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Seniors ~ Final Exam

Below is a list of everything that will be on the final. Remember too that I have copies of your exams and quizzes. If you had come to class on Friday, you could have gotten those from me. Okay, okay, yes I know.

The List:

Geoffrey Chaucer & The Canterbury Tales
  • Context Info -- when, where, why (the contest)
  • Language of the collection (vernacular, iambic pentameter, couplet)
  • "The Prologue" -- dominant characters and traits
  • "The Pardoner's Tale" -- plot details, allegory
  • "The Wife of Bath's Tale" -- plot details, romantic quest
The Renaissance (top of page 200)
  • Rediscovering Ancient Greece & Rome
  • Reformation (rejection of papal authority)
  • Humanism (focus on human life, as well as eternal life)
  • Invention of movable type (Gutenberg)
  • Henry VIII -- Renaissance Man
  • Elizabeth I and her role as patron
Renaissance Poets
  • "Whoso List to Hunt" (Wyatt)
  • Edmund Spenser (sonnets, The Faerie Queen)
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (form and content)
  • Marlowe, and Raleigh's response
  • Carpe Diem poems (Herrick, Marvell)
  • John Donne (metaphysical poetry)
    • "Song"
    • "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
    • "Death Be Not Proud"
Shakespeare's Macbeth
  • Renaissance Theatre (Globe, etc)
  • Major characters, plot, language
King James Bible (1611): Purpose & Language
  • Genesis, Psalms, Parables
Milton's "Paradise Lost"

The exam should be around 75 multiple choice questions.

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