Poets known for their use of paradox, conceits, and extended metaphors.
What is Metaphysical
100
Upon Queen Elizabeth's death, this era of the Renaissance began.
What is the Jacobean Age
100
He wrote the series Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
Who is William Blake
100
This poem shows how time erases the mightiest of human works.
What is "Ozymandias"
100
This is when the foot of a poem has two stressed syllables.
What is a spondee
200
Poets known for their polished lines and seemingly casual writing style.
What is Cavalier
200
Romanticism is not just an English development, it affects what entire place?
What is Europe.
200
He was the “leader” of the Cavalier poets.
Who is Ben Jonson
200
This poem by Donne uses paradox to ask God to break the speakers ties with the devil.
What is "Holy Sonnet 10"
200
These are run-on lines in poetry.
What are enjambments
300
Poetry that expresses personal emotions and thoughts of the speaker.
What is Lyrical Poetry
300
This period of literature ended with the passage of the First Reform Bill in Parliament.
What is the Romantic Age
300
He was the most important Metaphysical poet.
Who is John Donne
300
This poem uses a series of unanswerable questions to depict the inadequacy of rationalism.
What is "The Tiger"
300
The “lamb’s back” & “white hair” are symbols of this idea in Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper"
What is innocence
400
“If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.”
This quote of Donne's is an example of this literary device.
What is Conceit
400
During the Renaissance period, these people were moving to America to practice their religion freely.
What are Puritans
400
He was not a “nature writer” but wrote about nature for humanity’s sake, not nature’s own sake.
Who is William Wordsworth
400
This theme is present in both “To the Virgins…” and “To Daffodils”.
What is Carpe Diem
400
Herbert's "Easter Wings" is an example of this form of poetry.
What is concrete
500
Wordsworth's poem, "London, 1802", opens with this line:
"Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour"
which is an example of this literary device.
What is an Apostrophe
500
Copernicus and Galileo brought what idea to surface during the Jacobean Age?
What is the sun as the center of the universe
500
Whose play did Shakespeare act in?
Who is Ben Jonson
500
This poem suggests a lack of change in London can be fixed by better morals & values of the people.
What is "London, 1802"
500
In Italian sonnets the octave and sestet each present a concept, what are they?