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Characters
Themes
The Periods
Renaissance Poetry
Grammar
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This character advised Laertes: But above all, to thine own self be true."
Who is Polonius?
100
Live your life the best you can every day, and don't wait until tomorrow to be nicer, kinder, and gentler to your fellow men and women.
What is Everyman?
100
when linguistic diversity was so great that people in one part of England often could not understand people in another part.
What is the Middle Ages?
100
These traditional ones have fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter.
What are sonnets?
100
The appositive phrase in this sentence: The night after Grendel's defeat, his mother, a monster who lives at the bottom of a cold, dark lake, goes to Herot to avenge her son's death.
What is "a monsyer who lives at the bottom of a cold, dark lake?"
200
This piece ends: "And so his followers Rode, mourning their beloved leader, Crying that no better king had ever Lived, no prince so mild, no man So open to his people, So deserving of praise."
What is Beowulf?
200
The world is a vile place where people in power make rash and irresponsible decisions without thought to the consequences to others.
What is Gulliver's Travels?
200
This period saw the decline of feudalism and the Protestant Reformation that led to Protestantism.
What is the Renaissance?
200
This famous leader wrote these lines, mourning the loss of her lover, whom she dared not keep due to her position, "I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute, but inwardly do prate."
Who is Elizabeth I?
200
The appositive phrase in this sentence: The Pardoner's Tale is an exemplum, a tale used as an example to illustrate a moral troth or to make a point in an argument.
What is "a tale used as an example to illustrate a moral troth or to make a point in an argument."
300
This character cried, "I may not believe him, but I believe IN him - he is honest, kind and intelligent!"
Who is Anne, Lemuel Gulliver's wife.
300
The theme is summed up in these words at the end of the tale: There is, in Avicenna's long relation Concerning poison and its operation, Trust me, no ghastlier section to transcend What these two wretches suffered at their end. Thus, these two murderers received their due, So did the treacherous young poisoner, too."
What is Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale?
300
This period marked the reign of Charles the second and a restoration of freedoms to the people after a period of restriction.
What is the Restoration?
300
Two common themes of renaissance poetry.
What are life and death?
300
The appositive phrase in this sentence: The most famous morality play, Everyman, asks some basic human questions.
What is Everyman?
400
This character cried,"O Death, thou comest when I had thee least in mind!"
Who is Everyman?
400
One of the themes of this play is that we can never be truly certain, no matter how much we try to ascertain the truth, and not matter how long we delay in taking action.
What is Hamlet?
400
Germanic invaders took over the southeastern part of this large island and called it ANGLE-Land.
What is the Anglo-Saxon Period
400
The first line of this poem used a simile of cold and hot to describe why he was helplessly in love.
What is my love is like to ice and I to fire.
400
The appositive phrase in this sentence: I am very emotional about this senior class, a group of fine young men and women whom I will miss.
What is a group of fine young men and women whom I will miss.
500
This character mourned the loss of his father, the betrayal of his mother, and the murderous nature of his Uncle-Father.
Who is Hamlet?
500
The economic inequality in two neighboring countries is exposed in this satirical piece which suggests a preposterous solution to society's problems.
What is A Modest Proposal?
500
The period in which Shakespeare wrote.
What is the Renaissance?
500
In this sonnet, beginning with this first line, Shakespeare ridicules the dramatic poetic nature of Renaissance poetry.
What is my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun.
500
Samuel Pepys, recognized for his contributions to the British Navy, is more appreciated today for his colorful and informative diary.
What is recognized for his contributions to the British Navy