"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alliteration finds."
"Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare
Who is considered the greatest writer of all time?
William Shakespeare
a speech by one character alone
A. tragedy B. sonnet
C. soliloquy D. rhythm
E. rhyme F. plot
G. pastoral H. dialogue
I. comedy J. Blank verse
C. sololoquy
What ultimately happens to Dr. Faustus?
He goes to hell.
presents a realistic attitude of life
B. "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
Select the correct foot or meter: "Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks"
A. trochaic hexameter B. trochaic dimeter
C. spondee D. iambic trimeter
E. iambic pentameter F. iamb
G. dactyl
E. iambic pentameter
"Lo Mephistopheles, for love of thee,
I can cut my arm, and with my proper blood
Assure my soule to be great Lucifer's,
Chiefe Lord and regent of perpetual night."
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
What kind of readings does Bacon say make wise men?
Histories
the correspondence of sounds
A. tragedy B. sonnet
C. soliloquy D. rhythm
E. rhyme F. plot
G. pastoral H. dialogue
I. comedy J. Blank verse
E. Rhyme
What character in The Faerie Queene portrays Queen Elizabeth?
Gloriana
the excellence of eternal spiritual love over all other kinds of earthy love
A. "Who Is Silvia"
B. "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
C. "On the Life of Man"
D. "Leave Me O Love"
E. "Balthazar's Song"
F. "A Hymn to God the Father"
D. "Leave Me O Love"
Select the correct foot or meter: bookshelf
A. trochaic hexameter B. trochaic dimeter
C. spondee D. iambic trimeter
E. iambic pentameter F. iamb
G. dactyl
C. spondee
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's-day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate."
"Sonnet 18" William Shakespeare
Who was the major figure in developing The Book of Common Prayer?
Thomas Cranmer
the arrangement of events
A. tragedy B. sonnet
C. soliloquy D. rhythm
E. rhyme F. plot
G. pastoral H. dialogue
I. comedy J. Blank verse
F. plot
Who was England's first poet laureate?
Ben Johnson
comparison to man's life to a play of passion
A. "Who Is Silvia"
B. "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
C. "On the Life of Man"
D. "Leave Me O Love"
E. "Balthazar's Song"
F. "A Hymn to God the Father"
C. "On the Life of Man"
Select the correct foot or meter: "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger."
A. trochaic hexameter B. trochaic dimeter
C. spondee D. iambic trimeter
E. iambic pentameter F. iamb
G. dactyl
trochaic hexmeter
"God be praised, good people, I am come away from them undefiled, and will conform the truth with my blood."
The Bok of Martyrs by John Foxe
In Robert Southwell's poem, "The Burning Babe," who is the burning babe?
the Christ child
the speeches between two or more characters
A. tragedy B. sonnet
C. soliloquy D. rhythm
E. rhyme F. plot
G. pastoral H. dialogue
I. comedy J. Blank verse
H. dialogue
How many years did Dr. Faustus sell his soul for?
24
cause of the ladys' grief is the inconsistency of men
A. "Who Is Silvia"
B. "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
C. "On the Life of Man"
D. "Leave Me O Love"
E. "Balthazar's Song"
F. "A Hymn to God the Father"
E. "Balthazar's Song"
Select the correct foot or meter: Listen children."
A. trochaic hexameter B. trochaic dimeter
C. spondee D. iambic trimeter
E. iambic pentameter F. iamb
G. dactyl
B. trochaic dimeter
"Come live with me, and be my love.
And we will all the pleasures prove."
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlow
Who wrote Essays?
Frances Bacon
unrhymed iambic pentameter
A. tragedy B. sonnet
C. soliloquy D. rhythm
E. rhyme F. plot
G. pastoral H. dialogue
I. comedy J. Blank verse
J. blank verse
speaker's response to God's chastening
F. "A Hymn to God the Father"
Select the correct foot or meter: arise
A. trochaic hexameter B. trochaic dimeter
C. spondee D. iambic trimeter
E. iambic pentameter F. iamb
G. dactyl
F. iamb
What selection describes an ideal society?
Utopia
classic love song dealing with shepherds and rustic life
A. tragedy B. sonnet
C. soliloquy D. rhythm
E. rhyme F. plot
G. pastoral H. dialogue
I. comedy J. Blank verse
G. pastoral
In, "The Burning Babe," what is represented by the fire?
Christ's love
regular recurrence of sounds
A. tragedy B. sonnet
C. soliloquy D. rhythm
E. rhyme F. plot
G. pastoral H. dialogue
I. comedy J. Blank verse
D. rhythm
a play that ends unhappily
A. tragedy B. sonnet
C. soliloquy D. rhythm
E. rhyme F. plot
G. pastoral H. dialogue
I. comedy J. Blank verse
A. tragedy
fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter
A. tragedy B. sonnet
C. soliloquy D. rhythm
E. rhyme F. plot
G. pastoral H. dialogue
I. comedy J. Blank verse
B. sonnet