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100
He dedicated his "Calendar" to Sidney, who didn't like the Chaucerian diction.
Who is Spenser?
100
One of Sidney's frequent classical allusions
What is Cupid?
100
Lost two wives, his son, and his eyesight by the time he was fifty
Who is Milton?
100
The Biblical allusion in Donne's Holy Sonnet 7 ("Blow your trumpets, angels").
What is Revelations 7?
100
a concise and often witty poetic statement
What is an epigram?
200
He gave his wife a sonnet sequence as a wedding gift.
Who is Spenser?
200
the original canvas on which Spenser wrote his lady's name
What is the shore?
200
Married a major minor, with whom he had 12 children.
Who is Donne?
200
A poem about sin, featuring a (rare) serious pun.
What is "A Hymn to God the Father" by Donne?
200
an elaborate metaphor
What is a conceit?
300
He performed in one of Ben Jonson's plays.
Who is Shakespeare?
300
The inadequate comparison for the lady in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.
What is a summer's day?
300
He was a brash and arrogant actor, but well-liked.
Who is Jonson?
300
Milton's solution for his vocational obstacles in both Sonnet 7 and 19.
What is be patient and rely on God?
300
a poetic expression spanning more than one line for emphasis
What is an enjambment?
400
He later regretted his angsty poems of unrequited love for his "star."
Who is Sidney?
400
The subject lauded by Sidney in Sonnet 63 because it means his lady's answer can be viewed as acceptance.
What is grammar?
400
He was a metaphysical poet and lover of puns.
Who is Donne?
400
This author's "best piece of poetry."
What is Jonson's son?
400
a natural pause included for emphasis
What is a caesura?
500
The location where Shakespeare spent his youth.
What is Stratfod-upon-Avon?
500
The three metaphors for physical decline in Shakespeare's Sonnet 73.
What are autumn, twilight, and embers?
500
the sonnets by Donne and Milton both used enjambment, caesura, and this octave/sestet structure
What is Petrarchan or Italian?
500
The theme of Milton's Sonnet 18 ("Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints").
What is the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church?
500
a marriage song
What is an epithalamion?