Quotes
Poetry
Paradise Lost
Characters
Miscellaneous
100
"Better to reign in Hell than to ______."
What is serve in Heaven?
100
Milton also wrote this type of poetry.
What are Italian sonnets?
100
"Paradise Lost" took this many years to dictate.
What is ten?
100
This character's name means "bearer of light."
Who is Lucifer?
100
At the end of our reading of "Paradise Lost," Satan considers doing this.
What is attacking Heaven again?
200
Gather ye _____ while ye may..."
What are rosebuds?
200
Italian sonnets are divided into these sections.
What are an octave and a sestet?
200
This character is referred to as the Victor, the Almighty, and our conqueror.
Who is God?
200
This character's name means "lord of flies."
Who is Beelzebub?
200
In "Song," Sir John Suckling writes, "Quit, quit, for shame..." He wants the subject of the poem to quit what?
What is pursuing a woman?
300
When Milton writes "When I consider how my light is spent...," what is he referring to?
What is his blindness?
300
Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, and John Suckling were all this kind of poet.
What is carpe diem?
300
Milton wrote at least part of Paradise Lost while in this place.
What is prison?
300
This character states, "Too well I see and rue the dire event that with sad overthrow and foul defeat hath lost us Heaven..."
Who is Beelzebub?
300
The octave in an Italian sonnet has this rhyme scheme.
What is abbaabba?
400
To this being, Milton writes, "I thence invoke thy aid to my adventurous song."
What is the Muse?
400
Robert Herrick writes to people in general, while Andrew Marvell writes to this.
What is a woman/his coy mistress?
400
Milton wants to know why "our grand parents" did what?
What is transgressed God's will/ate the fruit?
400
This character is referred to as the Archfiend.
Who is Satan/Lucifer?
400
The sestet in an Italian sonnet has this rhyme scheme.
What is a variable scheme?
500
Andrew Marvell says that this is "a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace."
What is the grave?
500
The octave contains this, while the sestet contains this.
What is a problem / a solution?
500
Satan's tragic flaw was this.
What is pride/ambition?
500
Milton asks these two characters for help in telling his story.
Who are the Muse and the Spirit?
500
In Milton's Sonnet VII ("How soon hath Time"), Milton writes that he is how old?
What is twenty-three?
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