EL-004 – Comprehensive English Literature
Master Review: Terms, Texts, Concepts, and
Classical Works
Vary your sentence structure. Use short sentences. Mix those in with longer sentences to add
variety and sophistication to your writing. - ✅✅✅
Active voice = more directive and powerful than - ✅✅✅
Beowulf must pass venomous serpents to get to grenades mother - ✅✅✅
Wollenstonecraft "A vindication of the rights of women" questions the nature of women's
education in the 18th century. - ✅✅✅
Spring is often used as a conventional symbol for rebirth or promise - ✅✅✅
Commercial literature is often plot or action-oriented - ✅✅✅
Vonnegut wrote about the "Man in the hole" Theory, an antithesis to the monomyth -
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Grendel is a descendent of Cain, the bibles first mother - ✅✅✅
intersexuality - the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that
similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other.✅✅✅
In "Scattered protest, Saudi women take the wheel" driving in Saudi Arabia is an "Alamo"
moment to the government/ religious conservatives. - ✅✅✅
A confidant (male) or confidante (female) is a character, often a friend or relative of the hero
or heroine, whose role is to be present when the hero needs a sympathetic listener to confide
in - ✅✅✅
Beowulf kills Grendel by - ripping off his arm/claw✅✅✅
Beowulf kills Grendel's mother with... - a sword made by giants✅✅✅
In Doerr's "The deep" , Tom's main struggle throughout the story , with his fear he will die
young - ✅✅✅
Beowulf is an example of a "primary" epic. It is composed over time, told by Bards or Scops
and represents the ethos of the people. - ✅✅✅
, Qurelle de femmes - the French phrase refers to a literary debate about the nature and status
of women. This debate began around 1500 and continued beyond the end of the
renaissance.✅✅✅
The concept of the collective consciousness came from the work of Dr. Carl Jung - Think;
Borg✅✅✅
Kate was the shrew in Taming of the shrew - ✅✅✅
In the Monomyth the Transformation is when a hero experiences a new way of being -
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In Beowulf Wiglaf embodies the sense of Wyrd or loyalty - ✅✅✅
In Hamlet, Hamlet has opportunity to kill the murderer of his father but his own conscience
forces him to turn away from killing him. - ✅✅✅
Personification is a form of metaphor - ✅✅✅
The mentor counsels or gives power - ✅✅✅
Where a work of literature is set - in a war, on a tropical island, at a high school etc can often
influence the readers reaction to a story✅✅✅
Allusions or references often require knowledge of history, mythology, religion, politics, the
contemporary - ✅✅✅
The word persona - literally means mask✅✅✅
What is middle class morality - is the way a person is expected to behave and think when
they are a part of the middle class.✅✅✅
Who invaded England and made French the dominate language - William the conquerer and
the French Normans✅✅✅
The mead hall, Herot, is known as the hall of the stag - ✅✅✅
"You could have knocked me over with a feather" - is an example of a hyperbole✅✅✅
Diction that is formal is characterized by elaborate, complex sentences and a learned
vocabulary. - ✅✅✅
A "dynamic" character goes through permanent change - ✅✅✅
Where can be found the oldest known form of writing? - inaf✅✅✅
Chaucer was considered the Father of English poetry. A contemporary said that he was the
first to "rain the gold dewdrops of speech and eloquence" in English literature - ✅✅✅
Master Review: Terms, Texts, Concepts, and
Classical Works
Vary your sentence structure. Use short sentences. Mix those in with longer sentences to add
variety and sophistication to your writing. - ✅✅✅
Active voice = more directive and powerful than - ✅✅✅
Beowulf must pass venomous serpents to get to grenades mother - ✅✅✅
Wollenstonecraft "A vindication of the rights of women" questions the nature of women's
education in the 18th century. - ✅✅✅
Spring is often used as a conventional symbol for rebirth or promise - ✅✅✅
Commercial literature is often plot or action-oriented - ✅✅✅
Vonnegut wrote about the "Man in the hole" Theory, an antithesis to the monomyth -
✅✅✅
Grendel is a descendent of Cain, the bibles first mother - ✅✅✅
intersexuality - the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that
similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other.✅✅✅
In "Scattered protest, Saudi women take the wheel" driving in Saudi Arabia is an "Alamo"
moment to the government/ religious conservatives. - ✅✅✅
A confidant (male) or confidante (female) is a character, often a friend or relative of the hero
or heroine, whose role is to be present when the hero needs a sympathetic listener to confide
in - ✅✅✅
Beowulf kills Grendel by - ripping off his arm/claw✅✅✅
Beowulf kills Grendel's mother with... - a sword made by giants✅✅✅
In Doerr's "The deep" , Tom's main struggle throughout the story , with his fear he will die
young - ✅✅✅
Beowulf is an example of a "primary" epic. It is composed over time, told by Bards or Scops
and represents the ethos of the people. - ✅✅✅
, Qurelle de femmes - the French phrase refers to a literary debate about the nature and status
of women. This debate began around 1500 and continued beyond the end of the
renaissance.✅✅✅
The concept of the collective consciousness came from the work of Dr. Carl Jung - Think;
Borg✅✅✅
Kate was the shrew in Taming of the shrew - ✅✅✅
In the Monomyth the Transformation is when a hero experiences a new way of being -
✅✅✅
In Beowulf Wiglaf embodies the sense of Wyrd or loyalty - ✅✅✅
In Hamlet, Hamlet has opportunity to kill the murderer of his father but his own conscience
forces him to turn away from killing him. - ✅✅✅
Personification is a form of metaphor - ✅✅✅
The mentor counsels or gives power - ✅✅✅
Where a work of literature is set - in a war, on a tropical island, at a high school etc can often
influence the readers reaction to a story✅✅✅
Allusions or references often require knowledge of history, mythology, religion, politics, the
contemporary - ✅✅✅
The word persona - literally means mask✅✅✅
What is middle class morality - is the way a person is expected to behave and think when
they are a part of the middle class.✅✅✅
Who invaded England and made French the dominate language - William the conquerer and
the French Normans✅✅✅
The mead hall, Herot, is known as the hall of the stag - ✅✅✅
"You could have knocked me over with a feather" - is an example of a hyperbole✅✅✅
Diction that is formal is characterized by elaborate, complex sentences and a learned
vocabulary. - ✅✅✅
A "dynamic" character goes through permanent change - ✅✅✅
Where can be found the oldest known form of writing? - inaf✅✅✅
Chaucer was considered the Father of English poetry. A contemporary said that he was the
first to "rain the gold dewdrops of speech and eloquence" in English literature - ✅✅✅
