Materiale utile per esame letteratura inglese, prof. Della Valle

DOMANDE LETTERATURA INGLESE

1) Concetto sviluppato da Burke: sublime

2) Lavoro del padre di Shakespeare: merchant, well-to-do glower and whit tower by trade

3) Successore di Elizabeth I: James I o James VI

4) Samson agonists is a: tragedy by Milton

5) The reformation in England included: establishment of a new church

6) Desdemona in Shakespeare is a character in: Othello

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7) Who was the highest authority in lit 18 century?: Johnson

8) King executed during the puritan revolution: Charles I

9) Pamela tells a story of: a resistance to seduction and marriage

10) In che anno sono stati chiusi i teatri?: 1642

11) Richardson worked as a: printer

12) Quale autore supportava la Repubblica?: Milton

13) “The Beggar’s opera” di Gay è stata rivisitata da: Brecht

14) La cornice di Canterbury Tales: pellegrinaggio, ognuno dice 2 storie all’andata e 2 al

ritorno; gli scritti sono 22/120

15) End of Beowulf: The poem ends with Beowulf ‘solemn funeral

16) Battaglia di Hastings: 1066

17) Quale novella è anti novel?: Tristram shandy (a sentimental journey by Sterne)

18) Che tipo di opera è “Sir Gawain”?: Chivarly romance poem / a verse romance poem

19) Che tipo di opere scrive Ben Jonson?: comedy of humor

20) Tema di “The rape of the lock”: mockheroic poem in which tells of the quarrel between

two families caused by the snipping of the beautiful Belinda

21) Defoe non era: Cristiano

22) Cos’è la “Glorious revolution”?: 1688, birth of first constitutional monarchy. Replacement

of James II by William III (William of Orange, husband of Mary Stuart)

23) Perché avviene il pellegrinaggio in “Canterbury Tales”?: vanno a visitare la tomba di

Becket

24) In che regno comincia la riforma inglese?: Inghilterra (?)

25) Start of the english reformation: Henry VIII wanted a male heir

26) A character in “Paradise lost”: Satan/Adamo ed Eva

27) Genere letterario molto usato nel medioevo: romance, religious and warrior type

(Beowulf is a warrior type), epic and elegy

28) “A sentimental journey”: journey Sterne had undertaken some years earlier for reasons of

health. He was dead and so pardoned for his transgressions

29) “All for love”: is a heroic drama by John Dryden. It’s a tragedy in blank verse, imitation of

Antony and Cleopatra, and focuses on last hours of the MC

30) Gulliver travel’s description that is wrong:

31) Chi sono i metafisici?: Donne, Marvell; Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw

32) Pilgrims progress: by Bunyan, it’s a dream like story where Christian has to overcome

difficulties and obstacles of every kind /journey to Celestial city

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