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This Anglo-Saxon epic is the oldest known major work of literature in English (or any other modern European language, for that matter).
What is Beowulf?
Gloriana was the nickname for this 'Virgin Queen.'
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
It is the pause in the middle of a line of alliterative verse.
What is a caesura?
She is the subject of sonnets 127-154 by Shakespeare; one of them begins, 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.'
Who is the 'Dark Lady?'
It is the name of your house in the House Cup challenge.
What is Plantagenet (4th), Tudor (6/7th), or Stuart (10th)?
This sonnet describes a man writing his lover's name on the beach, with mixed results.
What is Sonnet 75 (by Spenser)?
This 1588 event was a historic victory for England and established it as a major military power.
What is the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
The figure of speech when a person speaks to something that is inanimate or cannot respond.
What is apostrophe?
Robin Hood's Merry Men hang what person in 'Robin Hood and the Three Squires?'
Who is the Sherriff (of Nottingham)?
This film won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture last weekend.
What is The Brutalist?
Students are sometimes surprised to learn this sonnet--arguably the most famous love poem in English--is addressed not to a woman, but to the 'Fair Youth'; it begins, 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' (correct number required)
What is Sonnet 18 (by Shakespeare)?
It is the (complete) name of any one of Henry VIII's wives.
Who are Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, or Catherine Parr?
A two-syllable metric foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable.
What is an iamb?
He is the first monster that Beowulf kills, by ripping his arm off. It's also the Turnitin.com password for this class.
Who is Grendel?
This man announced his resignation as Prime Minister of Canada on Monday.
Who is Justin Trudeau?
Nobody knows if Chaucer is serious in this final 'apology' section at the end of Canterbury Tales. It starts with an R.
What is 'Retractions?'
An important part of English identity during the Renaissance was the founding of this (specific) religion by Henry VIII.
What is the Anglican Church (or Church of England)?
Its octave always rhymes abba abba, but its sestet can follow many different patterns.
What is an Italian/Petrarchan sonnet?
It is the only character to go all the way into the grave with Everyman at the end of Everyman.
Who is Good Deeds?
To the nearest thousand, this is the total money raised during this year's CFO drive, a new school record.
It's speaker basically says, 'Some lame guys whine and cry over their exes, but that ain't me. I'm over her. Like SO over her.'
What is 'Divers Doth Use' (by Wyatt)
She was Elizabeth's super-Catholic older half-sister, Henry's daughter from his first marriage. (There's a tomato juice-based cocktail named after her.)
Who is Mary I ('Bloody Mary')?
The name for verse made of rhymed pairs of iambic pentameter lines (like Canterbury Tales).
What are heroic couplets?
She marries Palamon after Arcite's death.
Who is Emily?
Jeff Baena, the husband of this Parks and Rec and Agatha All Along actress, died this week at age 47.
Who is Aubrey Plaza?