Self Assessment

UNIT 1
Definition / description: a type of play, written in rhyming couplets,

in which an incredibly noble hero or heroine faces incredibly difficult
choices between love and honour.
Term / name / title:
Heroic play
Definition / description: the philosopher according to whom all laws,
even our notions of good and evil, are artificial social checks on natural
human desires.
Thomas Hobbes
Definition / description: According to Virginia Woolf, “all women
together ought to let flowers fall upon the grave” of this author.
Aphra Behn
Exercise 2
FOOTMAN: Your aunt, sir?
SIR WILFULL: My aunt, sir? Yes my aunt, sir, and your lady, sir; your
lady is my aunt, sir. Why, what dost thou not know me, friend? Why, then,
send somebody hither that does. How long hast thou lived with thy lady,
fellow, ha?
FOOTMAN: A week, sir; longer than anybody in the house, except my
lady’s woman.
SIR WILFULL: Why, then, belike thou dost not know thy lady, if thou
seest her. Ha, friend?
FOOTMAN: Why, truly, sir, I cannot safely swear to her face in a
morning, before she is dressed. ’Tis like I may give a shrewd guess at her
by this time.
1.- Identify the title and author of the source text:
The Way of the World, by William Congreve
2.- What character type of Restoration drama does Sir Wilfull more
closely embody?
a. A rake.
b. A wit.
c. A country bumpkin.
d. A gallant.
3.- By what means is Sir Wilfull characterised in this extract?
a. His unsophisticated language.
b. His appearance, which prevents the footman from

recognising him.
c. His excessive politeness.
d. His insulting manner towards the footman.
4.- The footman’s lady (Lady Wishfort) is satirised in this extract for her
a. ill-disguised laziness.
b. lack of involvement with her servants.
c. use of make-up to hide her age.
d. romantic interest in the footman.
CAC
UNIT 2
I.- Provide the term (a single word or phrase), name or title

that is being defined / referred to.
Definition / description: a literary mode in which wickedness or folly
is censured; it often uses irony and wit.
Satire
Definition / description: a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift to sign
a series of satirical letters which effectively prevented the exploitation of
Ireland through the issuing of debased coinage.
Mr Drapier
Definition / description: a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters.
Alexander Pope excelled in this versification form, and admirably used it
in poems like The Rape of the Lock.
Heroic couplet
II.- Read the following extract, identify it and choose the best
option in the multiple choice questions.
Many other advantages might be enumerated. For instance, the addition
of some thousand carcasses in our exportation of barreled beef: the
propagation of swine's flesh, and improvement in the art of making good
bacon, so much wanted among us by the great destruction of pigs, too
frequent at our tables; which are no way comparable in taste or
magnificence to a well grown, fat yearly child, which roasted whole will
make a considerable figure at a Lord Mayor’s feast, or any other public
entertainment. But this, and many others, I omit, being studious of
brevity.
A Modest Proposal
2.- Which of the following statements about the extract’s source
is not true?
a. It parodies the writings of the prolific “projectors” or social

reformers.
b. It attacks English aristocrats by means of satiric devices.
c. It was commissioned by James Francis Edward Stuart,

“Pretender” to the English throne.
d. It can be considered a good example of satirical pamphlet.

C
3.- The extract suggests that
a. the consumption of children’s flesh will be good for the

nation’s economy and wellbeing.
b. pork should be excluded from a healthy diet.
c. beef should not be exported, given the shortage at home.
d. only the high classes in Ireland can afford to eat beef and
pork.
A
4.- The last sentence of the above extract
a. is used repeatedly throughout the source text.
b. is rhetorically effective, even if parody is intended.
c. is an allusion to the Latin satirist Juvenal.

d. cryptically alludes to the political situation of Ireland.
B
Unit 3
Definition / description: a short, non-fictional piece of prose writing

popular in the first half of the eighteenth century, dealing with a wide
range of topics, including social propriety, economy, entertainment or
philosophy.
Periodical essay
Definition / description: a work published in the middle of the
eighteenth century, influenced by the spirit of the Enlightenment and
intended to codify the English language; it contains over 114,000
illustrative quotations.
(Samuel Johnson’s) Dictionary of the English Language
Definition / description: an eighteenth-century fictional sub-genre
that stressed the importance of emotions and feelings in human
relationships; examples are Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa or Henry
Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling.
Sentimental novel
The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be
hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and
other circumstances of the person are concealed, and on this account we
must be content to leave the reader to pass his own opinion upon the
ensuing sheets, and take it just as he pleases.
The author is here supposed to be writing her own history, and in the very
beginning of her account she gives the reasons why she thinks fit to
conceal her true name, after which there is no occasion to say any more
about that.
(The “Preface” to) Moll Flanders
2.- What was considered a basic difference between novels and romances,
at the time when this text was written?
a. Novels were told in the third person, romances in the first

person.
b. Novels were perceived as being rooted in reality, as opposed

to fanciful romances.
c. There was a scholarly prejudice against romances, and not

against novels.
d. Unlike romances, early novels were sold in serial
instalments.
B
3.- The first paragraph of the extract above shows a concern that
a. readers might identify the heroine with the novel’s author.
b. this novel, being so different from romances, would be
rejected by publishers.
c. readers might find out the true identity of the heroine.
d. a “true” story might not be believed.
4.- Whose story is going to be told?
a. The story of Nell Gwyn.

b. The story of a persecuted dissenter.
c. The story of a shipwrecked man in a desert island.
d. The story of a redeemed criminal.
D, D
UNIT 4
I.- Provide the term (a single word or phrase), name or title

that is being defined / referred to.
Definition / description: the feeling that dominates poetry towards
the middle of the 18th century; it is associated with introspection and
prefigures the Romantic mood.
Melancholy
Definition / description: a castle owned by Horace Walpole, an
architectural symbol of the medieval revival that is characteristic of
Gothicism.
Strawberry Hill
Definition / description: the daring Greek Titan compared by Mary
Shelley to Victor Frankenstein in the full title of her novel.
Prometheus
Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the Poor.
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike th’ inevitable hour:-
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
2.- In the first verse line, “their” refers to
a. Irish peasants exploited by English landlords.

b. the great historical characters alluded to in the poem.
c. the fallen heroes of the Glorious Revolution.
d. the poor peasants of a hamlet, who led a simple life.
3.- The second stanza above conveys the following theme:
a. the emergence of a new Romantic sensibility.

b. poetic beauty has the power to transcend mortality.
c. the transitoriness of life and its pleasures, as opposed to the

inevitability of death.
d. one should strive to achieve glory while living.

4.- Which of the following statements about the author of the source text
is not true?
a. He was a close friend of Horace Walpole’s.

b. His work is representative of a new trend in poetry.
c. He believed that poetic language should be plain.

d. He attended Eton College.
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UNIT 1

Definition / description: a type of play, written in rhyming couplets,

a. His unsophisticated language.

b. His appearance, which prevents the footman from

I.- Provide the term (a single word or phrase), name or title

a. It parodies the writings of the prolific “projectors” or social

c. It was commissioned by James Francis Edward Stuart,

d. It can be considered a good example of satirical pamphlet.

a. the consumption of children’s flesh will be good for the

a. is used repeatedly throughout the source text.

b. is rhetorically effective, even if parody is intended.

c. is an allusion to the Latin satirist Juvenal.

Definition / description: a short, non-fictional piece of prose writing

a. Novels were told in the third person, romances in the first

b. Novels were perceived as being rooted in reality, as opposed

c. There was a scholarly prejudice against romances, and not

d. a “true” story might not be believed.

4.- Whose story is going to be told?

a. The story of Nell Gwyn.

I.- Provide the term (a single word or phrase), name or title

a. Irish peasants exploited by English landlords.

d. the poor peasants of a hamlet, who led a simple life.

3.- The second stanza above conveys the following theme:

a. the emergence of a new Romantic sensibility.

c. the transitoriness of life and its pleasures, as opposed to the

d. one should strive to achieve glory while living.

a. He was a close friend of Horace Walpole’s.

c. He believed that poetic language should be plain.

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