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100
The greatest writer of the Elizabethan Age (and all time)
Who is Shakespeare?
100
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate."
What is "Sonnet 18"?
100
correspondence of sound
What is rhyme?
100
the work that describes the ideal society
What is "Utopia"?
100
the arrangement of events in a play
What is the plot?
200
Wrote the first essays in English Literature
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
200
"Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove."
What is "Passionate Shepherd to His Love"?
200
the pattern in a line of poetry, consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables
What is foot?
200
they red cross knight is a symbol of this in "The Faerie Queen"
What is holiness?
200
the regular recurrence of sound
What is rhythm?
300
The writer who was also a famous explorer for England
Who is Walter Raleigh?
300
"God be praised good people. I am come away from them undefiled, and will confirm the truth with my blood."
What is "Book of Martyrs"
300
the speeches between characters in a play
What is dialogue?
300
the number of years Faustus bought by selling his soul to the devil
What is 24?
300
a play that ends unhappily
What is a tragedy?
400
Developed the romantic Allegory and wrote the Faerie Queen
Who is Edmund Spenser?
400
Lo Mephistopheles, for love of thee, / I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood / Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's."
What is "Doctor Faustus"?
400
a speech by one character alone on the stage
What is a soliloquy?
400
Raleigh's poem that compares life to a play of passion
What is "On the Life of Man"?
400
a classical love song dealing with shepherd and rural life
What is a pastoral?
500
England's first poet laureate
Who is Ben Johnson?
500
"He that knows one of their towns knows them all - they are so like one another, except where the situation makes some difference."
What is "Utopia"?
500
a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet?
500
According to Sir Francis Bacon, this is what we should be studying to gain wisdom?
What is histories?
500
a dramatic effect in which a character breaks the fourth wall and directly addresses the audience
What is an aside?