Milton Jeopardy

Worlding Tropes

100

What kind of sentence is used repeatedly throughout Milton's writing?

Ciceronian/Periodic

200

What trope is demonstrated in the passage below? 

"And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, this pendant world, in bigness as a star of smaller magnitude code by the moon."

Metaphor

300

Define anaphora.

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a clause. 

400

What is the trope where a phrase/expression applies to two words in different ways, or links two seemingly separate entities?

Zeugma

John Milton: the man, the myth, the legend

100

Which of the five senses did John Milton lose? 

Hearing

200

What was John Milton's religion?

Puritanism

300

What did Milton cite as a key reason for divorce being justified?

Intellectual (in)compatibility

400

What year was John Milton born? 

1608

500

Milton was the first writer to apply _____ verse outside of theatre.

Unrhymed or free

Name That Passage

100

Which characters says, "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven?"

Satan

200

Finish the passage from the opening to Book I: "What in me is ___ Illumine, what is low raise and support..."

Dark

300

What character is described as, "the sociable spirit, that deigned to travel?"

Raphael

400

The following passage is said by ___: "Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib."

Eve

500

Finish the passage from the end of book 12: "The ___ was all before them, where to choose their place of rest, and providence their guide."

World

Paradise Lost

100

What is the name of the plant that Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit from?

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

200

What is the name of the angel who finds Adam, and explains Satan's plan to trick humans into sin?

Raphael

300

True or False: The serpent was the only animal created evil, which is why Satan chose to inhabit this creature's body to trick Eve.

False.

The serpent was created "pure" and innocent, as were all the animals/humans of Paradise Lost.

400

This character (hint, it's not Satan) lays out a plan that would "surpass common revenge," plotting to destroy the creation of God through a variety of terrible means.

Beelzebub

500

What is the name of the bird Satan disguises himself as to spy on Adam and Eve from the Tree of Knowledge?

Cormorant