English 12: Brit Lit Review

What is Grendel's Mother's name?

Which Type of Hero: An ordinary person thrust into extraordinary circumstances

A superhuman hero, often descended from nobility or deities

The most faithful of the pilgrims. The model of what a member of the clergy should be

Plays the Hurdy-Gurdy, likes to give knives to pretty girls for some reason

Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

Sublime is:

What kind of bird the ancient mariner kill?

Corrupt and effeminate. Sells fake religious relics

She's had 5 husband and when the 5th dies she'll take another:

What is a word-hoard?

Seemingly ordinary, until they are revealed to possess a great gift or skill making them a 'chosen one'

Who wrote it: Tyger, Tyger burning bright. In the forest of the night

Author of "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and noted opium afficianado

Who said: "Is this a dagger which I see before me? The handle towards my hand?"

Who wrote it: I wandered lonley as a cloud that floats on high o'er hills and vales

Middle English was spoken during roughly what time period:

After defeating Grendel, what is displayed in the mead hall:

Who said: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes

Who were the original inhabitants of the British Isles?

His introduction to Lyrical Ballads can be seen as a mission statement for Romanticism as a whole.

The Period of Anglo-Saxon England began roughly:

Seminal figure of Romanticism, known for his Songs of Innocence ("the Lamb") and Experience ("the Tyger")

Shakespeare is known to write in what meter?

Literary and intellectual movement placing emphasis on nature, strong emotions, and the sublime

The world is too much with us; late and soon,[...] we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is ours

Who is the author of Beowulf?

The Wife of Bath is married to a guy named Bath

A Hero with a single, fatal flaw that leads to their downfall

Who said: Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

How many lines in a sonnet?

A Shakespearan Sonnet consit of 3 _______ and 1 __________

What time of year does the pilgrimage take place in the Canterbury Tales?

How does Beowulf ultimately die?

Why is Iambic Pentameter such a common meter in the English language?

Who said it: "Out Damned Spot!"

A compound word used in Old English poetry to convey metaphorical meaning:

Middle English emerged primarily from the influence of what dialect-language on Old English

Who seeks to avenge Grendel's death?

Byron, Shelley, and Keats were often collectively referred to as:

Big, loud, bawdy. Drunkenly interupts following the Knight's tale in order to tell a dirty story

Who said: MacDuff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped!

Most romantic death of the romantics (drowned during storm), atheist, his wife wrote Frankenstein

"She walks in Beauty, like the night. Of cloudless climes and starry skies"

What event occurred in 1066 which led to the shift from Old English to Middle English?

Humble in appearance, noble in character; the epitome of chivalry

What two 18th century events was Romanticism a reaction to?

A protagonist whose characteristics place him more in line with that of a villain:

Who said it: It is a tale told by an idiot; full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

How many pilgrims in the Canterbury tales?

What category are some of Shakespeare's later comedic works designated as?

What are the 3 main categories of Shakespeare's plays

Who wrote it: "Water, Water, everywhere and not a drop to drink!"

Who wrote it: "I am Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works ye might and despair!"

His face covered in boils, bad breath, children are afraid of him. As corrupt as he is ugly. Speaks Latin when drunk.