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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