Which of the following is NOT an epic convention



Exam 4

English 201

Part I. Write the letter of the best answer IN CAPITAL LETTERS in the blank provided on the answer sheet. 50 points.

1. Which of the following is NOT an epic convention? (a) praying to Mars; (b) invoking the muse; (c) using high, lofty diction; (d) beginning in media res; (e) none are epic conventions.

2. Satan and Beelzebub are (a) two different characters; (b) both fallen angels; (c) like general and second in command; (d) all of the above; (e) none of the above.

3. The word “Latinate” refers to (a) the language and word order of the individual lines; (b) the style of rhetorical training that Milton received at Cambridge; (c) the title of Milton’s poem for his dead classmate Edward King; (d) the title conferred on Milton by Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth government; (e) none of the above.

4. “Lycidas” was (a) an elegy that Milton wrote for a fallen friend; (b) an elegy that Milton wrote for himself about his failing eyesight; (c) the last completed poem, in 4 books, that chronicles the trials of Jesus in the desert; (d) Milton’s name for Oliver Cromwell during the provisional government; (e) none of the above.

5. The spirit that inspires Milton at the beginning of Paradise Lost is: (a) Lycidas; (b) the Holy Mother Mary; (c) Jesus, the Son; (d) Light; (e) none of the above.

6. In terms of contemporary stereotypes, Moloch might best be characterized as the (a) sophist; (b) draft dodger; (c) strategist; (d) warmonger; (e) none of the above.

7. In “The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates,” what did Milton defend? (a) regicide; (b) incarceration of political dissidents; (c) unlimited papal authority; (d) divorce; (e) none of the above

8. Which character is NOT a fallen angel? (a) Belial; (b) Scylla; (c) Mammon; (d) Satan; (e) all are fallen angels.

9. In Book One, Galileo is referenced as : (a) “the Tuscan artist”; (b) “thou who didst inspire Moses”; (c) “a blinded warrior proud”; (d) all of the above; (e) none of the above.

10. Milton’s religious orientation could best be described with what term? (a) Puritan; (b) Catholic; (c) Anglican; (d) Deist; (e) none of the above

11. Which monarch was overthrown by Cromwell’s revolution? (a) Charles I; (b) Charles II; (c) James I; (d) Elizabeth I; (e) none of the above.

12. The phrase used to refer to God’s power, “his red right hand,” is what kind of figure of speech? (a) epic simile; (b) metonomy; (c) caesura; (d) circumlocution; (e) none of the above.

13. When a fallen angel refers to God as “the Torturer,” the character is employing what figure of speech? (a) epic simile; (b) metonomy; (c) caesura; (d) circumlocution; (e) none of the above.

14. Milton’s original intentions in planning an epic poem were to write about (a) Adam and Eve; (b) the war between heaven and hell; (c) Samson in prison; (d) the Arthurian legends; (e) none of the above.

15. What is “Aereopagitica?” (a) a pamphlet Milton wrote about free speech; (b) a popular treatise against divorce; (c) the name that Milton devised for the provisional government; (d) the title of an elegy that Milton wrote on the passing of Oliver Cromwell; (e) none of the above.

16. Paradise Regained concerns (a) Jesus’s crucifixion; (b) the miracle of the loaves and the fishes; (c) the war between heaven and hell; (d) the temptation of Christ by Satan in the wilderness; (e) none of the above.

17. Which character is described with the line, “his tongue dropped manna”? (a) Satan; (b) Beelzebub; (c) Mammon; (d) Belial; (e) none of the above.

18. Which character opens his speech with the statement, “My sentence is for open war”? (a) Satan; (b) Beelzebub; (c) Mammon; (d) Belial; (e) none of the above.

19. In an epic poem, a “catalog” refers to: (a) a list of armaments; (b) a list of warriors; (c) a list of ships; (d) a list of classical precedents; (e) all of the above.

20. What was the last completed work that Milton wrote before his death? (a) Paradise Regained; (b) “On the Tenure of Kings”; (c) “When I Consider How My Light is Spent”; (d) Samson Agonistes; (e) none of the above.

21. Of all four speakers in Book 2, whose plan is the most practical? (a) Beelzebub; (b) Mammon; (c) Belial; (d) Molloch

22. Two mythological monsters (transformed women) Milton alludes to in Book II are: (a) Scylla and Charybdis; (b) Tristan and Isolde; (c) Leda and Athena; (d) Helen and Clytemnestra; (e) none of the above

23. In Book I, who are referred to as “demigods?” (a) Adam and Eve; (b) the fallen angels; (c) Chaos and Night; (d) Sin and Death; (e) none of the above.

24. During his trip to Italy, Milton was most inspired by (a) Tasso’s poem, Jerusalem Delivered; (b) Spenser’s poem, The Faerie Queene; (c) Boccaccio’s book, The Decameron; (d) all of the above; (e) none of the above.

25. The word “pandemonium” in Book Two literally means (a) kingdom of demons; (b) place of all demons; (c) empire of Satan; (d) world without end; (e) none of the above.

Part II. Essay. Write an organized, coherent, and well illustrated essay based on the topic below. Pay attention to both mechanics and stylistics. 50 points.

In the passage below, Milton shows Satan in several distinct ways. Isolate them, identify them, illustrate them with reference to the text, and in a well written, developed essay analyze how Milton uses them to depict this intriguing, and somewhat enigmatic, literary character. You can supplement your analysis of this passage with reference to other parts of the poem, if you wish.

Thus Satan talking to his neerest Mate

With Head up-lift above the wave, and Eyes

That sparkling blaz'd, his other Parts besides

Prone on the Flood, extended long and large

Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge

As whom the Fables name of monstrous size,

Titanian, or Earth-Born, that warr'd on Jove,

Briarios or Typhon, whom the Den

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By ancient Tarsus held……

So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay

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Chain'd on the burning Lake, nor ever thence

Had ris'n or heav'd his head, but that the will

And high permission of all-ruling Heaven

Left him at large to his own dark designs,

That with reiterated crimes he might

Heap on himself damnation, while he sought

Evil to others, and enrag'd might see

How all his malice serv'd but to bring forth

Infinite goodness, grace and mercy shewn

On Man by him seduc't, but on himself

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Treble confusion, wrath and vengeance pour'd……

"Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,

Said then the lost Arch Angel, this the seat

That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom

For that celestial light? Be it so, since hee

Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid

What shall be right: fardest from him is best

Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream

Above his equals. Farewel happy Fields

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Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail

Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell

Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings

A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.

The mind is its own place, and in it self

Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n."

Extra Credit. 1 point each

EC1. What university did Milton attend? CAMBRIDGE

EC2. What year was Paradise Lost first published? 1667

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