1. ENG12A *Have your U4 study guide out.
Unit 4 Test Review
ENG12A
*Have your U4 study guide out.

2. Multiple choice
DROPPED! Focus on your short answers!

3. INCLUDE THE CHECKMYWORK LINK
Short Answers
How to get full points on the short answer portion of the test.
Take time to review the question and map out a response BEFORE opening the test.
Answer ALL PARTS of a multi-part question
Use correct grammar and punctuation
Write at LEAST 3-5 sentences. Only writing ONE sentence is not acceptable.
Make sure your response is clear and understandable
Give specific evidence
INCLUDE THE CHECKMYWORK LINK

4. This is a compare and contrast question.
What do the speakers have in common in the sonnets "Whoso List to Hunt" by Sir Thomas Wyatt and "Sonnet 30" by Edmund Spenser? How are they different? Consider the focus of the speaker in each work.
This is a compare and contrast question.
First compare: How are the speakers similar?
Next contrast: How are the speakers different?
Answers will vary, but students may say that both speakers are longing for
someone whose love they can never have. The speaker’s beloved in Wyatt’s sonnet may not even
know she is loved, but in Spenser’s sonnet, the speaker seems to be pursuing someone who knows
but is not interested.

5. Explain the extended metaphor in Jonson’s “Song: To Celia.”
What is a metaphor?
What is “Song: To Celia” about?
What is the metaphor presented in the poem?
Answers will vary. The speaker compares looking to drinking when he asks the
woman to “drink to me only with thine eyes.” The metaphor is extended when the speaker compares
his longing to a thirst in the soul.

6. Explain the metaphor of the compass in Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.”
What is a metaphor?
What is the compass a metaphor of?
Answers will vary. According to the speaker of the poem, two lovers are like the two
hands of a compass. They are forever united because they are part of the same object, but they also
move in unison. When one moves away, the other leans toward the moving one. When one gets
closer, the still one becomes straight and strong again.

7. Explain Satan’s opinions about God. Do they seem logical?
This has two parts
1. Explain Satan’s opinions of God
2. Answer the question, “Do they seem logical”
Answers will vary. Students may say that Satan is resentful of God’s power and that
he does not think it is fair that God has all the power. They may also say that Satan thinks God is
weaker than others seem to believe because he does not realize just how powerful Satan is. Most
students will probably see a flaw in Satan’s logic.

8. Essay question
You will respond to ONE of the following prompts in a well organized essay.
Answers should be written in complete sentences
HIGHLY recommended that your response contain multiple paragraphs.
FULLY explain your answer and give specific details for support
This is not another short answer. This is an ESSAY.

9. Prompt A: The idyllic vision of country life that characterizes Renaissance pastoral poetry speaks about a longing for a closer relationship with nature. Why do you think humans long for a deeper relationship with nature? Do you think this feeling is still common today? If it is, how is it similar to and different from the sentiments that brought about pastoral poetry?
Essay should contain a clear and concise thesis statement and it should clearly reference the characteristics of pastoral poetry studied in Unit 4. Students should demonstrate an understanding of the appeal of nature for Renaissance poets. Students should then answer the three questions of the prompt with complete sentences, supporting their opinions with well-developed reasoning and examples from pastoral poems they have read.

10. Prompt B: All of the poems you read in this unit were written from a male point of view. What feminine ideal do you think emerges from these poems? What is your opinion about it? How do you think it compares with the idea of femininity in the Middle Ages?
Essay should contain a clear and concise thesis statement and it should clearly reference Renaissance poetry studied in Unit 4. Students might compare women in Renaissance poetry with women in medieval poetry as they appeared in The Canterbury Tales or The Exeter Book, pointing out whether those women are idealized or realistic, stereotyped or multi-faceted, strong or fragile, etc.

11. Prompt C: The poetry you read throughout this unit presents different views of love. Focusing on the tone of the poetry you read, comment on the interpretation of love in Shakespeare’s sonnets, Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” and Jonson’s “Song: To Celia.”
Essay should contain a clear and concise thesis statement and it should clearly reference the two poems in the prompt. Students will discuss the tone of the poems and explain how both Donne and Jonson celebrate transcendent, spiritual love as opposed to mundane, ordinary love.

12. Prompt D: Milton’s Satan in the epic poem Paradise Lost can be defined as an anti-hero. Write an essay explaining what makes Satan an anti-hero and how Milton’s characterization helps establish the figure of Satan as an awe-inspiring, yet terrifying being.
Essay should contain a clear and concise thesis statement and it should clearly reference details from Paradise Lost. Students should draw from their knowledge of epic poetry and of the characteristics of the epic hero to answer the question.

13. Looking ahead…
The Intro to Unit 5 LL is prerecorded. Please watch it before you get started on Unit 5.