ENG 231 review

What literary figure is the movie The Libertine about?

Which concept is central to the Prologue and Tale of the Wife of Bath?

What was Marlowe’s source for Doctor Faustus?

From what language do we get the word ‘sonnet’ and what does it mean?

What concept is defined as “emotional responsiveness to beauty and sublimity in nature and art”?

Who illustrated the famous 1866 edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost?

How many books are there in The Faerie Queene by Spenser?

Who was the first official British poet laureate?

Which manuscript contains Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?

Which of the following is not a traditional subject matter of medieval romances?

Approximately how many words did Shakespeare use?

Which of the following texts are not included in the Beowulf Manuscript?

Which of the following works is not by Geoffrey Chaucer?

What’s another name for the pastoral?

Where is the Venerable Bede buried?

What is the genre of the poem Lanval by Marie de France?

Who was the first poet known by name in English literature?

What do literary critics typically use to mark the end of Augustanism?

Which of the following texts is not a product of the Alliterative Revival of the late 14th century?

What do you call a medieval play that depicts short biblical stories with additional scenes and dialogues?