Download ENGLISH LITERATURE SEMESTER EXAM REVIEW

ENGLISH LITERATURE SEMESTER EXAM REVIEW
Unit I: Anglo-Saxon Period
Anon.- Beowulf
Bede- "History of the English Church and People"
Anon.- "The Seafarer"
Medieval Period
Geoffrey Chaucer- The Canterbury Tales
•plot
•characters
•themes
•literary elements
1. Prologue
2. Pardoner's Tale
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur"
Medieval life
•Feudalism
*class distinction (people and where they lived)
*feudal system
*Peasant's Revolt
•Chivalry
Famous Rulers
•William the Conqueror
•Thomas A Beckett
Church, Monastery/Christianity
•importance and role of religion
War, Crusades, Weaponry
•Battle of Hastings--William the Conqueror
*Normans (location origin)
*Saxons (location origin)
•War of the Roses
•Hundred Years' War
•The Crusades
Politics
•royal vs. Ecclesiastical
•Common Law
•Magna Carta
The "Middle Class" Life
•guilds/trades
*Black Plague
The Arts (art, music, literature, architecture)
Unit II: Renaissance, Restoration, and Poetry
Jacobean, Elizabethan, Puritan eras
°rulers
Humanism
James I
England's Civil War (1642)
Restoration History/Jonathan Swift
Glorious Revolution
Eighteenth Century life
Age of Johnson
Jonathan Swift--life and works
"A Modest Proposal"
"Voyage to Lilliput"
"Voyage to Brobdingnag"
“Diary of Samuel Pepys”
Poems:
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
"To His Coy Mistress"
“The Chimney Sweeper”
“Telephone Conversation”
“Dulce et Decorum Est”
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Macbeth
•plot
•characters
•themes
•literary elements/Shakespeare's style
•quotes
Unit III: Romanticism
Social Values
Major Historical Events
Literary Criticism & Examples
-Biographical
-Historical
-Gender
-Marxist
-Reader response
Literary Elements
-Imagery
-Simile/Metaphor
-Personification
-Symbolism
-Allusion
-Foreshadowing
-Irony
-Point of view
-Mood
Frankenstein – Shelley
•author background
•plot
•characters
•themes
•style
•quotes
Unit V: Victorian Age
Life in the Victorian Era
°men
°women
°children
°workers
°major writers
First Reform Bill (1832)
Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
•author background
•plot
•characters
•themes
•literary elements
•Satire