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Two Points Each
1. Name two works read for the course that feature allegory and give the name of an allegorical
figure in both.
One work that features allegory is Chaucher’s “The Pardoner Tale”. The figure most
representative in this is Elde, who is a personificaiton of Old Age. Another work that features
allegory is the play “Everyman”; where the character Everyman is an allegorical figure.
2. Place these works in order from earliest to most recent: “Sonnet 29,” Lysistrata, Psalm 23,
Beowulf, Catullus’s lyrics, Villon’s “Ballade.”
Psalm 23, Lysistrata, Catullus’s lyrics, Beowulf, Villon’s “Ballade”, “Sonnet 29”
3. Who in your reading is Lesbia? Who is a lesbian?
Lesbia was the literary pseudonym Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus gave his wife when
referring to her in his poems. Initially, the word ‘lesbian’ was used to refer to anyone who was
from the island of Lesbos, of Greece. It was also used to refer to the women who were under
the care of Sappho, as they she was also from the island.
4. Name two authors read for the class this term who came from what’s modern-day Italy.
Catullus and Petrarch would have been born in now’s modern-day Italy.
5. Name the two earliest works read for this class from England.
Beowulf and The Ruin.
6. Identify two of the following: Anaktoria, Voltemand, Myrrhine.
Anaktoria was one of Sappho’s lovers; she is mentioned in one of her surviving poem
fragments, number 16.
Myrrihine was a chacater from the play Lysistrata by Sophocles; she is the wife of a soldier who
withholds sex in an attempt to stop the war.
7. Does Sophocles’ Oedipus the King f...


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