Form
William Shakespeare
Charlotte Smith
The Elegiac Sonnets
Eras of Literature
100
A traditional Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet has fourteen of these.
What are lines?
100
The Dark lady, the Fair Youth, and Will are the three characters in this sonnet cycle.
What is the sonnet cycle fo Willian Shakespeare?
100
Smith was forced into marriage by her father at this age.
What is fifteen?
100
As indicated by the title, Charlotte Smith's sonnet cycle has this for its theme.
What is loss, sadness, mourning, or melancholy?
100
Translation of poetry and other literature from Italian, French,and other continental anguages in English was common in this era of literature.
What is the English Renaissance?
200
Each line of a sonnet has five of these.
What are poetic feet (or Iambs)?
200
Though we read his sonnet cycle in class, Shakespeare is actually most well known for what kind of literature?
What are dramas?
200
This is how many children Charlotte Smith had, though only 6-8 of them survived her (i.e. lived longer than her).
What is twelve?
200
In "Sonnet 1" of The Elegiac Sonnets, Charlotte Smith has this basic thesis.
What is 'poets feel emotions more than other people?'
200
Personal Experience, Elevated Langauge, and Humanism are core elements of this era of literature.
What is the Renaissance?
300
A traditional English, or Shakespearan, sonnet should have three of these.
What is a quatrain?
300
This Shakespearan comedy has been assigned in this class.
What is Twelfth Night?
300
Charlotte Smith is considered, along with William Blake, to have been a great influence on what group of early eighteenth century British poets?
Who were the Romantics?
300
In which sonnet does a churchyard of graves get flooded and the graves overturned?
What is "Sonnet 44?"
300
The phrase "A poet is a person speaking to people about people" is famously associated with this era of literature.
What is Romanticism?
400
This is the name given to a collection of sonnets theme on a single topic and published together.
What is a cycle?
400
Shaespeare's plays were famoulsy performed at this theater south of the River Thames in London.
What is the Globe Theater?
400
Though Charlotte smith wrote and published two collections of poetry, she was more famous for what form of literature?
What is the novel?
400
Uniquely, in "Sonnet 79," the volta is on this line of the poem.
What is line 4/5?
400
Philosophical Concepts, Technical Langauge, and elaborate Conceits are core elements of this era of literature.
What is the Metaphysical?
500
This happens traditionally on either line nine or thirteen of traditional sonnets.
What is the volta?
500
Shakespeare was born, lived part of his life, and is buried in this English town.
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?
500
The publication of The Elegiac Sonnets allowed Charlotte Smith to do this.
What is pay off debts and leave her husband?
500
In which sonnet does Charlotte Smith experiment by using a quintain and septet rather than three quatrains to pose the problem before the volta?
What is "Sonnet 83?"
500
Who is John Donne?