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Independent Learning Quiz

____________1. It is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original
manuscript of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the
Great.
____________2. It is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the
Norman Conquest. More than 3,000 lines long, it relates the exploits of its eponymous hero, and his successive
battles with a monster named Grendel, with Grendel’s revengeful mother, and with a dragon which was guarding a
hoard of treasure.
____________3. It is a short Old English poem attributed to Cædmon, a supposedly illiterate and unmusical cow-
herder who was, according to the Northumbrian monk Bede, miraculously empowered to sing in honour of God the
Creator.
____________4.It is one of the Christian poems in the corpus of Old English literature and an example of the genre of
dream poetry. Like most Old English poetry, it is written in alliterative verse. Rood is from the Old English word rōd
'pole', or more specifically 'crucifix'.
____________5. It was written by Venerable Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches in England,
and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between the pre-Schism Roman Rite and Celtic Christianity.
____________6. It is composed of 122 lines, is a versified martyrology describing the mission and death of each of
the Twelve Apostles. Christ II (The Ascension) is a lyrical version of a homily on the Ascension written by Pope
Gregory I the Great. It is part of a trilogy on Christ by different authors.
____________7. It is an Old English poem. It is preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a historical record of events
in Anglo-Saxon England which was kept from the late ninth to the mid-twelfth century.
____________8. It is the name given to an Old English poem of uncertain date celebrating the real Battle of Maldon
of 991, at which an Anglo-Saxon army failed to repulse a Viking raid. Only 325 lines of the poem are extant; both the
beginning and the ending are lost
____________9. It is a lyric poem composed of 115 lines of alliterative verse that reminisces a wanderer’s past
(meditations of a solitary exile on his past ).

B. Middle English Period

___________1. It is a form of extended metaphor in which objects and persons within a narrative are equated with
meanings that lie outside the narrative itself.
___________2. 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by
Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were
published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.
___________3. It is an English morality play of the 15th century, probably a version of a Dutch play, Elckerlyc. It
achieves a beautiful, simple solemnity in treating allegorically the theme of death and the fate of the human soul—of
Everyman's soul as he tries to justify his time on earth.
___________4. Thomas Malory’s creation which describes the legendary court of King Arthur, is one of the great
explorations of the culture of chivalry. It depicts a world of courtesy, duty and obligation, but it also exposes the dark
underbelly of this same culture.
___________5. It is a literary genre comprised of fictional works of chivalry and adventures from the Middle Ages.
Works in the genre were widely popular and typically belonged to one of three cycles, or groups of tales based on
the same frame story.
___________6. It is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English. The author is unknown; the title was
given centuries later.
___________7. It is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by
Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus.

C. The Renaissance (16th Century)

__________1. According to the Renaissance view, ________ rebels against the limitations of medieval knowledge
and the restriction put upon humankind decreeing that he must accept his place in the universe without challenging
it.
__________2. These sonnets are composed of 14 lines, and most are divided into three quatrains and a final,
concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg.
__________3. Cowards die many time before their death. Whose line is this?
__________4. It is a short monologue in which a lover addresses his lady in an effort to encourage her to express her
love for him.
__________5. It is an epic poem by Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599), which follows the adventures of a number of
medieval knights. The poem, written in a deliberately archaic style, draws on history and myth, particularly the
legends of Arthur.
__________6.In 1611, the new British state headed by King James I issued its translation of the complete Bible,
"newly translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.
What version of bible is this.
__________7. It is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia.
__________8. William Shakespeare’s narrative poem _____________ is deeply influenced by the basium. By
employing and subverting the main motifs of kiss poetry, Shakespeare positions himself in between two poetic
traditions: one that is plaintive, chaste, and normally associated with Petrarch and his legacy, and one that is more
sensual and uninhibitedly corporeal, made popular in the sixteenth century by Neo-Latin and French poets.
__________9. He is an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English
language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"

D. The Age of Reason (17th Century)

______________1. Cavalier Poems Popularized by Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, Sir John Suckling and Robert
Herrick, these poems are known for their elegant, refined, and courtly culture. The poem are often erotic and spouse
carpe diem, “size the day”
_______________2. Easter Wings and the Altar (George Herbert) is a concrete poems that deal with man’s thirst for
God and with God’s abounding love.
______________3. He is the Father of inductive reasoning and the Father of English Essays
_______________4. It is also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets—are a series of nineteen poems by
the English poet John Donne. The sonnets were first published in 1633—two years after Donne's death.
_______________5. It makes use of conceits or far-fetched similarities and metaphors intended to startle the reader
into an awareness of the relationships among things ordinarily not associated.
_______________6. These controversial epic poems demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound,
classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in profound explorations of the moral problems of God's justice-and
what it truly means to be human.
______________7. It is written by Francis Bacon in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the
epigrammatic.
______________8. It is a religious allegory by the English writer John Bunyan, published in two parts in 1678 and
1684. The work is a symbolic vision of the good man’s pilgrimage through life.

E. The Restoration (18th Century)

______________1.He was a pope who was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is
considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.
______________2. It is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope, published in 1711.
It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human; to forgive, divine", "A little learning is a dang'rous thing",
and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".
______________3. It is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. The poem's origins
are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742.
_______________4. He was an English novelist, irony writer, and dramatist known for earthy humour and satire. His
comic novel Tom Jones is still widely appreciated. He and Samuel Richardson are seen as founders of the traditional
English novel.
_______________5. He was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and Anglican cleric
who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
_______________6. He was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric who wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs,
and indulged in local politics.

_______________7. He was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is best known for his novel
The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops
to Conquer.

______________8. The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. One of the
most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous
Poems
______________9. He was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College,
Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.

Note: Wait for the release of the key to corrections, then check your own work and assess whether you learned
something from this portion of the lesson. Be honest and responsible.