Study Guide

Know the following terms:

Ethos

Pathos

Logos

Allusion
Alliteration

Metaphyscial Poetry

Conceit

Paradox

Carpe diem

Parallelsim
Metaphor

Reread ALL of the selections. There are 20 quote ids. You need to re-read to be prepared for these.

Know background about the Restoration Period (study powerpoint notes and Turbulent Times Handout)

  • Names of the restoration period
  • Influences on the restoration period
  • History of the restoration period (kings, civil war, leaders, etc)
  • Why is it called the restoration period (3 reasons)
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  • Important genres of the restoration period

Study your questions over Paradise Lost-know the major, important facts about John Milton

  1. Summarize the story of Adam and Eve as Milton tells it in lines 28-36. How is the fall of Adam and Eve connected to the fall of Satan and his cohorts?
  1. In lines 34-49, Milton describes Satan. What motivates Satan’s actions in this poem?
  1. What does the image of hell—flames that cast no light, darkness that illuminates only horror—represent or symbolize?
  1. Satan says in line 106 that “All is not lost,” and in lines 120-24 he tells Beelzebub that they must use “guile” to fight God in the future.Beginning with line 156, what work does Satan tell Beelzebub that they and the fallen angels must do?
  1. What do lines 254-55 mean (the mind can “make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven”?

Valediction Forbidding Mourning

  • What are the metaphors the speaker uses? *Use your pictures
  • What is the main conceit in the poem?
  • What are dull sublunary lovers? Why can they not stand to be apart? How is the speaker and his love different?

Meditation 17

  • What is the major theme in this selection?

1.What does Donne mean when he says, “When she [the church] baptizes a child, that action concerns me…and when she [the church] buries a man, that actions concerns me”?

2.In the extended metaphor beginning with “All mankind is of one author…” what two things does Donne compare? What is his point?

3.What does Donne mean by the metaphor, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main?”

4.Donne writes, “If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is less.” Is a continent diminished by the loss of a single clump of dirt? What does this hyperbole (exaggeration) mean?

5.In Donne’s metaphor, when does the “treasure” of affliction turn into “current [spendable] money”?

6.Why does Donne find affliction valuable?

7. In what sense does the tolling bell “apply” one person’s affliction to another?

8.Donne suggests that one shouldn’t ask for whom the bell tolls, because it “tolls for thee.” Give two possible interpretations for this statement.

To His Coy Mistress *RE-READ THE POEM

  • What are the main metaphors in this poem? *Use your pictures
  • What do these metaphors mean?

Good Morrow

  1. What are the main metaphors in this poem?
  1. Comment on the poet's expression, "Were we not wean'd till then?" What does this mean?
  1. Identify the various language devices used in this opening stanza. (4)
  1. What does the speaker mean when he says that love “makes one little room an everywhere?”
  1. What is meant by the two "hemispheres"?
  1. What does the poet mean when he says that these two hemispheres are "without sharp north, without declining west"?
  1. Paraphrase "If our two loves be one, or thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die."