English 10b Final Exam Questions (128 Terms) With Verified Definitions Updated 2024

Literart Form William Blake, from Songs of Innocence and of Experience {Ans: Poem varies from poem to poem; sometimes he uses rhymed couplets, sometimes he uses an abab rhyme scheme. The meter varies from poem to poem. All are lyrical.}Summary John Keats, "Sleep and Poetry," "Ode on a Grecian Urn" {Ans: Sleep and Poetry: The speaker reveres Sleep and prays for her inspiration to surpass past artistic figures (ie Apollo). Ode to a Grecian Urn: The speaker contemplates the origins of a Grecian urn and how it is used as object to retain permanence}Literary Form Tom Paine, from Rights of Man {Ans: Essay}Literary Form John Bunyan, from Pilgrim's Progress {Ans: novel}Summary Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" {Ans: Gray's poem details him walking through a country churchyard among the gravestones of the peasantry. He thinks about how these people must have lived in life, imagining scenes of harvest and home. He thinks about death and how everyone is eventually forgotten in the vestiges of time, even the rich people with their elaborate gravestones. Then, Gray considers the fate of the peasantry class had they not been restricted by poverty, believing that they had