poetry
Name three characteristics of a Shakespearean sonnet
14 lines, ABAB rhyme scheme, rhyming couplet, iambic pentameter, 3 4 line stanzas and a final 2 line stanza, 3 quatrains and rhyming couplet
In hamlet, the guards at the beginning of the play compare their situation to that of ___
Rome
Who says this? - “to be or not to be?”
Hamlet
What is a characteristic of cavalier poetry?
in support of the king
Carpe diem
Etc…
Authors during the English renaissance were ___
Amateurs
Who wrote the poem “London”
William Blake
In hamlet, who does follow the modern/changing view of honour?
Hamlet and Laertes
Where is this quote from - “I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection”
A modest proposal
What is a reference to an outside work called?
Allusion
List the literary periods in order (ER, romantic, Victorian and modernism)
English renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, modernism
What was the primary message in the poems “the white mans burden”
Pro-imperialism
What is a concern of the Lilliputians?
How to crack an egg
Who said - “better to reign in hell, than to serve in heaven”
Satan
What is a conceit
An extended metaphor over multiple lines
This persons empirical approach to science was particularly influential on the period
Sir Issac Newton
In astrophil and Stella 1, Sidney’s plan is to
Write poems, be pities, and then loved
For: Horatio, Marcellus,
agaisnt: Claudius, polonius, laertes
From what poem is the following quote: “at her wide mouth: but being there withstood they flocked all about her bleeding wound, and sucked up their dying mothers blood, making her death their life, and eke her hurt their good. Also what does it mean
Faerie Queene, those who feed in the Catholic Churches teachings bring about their own demise.
What is personification?
What was the allegory for the Archimago in Faerie queene
Religious hypocrisy
In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, what does the speaker compare the couple’s love to?
A compass
What is one thing belial claims?
Hamlet says, “that I can keep your counsel, and not mine own. Besides, to be demanded of a sponge — what replication should be made by the sin of a king”
who is he talking to and what does he mean
He is talking to rosencrantz and that he follows the king blindly to his own destruction,
What is enjambment
the continuation of a sentence or thought from one line to the next without a pause or punctuation mark at the end of the line
What does Milton argue for in Areopagitica
Freedom of the press