ENGLISH 2310 FINAL
EXAM STUDY GUIDE
GRADY FALL
2017
A. Terms you should be able to identify (6 of 9; 30%):
carpe diem
epic catalogue
epic simile
felix culpa
epicycle
Glorious
Revolution
heroic couplet
in medias res
mock epic
Oliver
Cromwell
prevenient grace
Restoration
The Spectator
typology
uxoriousness
Whigs
B. Passages you should be able to identify (6 of 9, roughly
60%)—they will be drawn from Paradise
Lost, Books 1-5, 8-10, 12, including supplementary passages; Pope’s Rape of the Lock; the poetry of Donne
(“The Canonization,” “The Indifferent,” “The Flea,” "A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning") and Marvell
(“To His Coy Mistress).
C. A surprise section worth 10 points!