ENGLISH 2310 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE II

GRADY FALL 2017

I. Terms you should be able to identify in 1-2 sentences (4 of 7; 20%):

blank verse

blazon

conceit

First Folio

Humanism

iambic pentameter

machiavel

mystery play

Nahum Tate

Petrarch

quarto

sprezzatura

the Theatre

Wheel of Fortune

II. Passages: supply four or five sentences on three passages, in which you name the work from which the passage is drawn, note the speaker and the situation, and describe the significance of the passage in its context—its thematic or literary or philosophical or generic or structural or other importance 30%). Six passages will appear, drawn from among these eligible texts: Abraham and Isaac, King Lear, The Defence of Poesy, and sonnets by Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wroth (35%).