I wrote this!
So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by / And the Kings who ruled them had courage and greatness. / We have heard of those prince’s heroic campaigns.
Who is the Beowulf poet?
Fill in the blank from Sonnet 18: “Shall I compare thee…” (4 words)
What is “to a summer’s day.”
A type of poetic line characterized by 10 syllables in an alternating pattern of unstressed and stressed, as in: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun."
What is iambic pentameter?
According to Satan, it is better to reign in [this place] than to serve [here]?
What are hell and heaven?
The 1590s saw a “craze” in England for this type of poem?
What is the sonnet?
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; / Whose misadventured piteous overthrows / Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
Who is William Shakespeare?
The “two households, both alike in dignity” featured in Romeo and Juliet.
Who are the Montagues and Capulets?
Parodied in Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," this is a genre focusing on the adventures of a heroic knight who goes on a quest.
What is the chivalric romance?
Like Beowulf, Satan in Paradise Lost is, maybe, this type of hero?
What is an epic hero?
This caused the population of Great Britain to drop by 40-60 percent in the 1340s, leading to a massive reorganization of social life.
What is the Black Death or Great Pestilence?
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote / The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, / And bathed every veyne in swich licour / Of which vertu engendred is the flour.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
Fill in the blank: “O Romeo, Romeo ___ for art thou Romeo.”
What is wherefore?
E.M. Forster defined this as “any fictitious prose work over 50,000 words.”
What is a novel?
In the opening lines of Paradise Lost, Milton ask these inspirational goddesses to guide him in writing his poem.
What are the muses?
The century in which the Norman Conquest occurred (double points for the year).
What is the 11th century (1066)?
A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round / As one great Furnace flam’d, yet from those flames / No light, but rather darkness visible.
Who is John Milton?
The first name(s) of one of the two sets of twins featured in The Comedy of Errors?
What are Antipholus and/or Dromio?
Aristotle defines this dramatic genre as “the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in appropriate and pleasurable language; with incidents arousing pity and fear."
What is tragedy?
In his speech to the assembled army, Satan describes a rumor that God intends to create this, “a generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven.”
What are human beings?
Aphra Benn’s Oroonoko describes the emergence of this process, defined as the creation of “an empire for settlement by individual communities or for commercial purposes by a trading company.”
What is colonialism?
I do not pretend, in giving you the History of this Royal Slave, to entertain my Reader with Adventures of a feign’d Hero, whose Life and Fortunes Fancy may manage at the Poet’s Pleasure; not in relating the Truth, design to adorn it with an Accidents.
Who is Aphra Behn?
One of the two rival cities in The Comedy of Errors (double points for both cities).
What are Syracuse and Ephesus?
Emerging in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this type of fiction is characterized by, among other things, the representation of “lower” forms of social life, the presentation of historical “background,” and a language that is authentic to its characters.
What is realism?
In the final section of Paradise Lost, Satan and his army of fiends build this city, the capital of hell.
What is Pandemonium?
The year in which both the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano were published. Also the year our survey of English ends.
What is 1789?