Authors/Works
Beowulf
unknown
Bisclavret
The ___ ___ is named after the Italian poet Francesco Petrarch.
Petrarchan sonnet
In DQ, Cervantes uses the conventions of ___ to question the accepted ___ of his own society.
fiction, truths
Quixote’s motive in all his adventures is ___ for its own sake.
courage
"He seems to me equal to gods"
Sappho
"Drinking Alone with the Moon"
Li Bo
Petrarch is a lyrical poet from the ___ century and the country of___.
14th, Italy
The proclaimed purpose of DQ was to satirize the ___ of chivalry.
romances
Don Quixote is considered the first modern ___.
novel
Laustic
Marie de France
"Love Shook My Heart"
Sappho
Cervantes led an active and full life. He was a university student, a captured soldier in the Spanish Armada, and then a ___ ___ before he became an author.
tax collector
The word “___” stems from the Italian word “sonetto,” which itself derives from the Latin “suono,” meaning “a ___.”
sonnet, sound
Quixote says his quest is to ___ ___.
destroy injustice
Classic of Poetry
unknown (various)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
unknown
How many lines are in a standard sonnet? ___
14
A ___ novel is usually a first-person narrative, relating the adventures of a rogue or lowborn adventurer (Spanish pícaro) as he drifts from place to place and from one social milieu to another in his effort to survive.
picaresque
What is the rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet? ___ ___ ___ ___
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
“Father in Heaven, after each lost day”
Francis Petrarch
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (author's whole name, please)
Miguel de Cervantes
One reason Cervantes wrote DQ was because he had a profound sympathy for ___ ___.
human striving
Petrarch is considered one of the founding scholars of the ___ ___.
Italian Rennaissance
Many Italian poets explored the sonnet's form, from ___ Alighieri to ___.
Dante, Michelangelo