CSET English Subtest 1 Actual 2026
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Arthur Miller (1940s-2000s) "The Death of a Salesman" depicted a man
whose failure made him feel like an outcast.
Alexander Pope (1709-1738) English poet, known for his satirical verse, "Rape of
the Lock", "An Essay on Man", "The Dunciad"
Classical Period 1200bc - 455ce
Forms: lyric poetry, greek drama (tragedy, comedy)(chorus,
deus ex machina)
Themes: life/death, morality, season changes, political
commentary, satire, Greek mythology, Greek wars, Greek
Gods, Roman life
Homer (Greek) The Iliad and The Odyssey: epic poems, using formal verse
and celebrating the achievements of kings and gods.
The Epic of Gilgamesh Epic story of a Sumerian King Gilgamesh
,Beowulf An epic tale of an Anglo-Saxon warrior whose goal is to live
immortally through fame and glory. The epic tells a story of
his victorious battle with Grendel and Grendel's mother that
made him king to his final battle against a powerful dragon
that
caused his death and fame
Greek Authors Homer, Sophocles, Aesop
Ovid Latin
"Metamorphoses" and "Ares Amatora"
Horace Roman Lyric Poet. 65 BC-8 BC. Latin
"Ode"
Middle Ages and Medieval Period c.500ce - c.1485ce (15th century and early)
Themes: honor, duty, and God (mortality and purpose in
religious term) A lot of allegorical stories and poems.
Geoffery Chaucer 1380 English writer
"Canterbury Tales" written in heroic couplets (pair of
rhyming lines in iambic pentameter)
Dante Alighieri 1321
"The Devine Comedy" an epic allegory in Italian about Dante's
journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven (Inferno,
Purgatorio, Paradiso)
Petrarch 1350
"Canzoiere" sonnet about the love for a woman name
Laura. "Petrarch Sonnets" Italian poet. Originally
developer of
sonnets (14 lines 2 quatrains with rhyme scheme ABBA 6 verse
with rhyming pairs)
The Summoning of Everyman c.1400
(aka: Everyman) Unknown author. Famous medieval mortality drama
Renaissance Period 1550-1660 (16th century)
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Characteristics: Literary works describe and rationalized the
meaning of class structure and social hierarchy of feudalism.
Edmund Spenser English. Neo-classical. 1569
"Faire Queene" longest poem for Queen Elizabeth
John Donne English. "The Flea" (1600) famous for metaphysical poetry.
Metaphysical Poetry Early to mid 1600s poets uses outrageous metaphor,
extended comparison and subtle wit to explore
fundamental nature of reality and humanity's place in it
, William Shakespeare "The Tempest" (Caliban an oppressed slave), "Mids Summer
Night", "Macbeth", "Shakespear Sonnets" (14 lines 3 quatrains
ABAB closing couplets)
Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes 1605
"Don Quixote" his classic story of a man whose reading of
novels about chivalry leads him to set out on his own knightly
quests. One of the most famous parody novel
Christopher Marlow "Tamburlaine", "Doctor Faustus", "Edward II"
Thomas Middleton English. birth 1580-death 1627. "The Changeling" famous
Jacobean revenge play
Ben Jonson "Bartholomew Fair", "Every Man in His Humour"
Metaphysical Poetry Early to mid 1600s poets uses outrageous metaphor,
extended comparison and subtle wit to explore
fundamental nature of reality and humanity's place in it
John Milton "Paradise Lost"(1671) long poem about Satan banishment from
Heaven. Theme that mankind has fallen from God's grace.
Purpose for the work is to "justify the ways of God to man"
John Bunyon English, Christian allegory, sermons. "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678)
Christian allegory of mankind's journey from the City of
Destruction to the Celestial City.
John Dryden Restoration England, Age of Dryden. "Mac Flecknoe" (1682)
famous for establishing heroic couplets (pair of rhyming lines
with iambic pentameter) in poetry and formally named
England's first "Poet Laureate"
Samuel Johnson "A Dictionary of the English Language" (1755)
Jonathan Swift 1700's -1720's, Irish satirist, "A Tale of a Tub"(1704), Gulliver's
Travels, A Modest Proposal
Pierre Corneille French Neoclassical, 17th century dramatist
"El Cid", a tragicomedy, where a Spanish knight is town
between his love for a girl and his self-imposed duty to take
revenge on her father, this work meant to defy the classical
tragedy/comedy distinction
Moliere French Neoclassical, 1645-1673, playwright, actor and poet,
widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the
French language and universal literature
"The Misanthrope", satirized the hypocrisy of French moralists
and religious leaders
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Terms in this set (219)
Arthur Miller (1940s-2000s) "The Death of a Salesman" depicted a man
whose failure made him feel like an outcast.
Alexander Pope (1709-1738) English poet, known for his satirical verse, "Rape of
the Lock", "An Essay on Man", "The Dunciad"
Classical Period 1200bc - 455ce
Forms: lyric poetry, greek drama (tragedy, comedy)(chorus,
deus ex machina)
Themes: life/death, morality, season changes, political
commentary, satire, Greek mythology, Greek wars, Greek
Gods, Roman life
Homer (Greek) The Iliad and The Odyssey: epic poems, using formal verse
and celebrating the achievements of kings and gods.
The Epic of Gilgamesh Epic story of a Sumerian King Gilgamesh
,Beowulf An epic tale of an Anglo-Saxon warrior whose goal is to live
immortally through fame and glory. The epic tells a story of
his victorious battle with Grendel and Grendel's mother that
made him king to his final battle against a powerful dragon
that
caused his death and fame
Greek Authors Homer, Sophocles, Aesop
Ovid Latin
"Metamorphoses" and "Ares Amatora"
Horace Roman Lyric Poet. 65 BC-8 BC. Latin
"Ode"
Middle Ages and Medieval Period c.500ce - c.1485ce (15th century and early)
Themes: honor, duty, and God (mortality and purpose in
religious term) A lot of allegorical stories and poems.
Geoffery Chaucer 1380 English writer
"Canterbury Tales" written in heroic couplets (pair of
rhyming lines in iambic pentameter)
Dante Alighieri 1321
"The Devine Comedy" an epic allegory in Italian about Dante's
journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven (Inferno,
Purgatorio, Paradiso)
Petrarch 1350
"Canzoiere" sonnet about the love for a woman name
Laura. "Petrarch Sonnets" Italian poet. Originally
developer of
sonnets (14 lines 2 quatrains with rhyme scheme ABBA 6 verse
with rhyming pairs)
The Summoning of Everyman c.1400
(aka: Everyman) Unknown author. Famous medieval mortality drama
Renaissance Period 1550-1660 (16th century)
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Characteristics: Literary works describe and rationalized the
meaning of class structure and social hierarchy of feudalism.
Edmund Spenser English. Neo-classical. 1569
"Faire Queene" longest poem for Queen Elizabeth
John Donne English. "The Flea" (1600) famous for metaphysical poetry.
Metaphysical Poetry Early to mid 1600s poets uses outrageous metaphor,
extended comparison and subtle wit to explore
fundamental nature of reality and humanity's place in it
, William Shakespeare "The Tempest" (Caliban an oppressed slave), "Mids Summer
Night", "Macbeth", "Shakespear Sonnets" (14 lines 3 quatrains
ABAB closing couplets)
Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes 1605
"Don Quixote" his classic story of a man whose reading of
novels about chivalry leads him to set out on his own knightly
quests. One of the most famous parody novel
Christopher Marlow "Tamburlaine", "Doctor Faustus", "Edward II"
Thomas Middleton English. birth 1580-death 1627. "The Changeling" famous
Jacobean revenge play
Ben Jonson "Bartholomew Fair", "Every Man in His Humour"
Metaphysical Poetry Early to mid 1600s poets uses outrageous metaphor,
extended comparison and subtle wit to explore
fundamental nature of reality and humanity's place in it
John Milton "Paradise Lost"(1671) long poem about Satan banishment from
Heaven. Theme that mankind has fallen from God's grace.
Purpose for the work is to "justify the ways of God to man"
John Bunyon English, Christian allegory, sermons. "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678)
Christian allegory of mankind's journey from the City of
Destruction to the Celestial City.
John Dryden Restoration England, Age of Dryden. "Mac Flecknoe" (1682)
famous for establishing heroic couplets (pair of rhyming lines
with iambic pentameter) in poetry and formally named
England's first "Poet Laureate"
Samuel Johnson "A Dictionary of the English Language" (1755)
Jonathan Swift 1700's -1720's, Irish satirist, "A Tale of a Tub"(1704), Gulliver's
Travels, A Modest Proposal
Pierre Corneille French Neoclassical, 17th century dramatist
"El Cid", a tragicomedy, where a Spanish knight is town
between his love for a girl and his self-imposed duty to take
revenge on her father, this work meant to defy the classical
tragedy/comedy distinction
Moliere French Neoclassical, 1645-1673, playwright, actor and poet,
widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the
French language and universal literature
"The Misanthrope", satirized the hypocrisy of French moralists
and religious leaders
