English Literature Second Semester Exam Review

Question 1

Who set up the Royal Society?

Accepted Answer

Charles II

Question 2

Which author is well known for using satire?

Accepted Answer

Jonathan Swift

Question 3

By the end of the 1700's, what changes with literature?

Accepted Answer

Writing had become a profession

Question 4

In "Rape of the Lock", time is set by what?

Accepted Answer

Referencing Queen Anne

Question 5

What is Orwell BEST known for?

Accepted Answer

Composing didactic works

Question 6

A poem written in praise of someone who has passed and more for the person left behind

Accepted Answer

Elegy

Question 7

Which piece is written in first person and was criticized for being a fictional account?

Accepted Answer

"Journal of the Plague Year" by Defoe

Question 8

A positive or negative realization in which a character grow or changes as a result

Accepted Answer

Epiphany

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a form of art that rose from modernism?

Accepted Answer

Impressionism

Question 10

What is it when the speaker directly addresses the subject in literature?

Accepted Answer

Apostrophe

Question 11

What is an extended metaphor called?

Accepted Answer

Conceit

Question 12

Wrote in dialect, appealed to the lower classes, and is considered the Scottish national poet?

Accepted Answer

Robert Burns

Question 13

Which author is famous for using epiphanies?

Accepted Answer

James Joyce

Question 14

Wrote an authentic biography that contained both negative and positive aspects about person

Accepted Answer

James Boswell

Question 15

Which writers composed elegies?

Accepted Answer

Tennyson and Auden

Question 16

Which is the most lasting style of literature?

Accepted Answer

Realism

Question 17

Which of the following authors did not use dialect?

Accepted Answer

Percy Shelley

Question 18

A clever statement that has a deeper meaning is called what?

Accepted Answer

Epigram

Question 19

Which authors used dramatic monologues?

Accepted Answer

Eliot and Browning

Question 20

Which piece uses an apostrophe?

Accepted Answer

"On My First Son" by Jonson

Question 21

Which author died young, was a prolific poet, and was from the second generation?

Accepted Answer

Keats

Question 22

Why was political commentary no longer considered defiant?

Accepted Answer

The people had more control and there was parliamentary rule

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