be death? And do they only stand / by ignorance?

Who blinds Gloucester?

What's the meter?

The serpent in Paradise Lost is evil.

But at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near

Who kept punching Faithful down?

There I should see a Sun, by rising set, / And by that setting endless day beget;

Death, be not proud . . . Death thou shalt die.

Thy firmness makes my circle just / And makes me end where I begun.