Medieval Literature and History
Name of the author of The Ecclesiastical History of English People
Who is Bede?
Form used in "Caedmon's Hymn"
What is stress-based alliterative verse?
Name of reigning monarch when The Tempest was first performed
Who is James I?
Year of the first performance of Shakespeare's Tempest
What is 1611?
Author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Who is Washington Irving?
Start and end dates for the medieval period in England
What is 410-1485?
Term used to described final 2 lines of a Shakespearean sonnet
What is a (rhymed) couplet?
Name of the monarch who defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
Names of Prospero's two servants
Who are Ariel and Caliban?
Name of the first autobiography in English
What is the Book of Margery Kempe?
Name of the so-called "father of English poetry"
Who is Chaucer?
Verse form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
What is iambic pentameter?
or
What is the heroic couplet?
Name of the ship that carried Phillis Wheatley to America
What is the Phillis?
Age of Miranda when she falls in love with Ferdinand
What is (almost) 15?
Name of the object thrown at Ichabod Crane
What is a pumpkin?
Chaucer's day job
What is Customs Clerk in port of London?
Poetic feature in which multiple words in a given line have the same initial sound
What is alliteration?
Year of the first arrival of enslaved people in Virginia
What is 1619?
Identity of those responsible for releasing Prospero from his "captivity"
Who is the audience of the play?
The US state in which Frederick Douglass was born
What is Maryland?
Name of the invaders in 1066
Who are the Normans?
Verse form of Wheatley's "On Imagination"
What is the heroic couplet?
or
What is iambic pentameter?
Name of the first British settlement in America in 1607
What is Jamestown?
Name two of Prospero's tools of magic
What are his books, his cloak, and/or his staff?
Item of clothing famously worn by Margery Kempe
What is a hairshirt?