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ENL1000 – English Literature Midterm Exam Name: Date: Section A. Match the proper description(s) with the corresponding text. Note: some texts will require more than one description, but each description will only be used once. (4 points each) 1. Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale” J, I 2. Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”: F 3. Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”: A, I 4. Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”: H 5. Beowulf : C, E 6. Milton’s “L’Allegro”: B 7. Milton’s “Il Penseroso”: G 8. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”: D, K A. This would be the most appropriate text for Valentine’s Day; it is conventionally romantic (lower case “r”). B. Describes a “glass-half-full,” optimistic person. C. The absolute oldest text we have read so far this term; this text is so old that we are not even quite sure exactly who wrote it. D. A satirical essay written by a famed satirist; intended to criticize governmental greed and corruption. E. Much like The Odyssey, Dante’s Inferno , and Paradise Lost , this text is completely and thoroughly epic. F. This text would be most proud of the “Women’s suffrage” movement. (Hint: Women’s suffrage is the right for women to vote in elections.) G. Describes a “glass-half-empty,” pessimistic person. H. Written by an individual who is actually better known for his political service rather than his poetry; you are more likely to encounter this individual in a history class versus a literature class. I. This poem is about love but would likely rolls its eyes at overly-sentimental romantic movies like Titanic . J. This text is all about hypocrisy; something about something being the root of all something. K. Chronologically, the “newest” text we read this term; or in other words, this text was written after everything else from the list above. L. Includes the literary device known as personification.

Section B. Match the proper description(s) with the corresponding poem. Some poems will require more than one description, but each description will only be used once. (4 points each) 9. Blake’s “The Tyger”: C, H, K 10. Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”: A, I 11. Keats’s “Sonnet to Sleep”: E, M 12. Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty”: B, F 13. Byron’s “So we’ll go no more a-roving”: D, J 14. Gray’s “Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat”: G, L A. Fixation on an inanimate object (Hint: “inanimate” means non-living, inorganic.) B. Fixation on an animate, two-legged object C. Fixation on an animate, four-legged, potentially-violent object D. Marriage. Kids. Mortgage. Gated, suburban community. Full-time career. Attending parent/teacher meetings. Driving to Home Depot on a Saturday to buy a new widget to fix the broken washing machine. E. Within this poem’s quatrains, you will find the literary device known as personification. F. Extreme contrast between light and dark, all of which comes to a dazzling collision in her eyes. G. More so than all of the other texts listed above, this poem attempts to convey a bit of lightheartedness and sense of humor. H. Considering what we know about this text’s author, he would probably have appreciated The Amazing Spider-Man , The Incredible Hulk , The Uncanny X-Men, and other artistic mediums like comic books that combine both words and drawings. I. Artwork is the key to immortality. Write or sing or paint or build something outstanding and you will be remembered for all eternity; echoes much of the same sentiment as Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. J. Title includes a euphemism for sexual intercourse. (Note: euphemisms are mild or indirect words that substitute for harsher, blunter, more offensive words.) K. Here’s an interesting dilemma: if an artist creates a work of art that is sinister or deadly or cruel, doesn’t that also suggest that the artist himself or herself is also sinister or deadly or cruel? L. Criticizes the characteristics of vanity and narcissism; if you are too in love with yourself, bad things can (and likely will) happen. M. Judging from just the title alone, you already know this poem will have fourteen total lines, each ten syllables long with accents falling on every second syllable (another hint: Zzzzzzz).

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