Counting Sheep
Little Song
Bill the Bard
Rhyme on Lock
Love Struck in France
100
Made up of four feet of unstressed/stressed syllables, this mete is common to pastoral poetry.
What is iambic tetrameter?
100
The sonnet originated in this country.
What is is Italy?
100
This idea best characterises sonnet 130 "(My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun").
What is Love is Blind?
100
One way to identify a Spencerian sonnet is by this feature.
What is an interlocking rhyme scheme?
100
Petrarch may have been a pre-cursor of the Rennaissance, but he lived and worked during this time period.
What is the Dark Ages?
200
Called an elegy, this type of pastoral poetry talk about this theme.
What is an elegy?
200
Sonnet is Italian for this.
What is is little song?
200
Shakespeare wrote during this "re-birth" of arts and sciences.
What is the Rennaissance?
200
In sonnet 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand"), the speaker wishes to do this.
What is immortilize his love?
200
Petrarch's love died of this in 1348.
What is the Black Plague?
300
Dating back almost 2,300 years, pastoral poetry finds its origins in this country.
What is Greece?
300
This translator of the sonnet was one of the first to bring it to England.
Who is Wyatt?
300
Shakespeare often adopted this type of view on love, as exampled in Sonnet 130.
What is a realistic view of love?
300
Though born poor, Spencer was able to work his way up to this university in England.
What is Cambridge University?
300
Petrarch was famous not only for his sonnet, but for holding this position.
What is Poet Laurete of Rome?
400
This common theme of pastoral poetry compares this setting to this setting.
What is the city and the country?
400
This early English practioner of the sonnet adapted Petrarch rhyme scheme to fit English better.
Who is Henry Howard?
400
What is the primary sense Shakespeare appealed to in Sonnet 130 (My misstress' eyes are nothing like the sun")
What is sight?
400
Thogh most famous for poetry, Spencer also did this as a profession.
What is translation?
400
Though born in Italy, Petrach spent the majority of his youth in this country.
What is France?
500
The latin word for sheep.
What is pastor?
500
The sonnet form has this characteristic.
What is musicality?
500
The couplet of Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare takes a sudden turn in idea, and makes it a classic example the couplets ability to do this.
What is resolve the sonnet.
500
Spenser wrote a series of sonnets addressed to this person.
Who is his second wife?
500
Petrarch wrote this number of poems to his love Laura.
What is 366?
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