Not science terms or history terms--literature terms!
a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet?
apple sauce
What is a dactyl?
Listen children, to my story
What is trochaic tetrameter
a speech by one character alone on the stage
What is a soliloquy?
Sir Walter Raleigh's poem that presents a realistic attitude of life
What is "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"?
This work records the martyrdom of Rowland Taylor
What is The Book of Martyrs?
“Come live with me, and be my love.
And we will all the pleasures prove.”
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe
verbal that only functions as an adjective
What is a participle?
What is a pastoral
treehouse
What is a spondee?
When you were ten and I was twenty-two
What is iambic pentameter?
a play that ends happily
What is a comedy?
the lyrical poem that teaches that the cause of ladies’ grief is the inconstancy of the men
What is "Balthazar's Song"?
The queen from The Faerie Queen who represents Queen Elizabeth
Who was Gloriana?
“Lo Mephistopheles, for love of thee,
I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood
Assure my soule to be great Lucifer’s.”
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
What is a gerund?
a piece of extended fiction which uses dramatic characters and events to represent nonliteral meanings
What is a romantic allegory?
along
What is an iamb?
When you think of the song from the brook
speech between two or more characters in a play
What is dialogue?
the poem that showcases the speaker’s response to God’s chastening
What is "A Hymn to God the Father"?
the character from The Faerie Queen who represents truth
Who is Una?
“Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this company, to join together this Man and this Woman in holy Matrimony.”
from The Book of Common Prayer by Thomas Cranmer
What is an infinitive?
a work of moderate length in which the writer tries to develop his own thoughts on some subject
What is an essay?
intercede
What is an anapest?
Truthfully, honestly
What is dactylic dimeter?
a character either directly addresses the audience or another character to comment on the action
What is an aside?
England's first poet laureate
Who was Ben Johnson?
the monster in The Faerie Queen
Who is Error?
“God be praised, good people, I am come away from them undefiled, and will confirm the truth with my blood.”
The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
a group of related words that does not contain a subject and verb
What is a phrase?
word that means "no place"
What is utopia?
Listen
What is a trochee?
"And I said, "How I wish/
We have something to do." (two lines)
What is anapestic dimeter?
introduces the characters and conflict and provides the necessary background
What is an exposition?
the person for whom the English sonnet is named
Who is William Shakespeare?
the devil in Doctor Faustus
Who is Mephistopheles?
“Upon a great adventure he was bound,
That greatest Gloriana to him gave, . . .
To winne him worship, and her grace to have,
Which of all earthly things he most did crave.”
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spencer
a group of words that contains both a subject and a verb, expresses a complete thought, and can stand alone as a sentence
A nine-line stanza that has a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter and the ninth in iambic hexameter
What is a Spenserian stanza?
interfere
What is an anapest?
"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound"
What is iambic tetrameter?
the literary genre that reached its zenith during the Elizabethan Era
What is a drama?
The work and author for these lines:
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.”
What is "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare?
the character in The Faerie Queen who represents holiness
Who is the Red Cross Knight?
“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.”
from Essays by Francis Bacon
What is a dependent clause?