BritLit Recap 1.2

Question 1

The transition between Puritan and Restoration Period is marked by:

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change of monarch

Question 2

The fact that in A Midsummer Night’s Dream three different groups are merged and interact is an example of:

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syncretism

Question 3

The type of drama that focuses on describing complex social relation between people of upper, fancy classes is called:

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comedy of manners

Question 4

King Lear’s blindness to true love and greed toward niceties is his:

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hubris

Question 5

The Poet in Sonnets by Shakespeare does NOT consider the idea of:

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repentance

Question 6

Referring to a subject by mentioning a part of it or a larger entity it belongs to is called:

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synecdoche

Question 7

Subplots often include characters of lower social status. In King Lear these are:

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Gloucester and sons

Question 8

The dramatis persona from Shakespeare’s Sonnets who is associated with the idea of Platonic, pure love is called:

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the Fair Young Man

Question 9

A monologue in drama said when no other characters are present is called:

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soliloquy

Question 10

The FALSE feature of an English sonnet is:

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the fact that Petrarch used it

Question 11

The ultimate winner in The Country Wife, who was unscrupulous, was:

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Harry Horner

Question 12

King Lear’s faithful and loving daughter’s name was:

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Cordelia

Question 13

The whole plot of Harry Horner in The Country Wife was based on him being presumably:

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impotent

Question 14

Surprising idea, connecting two seemingly different themes and showing parallels between them is called

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conceit

Question 15

The British monarch who supported William Shakespeare’s writing was:

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James I

Question 16

A piece of writing about lazy atmosphere of the countryside, idealizing living outside the city is called:

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idyll

Question 17

Satan aimed to destroy the mankind, and thus he might be seen as:

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an anti-hero

Question 18

Blank verse is made of:

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unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 19

By including both spiritual love, temple, and Trinity; with explicit sexual undertones, John Donne mixed:

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sacrum and profanum

Question 20

The conceit in The Collar by George Herbert is based on:

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multiple meanings of the word collar

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