Setting All About Satan Identify the Speaker Adam and/or Eve Literary Elements
100
What is the Tigris?
The river by which Eden is located
100
What is the serpent?
The animal that Satan travels the earth to become
100
Who is Adam?
"For solitude sometimes is the best society" (IX.249)
100
What is death?
The punishment for eating from the Tree of Knowledge.
100
What is an epic simile?
"As one who long in populous city pent / where houses thick and sewers annoy the air / forth issuing on a summer's morn to breather / among the pleasant villagers and farms" (IX.445-8)
200
What is tragic?
Milton changes "those notes to _____: foul distrust and breach" (5-6).
200
What are empress, queen of this universe, resplendent Eve, Sovereign Mistress
At least one name that Satan calls Eden when trying to tempt her.
200
Who is Satan?
"To satisfy the sharp desire I had / of tasting those fair apples I resolved / not to defer" (584-6).
200
Who is Adam?
"best are all things as the will / of God ordained them. His creating hand / nothing imperfect of deficient left of all that He created" (IX.43-6).
200
What is allusion?
"than the wrath / of stern ACHILLES on his foe pursued / thrice fugitive about Troy wall or rage" (IX.15-7).
300
What is the Anarctic, the ocean at Darien, Ganges, and Inus, over Pontus, or the pool Maeotis.
Name at least one place where Satan traveled to find Paradise
300
What is growth, sum, or reason.
Name of thing that Satan sees in "creatures animate with gradual life. . . [that are] all summed up in Man!" (IX.113-5).
300
Who is Eve?
"The rest we live / law to ourselves: our reason is our law" (653-4).
300
What is "sole Eve," "associate soul," "Daughter of God and Man," "immortal Eve"
Name at least one name that Adam calls Eve.
300
What is irony?
Eve says "But that thou shouldst my firmness therefore doubt / to God or three because we have a foe / may tempt it I expected not to hear" (IX.279-81).






Paradise Lost: Book 9

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