Abeka 12th grade English Literature /Grammar Test 1

Poetry

The first literature of the Anglo-Saxons

Death

Surprised Everyman with a visit at the beginning

Good-deeds

Friend of Everyman who was willing to go with him at the end

Dragon

The last enemy that Beowulf slays

Caedmon

First poet whose name is known

John Wycliff

Father of English Prose

Pearl Poet

Author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

"The Pardoner's Tale"

Theme of love and money is the root of all evil

Everyman

Subject of the hour of death

It was caught by a hand.

What happened when the sword Excalibur was thrown into the water

Popular ballad

Short, narrative folk song

Pageant

a movable stage, platform, or scaffold upon which medieval dramas were performed

Miracle play

play based upon legends of the saints

Medieval romance

based upon the adventures of knights

Mystery play

Play based upon biblical subjects

Exemplum

a short tale or anecdote told to teach a lesson

Kenning

Strong metaphorical expression

Accent

Stresses certain syllables or words

Caesura

A pause or sudden break in a line of poetry

"Bonny Barbara Allan"

Sir John Graeme

"The Cherry-Tree Carol"

Mary and Joseph

Beowulf

Wiglaf

Morte Darthur

King Arthur

Beowulf

Hrothgar

Morte Darthur

Sir Bedivere

"The Pardoner's Tale"

Three men looking for death

Sir Thomas Malory

Author of Morte Darthur

The Venerable Bede

Author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Geoffrey Chaucer

Author of The Canterbury Tales

Scop

Anglo-Saxon poet

Beowulf

Greatest Anglo-Saxon poem

"The Seafarer"

Poem showing irony of seaman longing for the sea despite the hardships

"Bookworm"

Poem showing that a worm can destroy the words of great men

Bonny Barbara Allan

"Since my love died for me to-day, I'll die for him to-morrow."

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

"I charge thee, to receive such a blow as thou has dealt. Thou deserves to be promptly paid on New Year's Morn."

"Get Up and Bar the Door"

"They made a paction tween them twa, they made it firm and sure."

The Canterbury Tales

"At night there came into that hostelry Full nine and twenty in a company Of sundry folk, by chance together there."

Essay in good paragraph form.

Give the four traditional qualities of an epic. Include the title of the oldest surviving epic of any Germanic people, and explain how the main character of that epic exemplifies an Anglo-Saxon hero.

1. Prep; 2. Adj; 3. Adj; 4. Pro; 5. Prep; 6. N; 7. Pro; 8. N; 9. Adv.; 10. Conj; 11. V; 12. N

(1) During the Victoriano Era, the (2) greatest reforms in England had been brought about by concerned (3) Christian individuals (4) who took (5) upon themselves the responsibility of (6) helping people who were indeed. The political reformers at the end of the nineteenth century had concerned (7) themselves with reforms toward political freedom and freedom of (8) thought and speech and had (9) carefully refrained from intervening in the private affairs of individuals and families. (10) As the twentieth century (11) dawned, powerful forces were at (12) work to bring about a different kind of reform.

PN

"Until we meet again" is the meaning of what German phrase?

OC

I found the assignment difficult to understand.

DO

Could you understand his account of the incident?

IO

The principal gave Chloe a plaque for her outstanding performance in debate.

PA

Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. —Rom. 12:9

Predicate

says something about the subject

Complex sentence

Contains one main clause and one or more dependent clauses

Conjunction

joins words or groups of words

complement

Completes the meaning begun by the subject and verb

Interjection

Is used as an exclamatory word

Preposition

Shows how a noun or pronoun is related to some other word in the sentence

Pronoun

Takes the place of a noun

Objective complement

Is sometimes needed in additional to the direct object to complete the sense of the verb

Imperative sentence

Gives a command or makes a request

Adverb

May modify an adjective